The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-14 00:00:00

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Another successful surprise by the Confederates,
and this time a surprise of M'CLELLAN 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. BEAUREGARD'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 loss 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 MICLELLAN'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,
,o 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 bp 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 M'CLELLAN'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 BEAIIREGARD'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 Penin-
sula—certainly not under the imprimatur of the
Italian Government. Its hero is one Mr. WATSON
TAYLOR—its heroine being, of course, that gentle-
man's "better half," to wit, Mrs. WATSON TAYLOR.
The work here referred to—or rather, perhaps we
ought to say more correctly, the piece of work here
referred to—is understood to have been dedicated i n
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 DUMAS—at any rate, the supposed evil
genius whose footsteps are imagined to have
dogged the hero of the narrative through all
kinds of "hair-breadth 'stapes 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 unde,r
the rather questionable editorship of Mr. CAVEN-
DISH BENTINOB. Collating the text of Mr. BEN-
TINCR'S version of the story with the original, and
examining both under the light of the diametrically
°Pilesite opinions upon its merits expressed last
13101137 the conflicting critics in the British House
of Commons,, we are at length enabled, without
doubt
get in real earnest at the English of it
all.

And the Ecaush
zoxTitall is simply this—A Mr.
GEO. GILEME
W wrs•
01:,../Lop,, an English gentle-
man of eccentric tastes
e who has apparently gone
forth as determinedly as ever did the celebrated Dr.
SYNTAX, of CQMBE, "in search of the Picturesque,"
apparently found the " Picturesque"
he was in
search of in Monte Cristo o.nabonght it mr. TA/LOR
TPherore-
has now for some few years, in fact, been the
prietor of the whole island of Monte Cristo.
—as completely as ever did ALEXANDER SELKIRK
on the island of Juan Fernandez—he (Mh. T.
LOR) has for several years past been " monarch
of all h© surveys." He was so at the com.
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.
Immediately after the annexation of Tuscany—to

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