The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-13 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day•

LONDON, Feb. 13.—Wind this day at noon—North.
Westerly, moderate breeze, and line weather, but rather
cloudy.
FALMOUTH', Feb. 12.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Jean-
natio, from Savanfl/a for Bremen. Sailed—Teresa, for
London.

CLYDE, Feb.
from Demerara.

12.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Sydney,

PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 12.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Her
Majesty's ship Mesannee, from the Mediterranean. Sailed
—The Tweed, for Bombay.

LIVERPOOL, Feb. 12.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Gladiator,
from Pernambuco.

COWES, Feb.l2.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Recovery, from
Liverpool for Cardiff, with loss of mainmast, sails, and
other damage.

CARDIFF, Feb. 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived.—Prince of
Wales, from Smyrna.

DOVER, Feb. 12.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Ville de Paris,
from St. Nazaire.

POOLE, Feb. 12.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—The Goodwill
for Southampton.

LBY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. I
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, Feb. 13—Princess Royal, steamer, from
Hamburg.

DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Passed, Feb. 12—Her Majesty's ship Dee, from Wool-
wich for the west.
Anchored—The Blair Athol, from Shilds for Point de
Gallo.

AN EXTENSIVE SUBURBAN VILLAGE IS, according
to the South London Chronicle, about to be built in the
vicinity of Nunhead, beyond Peckham-ue.
THE FRENCH EXHIBITION.—The Committee on
Foreign Relations of the United States House of Repre-
sentatives has, it is said, agreed to report in favour of an
appropriation of one hundred and seventy-five thousand
dollars for the purpose of transporting goods from the
United States to the Paris Exposition of 1867, and for
other.necessary expenses. The house will most probably
ratify the proposition, and there is no reason to expect any
difficulty in the Senate.

TESTIMONIAL TO THE WIDOW OF STONEWALL
JACKSON.---A Richmond paper, of the 9th ult., contains a
card from a banking firm of Houston, Texas, which states
that a draft for five hundred and twenty-six dollars in
gold, payable to the order of the widow of Stonewall
Jackson, has been furnished to her. The card further
says :—"This amount, contributed by a portion of our
citizens, at the instance of several ladies, daughters of the
Old Dominion,' is but a slight expression of their
solicitude for the welfare of the departed hero's family."
METHODIST STATISTICS.—The general minutes
of the Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church have just bean issued. It has 60 annual con-
ferences, and a membership of 92,959, being an advance
over last year of 939. It has 7,175 travelling preachers,
being an increase of 854 for the year. The local preachers
numbered 8,493, an increase of 288. Its total value of
church property is estimated at $13,147,233, which is
$4,263,157 mole than last year. All the benevolent con-
tributions show au advance of more than one-fifth. In
the Sunday School department there has been about the
same advance. It will be seen by the above that the
million of dollars which the church proposes to raise the
coming year for the missionary cause is only a fraction
over one dollar per member.

AMERICAN WAR CLAIMS AGAINST ENGLAND.—
The New York Herald has its usual thundering
leader against " perfidious Albion." It quotes the
Loudon Times, which it says takes some trouble to
show that France would be seriously perplexed to
preserve her stability and her institutions in case of
a war with the United States on the Mexican ques-
tion. If France is in danger from such a collision,
asks the Herald, how much more so is England?
Her commerce is larger and more exposed upon the
seas. America could do more damage to England
in a three months' war than she ever could to
France. Her merchant marine is, in a measure, at
the mercy of the United States ; and if America
were disposed to quarrel with her, her boasted su-
premacy on the ocean would be of short duration.
France has less to lose in this respect ; and, all
things considered, England has more to fear from
a war with the United States than France. France,
for example, has no Canadian provinces. France
has no Fenians ; no Ireland on her border in a
condition of perpetual discontent and periodical
insurrection. The warning, therefore, which the
London Times presents to France is quite as ap-
plicable to England herself. But we feel reassured
when our pugilistic contemporary graciously adds
that the United States has no disposition to go to
war with England,