The Lisbon correspondent of the Times should explain his telegram
about the new Calendar adopted in Brazil. He stated positively, on the authority of Brazilian papers, -that the Provisional Government had adopted the Comtist Calendar, and gave, not the French, but the Portuguese names for the new months and days. The 'Government of Rio Janeiro now declares that no such change has ever been ordered, or officially proposed, or so much as suggested. No compromise between the two statements is possible, and if no such order ever appeared in the Brazilian papers, a slur is cast upon the correspondent's good -faith, or capacity for testing statements. Hitherto, although the Lisbon writer has obvi- ously been prejudiced, his criticisms on the proceedings of the Brazilian junta have been milder than the truth, which has never been transmitted by cable, but has slowly oozed out through detailed accounts carried by American steamers from Rio to New York.
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