Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-07-08 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ASSASSINATION OF THE KING.  ALricssnms, June 27, 8 am.—ln Madagascar King Radama has been strangled, and his Ministers hanged. Queen Rabidon had been proclaimed, and Lambert's concession, the cause of the revolution, annulled. ALEXANDRIA, June 27, 8 a.m. —News has been received here of the outbreak of a revolution in Madagascar on the 12th of May. King Radama H. has been assassinated. His widow has been proclaimed Queen of Madagascar. The reign of King Radama 11. has been declared null, and _mourning has been prohibited  The treaties concluded with European powers have been suspended. Religious liberty is still to be maintained. The Queen has signed a constitution in conformity with the views of the old Hove party. Much discontent prevails throughout the kingdom, and fears are entertained of civil war.  The schooner Perk has heen loar in the Ethiopian Archipelago, north-cast of Madagascar. The crew and passengers were saved. PARIS, JvLir 4. Letters received here from Mad.state, not that the treaties with European Glovernmenta have been suspended, as previously re peddl,, bat web that the smatiaw of testi= saserira ' wa a date of soupenae. The Gomm, of the Mud of Manion has peen orders that the transport Limns shall be placed in readineas to sail for Tivastara. Queen Rabodo, who has just succeeded her husband Radama 11., after the late deplorable events at Madagucar, is about fifty years of age, being fifteen years older than the late king. She was the friend and confidante of the late Queen Ranovolo, of sanguinary memory, and shared in all her exclusive instincts and her prejudices against Europeans. Accounts, however, received on the 4th in Marseilles from Madagascar, state that Queen Rabodo had nothing to do with the murder of her husband, but she has accepted all the conditions laid down by the agitators. The question of the treaties with foreign Powers remains in suspense. No excesses had been committed against foreign residents. The Governor of Reunion had sent the Licothe steamer to Tamavata.  The assassination of the King suggests the following observations to the Paris Nation:—  "In 1828 an intelligent prince. Radama 1., actively seconded by France, undertook to make of Madagascar the great free State of the Indian Seas. He had almost attained that object when he was assassinated; the reactionary party, that of the Ovas, proclaimed Ranovolo sovereign, and destroyed all that had been done by his predecessor ; the country fell into anarchy, and became almost a tributary of England. At a later period the French succeeded in forming establishments at TamaTata, Foulpointe, and Tintingua. In 1831 the Ovas, openly supported by the English, made war on the French, who werti obliged to abandon the island. In 1862 Radama 11. resumed the projects of his father, called the French around him, facilitated the formation of their trading establishments, and a company was organised in France at his instigation, under the auspices of the French Government, for the execution of important undertakings. The tragedy of 1828 is now renewed; Radama 11. is assassinated, and his wife proclaimed queen by the Ovas, who impose on her • constitution drawn up by themselves, and the acts of the late King are nullified. Is there not something strange in events so exactly similar? Setting aside the political view of the question. which it is not for us yet to discuss, we will repeat that there are for the French great material interests engaged at Madagascar. The mission confided to M. Lambert cannot therefore be stayed by a palace revolution, and we trust that the scenes of 1831 will not be repeated."