The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-14 00:00:00

BETTY HIGDEN'S.

" 'Let me wet your lips again, and your forehead. There.
0 poor thing, poor thing !' These words through her fast
flowing tears. What was it that you asked me? Wait
till I bring my ear quite close.'
" Will you send it, my dear ?'
" Will I send it to the writers ? Is that your wish ?
Yes, certainly.'
" `You'll not give it up to any one but them?'

"`No.'
" 'As you must grow old in time, and come to your
dying halal-, my dear, you'll not give it up to any one but
them ?'
" ' No. Most solemnly.'
" ' Never to the Parish ?' with a convulsive struggle.

No. Most solemnly.'
" ' Nor let the Parish touch me ? Nor yet so much as
look at me ?' with another struggle:

" No. Faithfully.'
" A look of thankfulness and triumph lights the wan old
face. The eyes which have been darkly fixed upon the
sky turns with a meaning in them towards the compassionate
face from which the tears are dropping, and a smile is ou
the aged lips, as they ask—
" What is your name, my dear ?'
" My name is Lizzie Hexatn.'
"' I must be sore disfigured. Are you afraid to kiss

me?'
"The answer is the ready pressure of her lips upon the
cold but smiling mouth.
" ' Bless you ! Now lift me, my love.'
" Lizzie Hexam very softly raised the weather-stained
grey head, and lifted her as high as Heaven."—Qurltutual
Friend.

PORTUGAL.

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]

Much has been said in the English press against what
was called "the pronunciamento of Marshal Saldanha,"
in Lisbon, by which the Duke de Loule's Cabinet was
the 19th of last month. Indeed, if matters
stood there at all, us some of the English papers seemed
to suppose them to stand, in a regular, thorough consti-
tutional way, no doubt such military outbreaks,
either to serve any political scheme, or to gratify the per-
sonal ambition of their leaders, would be most digraceful
and dangerous. But the political conditions of Portugal
have been, from a distant date, a continual and perma-
nent unobservance of all constitutional rule. The fallen
Ministry had themselves risen to power by the most un-
constitutional means, nor was it in any way the expression
of a party triumph in Parliamentary debates, or a conces-
sion of the royal prerogative to the public opinion. The late
Ministry had been imposed on the country and on
the King, by the unceasing and undermining intrigues of
the Palace " Camaritha," which surrounds an unexpe-
rienced and timid young monarch, as the present King of
Portugal is.
If amidst the members of the late Administration there
were some intelligent and useful men, they have been
most unfortunately sacrificed for the moment by the
policy of the Premier, whose very name was enough to
render the Administration unpopular and disliked in the
extreme.

The country was already in a dreadful state of alarming
excitement. Insurrection bad already broken out in dif-
ferent provinces, and the blood of several victims had
already been shed at Avada, Castro Daire, and Machico.
New serious disturbances were threatening at every
hour, while it was evident that the Government, who
caused them by its unpopularity and violence, could not
even reckon any longer upon the army to repress the
popular risings. Anarchy would soon follow, and a civil
war was impending.

It was then that the Duke de Saldanha came forward
to stop by a decisive and sudden blow the fatal and fast
running course of dangerous events.
In doing so we can say it was not the general nor the
Duke, neither any party of the army, nor the army, itself,
who have imposed on the King the dismissal of the late
Government ; in fact, it was but the whole nation ; it
was the public opinion ; it was the loud speaking symp-
toms of a general conflagration ; and the voice of the un-
happy victims who were from their graves claiming for
justice.

The ready and spontaneous adherence of the army, and
of the people, from every part of the country, to the
movement of May 19th, so rashly commended by some,
evidently shows how very much mistaken were those who
who had seen in it not a noble national proceeding but
simply the personal ambition of the old general, and a
-violence of constitutional rights; it is plain enough that
he was not acting for himself, but for his country ; for its
independence—nay, for the crown, for the throne, and for
the King himself. The hour had come ;he knew it was
time, and by his courageous and brave resolution, much
of evil and of wrong has been spared. What a civil war
in Portugal would be only those who are well ac-
quainted with the country can tell. For the sake of
Portuguese independence, and for the sake of them who
have their fortunes connected with Portuguese pros-
perity, may God avert such a blow as a civil war in
that country !
What policy Saldanha will now follow, how many
mistakes he can make, or how many wrong steps he may
take, only time can tell ;we must not forejudge But
there is no doubt, that, if he wishes (and we may hope he
does), he can bring many a blessing upon his country. He
is assuredly the only one, in its present condition, who
can by his prestige, and by his influence, both in the
army and in the nation, establish a strong, moral, and
thoroughly constitutional administration, to last for some
time ; and so give to Portugal a chance of quiet and rest,
from those uninterrupted changes of factious party rulers
which have been tearing the unhappy country for more
than 20 years.

At any rate, the Duke de Saldanha has already done
that one great good, for 'which the country has shown it-
self grateful, he has at least, by his daring resolution,
avoided civil war.

Those who speak of him, and of the late events, in
other terms, must know vei y little indeed of that country,
unless they prefer to sacrifice truth itself to their political
or other private interests.

Mr. Akroyd, M.P., who recently met with a
serious accident while riding, has resigned the lieutenant-
colonelcy of the Fourth West York Rifle Volunteers.

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