The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1865.

pRYST AL PALACE.-
‘..) TO—MORROW—Lighted up from Dusk till half-past
Six. "A sight alone well worth a journey to Norwood to
see."—Vide Times. COMBINED ATTRACTIONS.--fhe
WIZARD of the NORTH and Miss ANDERSON in their
WORLD of MAGIC and SECOND SIGHT, including:—
The Aqua-avial Paradox—The Bonnet from the Clouds—
Homological Evaporation—Les livres des recueils choisis—
Chapeau Cuisinerie—New Bottle of Bacchus -Miraculous
Laundry—Second Sight—Anderson's Great Experiment, dm.
No extra charge.
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Commence at half-past Two o'clock,
Admission, One Shilling; Reserved Seats, numbered, One
Shilling extra.

THE CRYSTAL PALACE.—SUMMER in
WINTER.—LUXURIOUSLY WARM and DRY

OR YSTAL PALACE.-
v To-MORROW to FRIDAY ONLY.—UNUSUAL
AMUSE .11 EN TS. Arrangement :--
Band of the Company r.t
The Wizard's Performance 3 • 2.30
Le Petit Blondin and Pantomime 4.15
Great Organ Performance
The Menagerie Open all day.
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NOTE.—The above combined attractions cannot be con-
tinued alter Friday next.

Open for Admission from Ten till Six.
SHILLING DAY.

MR. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with lir.
JOHN PARRY. in THE RIVAL COMPOSERS. in
which the Sisters rry will appear, with THE BARD and
HIS BIRTHDAY; and to cone ude with MRS. ROSELE AF
AT THE SEA-S 10E. By Mr. John Parry. Every Evening
(except Saturday) at Eliht ; Saturday Afternoon, at Three.
- -R0 YAL GALLERY Or ILLUSTRA LION, 14, Regent-
street. Unreserved seats, is., 28. ; stalls, Is. ; stall spring
chairs, ss.
OPERA DI CAMERA, the SOLDIER'S LEGACY, by
Macfarren, and TOO MANY COOKS, by Offenbach. Every
TUESDAY and T lIURSDAY, at Three.

THE U X FORD,
A, oieFott-D STREET, W.
The (Word and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).

ORPHEE AUX ENFERS (Offenbach's brilliant Opera
Comique), is achieving at) unprecedented success. Vide, the
Song : "King of Bceotia ;" " The Hymn to Bacchus ;" and
the spirited "Hilliho " Chorus, blr Eurydice, Diana, Cupid,
and horus ; the side-splitting " Couplets," by Minerva,
Diana, Venus, Cupid, Pluto, and Chorus ; at.d flaal Minuet
and Cr-slop. Principal characters by Misses Russell, Fitz-
henry, Barrie, Tyrrell, and Walmsley; Messrs. Greene and
Lascelies.

Also, the new Cantata, KING CHRISTMAS, written by
Litchfield Mosely, Esq., and composed by Herr Meyer Lutz,
expressly for tnis estaulishment ; and NORMA. Norma,
Miss itu,sell ; Adalgisa, Madame Maria.
Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Comedy, by Mr. WILLIAM RANDALL, Mr. GASTON
MURRAY, LITTLE 808, SESTIL LION, and all the pro-
curable Talent of the day.

CANTERBURY HALL.
The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).

HODGE PODGE,
the most extraordinary Christmas Entertainment in Lon-
don (inclulng the whole strength of the establishment),
ever evening at half-past Nine o'clock.
The usual Operatic Selections by alisses Russell, Barrie,
Hays, Godden, duo.; Messrs. Lamelles, Harland, Beaumont,
Kimberley, &c.
Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.

Extra Comedy by Mr. and Mrs. Randal', Mr. Hilton,
Stacey, Woodman, Little Bob, &c.

