31 JANUARY 1914, Page 32

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF, [To ma Emma or ma .Sracarroa."]

Sat,—As an instance of how history repeats itself I send you an extract from a letter of Sir R. Southwell after the Portuguese uprising in 1668. From what I saw of the country and have read, I should say they have no more chance of introducing good government than Turkey or "They now find themselves on a dangerous lee-shore. The philosophers' deformed shoes now they am gotten -donut fit ; and the reformation begins to look more troublesome than the oppres- sion for which it was made."