... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... IREIAN D. jFRtOM OURt CORREISPOCNDENT.] u1F irI , fNDlTtION OF TI! 11 COITNTRY. M Itl0ipidlint- are the accounts ot destitutionl lii, If.l'ti oft tile country ant[ even trot) ?? p-O I(TI' i flt 53Verlil dca thst tron starvation Ii' liiI' i~ ta1t1tflin lt, frOnM the DulinL'ven- N '~11it\otir ?? Al i ?? ,'Otl~lIplitn-I thiit tihe etflfrti of the~ bene1.- 5 halii, il1' beIf,, tO SO~I' 13'twnft ...

... P 0 t l UY G X L. LISBON, DEn. 20. [FRomt OUR COIRnESPONDENT.? It will le recollected that the appearance of a 3 guerrilla force on tile Opipositc sidc of'the Tagus, anul the runiours of' a battle between Lapa and .Bounfim, and of a chiange of ininist'y in Spain, lled caused, for some days previous to thle departure of the last packet, sonie uneasiness anid excitement in Lisbon. On the very ...

... 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 ...

... THE TEAT HOURS BILL. MANcrisywtP o xDA, Dix'. 28.- Yesterday (Stir.- day) at numerous meetingv of di-legrtea froin hie nirrtiull c- turliur districts of Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, anrd Decrbyshire, wats helri in a school-room, Great Aucots- street, in tfiN towno, and by ad journment tif the Woodinan's ?? public-house ,for the, purpose of considering, what steps Ware to be taken to ...