ROYAL CAMBRIDGE MUSIC HALL,
Commercial-street, Shoreditch.
(Close to the Great Eastern Terminus`.
Sole Proprietor, Mr. G. W. NuGENT.
SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS.
Operatic Selections, &o. Prima Donna, Miss ELLISON.
The Comic strength of the Company includes ANNIE
ADAMS, NELLY POWER, J. G. FORDE. WEST, GEO.
LEYBOURNE, Mr. HERBERT, J. F. ALEXANDER and
Family; LES FRERES CAVALLINL the great Italian
Clowns and Gymnasts, from the Cirque Napoleon, Paris,
their first appearance in England.
Permanent prices—Area, 4d. ; balcony, 6d. ; stalls, is.
Manager and Conductor, Mr. C. Gas VILLE.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.
established 29 years at the Bazaarasaker-street.
NEW AD DITION.—A Full-length PORTRAIT MODEL
df MULLER, taken from life, and corrected from the Cast
taken by Doctor Donovan, is now added to the Chamber of
Physiognomy.
Open, on Boxiny, Day only, from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m,; other
days from 11 a.m. till 5 p.m., and from 7 ill to.
Admittance, One Shilling ; extra rooms, Sixpence.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
Piccadilly.
GRAND CASINO. CONCERT. First time in England,
Gungl's new German Toy Waltz. Prince Imperial Quadrille,
Huguenots, Robert le Diable, William Tell, and a variety of
Dance Mut ic.
Conductor, M. LUIGI CURTI.
Admission, One Shilling.
Manager, M. GRENET.

CITY SHOW- ROOMS
FOR

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REFRIES and SONS' TABLE GLASS,
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DEFRIES and SONS' DINNER, DESSERT,
and Tea Ware, of the newest pAtterns.

DEFRIES and SONS' LUSTRES, TAZZAS,
Land Flower Vases for the present se.ison.

DEFRIES and SONS' CHANDELIERS,
for the Dining-room, in Bronze, Ormolu, and Silver.

DEFRIES and SONS' CHANDELIERS'
in Crystal, for the Drawing-room, for Gas or Candles.

riEFRIES and SONS' CHANDELIERS,
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REFRIES and SONS promptly execute CLUB
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DEFRIES and SONS supply MERCHANTS
with Pattern Books and it-pedal Designs.

DEFRIES and SONS have just added Five
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They have now on show the largest assortment in the world
of the above goods of their own manufacture.
MANUFACTORY AND SHO W-ROOMS,
147, Houndsditch.

PRIZE ME D A L.-INTERNATIONAL
EXHIBITION, 1862.
FRANCIS TUCKER & CO., Wax Chandlers, &a., kO.,
To the Queen and the Pi ince of Wales.
(Established 1720.)
The Jurors' Report on Wax and Church Candles, in 1862,
testifies to the excellence of the quality of Messrs. Tuckers'
manufacture.
A distinguished Dignitary, in a letter addressed to Francis
Tucker and Co., on the subject of
WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS,

says:—
"1 have found them fully equal to the recommendation
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Finest quality, with tatted Wicks, patented.. 2s. id. per lb.
Ordinary quality .. ;s. od. per lb.
VEGETABLE CANDLES, with a Mixture of Wax.
Best quality .. .. Is. sd. per lb
Second quality Is. 3d. per lb.
Third quality .. is. id. per lb.
Carriage paid in London on Orders of Five Pounds in value.
FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO.,
South Molton-street, Grosvenor-square. Manufactory—
Kensington (Established 1730).
The largest Establishment in England for the Manufacture
of Wax Candles for the use of the Altar.

THE BENEFACTOR OF THE MN:—
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Nothing equals the properties and qualities of the Soap No.
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of cutaneous affections or rheumatism.
Perfumed toilet cream, cold cream, and pomatam for the
hair.
Barege cream for sulphur baths, without any disagreeable
odour.
All these preparations may be had at the central depot,
221 A, Regent-street, London, W. ; and at Messrs. Newbery
and Sons, Barclay and Sons. Edwards, Keating, Sanger and
Son, Jozeaunetti, and all chemists. Pamphlets and testi-
monials tree on a plication.
Agent for Edinbargh—Mr. John MtKay, chemist. 119,
George-street.

DR. SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILLIOUS
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Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross.
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Saott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine arc a square
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stamp.

DINNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA.
The medical profe don for Thirty years have approved
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172, New Bond-street, London ;

And sold tbrouginut the world by all respectable chemists,
CAUTION —See i hat " Dinneford and Co." is on each bottle
and red label over the cork.

ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library,
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stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, duo., in Italian,
Alabas er, Paean, Marble. Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &o.
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MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly
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each.

PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE
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The Disastrous Fire at Edinburgh.

