The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-14 00:00:00

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ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-read,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, King's-cross.

Patron—Her Most Gracious liraje,ty the QUEEN.
Vice-Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of WA LE?, K.G

President—His Grace tine Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.

This Hospital, founde 1 in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the princip'e of f, ea admission to the sick poor, without
the delay and difficuhy of Governors' orders, is wholly de-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies.
It afl'urds relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition t't this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a eonAderable period averaged between
3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
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PATRON —The QUEEN.
TRUSTEES.
Capt. the Hon. Francis Maude,
M.P.he Rev. Canon Champ_neys
IR. N. Thomas Baring, Esq.,
TREASURERS.
R. C. L. Bevan, Esq. I Robert Hanbury, Esq.
This Institution is designed to supply a great national
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the Royal Navy and Merchants Service and of Marines.
It clothes, maintains, and educates them for domestic
service, and provides a home free of expense for former
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necessities of this great maritime country, which loses 2,000
sa'aors annually by casualties alone, without including those
who may perish by war.
Subscriptions thankfully received by the bankers, Messrs.
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tary, at the Offices, No. 77, Cornhill.
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CHARLES NASH, Sec.

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BREAKFAST BEVERAGE.—Homoeopathic practitioners,
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there were to be obt fined no preparations of cocoa either at.
tractive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut
was either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully
manufactured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London,
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TIMES.—The latest intelligence from America
leaves us still in suspense as to the probable course
of the great civil war. We are in the position of
spectators between tWo acts of a drama. The cur-
tain has just fallen upon a scene with which we had
become familiar, and it will rise upon another the
-nature of which we cannot conjecture. For the last
four years we have been accustomed to see large
Northern armies set out upon their campaigns and
desist from their work, after fierce encounters, with-
out having accomplished any decisive result. They
were always held in check by Southern armies, and
either made little progress or were even forced to
retire. But now one of these armies has advanced
with triumphant success, and its victories have
changed the whole aspect of the war. The Federal
forces will no longer be detained on the frontier of
the Confederate States, without the chance of mak-
ing any impression on Southern territory. That
territory has been penetrated and traversed in its
whole breadth. The Southern seaports, taken in
reverse, have fallen into the hands of the enemy,
and the tactics of the war must be adapted to the
results of the last campaign. What these tactics
may be is still uncertain, but it appears from the
last information that before anything else is at-
tempted a great battle will probably be fought to
the south of Richmond. Though one of the Fede-
ral armies achieved in the campaign of 1864 such un-
exampled success, the other experienced its usual
reverses. In Virginia Grant was effectually foiled by
Lee, and it is only natural that Sherman, after win-
ning his own game, should endeavour to reinforce his
less fortunate colleague. That such is his ultimate de-
sign appears probable from the direction of his recent
movements. He advanced without delay from
Columbia in the direction of Richmond, and if, as is
now reported, he has turned towards the seacoast,
that may perhaps be with the view of making Wil-
mington the base of his operations. Sooner or later,
however, it is anticipated that he will move upon
Petersburg and Richmond, there to combine his
forces with the Army of Virginia. But between
him and Virginia lies a Confederate army now
placed once more under the command of Johnston,
the same general who, if he could not defeat Sher-
man, at least gave him more trouble than any other
antagonist. Johnston too is also falling back upon
Richmond ; so that in the end, if these movements
should produce the result anticipated, the forces of
each belligerent will be concentracted in Virginia
for one mighty battle. Other speculations, how-
ever, have been suggested by the recent course of
events. It is thought probable by some that Lee
will avail himself of the advantage of his position to
reinforce Johnston and fall suddenly upon Sherman
before he can cross the Virginian frontier. It is
conjectured again that instead of thus anticipating
attack he may evacuate it altogether, and evacuate
Richmond either for Lynchburg or for a new field
of operations in Tennessee. But on all sides it is
agreed that with the next resolution of Gen. Lee will
be determined the future course of the war. If the
Confederate Commander-in-Chief should succeed
by his skill or fortune in inflicting a great disaster
on Grant or Sherman, the war may resume, to some
extent, its former aspect ; but if he should fail to do
so, or decline the attempt, then we shall see what
strategy is to be substituted for that by which
through four desperate campaigns the Northern
forces have been held at bay. At present it is be-
