The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-11 00:00:00

it to be altogether a reverse. BUTLER is severely
censured, and certainly he does not seem to have
acted with much spirit ; but it is fair to him to re-
member that the land forces reconnoitred the fort
while the Admiral had no such opportunity. This
event will give the South fresh hope and heart, and
after SHERMAN'S " Christmas present" of Savan-
nah, will give them an acceptable New Year's
gift. SHERMAN, meanwhile, has not been acting
further than in endeavouring to interrupt
HARDEE'S retreat, which he has apparently
failed in doing. From Tennessee the news
is conflicting. Some rumours state that HOOD has
succeeded in crossing the river, while Nashville ad-
vices assert that he has not done so. THOMAS, how-
ever, who should be the best informed, reports that
Hood was crossing the Tennessee on the 27th. An
instance is given of the manner in which in the
North "success is virtue and misfortune blame."
General THOMAS, it seems, was out of favour, in
consequence of his retreat to Nashville, and an
order for his removal was issued. Then came the
news of his victory over HooD, and he was retained
in command. This is not the way to treat men, if
they are really able. The greatest commanders
have sometimes experienced reverses, and no general
can insure constant and uninterrupted success. But
it is a peculiar characteristic of the North that they
cannot endure defeat, and to relieve the national
mortification blame is immediately put upon some
one individual, so that the Yankees may have the
satisfaction of thinking that the disaster was the
result of a single man's mismanagement, and not
due to the superior skill or strength of their adver-
saries collectively. BURBRIDGE reports that during
his raid in Western Virginia he destroyed all the
lead and salt works at Saltville, but the Confede-
rates declare that the damage done can be easily
repaired within a few weeks. On the 21st it was
stated that a large expedition under GRAINGER was
pushing rapidly towards Mobile, but advices received
from that city three days later report that the expe-
dition was driven back, so another failure will further
aggravate and dishearten the North. The great
Brazilian dispute is to be settled upon as the Federals
are concerned by the removal of the Consul at
Bahia, the supervision and trial of Capt. COLLINS
and the liberation of the Florida crew, all of which
magnanimous proceedings will not go very far to-
wards bringing the Florida up again. It is pro-
bably not the first trick of the kind that will be
tried. Mr. SEWARD, of course, has some national
wrong to avenge, and the injury at present consists
of " the ascription of belligerent character to the
Southern insurgents by Brazil. We are afraid this
is a national " wrong" which Mr. SEWARD will
have to put up with before long from other quarters
of more importance than Brazil.

THE BROWN BOOK for 1865. Saunders, Otley,
and Co.—Everyone, excepting only those who are
Green, ought to get The Brown Book, a little Brown

study, over the contents of which, as therein set down
very plainly in Black and White, will be found, when
Read, to be a most effectual remedy for the Blue
Devils. Within the compass of a goodly shilling
pamphlet of some two hundred pages, it presents
to view a mass of really valuable, because useful,

information in regard to all the Inns and Outs—that
is, to all the Hotels and places of Public Amusement,
scattered about the metropolis and its vicinity. It
is a Book of Ready Reference, in point of fact, not
only to the London Hotels and so forth, to London
Lodgings, Boarding Houses, Breakfast and Dining
Rooms, Railways, Libraries, Picture Galleries,
Museums, Hospitals, &c., &c., pointing the way
from any part of this immense world of London to
the nearest Cab Stand, Police Station, Post Office,
Telegraph Branch, Fire Engine, Fire Escape, and
even to the nearest Commissionaire !

THE STATUE OE PROFESSOR WILSON.—A meeting
of the general committee of subscribers to the fund
for the erection of a statue to the late Professor John Wil-

son was held on Monday, in the chambers of Messrs. Black-
wood and Sons, George-street, for the purpose of hearing
the report of the sub-committee, and making arrangements
for the inauguration of the statue. The Lord Justice-
General presided. Dr. R. Chambers read the report, which
stated that the bronze statue was now finished, and the
pedestal nearly completed, and that an early day might be
named for the inauguration. Several gentlemen present
expressed their great admiration of the statue, remarking
that Mr. Steel had succeeded in producing a most striking
likeness and beautiful work of art. It was remitted to the
sub-committee to make the necessary preparations for the
inauguration, which will probably take place on an early
day in February, and on the same day as the inauguration
of Mr. Steel's marble statue of Allan Ramsay. The com-
mittee resolved to tender a vote of thanks to the Town
Council for their kindness in granting a site for the Wilson
statue in East Princes-street Garden, corresponding to
the site for the Ramsay statue in the West Garden.—Scots-
wax.

