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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 440, 12 April 1890, Page 2

News by the mail states that British subjects residing at Oporlo and Lisbon are being harassed by so many annoyances and indignities, that English feeling ie beginning to change from contempt to indignation. The Commercial Association of Lisbon has expelled all English members, and the English members of a social club, whose bouse was attacked by students recently, because the club permitted Englishmen to retain membership, have resigned. Signor J. D. Andrade Oorvo, member of the Council of State, sent a challenge to the British Minister, on account of the nature of his reply to a manifesto of these students. The Portuguese Government, finding that the foreign Powers will not interfere as between itself and England, have adopted the course of approaching Lord Salisbury, with a view to a settlement of the dispute. Senbor Freitas is Portugal’s envoy, but the change that has taken place in English feeling on account of the ferocity of the persecution of British subjects residing in Portugal, will bs likely to embarrass bis mission. Senhor Freitas bad his first meeting with Lord Salisbury on February 16, and expressed himself pleased with the Prime Minister’s cordial and satisfactory reception. Portugal proposes arbitration to fix the limitation of her African territory, two delegates being chosen by England, two by Portugal, and one by mutual consent. Lord Salisbury is anxious that this fifth delegate should be an American, because American missionary interests in Africa are affected by the dispute. Portugal prefers the fifth delegate to be French, but will not oppose an American, provided the principal terms of the arrangement are settled in Lisbon and London.

When men begin first to beoome familiar with the methods of measuring mechanical power (saye the Scientific American) they often speculate on where the breed of horses is to bo found which can keep at work raising 33,0001 b one foot per minute, or the equivalent, which is familiar to men accustomed to pile driving by horse power, of raising 3301 b 100 feet per minute. Since 33,0001 b raised one foot per minute is called one horse power, it is natural for people to think that the engineers who established that unit of measurement based it on the actual work performed by horses. But that was not the case. The horse power unit was established by James Watt about a century ago, and the figures were settled in a curious way. Watt, In his usual careful manner, proceeded to find out the average work which the horses of his district could perform, and he found that the raising of 22.0001 b one foot per minute was about an actual horse-power. At this time he was employed in the manufacture of engines, and had almost a monoply of -the engine-building trade. Customers were so hard to find that all kinds of artificial encouragements were considered necessary to induce power users to buy steam engines. As a method of encouraging business, Watt offered to sell engines reckoning 33,000 foot pounds to a horse-power, or one-third more than the aotual. And thus, says the Manufacturers’ Gazette, what was intended as a temporary expedient to promote business has been the means of giving to the world / a falee unit of a very important measurement.

An Ottawa telegram says :—Ou the 4th inst. the weekly meeting of Protestant Lady Evangelists, held in Hull, was broken up by a number of French Canadian roughs, and several men who escorted the ladies were roughly handled. The ladies met again on Tuesday night and attempted to hold a meeting when the building was attacked by a roaring mob which smashed the windows and broke in the doors. The meeting was in consequence stopped and the assembly dispersed, but several men were badly injured by stones while getting the ladies away from tha crowd. The police present were overpowered. Daring the riot several revolver shots wen fired, but nobody wae hit. It is feared that serious tronble will ba caused if the ladies persist in holding thsir services. A London correspondent writes " The trial of the Bishop of Lincoln is coincident with an unusual number of secessions to the Church of Rome. Since its commencement nearly a dozen clergymen have been *n. oeived '—some by Cardinal Manning himself, others at the Bromnton Oratory, and several in varioue parte of the country, Most of them are celibates, and are already studying with a view to entering the ranks 0! the priesthood. Amongst the laity who have 1 verted ' are two or three barristers, a former editor of a Ritualistiojournal, and a number of members of the English Churoh Union, including an ox-organising secretary,”