The Sun.
London, England, 1824-06-28 00:00:00

EW TI M ES.j
Every reasonable proposal for the application
of capital to the improvement of Ireland will al-
ways receive our warmest support. It is with
pleasure, therefore, that we notice the Meeting
which was held on Saturday at the City of Lon-
don Tavern, for the purpose of, establishing a
communication by steam-packets between Ame-
rica and the. West of Ireland. The harbour at
present suggested as most convenient in Ireland

'or such a -purpose, is Valentia. It is.the neares

point of Europe to America, being 202 miles
more westerly than Falmouth. It has two en-

trances, and, therefore, vessels may enter and
leave it with any wind : and it may be reached
by a traveller from London in fifty hours. There
are various other local advantages which this
port is said to possess ; but it is left to the Com-
mittee to determine whether any spot still more
convenient may not be found on the Irish coast.

The plan proposed is to employ very large steam
packets of not less than a thousand tons burthen ;
and it is calculated that 400 tons of coal will suf-
fice for the voypge. We do not profess ourselves
competent to form any opinion of our own on such
an undertaking ; but we cannot but entertain a fa-
vourable opinion of Its practicability when we see
it recommended by Mr. Nimmo, who for many
years past has distinguished himself as a Civil
Engineer by the numerous and useful public works
that he has conducted in Ireland. Assuming,
then, that the measure is practicable, we have
no doubt that it is highly desirable. • The great
and growing intercourse between England and
America must of necessity bring great numbers
of travellers to a point to and from which the
passage between the two countries is most safe
and expeditious ; and such a resort to any part of
the West of Ireland cannot happen without
occasioning great employment to the indus-
trious poor, which is the chief thing requi-
site to the tranquillity and prosperity of Ireland.
By-the-bye, whilst we are speaking of Steam-
Packet communications,we must not omit to notice
a still -bolder project, the establishment of an

India Steam Packet Company, which is to per-
form the passage from Marseilles to Bombay in
25 days and ten hours. The chief difficulty in
this transit must evidently occur between Alex-
andria and Suez : and how that into be got over
we do not well understand.

[MORNING HERALD.]
A letter from Madid, dated June 14, says—
We are- assured, that on Saturday the 19th,
the King will come to Madrid from Aranjuez;
and after a short stay his Majesty will repair
to the baths of Sacedon. The Princes will re-
main at Aranjuez. The King coming alone to
Madrid leads some people to suppose that there
is some other mysterious project in contempla-
tion ; but the more probable motive of the In-
fantas remaining behind is the recent accouche-
ment of Don Francisco's wife. The results
of the late affair in Portugal have made a pro-
found sensation here, from their being more fa-
vourable to the nation than was expected. Nu-
merous well-organized bands of robbers infest
several of the provinces, the most formidable are
in Biscay, Navarre, Catalonia, and the Andalu-
sian; those of the last-mentioned province will
no doubt be augmented by the numerous
Galerians who have escaped from Malaga,
where they were employed in making a road
from Carolina to Malaga. The quintal (con.
scriptions) to complete the army have given
rise to disturbances in several towns and villages.
The better class of young men get out of the way,
under various pretexts, and those of the lowest
class take flight, and are oft' for the mouutains.—
The prisons all over the Peninsula are still filled
with those, who, according to the act of amnesty,
should have been before this restored to their
families. Letters from various points state, that
instead of emptying the prisons, they are en-
cumbering them .with fresh inmates, taken up
under pretext that they come under the excep-
tions to the amnesty. So that this famous and
so long expected Decree has augmented, in-
stead of diminishing the already too nume-
rous evils that weigh down this fine but ill-fated
country. I have already mentioned to you
the sinister rumours industriously circulated
through the country for the purpose of ren-
dering the French troops odious to the people.
Many of these were sanctioned by persons
of very celebrated rank, and were incessant-
ly repeated and promulgated by the Monks
and the hot-headed -Royalists; to whom the
presence of our Allies is any thing but agreeable.
At present attempts are made to attribute these
rumours and inventions to the Constitutionalists
and unfortunate, prisoners who have returned
here from France, but the pastoral letters of the
Bishops and the circulars of those in authority.
are fortunately on record, to prove the true
source from whence they flowed.

cept from Spain itself. The very discourse,how-
ever, which M. Gual calls frank and satisfactory,
is to Santander a source of uneasiness and regret.
So that Mr. Canning has to boast the extraordi-
nary gift of enlightening onelViinister and perplex-
ing another, by one and the same effort of his
official ingenuity. That Col. Hamilton should have
violated or transgressed his instructions, is surely
the most improbable thing in the world; that the
speech delivered by him on an occasion which
was in itself most important, and which mast
have been foreseen by Mr. Canning, should
oot have been prepared in Downing-street be-
fore the mission took its departure from Eng-
land, is equally hard of belief ; nor can we
admit the circumstance hinted at within these
few (lays, that the Spanish translator of Colonel
Hamilton's speech might have coloured it more
favourably for Colombia than the truth would
bear. It was the Commissioner's business to as-
certain that the official translation was a.correct
one; and being so, we are bound to confess the
difficulty of reconciling its language and senti-
ments with those which are employed upon the
same subject in England, by persons who must,
from the nature of things, have beers aware of
the latitude to which they had themselves allow-
ed the Commissioner to carry his assurances of
friendship and protection towards Colombia.