To the Editor of the Nonra-Caixa Darr News, —I do not think that news of the overthrow of the Rays! House of Braganza and of the flight of the yonthfol Kiog Manuel with all the members of the Royal Family from Lisbon and the establishment of repblioen form of goveroment Portagal, has been revived wi surprise by the Portngneso domiciled abroad. The republican ideas have been implanted in the Portuguese soil for & consi amber of years they have' been openly advocated by the politicians and the Press professing them. Ever si assassination of the K'ng Carlos and of the Crowa Prioce Luis Phi lope, thirty-two months ago, a republican in the country has been almost daily expected, Tt was well known that the navy shared the views of the republican party it is for this reason thi tion of it has been kept io foreign The land forces might be divided in their political opinions, but, we pavo soon, the majority of the army has joined the Repablicans, The revolutionary principles have, indeed, been extensively disseminated in Portogal, but per se the republican propaganda could not bring about the ed. present upheaval, if not helped by the misgovernment that has existed under the monarchy. Portoguese newspapers are always very loud in their praise of their country's statesmen; each one of them sould appear to be quite capable of working out the salvation of the motherland, and, yet, no improvement has been effected by either of the two main parties—Conservatiats or Progressista—or other minor parties or coalitions who hare had the goverament of the kingdom in their hands, One oan safely affirm that in Purtugal the men who have been called to steer the ship of state have only endeavoured to make the most of their respective poaitions by holding to the ep>ils of misrule until the country is on the verge of ruin.
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