POKTUGAL. 



PRESBYTERIANS. 



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nal capital sum of 241,246,954 milreis, and the 

 foreign debt, amounting to 52,395,812. The 

 interest paid on the debt during 1885 was 

 15,243,978 milreis, while 1,838,028 milreis of 

 the interest on the domestic debt and 688,- 

 078 of that on the foreign debt was unpaid. 



Colonies. The colonial possessions of Portu- 

 gal have an extent of over 700,000 square miles, 

 and a population of nearly 5,000,000. At the 

 Berlin Congress of 1884-'85 the claim of Port- 

 ugal to the territory extending from Ambriz 

 to the mouth of the Congo was admitted. The 

 Portuguese territory on the bank of the Congo 

 extends to nearly opposite Vivi. The region 

 to the eastward is also conceded to Portugal, 

 as far as the Kwango, and along that river to 

 beyond the parallel of 11 south latitude. On 

 the coast north of the mouth of the Congo a 

 small strip, including Cabinda and Landana, 

 was awarded to Portugal. The budgets of 

 revenue and expenditure of the various colonies 

 were in 1885 as follow, the values being given 

 in milreis: 



A revolt of serious dimensions occurred in 

 the colony of Mozambique in 1886. On Oct. 16, 

 King Inhambane, a loyal chief, was attacked 

 by King Muzilla at the head of 30,000 natives, 

 but the aggressor was repelled, and on the 

 23d he was defeated by 16,000 Portuguese and 

 native troops under the command of the Gov- 

 ernor-General. The troops pursued the rebels 

 in order to drive them out of the territory of 

 King Inhambane and punishing them in their 

 own district. A special expedition was subse- 

 quently sent against them. 



Change of Blinistry. The Fontes Cabinet pro- 

 posed financial measures that were generally 

 disapproved throughout the country. They 

 were also unable to compose a serious admin- 

 istrative conflict between the towns of Braga 

 and Guimaraes. These and other difficulties 

 the ministry of the Regeneration party pro- 

 posed to master by adjourning the Chambers, 

 but the King would not agree to an adjourn- 

 ment. Fontes and his colleagues thereupon 

 offered their resignations, and a Progressist 

 Cabinet was formed under the presidency of 

 Luciano do Castro. 



The session of the Legislature was closed on 

 April 17. The Chambers, notwithstanding the 

 preponderating majority of the Regeneration 

 party, granted the Progressist ministry powers 

 to raise taxes and carry on the government 

 during the financial year 1886-'87 and to draft 

 the army and navy recruits. 



Ecclesiastical Relations in India. The Portu- 

 guese Government has laid claim to powers 



over the Church in India that were disputed by 

 the Curia. In 1886 an agreement was reached 

 according to which the Archbishop of Goa re- 

 ceives the title of Patriarch, the boundaries of 

 the three other archdioceses are defined, and 

 Portugal has control over the appointments of 

 archbishops; but over the rest of India the 

 Curia has direction of ecclesiastical affairs. 



PRESBYTERIANS. 1. Presbyterian Church in the 

 United States of America. The following is the 

 summary of the statistics of this Church, as 

 they were reported to the General Assembly 

 in May, 1886. The statistics of 1885 are ap- 

 pended for comparison : 



CONTRIBUTIONS. 



The gross receipts of the Board of Church 

 Erection for the year were returned to the 

 General Assembly at $116,578. Grants amount- 

 ing to $59,673 had been made to 144 cases, and 

 special aid had been given in 39 other cases, to 

 the amount of $7,173. 



The Board of Aid for Colleges had afforded 

 help to seventeen new institutions. Its receipts 

 for the year had been $67,903. 



The receipts of the Board of Relief had been : 

 For the permanent fund, $18,414; for current 

 use, $120,437 ; besides boxes of clothing valued 

 at $5,066. The beneficiaries of the board num- 

 bered 484 families. Twenty-five ministers had 

 been cared for at the " Ministers' House," in 

 Perth Amboy, K J. 



The Board of Publication had received from 

 all sources $298,419, and had expended $284,- 

 466. The sales had amounted to $215,142. A 

 capital stock of $496,323 was returned. The 

 sum of $45,241 had been contributed for mis- 

 sionary work. 



The receipts of the Board of Home Mission?, 

 including what had come into the treasury for 

 the liquidation of the debt, had been $671,728. 



