No authentic news appears as yet to have arrived from
Brazil,—that is, no news not sent through a cable which the Provisional Government controls. Private telegrams contain nothing except that the provinces "adhere," which is, of course, official news, and that Rio is tranquil, which, con- sidering that the fleet joined in the revolution and could destroy Rio in three hours, may be taken as certainly true. The Brazilian Minister in Washington considers his news excellent ; but that is not independent information, for which Europe must wait another fortnight. Even then we shall know only the details of the revolution, and not its effect upon provincial opinion. The Government itself sends nothing except assurances that it will keep its engagements, and a decree establishing "universal suffrage" for all who can read and write. That qualification excludes all Indians, all Negroes, and probably more than half of all Brazilians in the interior.