The fire brigade continued their operations on the burn-
ing theatre from the outbreak of the conflagration on Fri-
day evening till Sunday morning. All Saturday, Sunday,
and Monday crowds continued to visit the scene of the
disaster, but the streets on both of the open sides of the
theatre had to be barricaded owing to the dangerous state
of the walls. On Monday a body of men were engaged in
battering down the south wall, but, although a considerable
breach was made, the cornice was still unbroken. The
most part of the north7nd west walls had fallen during-the
progress of the fire, but the south and east walls and also
an interior division wall were left almost intact. On Satur-
day morning the standing walls were found to be deflected
outwards about 18 inches, but as they cooled down they
recovered, and by and by showed an inward inclination to
the extent of about six inches. Tile spectacle presented
by the roofless and gutted theatre after the fire was most
melancholy. In the area of the theatre, nearly 20 feet
below the street level, was a deep pool of water, on which
pieces of wood were floating, while at the edges were seen
all sorts of ragged and broken remains of building material,
pipes, and metals. The division wall, though still stand-
ing, was jagged, shattered, and stripped. The outlines of
the different tires of boxes, galleries, and pit were only to
be traced by the structural marks left upon the walls.
Strange to say the lamps in the south-east corner fronting
Leith-walk depending from the first balcony were quite
uninjured, and large placards of the pantomime on either
side of the centre window over the box entrance were quite
untouched. The injury done to the Roman Catholic chapel
and adjoining building were very extensive. The fall of
the north wall had smashed in the roof of the cloister for
fully 30ft„ and hail made three great holes in the roof df
the chapel itself., 4estroying the pews and altar rail inside,
' and breaking in the windows and part of the 'roof of the
clerical residence. The whole of the property on that side
had sustained a serious shock. On Sunday the gable of the
house in Little King-street, adjoining the west wall of the
theatre, showed symptoms of giving way, and the inmates
of the densely populated tenement had to remove. The
escape of several of those who were in the cloister when
the north wall fell was almost miraculous. Mr. Mitchell,
the fire-master, who had bean urging Mr. Lorimer and those
working with him to desist from the effort to extricate the
man Leeke, who was still alive after the falling of the
chimney had fixed him to the spot, had observekthe wall
to oscillate. He ran up to Mr. Lorimer and caughthim by
the arm to draw him away. He ran back himself, and got
within the arched vestibule of the cloister, and looking
behind saw the tremendous mass fall upon the unfortunate
gentleman, who, he thought, seemed to be unconscious that
it was coming down. Mr. Lorimer's body was disinterred
from the pile about 10 hours afterwards, and his watch was
still going. It appears that Mr. Mitchell had withdrawn
the firemen from the cloister about half-past 5 on account
of the threatening state of the north wall. The fall of the
chimney upon Sweeny and Leeke took place shortly after-
wards, while they were assisting to remove a carpet, and
but for the humane efforts made to rescue them, the cloister
would probably have been cleared. A watch had been Put
on the cloister-door to keep it open for retreat and to pre-
vent more getting in, but the door from the sacristy was
still open, and Clark, one of the deceased, had only entered
the cloister half a minute before he was killed. About a

dozen persons were in the cloister as the wall fell, two-
thirds of whom escaped, partly by the sacristy door, and
partly by the vestibule. The funeral of Mr. Lorimer is to
take place to-day, and is to be attended by the magistrates
and council, the guildry, and other public bodies.
A meeting was held on Monday afternoon in Queen-
street-hall, to adopt measures for the relief of the sufferers.

Bailie CASSELS, acting chief magistrate in the absence of

the Lord Provost, presided, and stated the object of the
meeting. He read a number of letters which had been re-
ceived on the subject—namely, from Mr. George Lorimer,
son of the deceased Dean of Guild, tendering a subscription
of five guineas to the fund ; from Lieut.-Colonel Macleod,
commanding the 74th Highlanders, re-enclosing a check
for £l5 1.55., which had been sent by the magistrates to the
non-commissioned officers and men who had assisted at the
fire, and expressing their unanimous wish that as they had
only been present in discharge of their duty the sum should
be applied to the relief of the sufferers; from Mr. Paterson,
manager of the Royal Princess's, offering a night's service
of the company in relief of the fund, without deduction of
expense ; and from the Mid-Lothian Rifles, offeringtto give
one of their Volunteer entertainments. A dramatic read-
ing, by Miss Murray, and a night's performance by Miss
Emma Stanley are also to be given to the fund.
The LORD ADVOCATE, in moving that a fund be collected

