PORTER, NOAH. 



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possessed fino intellectual abilities, strong pow- 



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attractive person, and a warm heart. Thcso 



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the larger audience chambers of public ns-cm- 



llo was an occasional contributor to the 



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P< >RTER, NOAH, D. D., an eminent Congre- 

 pational clergyman, born in Farmington, Conn., 

 in 17*1 ; died" there September 24, 1866. He 

 came of a pious ancestry who for some penera- 

 t'anners, and his father had intended 

 him for the fame vocation, but having placed him 

 in the family of the parish clergyman, for the 

 purpose of completing his education, young 



: was led to change his plans and turn his 

 thoughts to the ministry. Devoting himself 

 with zeal to his studies he entered Yale Col- 



.:id in 1803 graduated as valedictorian of 

 In 180G he was chosen to the otfice 

 of tutor, but declined, and, having completed 

 his theological course, was called to the pasto- 

 rate of the church at Farmington, just made 



t by the death of the Rev. Mr. Washburn, 

 hi* former instructor and pastor. Here he held 



-|'i-ct and love of the people among whom 



- horn and reared, for an unbroken min- 

 islry of fifty-five years, being at his death the 

 oide>t clergyman in the State. His lalK>rs were 

 eminently successful, and the church was visited 

 with frequent and powerful revivals, bringing 

 in large additions to its membership. Dr. 

 \vs were those of a mild Calvinism, 

 as modified by the New England divines of the 

 former days, when theology was studied as the 

 liiirlie-t of the sciences, with the utmost earnest- 



aiid coin-ciitration of thought. Toward 

 the middle and decline of his life ho coincided 

 mainly with the opinions held by Dr. Taylor in 

 his philosophy of Christian truth. Dr. Porter 



lear and lucid in his teachings, tolerant 

 :>f the opposing sentiments of others, simple and 

 chaste in his style, and earnest and faithful in 

 his applications of truth. He was a man of 

 decided ability, of good reasoning and intuitive 

 faculties, excellent taste and sound judgment, 

 with a sweetness of temper which added greatly 

 to his popularity. He was a member of the 

 corporation of Yale College for a period of 



thirty-nine years, bnt in lftf.2 retired on oc- 

 nf deafness. !!, r< r.-hed the degree of 

 1>. 1 1. from K-irtmonth College in 1828. 

 PORTUGAL, a kingdom in Europe. King, 



I., b'.rn October 81, 1838; an 

 brother, King Pedro V., November 11, 1801. 



i account of the Portuguese constitution 

 and for the latest statistics on commerce and 

 movements of shipping, tee ANXTAL CYCLOPE- 

 DIA for 18C5. Area, 86,510 English square 

 miles; population, in 1863, 8,987,861; and 

 with the Azores and Madeira, 4,351,519. The 

 population of the Portuguese colonies was as 

 follows : 



POSSESSIONS IN ASIA. 



Indian Settlements Goa, Salcete, Bardcz, 



etc., (1864) 4T4.1P5 



Damao and Diu (18'Vi) 62,884 



Indian Archipelago Mortuera, part of the 

 Island of Timor, and the Island of Kam- 

 bing 650,800 



Macao (m China) 29,567 



POSSESSIONS IN AFRICA. 



Cape Verde Islands (1 804) 85,400 



Settlements in Senegambia Bissao, etc... 1,095 



Islands of St. Thomas and Principe 18,369 



Angola, Benguela, and Mossamedes (1865). 2,000,000 

 Mozambique 800,000 



Total 8,811,818 



The revenue was estimated in the budget for 

 1806-'18G7, at 15.989,379 millreis, and the ex- 

 penditures at 20,766,782 millreis. The revenue 

 from the colonial possessions is less than the 

 expenditures, with the sole exception of the 

 Indian possessions. The budget for the latter 

 showed for the financial years 1863-'64 and 

 18G4-'65 a surplus of 13,657 and 5,122 millreis. 

 The aggregate budget for all the colonies showed 

 for those years a deficit of 296,687 and 336,627 

 millreis. The total public debt amounted, in 

 June, 1865, to 191,045,054 millreis. The army, 

 according to the law of June 23, 1864, is to 

 consist, in times of peace, of 1,512 officers and 

 30,128 men, and in time of war of 2,408 officers 

 and 68,450 men ; bnt the effective force in June, 

 1866, was only 1,443 officers and 17,616 men. 

 The navy, in I860, consisted of 86 vessels, 

 armed with 830 guns. 



Considerable excitement was produced in 

 Portugal by the Spanish insurrection under 

 General Prim. (See SPAIN.) As some of the 

 Spanish generals pronounced themselves ia fa- 

 vor of a union of Spain and Portugal under the 

 rule of the King of Portugal, the Portuguese 

 Government emphatically declared itself op- 

 po-rd to all such schemes. When the failure 

 of the insurrection compelled General Prim to 

 seek refuge in Portugal, the Portuguese Gov- 

 ernment ordered him to leave the country, and 

 the Legislature approved this order. 



The Portuguese Cortes were in session from 

 January 2d to June 17th. but its proceedings 

 were of no great importance. The Chamber 

 approved a treaty between Portngal and Spain, 

 signed by the respective plenipotentiaries on 

 the 29th October, 1864, fixing the line of do- 



