... LISBON, Dec. 20. I wrote few hasty lines by the Scourge, warsteamer, which came in suddenly from Oporto, on Thursday afternoon, and which left as suddenly at 10 o'clock the same night. All the intelligence I was able to give merely amounted to a date, up to which time nothing of importance had transpired at Cartaxo or Santarem. Saldanha is preparing to shift his head-quarters to Alcoentre ...

... By the arrival of the Royal Mail Packet Company 1 steamer Tay, we have accounts from Mexico and the West India Islands to the following dates: —Tampico, Oct. 25th; Vera Cruz, Nov. Ist.; Havannah, 11th: Nassau, 13th; Bermuda. 21st; Honduras, Oct 20th; Demerara, Nov. 4th; Tobago, sth; Trinidad, sth; Laguayra, 7th; Grenada, 10th ; St. Vincent, 10th; St. Lucia, 10th; Martinique, 11th; Dominique, ...

... LANCASHIRE. Sanitory Act. —After the first of January the smoke from all the furnaces, s , eam-engiues, bakeries, and factories in Liverpool, must be consumed, or heavy penalties be paid by their proprietors. Notices to this effect have been sent out by the town-clerk to all the owners or occupiers whose premises or steam-vessels will come under the operation of the act. The act, on this head, ...

... NEW ZEALAND. [The Charter and instructions under the sign manual, of which an abstract here subjoined, were officially published in the Gazette last night. They are now, therefore, virtue of the act for the government New Zealand, the constitutional laws of that colony, although they will not come into operation until they have been proclaimed there.] The Chauteh consists twenty-five clauses ...

... solid beneficial results, of that vast ana important series of legislative measures for Ireland, which we were fortunate enough to be the first to announce to the public in the Daily News. The manner in which that announcement has been received by the press, not only in every Irish city, but in those cities of England and Scotland most interested in the prosperity and redemption of Ireland, ...

... CANADA.—Copper Mines.—The letter of our Montreal correspondent, which we published on Friday last, alludes to mining companies of Canada. The opening of this new field of enterprise the colony is opportune, both for it and the mother country. A new article of export provided just Canada is about to encounter competition our markets with diminished and diminishing protection ; and an impetus is ...

... A meeting of the central committee of this association, which has for its object the total repeal of the malt tax, took place yesterday at the York Hotel, Bridge-street, Black friars. Mr. W. B. Lamb, on taking the chair, announced that nrious counnunic .tions had been received from Yorkshire, Hampshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Oxfordshire, Nottinghamshire, and other counties, containing most ...

... Sir, —Among the Editorial articles in your journal of Saturday last, there is one in reference to the colony of South Australia, which, in the great body of its observations, is, so far as it goes, most correct. As having been led to look somewhat closely into colonial history, and moreover, as being of necessity intimately acquainted with the progress and prospects of South Australia, I can ...

... Crosby -hall. —Sacred Concerts. —These and the concerts of the Choral Harmonists, have exercised an influence musical taste little less salutary in their locality than that which has resulted, generally, from the performances of Exeter-hall, due allowance, of course, being made for the disparity in the extent of their resources. Crosby-hall cannot offer the attraction of the band and chorus ...

... A kind of political skirmishing has lately taken place between the Paris journals, caused the protest'which M. Guizot has just sent to the courts of Berlin, St Petersburg, and Vienna. Some affirm, that the Minister for Foreign Affairs declared his opinion that France was no longer bound by the treaty of 1815; others insist that the protest is prudently silent on this point. I had been led, ...

... BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.—There is little of general interest in our Canadian files. The judicious resume our Montreal correspondent enables us to dispense with extracts. Nova Scotia. —More Colonial Copper Ore.— The Halifax Morning Pott contains the following paragraph. The Putt does not from what port the shipment took place ; most probably from a Canadian one :— The ship West Indian, Capt. ...

... Roman reforms, but there is unmistakeaole evidence of renewed activity in every department. The grand blow, as far the capital is concerned, was struck at the beginning of this week, when the old governor, Marini, got notice to quit. His successor is not yet appointed. This riddance is of paramount magnitude. Every amelioration found in Marrai an implacable foe. He was for putting down ...