The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-05 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

LONDON, Jan. 6.—Wind this day at noon—South;
fresh breeze, and cloudy weather.
QUEENSTOWN, Jan 3.—Arrived—St. Bede, from Mauri-
tius; Nile, from Demerara; Lovetrand, from New York;
Queen of the Isles, from Mazagan.
FALMOUTH, Jan. s.—Arrived—Eliphalet Greely, from
Akyab.
SCILLY, Jan. 3,—Arrived—D. H. Watzen, from New
York.
PILL, Jan. 4.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Dauntless, from
New York.
INVERNESS, Dec. 3,—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Flying
Fish, from Montreal.
PonTsmount, Jan. 4.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Scutari,
from London, for Calcutta, with loss ofjibboom ; Reginald,
from London, for Madras ; Queen of the East, from Lon-
don, for Kurrachee ; Wellington, from London, for Ade•
laid(); Byzantium, from London, for New York, with loss
of sails.

HULL, Jan. 3.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Parja, from
Buenos Ayres.

(AT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning.
Arrived—Eagle, from Boston, windbound ; Favourite.
from Alexandria; Argyll, steamer, from Carentan.
Sailed—Peninsular, steamer, for Gibraltar.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
Arrived, Jan. 4—Bombay, for Calcutta ; Clipper, from
Guernsey; Cleopatra, from Demerara; Crinoline, from
..9.1g0a Bay ; Bland►na Dudley, from Callao ; Black Water,
from Kurrachee ; Bonnie Dundee, from Calcutta.
Arrived, Jan. s—Glasgow, from Belize ; Gnole, from
Dant zio.

DEAL, Monday Morning
Anchored—Jacoba, from London, for Galatz.

IN TERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. —Mr. Sydney
Whiting has lately received from the Prussian Go•
vernment, through the Prussian and Zollverein commis-
sioners, a magnificent porcelain vase from the Royal Berlin
collection, together with a letter expressive of their appre-
ciation of the great assistance rendered by Mr. Whiting in
his capacity as editor of the official catalogue.
MAKING " MONEY."—According to the New
York :tribune, in the week before Christmas there were 520
presses " in full blast" making postal currency.
Abd-el-Kader, on his way to Mecca, visited the
works of the canal of Suez, in company with M. de Les-

seps.
LORD PALM ERSTON .—ln the management,indeed,
of the House of Commons and the treatment of our
domestic politics there has been no inconsiderable success
but in Lord Palmerston's foreign policy, and amidst the
thousand and one questions with which he has dealt, it is
hard to say what measure remains in which permanent suc-
cess has been, or is likely to be, achieved by his adminis-
tration. The maintenance of Turkey has sometimes been
cited as the happiest result of his diplomacy ; and for the
present condition of the Porte Lord Palmerston unquestion-
ably deserves the credit. His earlier efforts were bent to undo
the famous treaty of Unkiar Skelessi ; his latter years
were devoted to the conduct of the Crimean war. More
Turkish than the Turks themselves he has sustained the
Ottoman Government against French and Muscovite and
Greek, against the Christian rayah and the Egyptian pacha-
lik, and has often gone far to justify in appearance, though
not in reality, the recent charge, by a French author, of
converting the Russian into an English protectorate. For
this ho "jockeyed Russia, soft-sawdered Austria and Prus-
sia, and rebuked that bugaboo of English statesmen, French
for
ambition," in the language of a writer already quot
narrow
ed
this he was content to alienate our oldest allies, and to
our foreign relations to a precarious dependence upon the
friendship of France. But with all this the inevitable hour has
only been postponed : discord, bankruptcy, and internal cor-
ruption are growing, and neither is the " sickness" of the
Porto cured nor the dangerous contensions of her heirs
diminished. The es of that question have been at
all times undeniably great, but the generation—whether
now or hereafter—which shall be compelled to deal with
them will hardly find that these have been lessened by
postponement. To this Lord Palmerston is probably in-
different. " Posterity has never done anything for us, and
why should we make sacrifices for it," was his re-
cent justification of a heavy debt imposed on the future
revenues of the country ; and the same make-shift
and hand-to-mouth character may be traced through
the entire course of his diplomacy. To Lord Palmerston
the words of the Latin historian may be justly applied—
"Fat inter bona malaque tntxtus." Intuitively clear in his
perception of the bearings of a question and vigorous in
his treatment of it; intimate with the under-currents alike
of society and the House of Commons; with a warmth of
sympathy which has made many friends, and a physical
organisation which has defied the anxieties of half a cenoi
tury of office, he extorts admiration even In the luicl4o,e,
censure. But he is, perhaps, for that very
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left Whitehall-gardens,
Hon.v iS"'ir. Robert Peel, M.P., has
Church
Right d a
on his return to Ireland. Lady
Emily Peel is staying at Nice for the winter, and we are
happy to add that her ladyship is improved in health.
Since St. Denis, who was martyrised about the
year 275, up to the present time, 110 bishops and 17 arch-
bishops have administered the Church of Paris. Among
those prelates there are seven of the first centuries whom
the Church reveres as saints; 11 have been honoured with
the purple, and some have borne the title of Chancellor of
France.
FIRE AT BIR7.IINOHAM.—On Saturday morning,
a little before two o'clock, a fire was discovered on the ex-
tensive premises of Messrs. Brooks and Son, gunmakers,
in Whittal-street, Birmingham. The flames had spread
rapidly before the engines arrived. The roof and two upper
stories were soon destroyed, as was also a good deal of
stock,
consisting consisting of gun furniture, barrels, and fittings. kpro-
perty destroyed has been estimated at upwards of ksvv