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THE SUN.

LONDON, lev .nT'DNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1862,

Cessation of debates in Parliament has given ns a
little more leisure to look at the debates of the
American press and the American Congress. We
cannot, however, report that they exhibit anything
very remarkable; nothing certainly at all corre-
sponding to the realities of the great contest in
',which they are engaged, The little we can get from
the South gives us no indication of its succumbing.
Leaders are abundantly censured there, as well as
in the North, and misfortures and defects are not
more, or longer, concealed and explained away than
they are in the North. We must confess that we
take it rather as an indication of conscious
•
strength that JEFFERSON DAVIS himself, as
as well as the journals, admit their defeats, and
punish even such important men as the late Federal
Secretary, and arch-conspirator under BUCHANAN
—.FLOYD. Fear would hardly act thus. O,
course we expect to find them doing all their pre-
sent business with paper money, and are not sur-
prised to learn that notes for as low an amount as in
Austria are in daily use. Ten cent, or five-penny
notes, seem strange to Englishmen ; yet we carry
on our pence, and even shilling transactions, with
what are in fact but tokens. We expect also to find
the want of all luxuries but those which the soil
will produce; still, under all hardships, we cannot
ascertain that the determination to resist
falters. The South is forming new lines
of defence, as it abandons the old ones,
and the inhabitants within the lines, which
comprehend all the Gulf States, appear to be as
resolved as ever. There is, however, one serious
deduction—one which it may be thought neutralises
all other appearances—the South has to resort to
conscription, the North is amply supplied with
volunteers. This is very remarkable, since it ap-
pears as if the North were more ready to fight for
conquest than the South for defence. The North,
Lc'ever,pays its volunteers handsomely; the South
has no paeans of doing it. "The gentlemen of the
press," including editors and compositors, in the
attempts made to raise troops by conscriptioe
be exempt except from local duty,
appreciate the compliment.
At the time wa
prince''

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write it is probable that the two
armies which fate each other on both sides
*re either coming to close quarters or have fought
serious battles. The coast 'work on the part of the
Federals, and the smaller Southern
bodies retained
to hold in check the coast invaders, are of little
import to the great struggle. The road from Fort
Monroe to Richmond, and the North of Alabama
and Mississippi—these are the two parts 'Where
each side is putting forth its strength. The
Federals finding that to work their commissariat
by land, via Manassas, to Richmond, through a de.
sr:date country, was a tedious and almost impracti-
cable task, have now adopted the plan of marching
up to it between two rivers, navigable the greater
part of the way, and which they doubtless mean to
use for the conveyance of their stores. They have
this turned the flank of tho Confederates' position,
and the latter will have to change their front, and
to Construct fresh defences between the 'Tames and
York rivers. It is in this locality, or else at the
orfolk Navy-yard, opposite, across the channel to