The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-28 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, Nov. 28.—Wind this day at noon—South..
Easterly; moderate breeze, and cloudy weather, with
rain.
CLYDE, Nov. 27.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—llibernia, for
New York.

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PLYMOUTH, Nov. 27.—Wind W.—Arrived—Cavalier,
from Baumgastner, for Sulina, with lost of sails, bul-
warks, drc.
OFF SCILLY, Nov. 26.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Golden
City, from London for Melbourne.
MILEORD, Nov. 27.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Nimrod,
from Cardiff for Rio Grande, with loss of boats, bulwarks,
sails, dc.
OFF DUNGENESS, Nov. 26.—Wind S.E.—Arrived.—
Davoston, from Callao.
DUNDEE, Nov. 27.—Wind N.E.—.A.rrived—Freemason,
from Quebec.
BROMIELAW, Nov. 27.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Hibernia,
screw steamer, from New York.
FALmouTu, Nov. 27.—Wind W.—Arrived—W. Amber-
with, from Cardiff for Kong Kong, with damage, and
leaky.
BRISTOL, Nov. 27.—Wind S.—Arrived—Pride, from
Rio Janeiro.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 26.—Wind W.S.W.—Sailed—Red
Jacket, for Melbourne.
TROON, Nov. 17.—Wind N.E.—Put back--Mary Jane,
for Thomas, leaky.

LEY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. 1
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, Nov. 27—Undaunted, from Lisbon.

Arrived, Nov. 28—Ariel, from Bremen ; Johanna Maria,
from Hongkong; William and Henry, from Caen.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Passed, Nov. 27—Italian, screw steamer, from London,
for Valencia.

Passed, Nov. 28--Eliza, schooner, from the west, for
London.

Anchored—John Melhuish, from London, for Madras.

The Gains and Losses of the South•

We are glad to see (says the New York Times) the growth
of a more hopeful spirit in the South, as to its future
prospects and condition. We have given articles in this
vein from the journals of Richmond, New Orleans, Charles-
ton and other cities. The country papers of the South are
getting to be no less hopeful than those of the cities. The
Charlottesville Chronicle says:—

"We are going to be richer and more prosperous than
we ever were. We are going to be populous, going to
have great cities, going to grow alive with all the forms
of industry. With wealth will come knowledge and cul-
ture, literature, science, art. Such are the prospective
gains of the South under the new orderof things. .As to its
losses, says the Chronicle :
" Our loss is a matter of sentiment—it is that of our dis-
tinctiveness as a race. Virginia—the South—has lost its
individuality. What became of the Etruscan town of
Veii after; it was taken by 31. Furious Camillus ?
What became of the Samnites ? They were incorporated
in the Roman State—and they became Romans themselves
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The South never had any "distinctiveness as a race"'
to lose, if we except the distinctiveness of its negro race,
which is not the thing referred to. The white population
were of the same origin and stock, of the same faith and
language, of the same fundamental characteristics, as the
population of the other parts of the country. The climate
of the farther Southern States and the institution of
slavery had wrought, through the course of time, certain
differences, but they were not even skin deep, and some
of them are already beginning to disappear under the new
state of things. The historical analogy attempted by the
Chronicle will not hold water.
The Chronicle sees only one chance to remedy the mor-
tifying loss of "distinctiveness as a race" by Southern
people. " The South must become powerful, and power
may yet make her the peer of the North. The seat of empire
was transferred from Rome to Constantinople." To this
mode of achieving greatness we do not object provided it
be honorably pursued. The true sources of power arepopu-
lation, intelligence, and wealth, and for these every Stat
and community should be rivals.