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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 21, 1862.

Still nothing to contradict the report by the
Glasgow, says our principal morning contemporary:
A fact not very remarkable, seeing that only a
prophet in America could contradict what the un-
inspired there knew nothing about. It is per-
fectly certain that if the Government can control
the telegraph, it cannot stop private correspondence,
and yet communications seven days after the date
assigned to the Queenstown invention show that at
New York no one knuws anything at all about it,
That knowledge we strongly suspect to be confined,
so far as the origin of the report is concerned, to
the Liverpool Exchange, and to the agent of our
contemporary.
The case needed not, however, to be made worse
than it was. The anniversary of American inde-
pendence was celebrated in sadness, this year, in
the North. The banners were hung with crape.
The pall of defeat supplanted the flag of victory,
and the usual trumpet-toned speeches were con-
verted into funeral orations for thousands of the
lay scarcely buried on the
sons of the North who
conqueror's side of the Potomac.
Nothing could
well relieve the sadness of
ceremony. The
14 strategic reasons" for the movement, though they
undoubtedly existed, were little consolatory ; for,
in the first place, they showed that M'Clellan had
been guilty of the same blunders as our own
generals were, at first, in the Crimea, that
of
extending his line beyond his strength. It eon.
vieted their foremost general, therefore, of a great
mistake. And next, the rectification of the mis-
take was due to a bold and successful onset of the
enemy, and cost six days at least of severe and
deadly fighting. The rapid fall in Government
paper and stocks of all kinds must a!so have edded
to the gloom of the great national holiday. Quite
enough all this to make the last 4th of July one of
the most memorable in the Northern States since the
inauguration of the Union. Not that the North is
dismayed. It bears its defeat as Englishmen by
descent might be expected to bear it ; the only
difference is, that. we hear more loudly expressed
threats of merciless revenge.

The Arabia, besides later news, has brought us
lengthened correspondence from the field of battle;
it is a Lung and weary story of six days' hard fight-
ing ; much of it is furnished by eye-witnesses, but
even their details of losses are generally of little
value: without intending to deceive, it is natural
for men writing under such excitement to exagge-
rate everything ;
our own correspondence did the
same thing during the Crimean war. The general
results are, however, sufficiently plain. The un-
wearied attacks of the Confederates, the slow fall-
ing back of the Federals, the firing of large cinan-
tities of their stores to prevent their falling into
the Vederals
the hands of the enemy, t,lc advantage