3 JANUARY 1863, page 11

Topics Of The Day.

EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-TWO. T HE year has been one of those which try the fortitude of nations, a year of strained exertion without its com- pensating fruit, of guffering......

The Battle Of Fredericksburg.

T IIE defeat of Fredericksburg will hereafter interest only the politician. As a battle it was but the old, old story, ovce which Englishmen have so often groaned—an. American......