THE PORTUGUESE QUESTION

New Zealand Mail, Issue 934, 24 January 1890, Page 27

THE PORTUGUESE QUESTION

Bt Electluo Telegraph—Coptsight, (per press association.) Lisbon, January 15. The public statues in. this city are draped in mourning. [lt is very probable that it 13 tho Repabli-* can Party who have draped the statues o£ Lisbon in mourning as a tostimony of the sorrow they feel in the submission of the Government to tbe demands of Lord Salisbury on tbe Portuguese question. The above action has no rral political significance. Madrid, January 16. Iu the Chamber of Deputies Senhor Pimental, head of the new Government, said his Government would maintain the dignity of Portugal. . Lisbon. January 17. Excited mobs are still gathering in different parts of the city as a protest againßt the submission of the Portuguese Government to England. Lisbon, January 18The officials at Quilimane, a seaport of Mozambique, and centre of the territory in dispute between Eneland and Portugal, are much dissatisfied with the manifesto issued by Senhor Pimental, the Portuguese Premier, and the Judges and Magistrates are resigning their offices. The Portuguese are boycotting the English residents and cancelling contracts made with them. Three days since, Mr Petre, British Consul here, threatened that the British fleet would anchor iu the Tagus if the violence of the populace toward the English was not repressed. The Portuguese press thereupon urged prudence, and the excitement is now settling down. Lisbon, January 20. In consequence of the spirit of disaffection reported as existing in official circles at Quilimane, the Governor of Mozambique has been recalled. Senhor Pimental has dissolved the Cortes. (SPECIALTO PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, January 16. It is rumoured t hat Germany will assent to England annexing the debatable territory on the Zfjmbesi, provided tho former is giyen a ireehand on tho Zanzibar coast. Lisbon, January 16. Senhor Pimental, head of tho new

'Ministry, in a speech to the Chamber of Deputies, said that Portugal had the right and England the might. A republican agitation is feared in Lisbon in consequence of the unpopularity of the surrender to England. Lisbon,, January 17. Twenty thousand people paraded the streets; last night as a demonstration against surrender to England on the Zambesi question. London, January 19. The Portuguese Government are pressing their claim to refer the dispute to arbitration. Despatches containing the recent communications between England and Portugal have been published.. They show that Lord Salisbury’s ultimatum was due to the discovery that Pinto’s successor in Africa was continuing acts of aggression, despite the assurances of the Portuguese Government to the contrary. It is considered doubtful whether the Portuguese officials in Africa will give effect to the demands of the ultimatum. It is believed that Portugal only yielded in order to gain time to appeal co the Powers. Lisbon, January 19. The merchants in the city are dismissing their English employes. Ladies decline to visit the Embassy. It is reported that the British residents are appealing to Lord Salisbury to be lenient. Paris, January 19. At a meeting of the Portuguese in this city, Ssnhor Zoriila denounced British piracy, and asserted that Spain and Portugal would shortly become united under a Republican form of government.