lieved that Lee will fight, and that the issue of that
battle will decide the military policy of the South.
That he will be overmatched in numbers is certain,
for his strength is already inferior to General Grant's,
and it is not probable that the collected forces
under the command of Johnston can be equal to the
victorious army of Sherman. But the genius of the
Southern General has never failed him yet, and he
is now, for the first time, in the possession of supreme
and uncontrolled command. Assuming, however,
that even Lee should fail in restoring the balance of
military power, it remains to be seen what alterna-
tive will be adopted in the future conduct of the con-
test. The new phase of the war will be so little
unexpected that it was actually expected long ago.
Everybody in Europe thought that the military as-
cendency which Sherman has at length established
would have been secured by the North in a single
campaign, but what, it was asked, would be done
then, and that is the question before us now.
It must be observed, however, that the prolonged
resistance of the South has materially modified
the circumstances of the case. If the Confede-
rates had been compelled in-1862 to evacuate
their seaports and allow their States to be traversed
as it will by a hostile army, they would then have
been less exhausted than they are now, and would
have possessed greater resources for a prolongation
of the struggle in some new direction. Even their
moral strength might have been greater, too, for
exactly in proportion to the pride produced by their
unexpected achievements may be the depression con-
sequent on defeat now that it has at length arrived.
But, on the other hand, the Federals are also ex-
hausted, and their altered condition is plainly shown
by the results of even their recent victories. At first
they held every conquest they effected. It was their
boast that what they got they kept, and that the
Federal forces, if they advanced slowly, never took
a step in vain. New Orleans, Vicksburg, and half-
a-dozen other positions were solidly occupied, Mary-
land and Tennessee were firmly grasped, and Ken-
tucky was steadily overawed. But with the occu-
pation of Tennessee this system came to an end.
The Federals could conquer more easily than before,
but they could no longer hold. Sherman did not
so much as attempt to retain any position in
Georgia. He -could overrun the State at his dis-
cretion, but he could not spare a detachment even
for its capital city. Georgia is just as free now as
it was before he invaded it. With South Carolina
it is the same. The Governor of North Carolina
has just issued a proclamation to the citizens in which
he appeals to the fact. "Is Georgia," he asks,
" conquered? Except for the garrison at Savannah,
and the ashes of desolation on their track through the
interior, Georgia has neither enemynor sign of enemy
on her soil." Little enough was thought to have
been accomplished by the North even in Louisiana,
where there was at any rate a nominal occupation
under a ;Federal Governor, but in the States tra-
versed by Sherman there remains not even this ves-
tige or pretence of conquest. What, then, if the
other Confederate States do but as much as the
Georgians have done, will be gained by Sherman's
victories ? The North can only win by inducing the
South to re-enter the Union. It is evident already
that the enormous territory of the Confederates can
never be held by the Federals as Poland is held by
Russia, or Venetia by Austria. The North has not
the requisite strength for this, though it may have
the will. The only real end of the, war must come
by surrender, and that is the conviction even of
Sherman himself. He has been anxiously negotia-
ting:during his recent operations, and has handled the
olive branch as skilfully,if not as successfully, as the
sword. That such negotiations will continue to fail
is the only conclusion to be drawn at present from
the statements of the Confederate Government and
the proceedings of the Confederate people, but what
form their resistance must henceforth take we must
wait to see. Johnston cannot for ever retire
before Sherman. Sooner or later there must be
a battle, and after the battle some new policy or
system. There are indications that this change has
been foreseen and debated for some time past.
Many of the events which have recently taken us by
surprise are now known to have been in contempla-
tion some months ago, and to eyes, indeed, like
those of Gen. Lee the consequences of Sherman's
unresisted advance must have been visible from the
first. It is probable that the Confederate leaders are
prepared for all contingencies, though it is difficult
to speculate on their designs.' President Davis is
far too wise a man to have expected that the armies
of the North could always be kept at bay on the
frontiers of the Confederacy. We know, indeed,
that he thought Richmond might have fallen long
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POST.—It was to be expected that the House of
Commons would follow the example set it by the
House of Lords in ventilating that most important
subject, the present condition of the defences of
Canada ; and Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald. only dis-
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only of late that circumstances have arisen which
have invested that fact, with peculiar import-
ance. So long as the amicable relations which
subsisted, and still subsist, between the Go-
vernment of this country and that of the
United States stood in no danger of being disturbed,
few persons took the trouble of inquiring into the
probable consequences of the invasion of Canada
by a friendly Power which prided itself on not being
burdened with a standing army. But the events of
the past fewyears have altered this position of affairs.
We are still on friendly terms with the American