Portuguese affairs are all at sea again. The Queen has
granted the stipulated amnesty ; Sit da Bandeira has submitted ; but the Junta at Oporto has revoked its submission, and prolongs the struggle. Some question has arisen as to the completeness of the amnesty ; but it appears to be in accordance with the terms of the convention, and in fact to include all classes. Nor does the obstinacy of the Junta rest on dissatisfaction on that score. Its more probable causes are, first, jealousy at the intervention of foreign powers ; and next, mere ignorance—the want of power to understand and estimate the true position of the insurgents. Another surmise is that the Junta will surrender to the English forces, but not to Saldanha or his Spanish allies ; thus implying a cutting sarcasm in the very mode of surrender. The new turn of matters shows how little we can calculate what we do when we . undertake such an intervention.