for relief of the sufferers, stated that it was not a large sub-
scription that was asked from individuals, as it wits believed
that it would be a very general one on the part of the com-
munity. In concluding his speech, his Lordship made
pathetic reference to the death of Mr. Lorimer, who had
been a class fellow with him at the Edinburgh High School.
He said that no event had ever struck him more deeply than
his death. They might deplore that impulse which led
him on to save the life of a fellow creature, to turn a deaf
ear to the remonstances of his friends, and to exert himself
regardless alike of the warning cries of the crowd beneath,
and of the nodding terror that threatened him from above ;
but it was a noble impulse, and no soldier on the field of
battle, no captain going dowii the last man in his ship, ever
found a more honourable or a more heroic grave than did
George Lorimer on that occasion. (Loud applause.)
Mr. DUNCAN DULAitEs seconded the motion, and the
other practical resolutions were moved by Mr. BlaCk, M.P.,
Dr. Alexander Wood, the Rev. Dr. Hanna, &c.

HEALTH OP LONDON,

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return)

In the ten principal cities or towns of the United King-
dom 3,838 births and 3,287 deaths were registered in the
week that ended on Saturday last. In the seven cities or
boroughs of England the mortality was at the rate of 30
per 1,000 annually ; and the deaths of the week were 2,713.

The deaths may be compared with the meteorology of
the week, and demand the careful study of the authorities,
and of all persons who are solicitous about the health of
the population of great cities. For death does not fall upon
communities like the wind, over which they can exercise no
control, but its epidemic storms are to a large extent of
human creation. The causes of the deaths in childhood and
in manhood are known, and are often generated in great
cities by flagrant violations of the laws of nature; to such an
extent that, taking the year round, to every three deaths one
death is the result of causes which do not prevail in the
healthy districts of the country. In the healthy districts of
England the mortality is at the annual rate of 17 in 1,000 ;
in our seven cities or boroughs it is at the average annual
rate of 25 in 1,000. During the last week the rate was 30.
This excess is partly the result of the cold weather, and
varies from 26 per 1,000 in Bristol to 41 in Liverpool.
The causes of death require careful investigation in each
town, and the local authorities will probably be induced to
follow the example of Liverpool and London by appointing
health officers, after carefully considering the figures which
the registers bring every week under their notice.
In the week that ended on Saturday, 1,669 deaths were
registered in London. In the corresponding weeks of ten
years, 1855-64, the average number of deaths is, with a cor-
rection for increase of population, 1,653. The deaths in the
present return, therefore, slightly exceed the estimated

number.
Zymotic diseases in the aggregate destroyed 859 lives.
Sixteen deaths were caused by small-pox, 48 by measles, 55
by scarlatina, 77 by typhus, and 73 by whooping-cough.
From diseases of the respiratory organs (exclusive of
phthisis) 428 persons died ; of this number bronchitis
carried off 267 persons, pneumonia 99, and asthma 25.
161 deaths occurred from phthisis, 70 from diseases of
the heart, and 180 from diseases of the brain and nervous
system.
738 persons died under 20 years of age, 222 were 20 and
under 40, 290 were 40 and under 60, 358 were 60 and under
80, and 61 wore 80 years and upwards. The deaths of nine
nonagenarians were recorded, the oldest of whom was a
widow, who attained the age of 94 years.
65 persons lost their lives by accidents, 33 died from frac-
tures or contusions (of this number six were killed by
vehicles in the street), 11 infants and one adult were suffo-
cated, and 13 deaths ensued from burns or scalds.
A woman, aged 30 years, died at New-street, Cloth-fair,
from taking cyanide of potassium by mistake for medicine.
A type founder, aged 66 years, died on the Ist of January
Essex-street, Shoreditch, from inflamation of the
laut
acceleratedby want of food and necessaries of life.
nLg6as7s:t week the births of 1,035 boys and 967 girls, in all
2,002 children, were registered in London. In the ten cor-
responding weeks of the years 1855-64 the average number
(corrected) was 2,013.
At the Royal Observatory,Greenwicb, the mean height of
the barometer in the week was 29-290 in. The barometrical
reading decreased from 30-08 in. at the beginning of the
week to 21-39 in. by noon on Saturday, a point lower than
any since February, 1848, when it was 28-30 in. The mean
temperature of the air in the week was 42.8 deg., which is
6.8 deg. abovt the average of the same week in 50 years
(as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day tempe-
rature was 50.2 deg. on Tuesday. The lowest night tempe-
rature was 32.0 deg., on Friday. The entire range of
temperature during the week was therefore 18/ deg. The
mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the
Thames was 89.7 deg. ; that of the lowest was 38.8 deg.
The difference between the mean dew-point temperature
and air temperature was 31 deg. The mean degree of
humidity of the air was 87, complete saturation being repre-
sented by 100. A heavy gale of wind occurred on Satur-
day, in which a pressure of 291 b. on the square foot took
place, and very heavy pressures were frequent between the
, hours of 4 a.m. and 5 p.m. The direction of the wind at
this tine was S.W. and W.

