Marshal Peixoto has sent away the Portuguese Minister. from Brazil,
and has withdrawn the Brazilian Minister from Lisbon. His ostensible reason for the rupture is the conduct, of the Portuguese in protecting the Brazilian insurgents who. took refuge on Portuguese men-of-war; but his real reason is- probably a suspicion that Portugal is inimical to the Re- public, and helped to promote the insurrection. That may be quite true, too. Portugal, as the Mother-country, has great influence with certain classes in Brazil; and it is not likely that the Braganzas regard their loss of that great throne with anything like equanimity. They profess, of course, entire ignorance of any cause f3r indignation ; but there was a monarchical meaning in the insurrection which the Portuguese dynasty must have regarded, at all events, with sympathy. There is of course no probability of war' between the two Powers, and even the diplomatic rupture. will, it is believed, be arranged by British mediation.
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