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Another successful surprise by the Confederates,
and this time a surprise of NPCLELLAN himself!
A victory, the New York papers term it, for the
Federals, but, in the accounts we yet have, it is a
victory the very counterpart of that at Pittsburg
Landing, or Shiloh, as the Confederates term it,
near Corinth. A victory, because the Federals re-
mained, ultimately, on their lost ground, but a
defeat, if it be measured by the loss of artillery, of
field stores, and of life itself.

The Confederates seem to be 'very clever at sur-
prises. Almost all their successes have been well
planned attempts of this kind. BEAunEGARD's
surprise of the Federal army at Shiloh was admi-
rably arranged—bad weather made him a day too
late, or he would have captured the whole division.
The attack on Franklin at West Point, in like man-
ner, would, but for the firmness of HEINTZLEMAN,
and the coming up of the gunboats and supports,
have been completely, as it was substan-
tially, successful. The attack on BANKS
was very much of a surprise, and com-
pletely successful; and now again one wing of
the army of M'CLELLAN was evidently taken
by surprise and routed with great less in all respects.
The good information easily obtainable by the
Confederate Generals, while the North can obtain
none, accounts no doubt for these successes. The
whereabouts of every regiment of AI•CLELLAN's
army is made known to the Confederates by the
hostile inhabitants, and not only that, but the watch
they keep, and the opportunities given for such
surprises as these.

We do not imagine that this affair will seri-
ously hinder M'CLELLAN. He may need to ob-
tain additional supplies, but he was always said to
be superabundantly provided with everything. It
is more likely to delay his operations for a few days,
but quite likely, as in the parallel case at Corinth,
to be followed by the evacuation of Richmond and
the retreat southward of the Federal army to posi-
tions where it will be still more formidable. The
whole tenor of Confederate fighting since the battles
by which Tennessee was reconquered in the spring,
seems to be that of making very able, and commonly
successful, onslaughts on portions of the Federal
army, and then retreating. Their retreats have
always been successful. The Federals never heard
a word of them till it was too late to interfere with
the retreat. Thus Manassas, Yorktown, and Corinth
were successively evacuated without loss, and the
Federals found they had all their work to do over
again under more disadvantageous circumstances.
In all probability such will be the course at Rich-
mond. There are ample means for the Confede-
rates to move south, and they will probably not
hesitate a moment, when it appears that Richmond
is no longer defensible.

The battle was fought with great desperation.
The Federals confess to a loss of 3,000 killed and
wounded, and we may be sure that loss is not under-
stated ; they add that the Confederates left 1,200
dead on the field, this may be an exaggeration, but
is quite possible, only showing how resolute they
were in the attempt to crush the left wing of the
Federals, and so cripple APCLELLAN'S whole army.
It is clear that, as at Shiloh, on the first day, the
Federals had the worst of it, but that on the se•
cond they compelled the enemy to retreat. General
HEINTZELMAN again appears as the saviour of the
Federals, They are much indebted to the Germans,
who seem to make everywhere their best soldiers
and officers. It is now affirmed that, after all the
reports we have had of BEAUREGARD'S presence at
Richmond, he never left his army at Corinth ! But
whither he is gone with 60,000 men no one knows.

Another romance of Monte Cristo, rivalling in
some respects the interest attached to that penned
by M. ALEXANDRE DUMAS, has very recently been
given to the world. It appears in a manner first
of all rather surreptitiously upon the Italian Peninz
sula—certainly not under the imprimatur of the

Italian Government. Its hero is one Mr. WATSON

TAYLOR—ite heroine being, of course, that gentle-
man's " better half," to wit, Mrs. WATSON TAYLOR.
The work hero referred to—or rather, perhaps we
ought to say more correctly, the piece of work here
referred to—is understood to have been dedicated in
a left-handed manner to the glory of General
GARIBALDI, Though we should hardly imagine
that that illustrious man would think it calcu-

lated in any way to redound to the same—or,
if he had had the choice, would ever have
accepted it. The evil genius of this new
romance of " Monte Cristo " not by ALEX-
ANDRE DITMAS—at any rate, the supposed evil
genius whose footsteps are imagined to hare
dogged the hero of the narrative through all
kinds of "hair-breadth 'scapos and perilous
adventures," is presumed to have been no other than
her Britannic MAJESTY'S representative at the
Court of Turin, Sir JAMES HUDSON. This, accord-
ing to the interpretation put upon the incidents of
the plot, and the motives of the characters by the
various reviewers or commentators who have now
pronounced their opinion upon the new translation
of the whole story into our own vernacular—a trans-'
lation very carefully revised and corrected under
the rather questionable editorship of Mr. CADEN-
DISA Collating the text of Mr. BEN-
'Mimes version of the story with the original, and
"raining both under the light of the diametrically
°PPoeite opinions upon its merits expressed last
night ivy the conflicting critics in the British House
of Comm,
to 0n,,,
doubt We are at length enabled, without
get in real earnest at the English of it
,all.