A Live Porpoise at Last.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN,

Sir,—Your readers will, doubtless, be as much
pleased as I am (on my return from various salmon
egg collecting expeditions) to find that at last Mr.
Bartlett has succeeded in placing in the Zoological
Gardens a porpoise, which is now in perfect health
and vigour. It arrived on the 29th of December
from Deal, where it had been caught in a sprat net,
but it was determined not- to say anything about its
arrival in town until'it had recovered from its jour-
ney. For several days it was very unwell, and
would not eat, rolling lazily along the side of the
pond ; but on the 11th day it began to eat some
sprats which, tied to thin and easily broken string,
were gently made to wabble about in front of its
nose by means of a jack spinning rod. It now,
however, eats 31b. of sprats and 51b. of eels every
day. This morning it had two fresh herrings and a
whiting for breakfast. It will feed in the presence
of visitors and, as it will be observed, seizes the fish
by the middle and then jerks it down head foremost.
The live eels, however, show the porpoise excellent
sport, but I should be sorry to be an eel in front of
his nose when he is hungry. His or her name (for
we do not know the sex) is " Ceta," and the beast
apparently recognises the whistle (the signal for
dinner) of the keeper ; and we are going to erect a
proper cinner. bell. It is highly interesting, to see
the quiet and velvet-like motion with which our new
friend dives about in his pond, occasionally showing
his snow-white sides as he turns to catch a fugitive
and much frightened eel. It seems now pretty cer-
tain that the porpoise will do well in the gardens,
and it is only after making many attempts and
meeting with many failures that our knowledge of
the mode of conveyance and treatment of these
creatures has at last enabled us to place before the
world the first living cetacean ever seen in captivity
in London. We shall be glad to increase our stock
of living porpoises, and shall therefore be obliged if
any reader of this would kindly communicate the
whereabouts of any fresh prisoner from the sea, and
if within a reasonable distance from the gardens—
say, 150 miles—every attempt will be made to re-
lieve the solitude of poor " Ceta," whose nearest
neighbour at present is the offended sturgeon, who
about a year ago complained of the insults he re-
ceived from porpoises in general in the columns of
Punch. FRANK Buc KLAND.

THE WAR IN 1864.

(From the New York Daily News.)

General Banks moved since the commencement of
last year toßio Grande. He occupied Browns-
ville ; and we were told that the rebellion had been
strangled in Texas. What are the facts now ? He
has withdrawn nearly all his troops from the State;
and now the whole line of the Rio Grande is again
open for the transportation to neutral ports of Con-
federate cotton. In this one of its great move-
ments the war, during the past year, has proved a
failure.

A Federal expedition moved up Red River. A
fleet of guhboats led the van. A flotilla of trans

ports followed with regiments, brigades, divisions ;
and co-operating armies moved overland under a
system of crushing concentration. Louisiana was,
we were assured, about to be " cleaned out," Texas
to be overrun, Arkansas brought into subjugation !
And what came of all these high promises ? The
invasion, army and navy, was hurled back in dis-
aster ; some of the vessels captured or destroyed,
large masses of the troops killed, wounded, or taken
prisoners, and the whole followed up in hot pursuit

until the remnants succeeded in reaching the Mis-
sissippi. In this great movement of the past year
the war has proved a failure.

