Accounts have been received from Oporto to April the 23d.
They are favourable to Don PEDRO; who at last had contrived to pay the seamen belonging to the squadron of SARTORIUS, and make up his quarrel with the Admiral. The squadron was lying in the roads off Oporto: it consisted of three frigates, a brig, a schooner, and a corvette. The only land operation undertaken by the garrison, had been the capture of one of the Miguelite posi- tions called Monte Cabello. This had been effected with the loss of about 130 men. There appears to have been some smart fight- ing, on a small scale, in this affair. Provisions were said to be coming into Oporto in great abundance; which, however, is irre- concileable with the account of prices of the necessaries of life fur- nished by the Times correspondent. Beef was ls. 11d. per pound, and flour about 65s. per barrel.
A rising against the Miguelites had taken place at Figueiras, a sea-port about fifty miles south of Oporto. It was headed by a disaffected militia officer. There seems to be at last some reason to believe that the country people are not indisposed to change masters.
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