The House of Braganza.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3404, 8 January 1890, Page 2

The House of Braganza.

Relative to the Brazilian insnrree-' i tion and tlio deposition of Don: Pedro the Daily News of November 19 writes jas follows:—" The House of Braganza p has ceased to reign." The Emperor of f Brazil must have thought of those ominous wordsasheenibaekedonhis : ! [ compulsory voyage for Europe on j Sunday last, They first appeared in • '.'•; the French Moniteur in thti year 1807 it> circumstances closely connected . with the Portugese assumption of tho ,' direct so ?reignity of the Brazils, These , circumstances ara as romantic as any- ' thinginfiction. The Royal Family;of <. Portugal fled to Brazil to escape the , victorious French,,-pd, in ■[ j of one representative or another, they ■ bavo remained thore to tho:present j day, 'Dum John landed thero in j 1808, and eighty-one years after -1 , Dom Pedro, his grandson, is j returning to; Europe, '.TJaeiMonilkr j ; "j" . was. .premature. Na'poloon "had '\ ""'" c partitioned Portugal.between.Franca.-.<' and: Spain, and '• he'-iadbto/foics'iil quarrel on the helpless Portuguese by 3 of carrying the' treaty into" efieot,! (;i .■'.'; . j The pretext was easily found in tho ." reluctance of the Court of Lisbon to ■ second his insane measur'esof hostility | against ■England.i«.and'.the^oKiW(h). : 0' j raade!'ita oracular utterance,. The ; Honseofßraganz«Jhowevef,'Sas\iiot'. j tos be''disposed of so easily, The :■' PortugheseJ Regent bethought him of : ." the splendid and; thennn • time, ,1 ■■;■;;

/-■-■i\\ t — excessively remote Colony of the Brazils, and be resolved to take'refuge'there while waiting for loiter days, The French army, wider Juno'/,' was pressing forward, aiid thero was no time to lose; while, on the other hand, the British floet; under Sir Sidney Smith, lay nttho raouth'of the harbour of Lisbon, ready to give aid and comfort to tho fugitives, But for this, the feelilo Portuguese fleet, might not have been jfilile to cro*B the ocean, At longtb, -Aoweyer, Mx-and-thirly sail were ready, after a fash'on, to receive or to Ifcort the Royal Family and their immense following, Tiie scene is described with much spirit by Alison, Preceded by the archives, treasure/ plate, and most raluablo effects, tho 'Royal exiles (says the historian) drovo in a long train to the water's edge, Tho insane Queen who for sixteen years had lived in seclusion, came first. "A ray of light had penetrated her reason in this extremity, and sho understood slid approved the courageous act," 'J ho . crowd at tho place of embarkation /was so great that tho Princu had to •area his way through with his own ' pud. The iJritish squadron fired a royal salute. "Numbers, hownver, observed with superstitious dread that at the moment of tho salute, the sun became eclipsed, and they mournfully repeated tho words, ' Tho House of Braganza has ceased to leign. 1 " It was ono of the most prodigious uiigia- ;. tionsof C'omts and courtiers known bl'tcon thousand persons jiffW the royal train. They descended on Brazil like it swarm of locusts/and the attempt to provide them with places and pension-) nearly ruined tho Colony, The Royal squadron had hardly cleared the bar at Lisbon when Junot's advanced guard cmno in night; but tho prey was will beyond his reach, The rest we have aire, uly related, A few years laler John, in recognition of ids generous reception by the Gilonists, and of thoi'- growing impoitmice, ciewUi'd Br-'itil to ihu rant of a kingdom, in inn wiih Mm Motlk't Cnumry. He returned loPuniual in 1821, leaving

h'a sun Dom Pedro behind asßegont. S ion after, lirazil declared iia ind* pundeiicp, imJ Pedf J liecnmo its first Emperor, renouuiing, cf course, nil his claims on Portugal, Pedro was faced into abdication in 1831, and fma years later Ma successor, the Emperor now oil his way to exile, was declared of Kgo, at lifieeu, He hud reigned after ut fashion, for ten yeara b/joro that, and, until November 16, tyvas the oldest sovereign in the world not excepting the Queen of England. In his person, at last, the House of Biaganza, as established in the Ndw World has ceased to reign. A French surgeon reports to the Paris Academy of Medicine that ho has found animal grafts of great value in getting large humua wounds to heal, especially whun they are due to burns. Ho uses tho skin from tho uudor side of tho wins; of a chicken in small pieces from one-sixth to oiio-third of an inch square. The Moslems of-Belhi have opened a seminary in which preachers aro (aught all ths objections of Western infidels against Christianity, that they may go forth to oppose the Christian preachers in town and country, Tho Gorman Admiralty reckons upon having 165 torpedo boats next year. The German navy already possesses nearly 90 such vesaek; most of them built at Stottin; and it is intended to build 15 now ones at onco, of 75 tons burden, while the rest, of various sizes are to follow. , agitation among tho farm of tho South and West of jPiud apaiust tho farmers, on account of the "selfish conduct "of the, lattor is spreading, and threatens to aisume serious proportions.