A second edition of the Times has intelligence from Portugal
to the 28th February. After an interregnum of seventeen days, a new Ministry had been formed. Senhor Costa Cabral is the Home Secretary, and the leading spirit of the new Cabinet. The Duke of Terceira is President of the Council ; and he holds ad interim the portfolio of Foreign Affairs. The Minister of Justice is Senhor Antonia d' Agevedo Mello e Carvalho ; whose brother was a member of the Oporto Junta. Baron de 'rola' is Minister of Finance. The portfolio of the Marine Department is held provisionally by the chief clerk in that office. Of this Ministry the Times says- 1 The policy of the new Administration will not differ materially from that ,wich WKS displaced by the Oporto revolt. Its policy with regard to England all forlAgn countries will be identical. The first act of the new Govern- ment is somewhat remarkable. It is a demand of the Administrator-General of Oporto to specify the sums which he received from the Customhouse, and other sources of revenue, to aid the late revolt ; by whose order he received them ; and how they were expended. The object is to legalize these illegal transactions by an act of indemnity."
The Pope's Nuncio, Cappacini, had been presented at Court.
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