And the English of it all is simply this—A Mr.
GEO. GRIEME WATsoN TAYLOR, an English gentle-
manas ever did the celebrated Dr.
eccentric tastes, one who has apparently gone
forth as determinedly
of
SYNTAX, of COMBE, "in search of the Picturesque,"
"
found the Picturetqu ~
apparently e he was in
acs,roh of in Monte Cristo and bought it. Air.TA/LoR '
has now for some few years, in fact, been u.
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prietor of the whole island of Monte Cristo. There
—as completely as ever did ALEXANDER SELRIRR.
on the island of Juan Fernandez—he (Mr. TAT..
LOR) has for several years pgst been " monarch
of all be surveys." He was 20 at the corn.
mencement of the Italian Movement. He was
owner of Monte Cristo when GARIBALDI quit-
ted Genoa with his little band of followers
and made sail for the shores of Sicily. Nay,
even before that--when the Grand Duke of
Tuscany and the other princelings thereabouts
threw their cards up in despair, and, giving up
the game as lost, fled into the Austrian camp. j
Immediately after the annexation of Tuscany—to

the rule or which archduchy the possessor of the
island of Monte Cristo owned allegiance as a suze-
raine—Mr. TAYLOR, the married Crusoe of that
ilk, is said to have uttered words of a seditious
character in reference to the new lord and master
of Tuscany, the King of SARDINIA, then fast
expanding into the King of Italy. Mr. TAYLOR, of
Monte Cristo, is said not only thus to have raised
his voice as a rebel against the authority of VICTOR
EMMANUEL, but to have actually shown fight
against the soldiers of that Sovereign. Charged with
this offence—Mr. TAYLOR, and with him, Mrs.
TAYLOR, passed before the Criminal Court under
the jurisdiction of which the island of Monte Cristo
happens to be, the Criminal Court at Elba, in

the small capital of Portoferajo. Thither, at least,
Monsieur and Madame should have passed—only
they thought better of it : or worse, as the event
seems to have proved, in their regard at least.
Instead of duly appearing and making their
defence there before that Criminal Court at Porto-
ferajo, Mr. and Mrs. -WATSON TAYLOR absented
themselves. Judgment was thereupon, as a
mere matter of course, pronounced against
them by default. The sentence of the Court
being that Mr, WATSON TAILOR should have
eighteen months, and Mrs. WATSON TAYLOR
(upon the score, we presume, of her being the prin-
cipal offender and a particular strong-minded woman
to boot, one with, so to speak, a bone in her wrist
and a tongue of more than ordinary volubility)
twenty-one months' imprisonment. Bad enough
that apparently : but even that turned out to be
not by any means all the evil consequences of their
insubordination. Monte Cristo, Mr. WATSON
TAYLOR'S island estate, having been quitted by him

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and his ectra sposa, as rather too hot for them under

the circumstances, was invaded by the bold and
buccaneering crew who had previously seized upon
the ship Orwell—a crew in effect of red-
shiz ted and avowed Garibaldians. The latter
yielded to the temptation before them, seized
the cash of the flown birds, sacked Mr.
TAYLOR'S house, went looting, in point of fact,
all over Monte Cristo. Everything was
fish that came to their net—even the little ima-
ginary bronze casket enclosing Mr. WATSON
TAYLOR'S "rights as an Englishman." That casket
each of us may be said to own—sealed with the
seal of the great SOLYMAN, bearing upon it the
grand Palmerstonian device, Civis Britannicus
sum ! Claiming compensation for the damage done
to his goods and chattels, Mr. WATSON TAYLOR
has ever since then been seeking, and hitherto
one cannot but see quite clearly, in vain, redress
at the hands of the Italian Government.

