The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-27 00:00:00

THIS DAI'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, Oct. 27.—Wind this day at noon, N. ;
moderate breeze and fine.
DOVER, Oct. 26.—Wind E.—Arrived—Rubis, from
Mexico.
PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 26.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived—
Reformation, from Fernenzen.
BRISTOL, Oct. 26.—Wind E.—Arrived—Eliza Mallory,
from Havanna.
NEWPORT, Oct 26.—Wind E.—Sailed—Ulio, for Civita
Vecchia.
HOLYHEAD, Oct. 26.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Herald,
from Liverpool for Bahia.
PENZANCE, Oct. 25.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Dena
Scours, from Madras.
GALWAY, Oct. 26.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Circassian
(steamer), for St. John's, Newfoundland and New York.

(AY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morning.

Wind W.

Arrived, Oct. 26.—Oliver Cromwell, from Akyab ; Annie
Laurie, from Newfoundland ; Lucknow, and Arizone, from
Hamburg ; Fides, from Bremen; Clementine, from Ant-
werp ; Loochristie, from Ghent.

Arrived, Oct. Ti.—Prospero, from Riva Decello ; Tiger,
from Humacarloford ; Electra, from Toronto ; Harriet,
from Archangel; Niord, from Venice; Voltigeur, from
Hamburg; Anne Jane.
Sailed, Oct. 2,6—Fortune, for Malta ; Neutral, and Win-
den, for Riga ; Elizabeth, for St. Thomas ; Meg Merrilies,
for Pernambuco ; Gertrude, for Manilla; Mal Geno, for
Barcelona; Marian Zagury, for St. Michael's.

(BY:SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Wind, N.E. ; tide, five hours' ebb ; weather cloudy.
Arrived, Oct. 27.—MoseLle, steamer; Batavia, steamer;
Schiedam, steamer—all from Rotterdam.
Sailed, Oct. 27.—Sir R. Peel, steamer, for Dunkirk.
DEAL, Wednesday Morning.

Wind N.N.E., moderate.
Passed, Oct. 26.—Caroline Coventry, from London, for
Bombay ; Janet Willis, ship, from London, for Madras ;
Golden Fleece, screw steamer, from Calcutta, for London
(at 6.15 a.m.) ; Emerson Smith, from London, for west-
ward.
Sailed.—llannah Secor, for Rio de Janeiro.

LETTERS FOR SPAIN,—Complaints having been
made to this department that, since th new convention
came into operation, letters addressed to Spain, and pre-
paid beenp charged with
paid by money,
adtethlivnetryioninofS
pthaine Spanish postage on their
ecanoostnlniyashtearv-eGeneral has called the
.Post-office to this
arisen proceeding,throiighais'
which, he conceives,
apprehension. Some time may possibly elapse before this
matter is set right, and the additional charge discontinued
and the Postmaster-General recommends, therefore, that;
for the present, all persons writing to Spain, the Balearic
or Canary Islands, should prepay their letters by means of
postage stamps.—By command of the Postmaster-General,
R. HILL, Secretary.
GALWAY AS THE WESTERN PORT.—" In refer-
ence to the spirited enterprise of the Lever line of Trans-
atlantic steamers from Galway, I confess that I rejoice to
see it, and have advocated the scheme from the commence-
ment of my labours on the western coast of Ireland, while
I see no reason to abate one jot of evidence given in its
favour, I believe, on the contrary, that all the fine-drawn
arguments against it will disperse like the imaginary mists
and fogs in which the western coast has been shrouded.
Local parties will naturally magnify their peculiar advan-
tages ; but in the Lever' enterprise we see Englishmen
—Manchester men men of shrewd commercial dis-
crimination, located near imperial Liverpool, break-
ing through the mists of antiquated prejudice, and
pitching their tents in the `City of the Tribes,'
nearly a two-days' march in advance towards the West."
" We live in a common sense age, when facts will rise .to
the surface, and demand attention; and the day will yet
come when we shall look backward with surprise that the
advantage of a westerly position should have been so long
neglected ; when even Liverpool will be content to receive
and transmit its vast commercial correspondence with Ame-
rica and the West through Ireland—then no longer a mere
breakwater to St. George's Channel." "Js there no disad-
vantage in having to breast 360 miles through a westerly
gale ere the Liverpool steamer reaches the meridian of the
western coast ?" If also we regard the western coast of
Ireland as the Atlantic frontier of the British Isles,_ desti-
tute of defences or naval establishments of any kind what-
ever, is it not worthy of serious consideration? "—Extracts
from a Letter of Captain G. 4. Bedford j?. AT to th
Dublin Daily Express, dated Oct. 21, 1868.