D. LIVINGSTONE'S SON.—It was stated at a
meeting in Birmingham, on Friday, by Dr. Tomp-
kins, of London, that a son of Dr. Livingstone, who en-
listed in the Federal service after the war broke out, was,
in the latter part of last year, taken prisoner by the Confe-
derates. Dr. Livingstone's speech at Bath, on the occa-
sion of the visit of the British Association, is stated to have
incensed the Southerners ; and it is a rather singular coin-
cidence that his son should soon afterwards be made a pri-
soner by the Southerners.
VISIT OF GARIBALDI TO LIVERPOOL.—We believe
it is not premature to announce that Liverpool may
look forward to an early visit from the illustrious Italian
patriot who last year made a brief sojourn in this country.
General Garibaldi has, we understand, accepted an invita-
tion to become the guest of our townsman Mr. J. R. Jeffery
in the course of the ensuing spring ; and there can be no
doubt that the reception accorded to him will be such as to
deepen and strengthen the impression which he has foimed
of the hospitality of Englishmen. The visit will, indeed,
be simply one of personal friendship ; and lough
it is neither possible nor desirable that a man of Garibaldi's
world-wide fame should be in England without calling
forth expressions of the feelings with which he is regarded
by all but a fraction of our countrymen, it is to be hoped
that his admirers will show a reasonable respect for the
privacy which he may wish to maintain, and that his com-
fort and convenience will be more successfully consulted
by his friends on this occasion than was the case in April

last. The gentleman whose honour and privilege it will
be to welcome the great Italian under his roof has, we be-
lieve, merely sought an opportunity of reciprocating certain
kindly courtesies offered to a member of his family when
in Naples. Neither Garibaldi nor Mr. Jeffery has any poli-
tical object in view in the contemplated visit; and it should
be left to the wishes of our townsman's distinguished
guest to decide how far any quasi-public manifestation of
feeling will be an acceptable addition to the private hospi-
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talitiewhich Liverpool will be eager to heap on him. It
will not, we trust, be forgotten either by Garibaldi or his
friends that he has once already suffered from the unre-
strained indulgence of English national enthusiasm, and
that his former stay in this country was necessarily cut
short by the sheer impossibility of keeping engagements
which overtasked his strength and endangered his health.
The powers of human endurance are limited; public de-
monstrations are unavoidably fatiguing, especially to a
simple-hearted hero who almost shrinks from the plaudits
which his name and presence irresistibly call forth.—
Liverpool Mercury.
MURDER AT PORTSMOUTH.—A dreadful case of
wife murder occurred at Portsmouth on Monday
evening. The victim is the wife of an unemployed loco-
motive engineer, whose name is James Piper, and who
resides with his father and mother near the South-Western
Railway Station at Gosport. The woman left Gosport at
about hall-past two o'clock in the afternoon, and went with
her mother, who lives at Landport, to see some friend who
keeps a beer-house at Fratton. They were out until five
o'clock in the afternoon, when the husband of deceased
met them upon the road, and knocked his wife down, kick-
ing and beating her about the head as she laid upon the
ground. Some bystanders interfered, and the parties be-
came more quiet ; but immediately after the husband
rushed forward and struck the unfortunate woman a blow
in the back. A knife was seen to gleam in his hand, which
he shut, and ran off. The woman was taken to her mo-
ther's house, where she expired in about ten minutes from
the time of receiving the blow. A deep wound was found
in her back, which was no doubt the cause of death.
Every effort was made by the police to capture her hus-
band, but up to last evening they were unsuccessful. The
unfortunate woman was only 24 years old, and had been
inquest
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