, 1889-12-12
TOO LATE NOW.
No Hope of Dom Pedro's
Restoration.
THE DISAFFECTION Of THE ARMY
Fire Eating Anarchists and
Stu1t
THE EMPRROR'S LIFE Was THREATENED
Nothing Definitely Settled Upon
for the Future by the I'm
perial Party.
THE DlSAFFECTION OF THE ARMY
THE EMPERORS LIFE WAS THREATENED

LISBON, Dec. s.--The steamer Atrato
has arrived with advices from Rio
Janoiro which confirms the statement
that the revolution in Brazil was pre-
cipitated by the attempt of the govern
ment to remove the disatfected troops
at Rio Janeiro to the provinces. The
revolt was confined to the military and
the students.
Generel Da Fonseca, the head of the
provisional government, In message
sent by him to Dom Pedro on November
lo said: "The democratic sentiments
of the nation, combined with the re
sentiment at the systematic representa-
tive measures of the govern uient against
the army and navy and the spoliation
OF their rights, have brought about a
revolution. In the face ofthls situation the
presence of the imperial family in the
country Is impossible. Yielding, there
fore, to the exigcncies of the natioual
voice, the provisional government Is
compelled TO request you 10 leave the
Brazilian territory with yonr family
within twcnty-four hours.
"The country expects you will know
how to initiate tho example set by the
first emperor of Brazil on April l, 1881"
Count D'Eu, In an interview to-day
on tho situation in Brazil, said the re
puolicans there were few n number, but
they profitcd by the abolition of slavery.
The republicans pretended that the abo-
lition OF slavery was entirely duo to
them. Meanwhile the army had become
tyrannical and insolent, and the only
means of checking it was to revive the
garde rationale, which has always been
a conservative body, the crown nomi-
mating its officers. The government,
therefore, resolved to create regiment
in Rio Janeiro, whereupon the repub-
licsns spread the report that the author
tiles intended to revive the gardc ma
tionale generally, and to check and dis
arm the regular army. The military
thereupon decided to revolt under the
leadership of General Fonseca, who is a
weak man and easily managed.
Regarding the prospect OF the restora-
ton of the empire, Count d En- said that
Brazil was too far from Europe and
man was wanted who could bring the
army around to the empire. =. .f the eni-
peror had appeared on Tho streets when
the rebellion broke out, the crowds
would have cheered him. Now il was
too late.
An Engiishman, the agent of an i'm
portant English bank at Rio Janeiro,
who was aboard the Atrato, said: "The
telegraph was seized and no messages
were delivered, not even those addressed
to the British consul. | went to the
consulate at 10 y clock Sunday morning,
and was stopped by the soldiers. MIR.
Nicolini, the acting British consul, was
stopped also. We feared that ex-
change would fall to moth
ins, but tile provisional govern
ment notified the English bank
managers that If they allowed exchange
to fall their establishment would be sup.
pressed Nothing could exceed the
feeling Of kindne SIS which every one, in
the provincial ministers, enter
tanned toward the emperor, but the cow
ardice OF those who ought to have re-
sisted was contemplate. The wealthy
classes were timerous, rather than indif-
ferent. The only possible seoessionist
movement will be from the Germans.
The government has provided against
or disquieting. Even the kilograms to
the foreign ministers were quietly sup
pressed. The Rio legislature on the 18th
the reconstruction of the con-
stitution on basis OF thorough democ-
rqcy. The same day was public hol-
iday throughout Brazil. The minister
of marine, at the head of
a small body of sailors and
marines, tried 10 suppress what ho
their barracks, but the marines frater-
nized with tho rebels, who summoned
the minister to surrender. This he
refused to do do point blank, and he
tried to draw his revolver. The soldiers
shot him down In the
presence Of another general standing mt
his side. The disaiTected troops an
ticipated that the government would
move against them, and at the head of
of artillery, Da Fonseca surrounded tho
Santa Anna barracks, where the minis
ters had assembled. The troops inside
frsternized with those outside. the bar
rack gates were thrown open, and the
ministers witnessed General Da Fonssca's
triumphal entry and exit. He was sa-
luted by the troops.
This concluded the business.
Telegrams were printed in the Rio
the change OF regime. A
telegram, dated London, November 49,
tsom the Rothschilds to the finance
minister, was published In English and
Portugeso. II expressed the Roths-
childs' unfeigned satisfaction with the
assurance Of the government that It
would adhere to all contracts, and also
the hope that the government would
strain every nerve to maintain entire the
vast doninions OF BrnEii. The
d'0ppolto publishes Q dis
patch from Rio Janeiro, dated Decem-
Der 9, which states that Barboss, the
minister OF finance, had resigned and
been replaced by Senior ~Ealdanha