The New Portugal.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 157, 12 October 1910, Page 5

The New Portugal.

WAR MINISTER'S REPORT. OUTBREAKS PROVOKED BY PRIESTS ROYAL YACHT CLAIMED. By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright. Lisbon, October 10. Senhor Arrito, Minister for War, has cabled to the Daily Mail that there have been some small outbreaks provoked by priests armed with carbines and dynamite. ! It is supposed that the Royal yacht < Amelie has been claimed as national pro- i pert}'. She has left Gibraltar for l Lisbon. 1 President Braga is enforcing Pombal's : laws against Jesuits. i The bodies of Dr. Bombardo and Ad- < miral Reis are lying in state. There f are no religious emblems. I ROYAL FAMILY'S MOVEMENTS. ' London, October 10. Renter reports that King Manuel and the Queen Mother have proceeded to 1 England. Queen Maria Pia and the Infanta Alfonso go to Italy. An Italian cruiser has arrived at Gibraltar. The vessel conveys Queen Maria Pia and the Duke of Oporto to Italy. King Manuel and his mother Amelia will probably reside at Wood Norton. Lisbon, October 10. Before leaving Portugal ex-King Manuel , wrote to the Premier saying that his conscience was clear. He had always done his duty. His departure was in no wise abdication. DIVERTING FEELING. TO CLERICAL CHANNELS. Received October 11, 10.15 p.m. London, October 11. The Times' Lisbon correspondent, commenting on the acquiescence in the republic, states that public interest and feeling, if the latter exists, has been skilfully diverted into the clerical channel. THE ANTMT.ERICAL FEELING. MAY LEAD TO EXCESSES. BRITISH FLAG RESPECTED. Received October 11, 10.50 p.m. London, October 11. The Daily News' Lisbon correspondent states that although the revolution was swift and splendid, the present anti-cleri-cal feeling may possibly lead to excesses, injuring the revolutionary cause in the. eyes of the world. The Government might easily have prevented soldiers and sailors from fusillading the Quelhas Convent and also the subsequent pillage. The Irish Dominican Church, flying the British flag, was the only church open on Sunday that was unmolested. APPREHENSIONS IX SPAIN. AN ANARCHIST DETAINED. Received October 11, 10.50 p.m. London, October 11. The Daily Mail's Gibraltar correspondent states that Spain expressed strong fears that ex-King Manuel's visit to the Villa Manrique might cause a ferment there; hence Manuel goes to England. His health, it is stated, is indifferent. A Portuguese named Matea, believed to be an Anarchist, was detained at Gibraltar. He was found loitering near the Government House when ex-King Manuel was landing. A SWEEPING DECREE. JESUITS AND OTHERS EXPELLED. THEIR PROPERTY CONFISCATED. Received October 11, 10.50 p.m. Lisbon, October 11. The decree quieting the., anti-clerical section enforces all laws; expels the Jesuits and confiscates their property; expels foreigners belonging to oMier orders and also Portuguese not abandoning their respective communions. The property of these various orders will be inventried and be disposed of later, according to the relations eventually established with the Church. Some of the Jesuits propose to migrate to Britain and the majority to Brazil. Portuguese nuns met with a hostile reception at Badajos. They were hooted and hissed whilst proceeding to the Carmelite convents. The gendarmerie dispersed the mob. The convents are closely guarded. AN EXTRAVAGANT QUEENDOWAGER. The Paris correspondent of London Truth recently stated:—"The Court of Lisbon is seriously agitated. The cause is a decision of the Civil Tribunal before which a creditor —French. I hear—of Queen Maria Pia sued for non-payment of a long-standing debt of about €4OOO. She did not contest the validity of the claim, but simplv demurred on the ground of 'roval privilege.' The tribunal decided for the creditor in a learned judgment, in which it dwelt on some principle of the Constitution and its amendments. Hence the flutter at the Court, for Maria Pia can never denv herself the pleasure, when she passed through Paris, of going round the shops and ware rooms of the Rue de la Paix. and ordering whatever takes her fancy without stopping to count whether her Civil List allowance is not already weiffhted down with debts. Somehow, the Portuguese have seldom found fault with her for incapacity to live within her means. They even excused her on the ground that she never had any opportunitv to learn in the convent in which she had been brought up. and that she came, a mere child, to Lisbon to be married. On the other hand. though, the junior Queen-Dowager Amelia has many sterling qualities, no flaw in her conduct or bearing is overlooked or pardoned. Ther regard her philanthropy as a premium of insurance against Re-

publicanism. It lack*, tlioy say, tlic grace 01 beiiu disinterested. A i'ortuguese assures me that her very tall statuiv in a country where smallish people are far the most numerous is the cause of the understanding. She looks, in an assembly that is not greatly made up of diplomats, a phenomenal being—a sort of Gullivera among Lilliputians/'