3 JANUARY 1874, Page 10

General Bixio, we regret to see, is dead. He was

the best and the wisest of the Garibaldians, though he lacked the genius, rising sometimes to a sort of inspiration, which in his best moods animates their chief. He got tired of inaction, and took an armed vessel to the East, either to show his countrymen the path to their old trade, or to find a place fitted for convicts. of the worst type, or to carve out a dominion for himself. Re- turned up now and again at some English port, but he was not successful in any of his enterprises, and died at last of weariness and the climate. Italy has lost a good son, but in Italy genius is endemic.