The Sun.
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THERMOMETER.
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Barometer-29.90.
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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCT. 3, 1863.

The defeat of ROSENCRANZ by the Confederates
is in some respects the most disastrous incident that
has yet befallen the Federal Government. It is
certainly the most disastrous that has happened to
them for many months past. It comes, for one
thing, at this moment, as so ranch of an anti-climax.
After Gettysburg, we were virtually assured by all
the braggart organs of the North that the contest
would be finished off with a rush. LEE was not
only beaten, but beaten irretrievably. His army
was not only driven back, but routed. Its flying
columns were disorganised throughout. MEADE
had only to follow up his victory with reasonable
vigour, and the Confederate Commander-in-Chief
was effectually done for, his army scattered, his re-
putation gone, the way to Richmond cleared before
the ads ance of the victors, President DATIS re-
duced to a nonentity. Weeks rolled by, one of
the calendar months run out, another opened
up in its turn—the war was not at an end,
nor;anything like it—MEADE assumed the attitude
and occupied the position of anything bat a victo-
rious Generalisimo. LEE, it turned out, had retired
in the most deliberate and leisurely way imaginable.
His forces were in no respect disorganised, or even,
for that matter, in the smallest degree dispirited.
He simply assumed a new position, modified his
plans,.d altered his position again upon mature con-
tion—his vratelaful opponent, it is true, moving
wherever he moved, but doingonl
only that : respect-
fully keeping at a distance—Waiting fear, what has
not yet turned up, his opportunity. A
this yet continues to be the situation
nfntohwewarso
far
while
r as relates to the confronting Commanders-in-
Chief, MEADE for the Federals, LEE for the Con-
federates—come these tidings that the army
of General ROSENCRANZ, in Tennessee, has
been severely beaten in a great pitched
battle of two days' duration, has been clean
cut in two, has been mortally injured to the extent
of some twelve thousand men killed, wounded, and
captured ! ROSENCRANZ having hitherto, all this
while, been, not only one of the ablest, but also one
of the most fortunate and generally successful
amoig the few eminent soldiers leading the forces
of Mr. LINCOLN in the field. Yet now—even from
Tennessee—come these tidings of a Fresh Victory,
'another Great Victory, as it proves to be, on the
side of the Confederates ! At this juncture of all
junctures, these tidings have come when the
Rowdy Government of the North, bespattered
-with the mud into which it has been so often
knocked by the fierce blows cf its Southern an-
tagonist, splashed with the mere hurry scurry of
so much systematic skedaddling:(for strategic pur-
poses !), bleeding and almost blinded with rage and
punishment—
was in the middle of sparring so defi-
antly with the most imbecile obtuseness of purpose
nlookers among the crowd of
at the two principal
observing powers, not in any way as yet engaged in
the
war' At France, that is, and at England! In
the yere-
raidst of these flagrant demonstrations of
defiance n
against 'ere
e the part of the North against France,and
wltad, come these inopportune tidings
from Tennessee, tidings that
under BRAGG have th© Southern forces
iiiiveu back, and
itUSENCRAN,
himself, but BueeeelDß
have
Put nut only
-'whe was hastening ( festina
ItOSENCRAI,,Z,
lente) to the aid of that ne
defeated bro
arms, in a position of fea
deopardy. At this new
turn in the events of the war, we
to see what will ha said by shall
that Yankee
BOANEEGES of the Northern Press, _I be curious
ANHATTAN—
according to whose bouncing estimate of
ee should
things in
-glieell a
a t:
w
general, of late, as we recently took
remark, the war as to have been re
already virtually at an end. How now
, w
like to know, about that extraordinary mission to
Europe about to be undertaken by Mrs.ABEIANcoLN,
the President ess ? MANHATTAN certainly seemed in
his very last communication, at the close of his
loedest and most brazen boasting, to evidence by
one passing remark, a sudden presentiment of evil
—namely, where he spoke of the certainty of gold
running up to 200 if Washington should chance,
after all, to be taken by the Confederates
A moment previously to his blurting out
of that wild but aniuGas siippoeition, the talk