Sherman, at the beginning of the past year,
gathered an army at Vicksburg. Having moved
to the eastward, he reached Jackson. He pressed
the Confederates back until he reached the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad to Meridian. A co-operating
expedition of cavalry, designed to feed his army
from the rich prairies of Eastern Mississippi and
Central Alabama, having been driven back, the
Federal chief retraced his steps. Harassed on the
way by Stephen Lee's horse, he returned to Vicks-
burg, and, after a march of upwards of 250 miles,
presented the country with another instance in
which the war has proved in 1864 a failure.
Sherman commenced his advance into Northern
Georgia during the year just closed. Fighting and
maneuvering he pressed on from Ringgold to Dal-
ton, from Dalton to Kingston, from Kingston to
Marietta ; and finally, at a sacrifice of probably
50,000 men, planted the Federal flag within the de-
fences of Atlanta. Whether or not he may have
learnt from the movements of the Confederates that
his operations from Atlanta had become impracti-
cable need not be considered here ; but the actual
fact is beyond question that, having reached that
city, he has declared its possession, and the posses-
sion of all the places for which he had fought on the
way to it of no avail. Even brilliant success does,
thus, not redeem the operations of General Sherman
in Northern Georgia from the conclusion which de-
clares all the great movements of the war in 1864
practically failures.
Hunter moved last spring against Lynchburg. His
advance was designed as a co-operative movement
for the reduction of Richmond, and was heralded as
one of the finishing touches of the work of subjuga-
tion. And what were the features of that expedi-
tion ? Early hurled upon its rear, it could not retrace
its steps; but, seeking safety in flight, retreated,
hungry, exhausted, and demoralised, to the Kana-
wha ? Here, again, one of the great movements of
the campaign of 1864 proved, in keeping with all
the others, a miserable failure.
Sheridan succeeded Hunter in the design on
Lynchburg. Successful in driving back the Confe-

derate advance, he moved up the Valley of the
Shenandoah. Early threatening his flank-from the
Blue Ridge, the Federal chief did not dare to pro-
ceed beyond Staunton. The Southern General
having after a time assumed the offensive Sheridan
fell back, and, notwithstanding that he saved his
army at Cedar Creek, has not again advanced be-
yond Winchester. As a movement upon Lynchburg
the successes of Sheridan's campaign in the valley
have not saved it from the fate which has declared
it in common with all the other great movements of
the campaign of 1864 to have proved a failure.
Grant commenced during the past year his ope-
rations against Richmond. High hopes and confi-
dent assurances declared his advance to have sealed
the fate of the "rebellion." Paper victories brought
him, after a bloody slaughter, to a point which he
might have reached by water without the loss of a
man. The chicanery and falsehood touching his
operations, from that day to this, meet now their
correct interpretation, in the fact that General
Grant still tugs and strives against Richmond in
vain. Be the " key" of that city in whose pocket

it may, there can be no doubt that at the close of
the year 1864 the Federal onslaught on the " rebel"
capital remains, like every movement of the cam-
paign, a failure.
The Butler-Porter expedition against Fort Fisher !
In charity we would pass over that miracle of loud-
mouthed promise ; but we must include it in the
judgment which pronounces every great undertak,
ing of the campaign of last year a failure.
The attack on Charleston was one of the grounds
of the false hopes of the Ist January, 1864. Fort
Sumter has been battered down, but still its ruins
remain unconquered. A bombardment in conflict
with all the restraints of humanity and law rained
destruction on Charleston ; but still that city re-
mains covered by unapproachable defences. This
year has witnessed all the false hopes of which Char-
leston was made the subject 12 months ago settle
down into the conclusion that the attack on that
is a failure.
Florida was to have been subjugated in 1864 ! A
State was, to have been restored by the logic of artii-

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lery into the " Union !" Federal troops congregated
on the St. John's ; and, massed into an army, moved
into the interior. Hurled back at Olustee, they
retreated, shattered and bleeding, to their ships, and
added thus another instance of the general truth,
that every large operation of the campaign of last
year has resulted in failure.

Ships and troops gathered like storm clouds
around the harbour of Mobile. That city was, we
were assured, about to be captured, and a co-operat-
ing force, moving for that base, we were told,
would immediately afterward go up the Alabama to
repeat the apparently harmless process of " cutting
the rebellion in two !" What arc the facts to-day ?
Mobile is still a " hotbed" of secession ! The Federal
army and the Federal fleet have seen proper to give
its torpedoes and its artillery and its rifles a " wide
berth," and even that gallant old sailor, Farragut,
while able to look upon its church spires in the dis-
tance, was unable to break the spell which appears
to have decreed that each expedition of the war in
1864 should turn out a miscarriage.

But what shall we say of Sherman's raid across
Georgia ? Beginning at his confession of the prac-
tical failure of even the splendid successes which
brought him to Atlanta in the vain hope of strang-
ling the rebellion, the movement of that officer to
the seaboard was, such as it is, a success. The
measure of that success is simply the occupation of
the previously sealed city of Savannah, and of about
20 miles of the lower part of the Ogechee-Savannah
peninsula ; but, while this is literally the sunftotal
of its results, that march is the only instance in
which any one of the great movements of the cam-
paign of last year has not proved an utter failure.