The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-19

Especial to THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Dispatch
LONDON, Nov. 1S.-[By cable to the N.
Y. Herald Tho reported situation in Bra
I'll creates the profoundest surprise here
All of to-day's London papers contain inter-
minable leaders on the subject. The Times
says: "Unless it be a fact that the Brazilian
government lately carried the final aboli-
| ton of slavery, no doubt much to the dis
satisfaction of the powerful plutOcracy of
planters, it is indeed difficult to see why
the people of Brazil should desire to bring
a change. Their country. it is to be de-
plored, does not stand in the first rank of
progress. Brazil has an immense territory
extending from the Atlantic to the confines
| of Peru and Bolivia, from Uruguay to
Venezuela, and nearly equal to the whole
area of Europe.
"HoW this enormous empire was pre-
served from the violence, anarchy and
spoilation which have sc long dissolved the
other colonies of Latin races and from
which these communities are only begin
ming to recover, is a curious historical prob
lem The main element of solidity was
contributed by the house of Braganza,
which, in spite of many faults. showed re-
markable public spirit and political capac
| ity at successive crises
The Chronicle says: "Perhaps the most
| Brazil. tidings of which reached London on
! Saturday, is its unexpectedness. Brazil
has always been regarded as the model
state of South America. Since its war
with Paraguay, it has been in the happy
! position of having had almost no history.
| It's credit stood high i'll the financial world;
| it enjoyed free constitutional government,
administered by one of the most enlight-
ened and benevolent of princes. In fact, it
was republic with an hereditary presi-
dent, who was styled emperor. Brazil had
a nobility, it is true, but they enjoyed no
social or legal privileges, as their titles
only lasted for life. The most careful stu
dents of Brazilian politics never concealed
their belief in the existence of a republican
party in Brazil, but they always said that
the imperial regime would at least last as
long as the emperor's life''
LONDON, Nov. 1S.-The Standard says:
What effect the revolution Will produce in
Europe remains to be seen. Neither Por-
| tugal nor any other power, unless it be
Germany or Spain, is liable to take active
measures against the insurgents, but there
is large German population in Brazil who
may not improbably demand the interven-
ton of Prince Bismarck III some shape. In
France there is great sympathy with Dom
Pedro, who was frequent visitor to Paris
and very popular with the French The
Libeyte even ventures to anticipate his res
toratlon.
The Daily Telegraph says: when English
statesmen speak urbi ct orbi of the pros
poets of peace or war, it is to the European
continent only that they are understood to
refer The new world is never supposed to
enter into their thoughts as aleading figure
| in the drama of political changes whilesuch
| themes as the relations of France and Ger
many, Austria and Russis, the unsettled
condition of Bulgaria, the tea-cup storm in
Crete and our position in Egypt absorbed
all the interest 1t could never have oc-
Cured to any one that the first subject
which claimed the attention of statesmen
would not be one OF these seemingly immi-
nent complications, but something on the