... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... The Southern mail arrived at Washington on the 11th. The steamer Neptune arrived at Tampico, Nov. 22, with four hundred and fifty regular troops, under command of Col. Gates. The steamer Sea arrived with more troops on the 23rd, when the town was immediately handed over to the army. Fort Orondaga was garrisoned under the name of Fort Conner, and armed with two long 8 pounders. A battery of two ...

... Mayor in the chair, supported by Sir Chapman Marshall, the president of the society, and several distinguished citizens of London. After dinner, Sir C. Marshall expressed the gre«t satisfaction he felt in presiding over so excellent institution, and stated the great advantages which the members derived, when it appeared that by the present state of the accounts, nearly seven thousand three ...

... CLERK.ENWELL.—A* Ungrateful Cabman.—John Burke, a cabman, was charged by Mr. Grayson, an attorney, of Newcastle, with stealing a gold watch, value 172. —Mr. Grayson stated that had been to visit a lady in Collegestreet, Doctors' Commons, few days ago. He hired the prisoner's cab in Cheapside, and was driven to several places, and eventually to Mr. Hinton's coffee-house, in Red Lionstreet, ...

... Windsor, Monday.—The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early morning walk. His Serene Highness Prince Lowenstein, his Excellency the Chevalier Bnnsen, and Sir George Grey are expected to arrive at the Castle to-day on a visit to Her Majesty. Expected Royal Visit to Badminton.—lt is stated that her Majesty will, in all probability, honour the Duke of Beaufort with a visit at Badminten ...

... Tuesday Evening. The decline in the funds which set in yesterday continued to-day. Consols were done as low as93jf, which, ascompared with the highest point of the advance last week, equal to half per cent. fall. Shortly before the close of business there was slight reaction, and Consols recovered to 93} to 4, which they left off. Some parcels of money stock were brought to market in the early ...

... LANCASHIRE. Accidext ox the North-western, Liverpool—On Saturday evening an accident occurred on the Liverpool and Manchester portion of the London and North-western Railway. The line enters Manchester a viaduct through Salford, adjoining, and running parallel with the Bolton Railway about 300 yards of the distance. At this point there a junction with the Bolton for the Lancashire trains to ...

... The following intelligence, including the President's Message, appeared in a Second Edition of the Daily News of yesterday. We received it early yesterday morning by an express train from Liverpool. The daily necessity of going to press at earlier hour than our contemporaries, to provide the large numbers required to be sent by the railway trains, prevented these despatches from appearing in ...

... The John Skiddy, Captain Luce, which left New York on the morning of the 13th, arrived in the Mersey at seven o'clock yesterday morning, bringing advices three days later than previously received, and printed above, THE CONGRESS. The present Congress promises to be a stormy one. In the debate on the Message, the President is called upon to state to the house what he designs in regard to the ...

... On Sunday one of the most numerous meetings of delegates ever convened was held at the Woodman's Hut, Great Ancoats-street, Manchester. There were 68 delegates present from different places Lancashire, Cheshire, York, and Derby. The Chairman, in opening the proceedings, read the following letter from Charles Hindley, Esq., M.P.: To the Chairman of the Met tins of Delegates from Factory Workers ...