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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY. AUGUST 4, 1862.

We have long known that news from the seat, or
seats of War, through Federal channels, was, what
the Federal authorities wished it to be. Over the
seat of war, indeed, the PRESIDENT and Mr. STAN-
TON are as sensitive as if it were the seat of honour,
and if blows come rather hard, they veil the facts
by the fig-leaves of the press for so long as that will
last. But we had hardly suspected that we should
not, with due allowance for exaggeration, "bun-
kum," and the like, have a fair account from the
press of what passes in the cities of the North,
where it publishes its information to those who, a
few hours before, were many of them witnesses of
what it describes. Yet such seems to be the truth.
A most trustworthy American correspondent assures
us that if be had not gone to that great mass-
meeting at New York, he should have
thought from the chorus of the papers
the next morving, that it was a " mag-
nifieent success ;" or a " sublime uprising of
the people," or a " demonstration the moral effects
of which would influence the fortunes of America
and Europe for ages to come," that "at least
100,000 patriots were present," and there were
what one of the speakers called for " five acres of
cheers". The fact being that there wore not five
acres in the park ; that eight or ten thousand were
the outside of the numbers who sauntersd leisurely
about to five platforms erected for the speakers, the
ladies—unprotected females many of them—
not finding their crinoline any inconvenience
"'cm g the straggling individuals who were to have
been a dense crowd.
The t
-rlith seems to be, as the same observer
states—that
the Federal reverses have been suffi-
cient to dem—
i) and discourage, but not sufficient to
arouse. Rua
za, CLELLAN'S army been utterly
routed or captured, th©
North would have arisen as
hut half beaten, half successful, the admi-
nistration gets the blame,
confidence in it is low,
recruiting goes on slowly, andpublic feeling seems
to be pausing Whether it shall lash itself again to
fury or give 1-1 P an impracticable undertaking.
Indeed the latest te;egram from. Newl,l;
ew York via
Halifax, tells us that public Public de-
spondency exits, and that much
the public appear
in-
clined to take more gloomY views of the position of
affairs, than at any time since the commencement

of the struggle.
Of late Mr. LINCOLN himself has been acting as
Commander-in Chief, and it now appears that he
had indirectly much to do with the late disaster.
The people at first called for the dismissal of the
Secretary for War, Mr. STANTON, because he had
not sent reinforcements in time. It was Mr. LIN-
COLN himself, however, who anxious for the safety
of Washington countermanded the order for
APDowELL with his forty thousand men to rein-
force M'CLELLAN from Fredericsburg. But for
this, if the Prince DE JOINYILLE'S account of the
battle be correct, the Confederates would have been
utterly routed, or more probably have never ven-
tured the attack at all. General HALLECK has now
been appointed Commander-in -Chief of all the land
fnrces of the United States; and the people seem to
aPPr"e it. Why it is difficult for us in England
to
At the battle of Pittsburg landing, though
his gunboats repelled the enemy, BEAUREGARD
Fhowed himself the
best general, and the evacua-:
lion of Corinth, in
the face of HALLECK, was
accomplished withcmt the slightest loss, or even
vithout HALLEcK's knowledge. The Americans
ought to know b:st, but nothing yet has shown to
others that HALLECKis raw._
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'CLELL AN.
As to the actual fghtinlg• the greater
part of the
armies on both sidLs have gone, itwould seem, into
summer quarters, Here and there a little move.