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THE SUN.
• LONDON", TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1861

One of the great battles for which we have some
days been looking bet.,7een Federals and Confede-
rates has now been fought—possibly another or
two since, as this was fought on tho 6th and 7th of
thti mouth. Unfortunately it is impossible not to
suspect the accounts of such exaggeration that we
can hordly rely upon the results as reported to us ;
still the main featvres of the battle we may presume
to be correctly descri t:Necl. Our readers will rememb'
that the Confederates ha'd formed a new line of defence
south of Tennessee, and aloi2,g the extreme north of
the States of Mississippi aud A; abama ; its basis was
the railroad which runs westward from Memphis on
the Mississippi, and it extended froLTA Island No. 10
to Decatur, in Alabama ; Corinth, where REAURE-
o ARD appears to have held his headqartsrs, was in
the.' centre of this line, and he was able, therefore,
according to circumstances, to mass his troops from
both flanks by means of the railway, as the line
occupied seems to have been about 180 miles
in length. We think this was done, be-
cause we observe -,he names of the Gene-
rals who were in coromavd at the extremities,
as present at the battle of Cori.nth. BEAUREGARD,
well informed evidently, saw that the Federal ad-
vanced army was weaker than it should be, and by,
what was certainly good generalship, he resolved
to overpower the advance before the supports could
arrive. In this he must have been to a great ex-
tent successful. The battle on the 6th was entirely
in his favour ; anti if the numbers are exaggerated,
there can be no doubt that he gained an important
victory. A Federal General was captured—pro-
bably batteries and prisoners to an important
amount were captured a Iso ; it was the old strategy
of BEAUREGARD at Manaesak4, and the result was the
same, with the remarkable ditTerence that there was
no panic and run this time. Vie Federals, though
overpowered, fought, so far as we can yet judge, in
their retreat, like soldiers.
But BUELL, one of the best of the Western Fede-
ral Generals, was too near. The flood of numbers
as now on the Federal side, and numbers again
decided the day; the Confederates had to retreat
to their Central position, Corinth ; they were pur-
sued, it is sai •
d, by the Federal cavalry, and General
JOHNSTON said
to be killed, and BEAUREGARD
wounded—however, on all these minutia we must
await another mail or two. The result would seem
to show that the
generals on both sides, in the
West, are for America, able men ; and that the
armies, in point of quality, are not so unequally
matched. The victory appeared, in eac,h case, to
rest with the larger army. The South art' encou-
they can attack and
.drive by finding that
back the North—the
North is encouraged by find-
ing that its chief reliance, superiority in men and
material, can drive back temporary victors. Corinth
was reported to be a strong position, however; the
Federal gunboats cannot approach it, and the able
General, BEAUREGARD, may, yet hold it a long
Indeed,
time, even with much inferior :Goobers.
to lose it, would be to lose the graild c"lgeeting
link of railroad between Western and Easter-1
Secession. We should remark, that the account of
the second day's battle, and the Federal vioterYt
are entirely from Northern telegrams.
The most serious loss to the Confederates is, how-
ever, their Island No. 10. It does not seem that