The intelligence from Portugal is as satisfactory as, under the
circumstances, it could well be. Of course the object to be desired now is the consummation of the settlement under the new Quad- ruple Alliance : it is satisfactory, therefore, to find that the Junta has definitively submitted to the arrangement ; and that at Court steps were taken to carry out the terms of the convention with all possible despatch. Meanwhile, Saldanha is earning some addi- tional odium. He had incurred blame for inactivity ; which he shakes off, on the eve of pacification, just as he is joined by an alien force from Spain. The representatives of the three inter- vening Powers, however, appear to be acting in good faith ; and they will of course disarm the malevolence or blundering of any obstinate statesman on the Queen's side.
