21 JANUARY 1865, page 14

The Wilmington Failure :—ciiristma.s In New York.

[Fnom OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, January 7, 1865. THE country is awaiting with great interest General Butler's explanation of his abandonment of the expedition......

England And New Zealand. To The Editor Op The "spectator."

Taranaki, November 9, 1864. Sin,—Perhaps at the present time, when the cost and circumstances of the Maori war have drawn a rather unusual degree of attention to New Zealand......