Lisbon was disturbed by revolt, on the night of the
11th instant. At ten o'clock, a groupe of people collected in the Estrella Square, and were joined by three sergeants and about forty privates of the Muuicipal Guard stationed in the immediate neighbourhood. The insurgents were headed by Major Cabral of the Czteadores, (who had been suspected of disaffection,) and Franca, an ex-commander of the navy. As they went towards the arsenal, shouting " Long live the Queen and the Constitution," and " Down with the Ministry," they were joined by about forty more of the Municipal corps, and by some other officers out . of place, until they mustered about three hundred strong. Without any opposition from the regiment statimted near the arsenal, the First Re- ' giutent of Artillery, .whose fidelity wavered, the revolters broke open the arsenul, and proceeded to aria themselves. Meanwhile, the Thirtieth Battalion of e'aeadores aerived ; a panic ensued; and the I riot headers; of the revolt tied. Ey two o'clock in the morning, the President of the Council and Mini:der of War, the Count de Ponfint,
with the remaiader of the garrisoe, reached the scene or disorder, and
the riot was euelled. Alma forty of the revolters, principally of the common people, were taken. Smite of the rittgleaders, according to one account, took refuge on bit nil the French corvette, IA Blonde, at anchor in the river. The Secretaries of state appeared in public at live o'clock in the morithig, and went In the War Office, where they sat in delib(va• 6111 till eleven Mektek. Then they went down to the Corte', and brought in a bill (hr the suspension of the Habeas Corpus and of the liberty of the press,: which e as pasnel bob ire night. (1:1 the next day it was carried up to the Senate: al.d it received the Royal assent on the 14th. A special commissimi, 120;;SIYillg of six Imaistretes mid six military officers, and a general officer fur a President, with a vote, was appointed to try the prisoners. It I:, said that the milietry part of the eounnission are all Septembrists: Tlte rioters (I() not appear to have done much more, besides breaking open the arsenal, than seize upon ' the persons of teR) officers, v. ho got :may from their detainers without ; difficulty. It is said that 'Amid and another of the ringleaders fell into , the hands of a regiment to which they had belonged, and that they were allowed to escape-- thromth the sympathy, it is inferred, of their ihriner comrades. Several privates of the Municipal Guard Who had joined in the riot subsequettl ly gave themselves up.
Lisbon was quiet at tha date of the 17111, but uneasy ; for a fracas between the nunticipal guard mid it few drunken soldiers of the ihfantry, on the night of the 160, sufficed to keep the garrison under arms all night. It is supposed that the revolt in Lisbon would have been billowed by au outbreak in various parts of the country, had it been successnd. Deuce Om strong measures of the Government.
The nets says, on the authority or a private letter, that the Duke of Pahnella was "alarmed at the disturbance, awl remained at the Lisbon Club, not considering himself sea: in his on n palace, till the Spanish Minister trailed for in lit, ;Aid conveyed him Sale In the Embassy, where he slept that night."
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