Now, before another syllable be written upon
this latest romance of "Monte Cristo," it must
be quite manifest to everyone from the "plain
unvarnished tale', that has here been told, that
there are two perfectly distinct cases or questions
that ought to be taken into account sepa-
rately. The one in which Mr. TAYLOR is the
offender, or the reputed offender ; the other in
which he is the victim of an offence perpetrated
by a party of Garibaldians. The charge preferred
in the one case is that of sedition, in the other
it is that of pillage. And if once it be borne in
mind how entirely apart from each other the two
occasions ought to bo kept, in order to arrive at a
just judgment in their regard, it will be all the more
easily appreciable how dire would become the con-
fusion caused among the minds of mere spectators
by jumbling them up together. This is just exactly
what was done yesterday in the House of Commons
upon the motion introduced by Mr. C. BENTINCK,
but after a long and stormy discussion withdrawn
by-that gentleman. Opinions could hardly be more
divided than they were. A consideration of the
same facts gave a totally different impression to
those who viewed them from the opposite sides of
the House. It was like the wrangle again over
the colours of the chameleon—the battle about the
shield of ebony lined with gold. Quite a party con-
tention arose all about the island of Monte Cristo and
its owner, Mr. WATSON TAYLOR; about Sir JAMES
HUDSON and the Foreign-office; about General GA-
RIBALDI and the Italian Government. Mr. BEN-
TINCK fell foul of our Ambassador at Turin. Mr.
LAYARD, as in duty bound, defended him right
loyally and to the very uttermost. Mr. KINGLAKE
thought that the unlucky proprietor of Monte
Cristo had been dealt with rather too harshly, and
abandoned at home here by the " powers that be"
rather too cavalierly. The Solicitor-General, on
the contrary, considered Mr. TAYLOR to have been
undeniably blameworthy ; while the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, still earlier in the discussion,
declared his conduct to have been highly
indiscreet and he himself to have been alto-
gether wanting in anything at all like circumspec-
tion. Several others members having besides this
spoken energetically from a party point of view,
some resolutely pro, others obdurately con—the
debate (not by any means the least interesting
debate that has taken place this session) cannot
but be considered to have terminated in the highest
degree satisfactorily, with a statesmanlike explana-
tion of the whole difficulty by the Prime Minister.
An explanation which elicited an earnest
eulogium from Mr. DISRAELI upon the truly
English spirit, dictating the closing remarks
which had just then been addressed to the
House by Lord PALMERSTON. Those observations
of the Prime Minister of England, we cannot but
believe will result, before much longer, in Mr.
TAYLOR, of Monte Cristo, receiving compensation
for the injuries he has undoubtedly suffered from ;
a compensation that would be all the more magnani-
mous coming to him from the Government, against
the authority of which he himself had, as we have
seen, originally rebelled, the Government that is of
King VICTOR EMMANUEL.

Lord PALMERSTON, it will be remarked, ven-
tured to express a hope, last evening, that the Go-
vernment of the King of ITALY might, upon further
consideration, and more particularly after 'the ex-
pression of sympathy which had been elicited in
favour of Mr. TAvLoa from both sides of the Eng-
lish House of Commons, be induced to take an
entirely new view altogether of the career of that
ill-starred, and, certainly, also ill-advised English-
man. Mr. TAYLOR, as owner of Monte Cristo—
Lord PALMERSTON acknowledged—had certainly
suffered a grievous loss: and for that loss—the
Prime Minister acknowledged this also—Mr.
TAYLOR may not unreasonably look for compen-

sation.

The decided tone of the Government last night
in regard to mediation in the American civil war,
will be regarded with satisfaction by all who concur
with us in the opinion that it would probably be
useless, even if offered by France or Russia, and worse
than useless if ofiered by England, Lord PALMER-
STON bad but a very brief official reply for Mr.
HoPwooro—the English Government had received
neAnA
Nic,atlyi:is from France on the subject, and
did not intend to offer mediation between the con-
tending parties.
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spreading of the r
and distinctly asserted that nfceilitit.kheelryll
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mischief,
suede
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any overtures to the French Government on the
subject, nor had the French Ambassador here re-
ceived any instructions in reform:3e to it. He added
that be considered the present time specially inop-

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portune for any such proposals. He gave no opinion
on the propriety of offering mediation at some future
time, but believed that in the present embittered
state of feeling on both sides, such an offer might
interfere with good results from any made at
a more propitious time, should such occur here-
after.

