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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1862.

Another Federal defeat, is the verdict we must
now give upon the evidence before us. The depo-
sitions of the telegraph on Saturday left little doubt
of it, but Northern reports, now before us in detail,
confirm our first impressions. The precise object of
the Confederates in attacking thus vigorously the
left flank of M'CLELLAN under General CASEY,
we cannot know, and therefore cannot pronounce
on the success of their intentions. But the actual
success of their operations, to a certain extent, is
quite clear. They quite disorganised by their

attack a whole advanced division of the Federa

army, and carried off all their guns, nineteen in
number. The Northern writers who confess the
fact add, that the North " could better afford the
loss, than they could afford to have the rebels pro.
fit by the gain,"
What indeed very much enhances the merit

of the Confederate achievement is that they had no

artillery, while according to the Northern account
itself the Confederates advanced to close quarters
with the guns which were mowing them down with
canister and grape. We read descriptions of the
bravery of CASEY'S weak battalions retiring before
the foe, but we cannot make out that they were
really much the weaker, and supported by their artil-
lery they ought to have been the stronger. Of this

artillery the Confederates in he bravest style re-
lieved them ; and it being just the thing they wanted
they immediately sent the guns and the ammunition
on the Saturday evening to Richmond. On the
Sunday the Confederates were not strong enough to
hold the half mile in which they had captured the
guns, and carried off or destroyed CASEY'S tents,
baggage, and stores, and after a hard bayonet fight,
as it is discribed, the Federals regained their lost

ground.
The accounts furnished by the North seem to in
vent every possible excuse, yet we cannot see tha
there is much in them. The tremendous storm,
softening the roads, and deluging everything, was
as unfavourable to the action of one party as of the
other. The repeated statement of the weakness of
the advanced regiment only discredits the skill of
the General who so exposed it, and enhances that
of the Confederates, who availed themselves of it to
secure a partial victory, and, what was of such value
to them, several batteries of field guns. We can
see no extenuation whatever of the errors of gene-
ralship on one side, nor anything to detract from
the skill and bravery of the other, which thus in-
flicted by surprise such a defeat and a loss to the
enemy so profitable to themselves.
The numbers of killed and wounded on each side
we have learned to regard as facts not to be ascer-
tained for months— enormous totals frequently
dwindling down to insignificance is the usual case.
When, however, a Northern correspondent of a
Northern paper thinks 3,000 their probable loss in
u two days' battle, it ought to be somewhere near
the mark. The whole division which was attacked
numbered, he says, 2,000 men. If, therefore, that
division was not annihilated, which does not at all
appear to have been the case, their legs proving
most efficient saviours, the loss must have been
very severe on the second day, the Sunday. This
day's battle was, it must be confessed, the fair trial
of strength, and the North proved the stronger but
not the braver. The accounts of Southern loss, if
correct, would only go to show that the Southerns
fought as well as the Northerns ; but that the latter
were equipped with far more destructive weapons is
incidentally mentioned by the writer of the account
of the battle. Altogether we think the battle
proves what so many others have proved, that the
North is tha stronger, the South the more skilful.
Its generalship is almost always better than that
of the North.
This is, indeed, confirmed by what we now learn
from Corinth. That BEAUREGARD had good rea-
sons for quitting so strong a position is quite cer-
tain. They may have been the want of supplies,
and health of the army ; but that he should have
withdrawn every gun in the presence of an enemy
within cannon shot of him, and should have left
him in utter ignorance of the direction he he has
taken is a real marvel. For 60,000 men, at least,
to have left no trace on the road they have taken
when retreating from the immediate presence of a
larger army, is a feat, we should think, almost
without parallel. We should not be surprised to
hear of BEAUREGARD and his army where he is
least expected—on the flank of HALLECK—or at
New Orleans—even in Virginia itself, though he
he must go a long way round to get there.

The workhouses are just a trifle more accessible
than Boorioboolagah. The latter region may be all
very well for Mrs. JELLABY. We may leave what
the brickmaker in Bleak House would call the
"Pollpryin g" school of charity to benevolent females I
as brazen-eyed as airs. PARDIGGLE. Like the good
clergy man fresh from St.Ambiose's Collcgc of whom
mention is made in Tom Brown at Oxford as a
great and good hand at Ragged Schools, first of all
in his beloved Alma Mater, and afterwards, and
better still, in the back slums of Westminster—we
I
may give up as hopelessly as that gentle-hearted and 1
earnest-minded ecclesiastic the hope of any of the
i
aalEs Of Belgravia being able to penetrate into those
regions of
squalor and misery just mentioned. We
may be driven to this and other kindred conclusions
narrowino. theßut
au,. of benevolence to English gen-
tlemen... field
vilih,evten then, there would be left for
the gentler sex
1
oyportunities of this kind
vviet:•-ii: the Union Workhouses
they may be in Search
oefr
scattered far and
all directions, in every
parish, wherever men and vmmen ~
most do congre-
gate," throughout the length aud
'workhouses(
breadth of the
United Kingdom. The inmates of those
it is worth remembering, number a. 13 altogether in
England and ,
Wales alone more than
100,000
One hundred thousand souls of all ages, on
i both
sexes, all of them destitute, almost all of them
uninstructed either morally or intellectually.
The very multitude, this, fitted in a peculiar
and especial manner to receive gratefully, from the
hands and hearts of English ladies the ministrations
he more earnestly philanthropic amongst them
may be bent upon distributing whenever they may
be happy enough to find a suitable opportunity.
Here, in the Workhouses, scattered far and wide
all over the land, 2.8 the opportunity ! The very
opportunity so many benevolent ladies, old and
young, are in search of ! The desired field of their
labour of benevolence is thus, actually within
their reach. - Weak though the hands of
these female philanthropists may be, a harvest
especially suited to their powers stands there
before them_ •
lip° for the sickle. They