The Portuguese elections took place on Sunday last. There were
serious disorders in Lisbon, where the troops fired on the crowd and six persons were killed and about fifty wounded some of them mortally. The strength of the parties in the new Chamber will be :—Regeneradors, sixty-two ; Pro- gressists, fifty-nine ; Independents, seventeen ; Nationalists, two; Republicans, five ; Franquistas, three; Dissident Pro- gressists, seven. The number of persons who voted through- out Portugal, where abstention has always been common, is said to have been twenty per cent, higher than at the last election. The result is an overwhelming victory for the Monarchist parties. The Times correspondent says that "the election appeared to be conducted with scrupulous fairness," but we owe to the vigilance of the Manchester Guardian a comparison of the results with the forecast which shows a most ominous accuracy in prediction.
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