Glasgow Courier. — 1846-11-03 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

IMPORTANT FROM PORTUGAL. (Prom the Correspondent of the Morning Herald.)  Lisbon, Oct. 17.  I write via France, as the packet from England has not arrived, and we have no vessel to take the mail of the 20th. A civil war ham commenced in this ill-fated country, the end of which it is impossible to foresee. The city of Oporto has declared against the Government, and is backed In the course it has taken by the troops under the command of Count des Antes, the military governor of the northern provinces. The Duke of Terceira, who was sent down from this to supersede hint, was arrested by the authorities and confined in the Castle of St. Joao de Foz, where he now is, together with his aides-de-camp, Count St. Maria and Baron Carnpanha. It appears that he was well received at first, and that it was only on the following morning that he was arrested. It is reported that lie and his officers were assailed by the mob, and narrowly escaped being murdered; but the communication with Oporto is so interrupted, that there is no coining at the troth of what has been going on. Amongst other things it is said that the Oportonians have established a regency in the name of the Queen, whom they declare to be in a state of coercion; another rumour is, that they have proclaimed the Prince Royal by the title of Peter V. At Coimbra, the third city of the kingdom, and the seat of the University, the standard of insurrection has in like manner been unfurled. The Marquis of Loul6, who is Civil Governor of the district, has put hims If at the head of it, and issued proclamations calling the people to arms against the Queen's Government. The troops at Santarem declared at first for the Queen, but it is currently reported to-day that a part of the 10th infantry, there stationed, have gone off to join the Coimbra people, after murdering their colonel. Alemtejo is quiet, but the greater part of the country north of the Tagus is in a state of hostility to the Lisbon Government. The troops in the south have been ordered to fall back upon this city, where a corps is to be formed to march against the insurgents. The King Consort will take the command of it, aided by the Marquis de Saldanha. An attempt is making to raise volunteer battalions for the " defence of the Queen and Charter;" but, with the exception of the public employes, who must, whether they like it or not, very few have come forward to volunteer their services. The total number, including ewspl?yhs, does not reach fourteen hundred. The prevalent feeling in this city certainly appears to be adverse to the Government, except as regards the classes concerned in monetary transactions with it. While this feud is going on between the Chartists and Ultras, the peasantry are crying out in all directions for Dom Miguel. Nearly the whole country between this city and Cintra, and from that along the coast of Marra, Torres Vedras, and Cables, is in open insurrection. The peasants, however, have not committed any act of aggression, and content themselves with making a display of their force, firing off rockets, and singing the Miguellite " rei chegon." On Thursday night (the 15th) a force of 600 men, horse and foot, was sent against them from this city, under the command of Don Carlos de Ma-scarenhas, who surprised them at Belles, and captured eight of them, besides killing two or three. The news arrived from Algarve is very bad for the Government. The whole of the troops in that province have declared for the insurgents. Similar reports are in circulation respecting the troops in Alemtejo.