Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-17
FROM OTHER LANDS.
England Not Much Excited Over the
Portuguese Embroglio.

| state of popular feeling in Lisbon and other
cities of Portugal over the action of the British
government in tine southeast African dispute
the English public is singularly apathetic.
While the excited Portuguese are marching
through the streets bowling and cursing and in
| the eXuberance of their impotent rage burning
British flags, the staid and stolid Englishman
| calmly pursues his daily vocation, apparently
unmindful of the gravity of the situation, for it
is still grave Though the late Portuguese min
| istry accepted the ultimatum of Lord Sails
bury, pertorce, there is no;guarantee that the
| new government will acquiesce in the action of
| their predecessors in office, but there is rather
great Likelihood that popular clamor and a
desire to disarm the republican element by an
appeal to their patriotism will impel the ministry
| to undo the action of the Gomez government and
| engage ill a hopeless fight for the preservation
of the national dignity and honor, trusting to
| the sympathy of the powers to interfere In their
behalf.
| An MAYORS SONG.
song, of which the words are by Lord
Mayor Isaacs, has been recently published AS
| it is of mildly amatory character it is proba-
| bly, an effusion of his youth and hardly merits
| the ridicule made of it by some of the news
! papers or the atrocious parodies which arouse
| unseemly levity at the music halls. Mayor
Isaacs must be convinced that a man . sins will
| indeed find HIM out.
HARRINGTON.
The illness of the marquis of Harrington,
| necesstating trip to the continent, which will
| extend beyond the time of the reassembling of
parliament is a severe blow to the tory -unionist
coalition, which will need the presence of every
one of its leaders to combat the contemplated
| assaults of the opposition. The action of O'Shea
| against Parnell, which no one now doubts is a
purely political move, has proved to be a verit-
| able boomerang and more than one of the
l..
self well out of it. The attempt to dscredit Mr..
| ParneI, which is the sole purpose of the con-
| spiracy, has failed as utterly in England as it
has in Ireland, where nearly every one of the
representative bodies has affirmed its implicit
confidence in his innocence of the charges and
belief in bus social and political integrity.
LEoPoLD's FAIR.
BRUSSELS, Jan. IA universal exhibition
| will be held at Liege in June next on the occa-
| sion Of King Leopolds jubilee.
FIGARO SAYS.
PARIS, Jan. 1.-THE Figaro says that the
| Portuguese government has complained to
Prince Bismarck that Great Britain violated
| the Berlin treaty by the policy pursued by
| that power in its dispute with Portugal. The
| same paper says that Portugal has asked that a
conference of the powers be convoked to dis
| cuss the African question.
NAPIERs FUNERAL.
LONDON, JAM 1.-THE funeral Of the late
| Field Marshal Lord Napier of Magdala will
take place on Tuesday. 1t will be of mill
| tary character The ceremonies will be held
| in st. Pauls cathedral
THE OLDEST GONE.
LONDON, Jan. 17.-Mr. Christopher Talbot,
| liberal member of parliament for Glamorgan-
shire, is dead. He was the oldest member of
the house of commons, having sat continuously
for sixtv years.
BITTER.
LISBON, Jan. 1.-THE feeling against the
English here is very bitter. The English resi-
dents have been made the victims of public
animoslty to such an extent that it is proposed
to send a deputation to Lord Salisbury urging
him to adopt more conciliatory policy. Many
English employees have been dismissed.
WANT CANCELLATION.
LISBON JAN 1.-THE English residents of
this city who have been victims of the public
animosity occasioned by the attitude of Eng
land toward Portugal propose to appoint
deputation to wait on Lord Salisbury to urge
that Great Britain adopt more conciliatory
policy. The feeling toward England is very
bitter. Many English employees of Portuguese
houses have been discharged.
STRIKE.
LIVERPOOL, Jan. I7.-Five hundred grain
porters on the north and south docks have
struck for an advance in their wages. As re-
suit Of the strike the grain traffic on these
docks is at standstill.
MEETING ABANDONED.
MADRID, Jan. 1.-THE proposed public meet
ing to be held in this city ON Sunday by repub-
licans for the purpose of expressing sympathy
with the Portuguese in their dispute with En-
gland has been abandoned. The republicans
intend however, to visit the Portuguese lega-
| tion and leave their cards an expression of
sympathy.
BOHEMIA.
VIENNA, Jan. 1.-THE results of the German
Czech conference held in this city have ex-
ceeded expectations. The conference has sue
ceeded in reconciling all the differences be-
tween the Czechs and Germans in Bohemia.