The Sun.
London, England, 1823-06-20 00:00:00

NEWS FROM PORTUGAL.

On the 29th, the Infant Don Michel had his
head quarters at Santarem, where he was joined
by several regiments of the line and militia, and
by a great number of Officers and Generals. A
report prevails, that the 17th regiment, which
guarded the King in his capital, took his
Majesty to Santarem, and the 18th Regiment, in
Garrison at Cascaes, took away the Infantes,and
at Ramallao the Queen, and conducted them to
the head-quarters at Santarem. The province of
Beira and Minho, and the district of Porto, have
declared for the Royal cause.

FRENCH FUNDS.—JUNE IS.
Flve per Cents. Opened At BB f. 20 c.
Lowest B7 f. JO c.
Closed at B3 f. 80 c.
Spanish Bonds. 39i to 40.

Last night there was an important and deeply
interesting Debate in the House of Lords on the
State of. Ireland. The Opposition, of courbe,
charged all the sufferings of that ill-fated country
to the misgovernment of Ministers, and not only
to their misgovernment, but to the utter apathy
and indifference with which they regarded the
frightful and alarming state of the Sister Island,
and to the seeming resolution which they had
formed of never attempting any one practical mea-
sure for its relief. The Duke of DevoNsittac led
the attack upon Ministers, in a speech, which,
though we regret to say that the Noble Duke
seemed to labour under the effects of serious in-
disposition, was remarkable for the eloquence
and force of its composition, and for the calm-
ness,ielegance, and dignity of its delivery.—The
defence of the Ministers, however, was most
triumphant. Earl BATUURST and Lord MARY..
BOKOUGH repelled the assertion that Ministers
had manifested a disposition to do nothing for
the amelioration and conciliation of Ireland, by
the recapitulation of some of the important
measures which the British Governmeat and
Parliament had actually adopted, since the
Union, with a view to the exclusive be-
nefit of that country, and of the further men•
,sures for the same purpose which are now either
under consideration in the Cabinet, or are ac-
tually in, progress through the Legislature. This
statement of Ministers, which was intended only
as a defence against the allegations of the Oppo-
sition respecting their past conduct, and their
presumed views and intentions, was somewhat
ingeniously comulented on by Lord HOLLAND,I
who attempted to produce an impression that
Ministers had made it, not for the purpose of
proving the sincerity of their wishes for the
prosperity of Ireland, but for the purpose
of proving that they had already done all
that in their opinion could be done for
that country, and that the continuance of
Irish discontent was no evidence of the want
of paternal solicitude ow the part of the Govern-
ment, but was a proof merely of the ingratitude of
the Irish people ! This version, however, was too
flimsy to pass the House. The retort of Minsters,
that their opponents dealt only, with the excep-
tion of the Catholic Question, in generalities, and
that they had not brought forward, and apparently
could not bring forward, any distinct and practical
proposition for improving the condition of Ire-
land, was much better founded. The Earl
of favEarooL, in a speech of overwhelming elo-
quence, to which it is impossible for any news-
paper report to pretend to do justice, completed
the destruction of the case prepared by their op-
ponents, and may be said to have terminated the
discussion. The truth is, as it appears to us,
that the best remedy for the calamitous condi-
tion of Ireland will be found in the prglitable
employment of her people. Ministers are fully
sensible of this ; and in the course of last night's
discussion, repeatedly expressed (in allusion to
a Petition from Dublin, which had been previ-
ously presented by the Duke of LEtNsTEn in
favour of Mr. OWEN'S Plan), their readiness to
support any practicable proposition for giving
employment to the Irish peasantry.

In our fourth page we have inserted two ac-
counts of a very unfortunate and fatal dis-
turbance which has occurred at Maghera, in
the County of Derry, Ireland.—That respect-
able paper, the Dublin Correspondent, received
this morning, contains a very different version
of the affair, for which we have not room to-day,
but which we shall insert to-morrow.

At a late hour on Wednesday night a Spanish
Courier arrived at the Foreign Office with Dis-
patches from the Regency at Madrid.

CORN EXCHANGE, Juwx U.
The arrivals of Grain this week are again rather considerable.
Wheat hardly obtains Monday's prices. Barley finds vary
few buyers. Beans and Peas are very heavy in sale. Oats
sell so heavily, that the factors are obliged to submit to less
prices in order to effect sales.

SMITIIFIELD MAItXET, JIYNV 20.
There was Ai good supply at market, particularly in Oxen,
left over from last market day, and the prices of all deserip.
tions of Cattle is somewhat lower this morning.
To sink the Otral, per stone of 81b.
Beef 33 tkl to 46 tki Veal
Mutton 3s &l to 4s 4d Pork .36 Od to 4s 01
Lamb 4$ to 31 Od.

}LAY .Allp Eft LOAD._

Hay Xiiiit; to I:4 Ss Clover £3 lOs to .C 4 )Os
Straw X« as to £2 Ws.