Richmond Enquirer

FROM LISBON.
We are indebted to Captain Taylor, of the ship Alexander, arrived on Saturday, for a file of Lisbon papers to the 26th of January inclusive—they are without interest. The Cortes were occupied in discussing the articles of the new constitution. The trial by jury, in both criminal and civil causes, was established by that body at the session on the ninth of January.
A decree has been passed by the Cortes, for the establishment of a Bank at Lisbon, with a capital of 10,000 shares, at 500 mil reas each, equal in all to about $650,000, with exclusive privileges for 20 years, on condition of loaning two-fifths of the capital to the government, at four per cent. interest. The subscriptions, at the last dates, amounted only to about one-eighth of the proposed capital, and it was doubtful whether the plan would be carried into effect. The last article of the decree authorises the government "to obtain and employ the plates of the invention of the celebrated artist Perkins," in order to prevent the falsification of the paper money of the kingdom.
Captain Taylor informs that a ship of the line and six transports, with 1200 troops on board, sailed from Lisbon on the 18th January, for Rio de Janeiro.
N. Y. Gaz.