22 DECEMBER 1832, Page 2

At Oporto, it appeal frog the co eiponddEce of 'Me

`Mmes, the condition of the besiegers and the besieged remains as it has been for some weeks past. Shells and balls.are thrown into thee town with great perseverance, and considerable effect. In one night, so many as twenty-one (Ter ions were :wounded. The English Consul's house has been thricedtifick. The river remains shut; but there is a talk of a counter-battery, which is to destroy thtWby which MiquEL's troops now command the entrance: One vessel-the Lord of the Isles-contrived on the 7th to pass shot- fret; ,?but three vessels that attempted to follow were sunk. Don. PEDRO has, however, managed to get a considerable number of bidloc"ks landed, near San Joao da Foz, on the sight bank,.an. d to haw them conveyed -byland to the city.