The Emperor of the FRENCH, who doubtless
authorized the putting forth of the feelers which
appeared ili the Constitationnel, La Patrie, and
other journals, has now therefore his answer, so far
as England is concerned. He is told not only that
we do not just now recommend mediation, but that
we think it likely to do more harm than good and
to interfere with successful friendly proposals here-
after. If he acts he must act entirely alone. Lord
RUSSELL would not, probably, even add a word
for humanity's sake, recommending the French
offers to the notice of the Federal Government.
'We believe he is quite right. The Yankees might
treat the CzAR and the EMPEROR with bare civility
in their reply, though for this we would not vouch,
but they are quite as likely to give a very haughty
answer. More than half a million soldiers, and
numberless millions of paper money which as yet
floats very near the surface, have so exalted their
conceptions of Northern strength, that even from fa-
voured Autocracies such as France and Russia, the
nation of nineteen millions of Autocrats will hardly
brook a word of caution. The day for effective
intervention passed when the blockade of the cotton
ports was permitted. That permission was right
by international law. The law of necessity was
not pleaded against it; and Europe must now look
patiently on and seek in the East a compensation
for the vanished trade of the West.

The proclamation of General BUTLER at New
Orleans, which was brought before both houses
only to receive their emphatic condemnation, is
itself an illustration of what renders all attempts
at mediation almost absurd or ridiculous. Both
Lords PALMERSTON and RUSSELL expressed them-
selves as became our representatives in the eyes of
foreign nations, on the atrocious proclamation. We
confess that for some time we thought it must be a
hoax, as Gen. BUTLER is about one of the indis-
creetest of the indiscreet among the Federal generals.
His proclamation in regard to slavery when he
first went to the Gulf of Mexico was, even we
should think, intemperate ; but we had not sup-
posed him, or any man holding the position of
a General in the United States army capable of
such a foul revolting brutality, as this proclamation.
The Federal Generals and soldiers when they got
to Nashville, in Tennessee, though the men were
sullenly quiet, had to suffer all kinds of insults
from the ladies—even to being spit upon from
the windows, and the pavements. But they bore
it like soldiers. We must believe that the milder
interpretation of this order, which Lord PALMER-
STON branded as infamous, is not the true one. It
ran that "if any lady by word, gesture, or move-
ment" insulted any Federal officer or soldiers, " she
should be held liable to be treated as a woman of
the town plying her vocation." That means, say
the General's apologists, that she should be locked up
in the Calaboose—the common gaol—but it is
denied that any law to lock up "unfortunates"
exists at New Orleans any more than in London.
Were it so, the locking up of respectable ladies
with the worst of their sex, would itself be outrage
enough. We believe, however, that the General's
meaning is far worse—that his threat was meant to
be understood as one of surrender to the brutalities
of the rowdies of the North who compose his little
army.

It is remarkable that Lord LYONS, in sending
this infamous order home with BEAUREGARD'S
comments in it, was not able to send information
also of the light in which the Federal Government
regarded it. There was no delay in proclaiming
the PRESIDENT'S disavowal of General HUNTER'S
Abolition Proclamation, but we are left in doubt
whether Mr. LINCOLN at once repudiated an order
which will be read with execration throughout the
civilized world, and which will be regarded as a
disgrace to the profession of a soldier by every
army in Europe. We are not warranted, however,
to imagine that Mr. STANTON and the PRESIDENT
can have overlooked this order, so disgraceful to the
Northern Army. Indeed, BEAUREGARD'S comments
on it shew that it will do more than
even Abolitionist indiscretions to rouse the
spirit of the South. The latter attack what
they call their property ; but General BUT-
LER'S despatch threatens the honour of their wives
and daughters, and for what—for daring to show,
in feminine modes, their irreconcileable aversion to
subjugation by the North.
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vsittenoir the results of the contest before Rich-
mond, the vast interior believes itself safe in its
vastness, and by its insalubrity for Northern con-
stitutions. 'rho recent brigandage of Naples would
be nothing to what Northerns must endure if they
attempted to occupy the South, while the fragments
of the great Southern armies dispersed themselves
about the country to seek subsistence. The deter-
mination to be independent is now fixed, and medi-
ation on the basis of re-union to the North, would
be impracticable, even if both the great armies of
the South were defeated—which seems, however, yet
to be a distant event.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1862.