... IPOSTSO RIFT. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 30. Taxi N Nw OPOSITIONt.-It is rumoured in welllnforied circles, that the most prominent place In opposition during the ensuing session will be conceded to Lord Lincoln. Tbereport we imaginemust be considered to have reference rather to those who will occupy the seats opposite to the Ministerial benches than to any portion of the House of Commons disposed ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... [FROM OUR COtRRESPONDENT.] The fall of snow during the last week was very heavy, and , being accompanied bylhigh winds, it drifted into heaps, to the great inconvenience of every one who had to pass through the streets. The inconvenience was felt in an in- finitely greater degree by those who were proceeding through the country from one town to another. The mails from France, andi from the ...

... THE LATE DISTURBANCES AT MACAO. [PROM A MACAO PAePR.] In consequence of the repeated eomplaint.a of robberies perpetrated in the Chinese fast boats which run between Macao, Canton, and Floini Kong, without any possibility of discovering the psrpetrutors, because ofour detective in- formation on the subject of those vessels and the people em- ployed in them, who have not the best character, ...

... The lady who, the week before last, put an advertise- ment in the FREEMAN'S JOURiNAL, requesting aid in trifling sums, on behalf of the suffering poor at Skibbereen, and referring to Mr. Brady, of Henry-street, aetbe person who consented to receive contributions, begs to return thanks for several sums received, amounting in the whole to 191. l0s. Of this she, on Tueeday, the 22d instant, trans ...

... Next week will Published, 'T'HE ACT and lo Victoria, cap 1«1. M itli Analysis and Exposition its Provisions and practical working. Together with Appendix containing Forms and Official Documeats. W. S. Walker, Esq., Advocate, Edinburgh. Lately Published, in octavo, price 3s. 6d., with bi.\ty-two Engravings on Wood. AM A N U A PRACTICAL DRAINING. By Henry Stephens, F.R.S.E., Author of The Book ...

... The Earl of Mount Edgeumbe has very generously caused to be distributed amongst the poor of Maker and the neiglhbourhood, 20 cwt of Beef and a quantity of Bread, Au arrangement has at last been made with the government, relative to the proposed new Post office in Whimplo-street, Plymouth, the authorities consenting to pay the additional rent required by the appropriation of the whole site to ...

... DUBLIN, December 29. The country journals published on Monday, of which there uc very lew, have not reached to-day, that we are still unable to ascertain the condition of the provinces. I have heard from a gentleman, who arrived this morning from Connaught,that tho condition the people along the coast is beyond the power of language to express. Food, he says, is fast disappearing from the ...

... GREECB. The following is said to be the reply of M. Coletti to Sir E. Lyons, relative to the note lately presented by his Excel- t lency front Lord Palmerston:- ' You have done me the honour of communicating to me officially the copy of a despatch from the ?? of Fo- reign Affairs of Great Britain. This communication appears to be intended to remind the government of the King of Greece of is ...

... Il TE NEW MEA1 N.S of' !JEX)XIJ.Vf. ?? I?- I GlCAL OPERA7 Vi O.S PA I.N I. . 'Tnn 'rll EDITORl 01' TiHE '1i1?NIN, i (Afi'n J p St- ?? mg been the first in thi- couinrry ti, ittihvid'n ot ether as a on notas 4f renderine' ?? opvr;atiols pinieitiss, I beg to t nllsoe ?? Icr ptiln hinitor ib. restilt ot severil eases in which I have 't'ic ited tieeth ini 0ueirt0 Ii I-i'r tlie :oboshi cireumsncn ...

... Morning Chronicle Office, Quarter to Four. I UN ITED SIATES. Liar. bog ?? (BY EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS.) era, d tit I llt- to it THE PR1ESIDENTS' Ar IM ESS A GE. Mr- He it a ?? OulR COURIEePONDFNT.] post fied LIVERrPOOL, TuESDAY NIGHT, to IIALO-PAST EMORT. of udy The New York packet ship Ashburtun, Captain ot Howland, entered thu- river at a late hour to-night, F'or the bringing New York papers ...