Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-01-16
BRITAIN AND PORTUGAL
STATUS OF THE MISUNDERSTANDING
BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENTS.

The Last Rites Over the Reinalns OF the
Former Empress OF Brazil = Sagasta
Gives UP His Attempt to Form New
Spanish Cabinet
Lisbon cable: In Portuguese official
circles IL is denied that Major Serpa
Pinto can rightly be made to bear any
responsibility for the fresh difficulties
which have arisen with the natives of
southeastern Africa. Not only, they
say, was Serpa Pinto himself Ill at Moz-
antique at the time when the revolt
broke out, but the bulk of his forces
had retired from the district,
leaving the natives no Inn
mediate cause for their action. The
government here believes that the sharp
attacks on Portugal appearing in the
English press are due to the machina-
tions of certain English politicians seek
ing to force Lord Salisbury into a rup-
ture with Portugal. The authorities
here are unmoved by this newspaper
warfare, but await with anxiety the tone
of the debate in the Honse of Commons
during its approaching sittings In Feb
ruary. The government has not re-
called SENIOR Serpa Pinto, who only
left Nyassaland to return home in order
to recruit his shattered health.
London cable: The British naval
squadron is collecting at Zanzibar, and is
supposed to be destined for Delagoa bay.
Lord Salisbury insists that Portugal
must give guarantees to prevent the
recurrence of outrages in Africa on
British subjects and interests, which, as
the situation now is, must interfere with
diplomatic settlement of the misunder-
standing between the two countries.
The British admiralty has dispatched
the Enchantress with sealed orders to
the Benbow and Colossus at Gibraltar.
The Portuguese officials at Quillimane,
on the east coast of Africa, have forbid
den British steamers to receive the
British Consul Johnston's dispatches
direct, but insist that they must pass
through the Portuguese postoffice.
Lisbon cable: The body of the late
Empress Of Brazil has been con-
signed to its final resting place in
the pantheon here. The remains were
brought by the train from Oporto. Dom
Pedro and the family came on the same
train. The King and his suite waited at
the station and received them. The re-
mains were transferred from the train to
the hearse amid salutations of respect
from all present. The King then bade
farewell to Dom Pedro and returned to
the palace. Dom Pedro and his relatives
then entered the state carriage and the
funeral procession moved to the pan
theon. The representatives of the En-
perors of Germany and Austria and Of
the Regent of Spain, the papal nuncio,
the whole diplomatic corps, and the
State officials met the cortege at the
cathedral. After the dean had pro-
olxr -foI f1x
followed the coffin to the vault and there
heard the remainder of the funeral SER
vice.
Madrid cable: Sagasta, having found
il impossible to organize new cabi-
net, has resigned. The insuperable diff
Guilty was found with the protection
ist Liberals, who demanded that revision
of the tariff should be made part of the
government program. The Queen has
consulted the president of the Cortes and
leading statesmen, and it is probable
that a provisional cabinet will be formed
to pass the budget.
London cable: Great solicitude Is
reported at Madrid touching the exciting
rumors in connection with the illness Of
the King and the political combinations
likely to ensue in the event of his death.
The best information obtainable to-day
was that the royal patient had suffered a
turn for the worse.
Yokohama cable: Four survivors
of the American ship Cheeseborough,
from Hakodadi to New York, sulphur
laden, which encountered gale in the
Pacific and was totally wrecked by run
ming ashore, have arrived here. OF the
remainder of the crew, sixteen in num-
Der, several were killed by falling of tho
rigging and others were drowned. The
survivors escaped with little more than
the shirts on their backs. The Cheese
borough was owned In Bath, Me.