NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THERE has been a Revolution this week which may prove im- portant or not, according to the connection between its author and the Spanish Minister of War. Marshal Saldanha, who has been threatening the Portuguese Government for some time, on Thursday morning marched upon the Palace, at the head of six battalions. The guard resisted, seven soldiers were killed, but by 4 p.m. the Marshal was in possession of Fort St. Georges, had forced his way into the Palace, had dismissed the Ministry, and bad formed a new one, with himself as Minister of War. All that is of no importance, unless the Marshal is in league with Prim, and intends to compel the Braganzas to accept the sovereignty of the Peninsula. He has shown "Iberian" proclivities once or twice, and may be obeying a signal from Madrid, where the Pronuncia- mento, or Revolution, or whatever it is, will cause no little commo- tion, where Prim has just suggested that Serrano might as well be King, and where the Cortes seem unable to agree upon that or any other close of the interregnum. The Braganzas are royal, Catholic, liberal, and well downed; but the Portuguese are not favourable to the arrangement, which might, however, be carried out by force. If it should be, and Napoleon should demand com- pensation, there will, as Americans say, be lively times. At present, however, the only change is that Marshal Saldanha, nearly ninety, is Dictator of Portugal.
