The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-29 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY. Four o 'Cock.

We publish in another column accounts from Lis-
bon,
received by the Peninsular and Oriental Com-
pany's steamer, Royal Tar, which arrived at South-
ampton
last evening, with the following passengers :
Captain and Mrs. Ilcitland; Messrs. Harding, Margesson,
and Frazer, officers of the Royal Artillery; Capt. Ferguson,
79th Regiment; Messrs. Boschetti, White, Frichard, Drum-
mond, and Dobson; Captain Richie, of the late barque
Robert Burns, abandoned in asinking state, and Master liar-
well. Her dates of departure are as follows :—Gibraltar,
Dec. 16th ; Cadiz, 17th ; Lisbon, 20th ; Oporto, 21st ;
Vigo, 23d.
The Royal Tar passed a largo ship in the Bay of
Biscay, with loss of bowsprit and foretopmast, &c.
Also observed much wreck on the water.

In addition to the details of Portuguese news,
which will be found elsewhere in the communication
of our Lisbon correspondent, we may add, that letters
from Oporto report that Baron Casa', who com-
manded the Queen's troops before that city, was in
full retreat upon Braga. It was said that the
troops by which he expected to be joined had been
defeated by a force which Das Antas had detached,
with a view of intercepting them on their march rid
Coimbra.

Papers from Singapore to the 6th of November,
received by the Overland Mail, report an improving
demand there for cotton goods, without, however, any
advance in prices. The Siam and Bugis traders had
taken off eon,iderable quantities. Prices, indeed, are
quoted from 13 to 20 per cent. lower than by the Sept.
steamer. The stocks of iron, Brc-artn9, and woollens,
arc reported to be " very heavy," and quite sufficient
to meet the demand for many months.

Papers from Port Philip to the 12th of August
refer to intelligence received from Western. Australia
of August Ist. The settlers of that so long depressed
colony appear to be recovering from long-continued
despondency. Steam communication, both with the
mother country and with the colonies, was en-
grossing attention. Amongst other projects, a branch
steam line of packets to Ceylon was proposed as an
enterprise likely to be of vast benefit to Australia
West.

The following news has been received from Con-
stantinople to the 7th inst. :
The most important subject on the topis was the Persian
affair, and considerable anxiety was entertained by the Porte
on the subject. Repeated conferences had taken place be-
tween the ministers of the Divan and the Russian and Eng.
lish ambassadors; and the urgency of the subject
is shown by the fact that they were held during the
festival of the Courbao Dairam, the greatest and
most ins iolable of the Turkish holidays. The chief
Objects of solicitude were the warlike preparations of
Persia, and the supposed expedition of Persian troops to
the unprotected frontier of Turkey. The Porte had received
intelligence of the death of Tayar Pacha, the commander
in chief of the Turkish army in Kurdistan. It was given out by
the Porte that be died of apoplexy, but there was some rea-
son to suspect that he had probably fallen while leading an
attack in the mountains of the Khabour, against the Yesi-
dies. The death of the commander led to a complete route
of the Turkish troops, and great numbers were said to have
been killed. More than 37 vessels arc stated to have perished
during the last dreadful storms of November 23, 24, and 25.

Tim accounts from the River Plate are to the 11th
October. The annexed has been communicated from
Monte Video, and is dated the 10th October :
The invading army, which, during a period of nearly four
years, has in vain exhausted every recognised besieging ele-
ment against Oda city, except that of exemplary patience,has
lately conceived the notable idea of blowing it. defenders up
in detail. Oa the Bth inst., about 2 o'clock in the afternoon,
a mine v.hich they had Liid overnight in a house a little
mitaide the Montevideen advanced posts, exploded, while
the spot was occupied by a company of the second legion
of National Getarda;; and the fruit of the exploit was one
man killed and two badly wounded. It wa• artfully ma-
naged, the communication being by means of a string, which
was lying by, apparently loose, and which was pulled by the
unconscious bend of the victims themselves. A party of the
enemy were lying in ambush a short distance off, armed for
the surprise, and immediately rushed in; but the guards
behaved so well that, with9ut any further loss to themselves,
they drove off their assailants, three of whom were left dead
on the field, and their bodies carried in as trophies. In
the moment of the confusion seven men and a serjeant,
all belonging to the Rineon battalion, passed over to the
Monte viderin ranks. They were closely pursued in their
flight by the Vesecoi of Artagaveitia, and some of them
wounded by the latter's fire. It is worthy of remark that
this batallion of ltincon is given out by Oribe to be com-
posed purely of Orientals, vet not a single man of the many
who have passed over from it proves to be one ; the present
are all Correntinos, and the one previous was a Brazilian,
who had been forcibly detained in Oribe's camp.
Humanity shrinks from the repetition, and even from the
belief, of naled truths deseriptive of the barbarous treatment
and mode of putting to death of those who have had the mis-
fortune to fall into the hands of the invading army.