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THE SUN.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17, 1862.

Later news is again worse news for the Federals.
Worse in the military sense, for we are not sure
that the present humiliation of the North may not,
if anything can, prove its salvation. So far as can
be gathered from the telegrams of a day or two
later, the Confederates seem to be roaming at plea-
sure along the Southern bank of the Potomac, and
to be not unlikely to enter Maryland and take
Washington, if they please, in flank. It is pro-
bably quite in their power to compel Mr. LINCOLN
and his Cabinet to follow the example of the Go-
Ternment of Kentucky, and to deport themselves,
instead of deporting negroes, to a safer place. We
-find the dreaded STONEWALL JACKSON at Lees-
burg, and threatening Harper's Ferry, the well-
known passages of the Potomac to the west of
Washington ; while the Federals have evacuated
Aceluia Creek on the south-east—doubtless to
concentrate themselves round Washington and
to enjoy the security of the earthworks thrown
up there during last Autumn and the Spring.
Whether, however, JEFFERSON DAVIS will make an
attempt on Washington, even if he be able, may
well be doubted. He would find Maryland, in
which the district of Columbia and Washington
are, ready enougti to rise and aid him, for that
State is kept l'Jyal by force only, But would he think
it prudent tm drive the North to desperation ? That
would be the almost certain effect of capturing the
capital ; the North would then have, in its turn,
the formidable element in its favour, of being put
on its defence, and, with its great rescrurcEs and
poleulation, brought to bay at home, it would almost
ef...rtainly prove, in turn, victor. Half the power of
'the South has been derived from the fact of its
fighting for and on its own soil. Reverse the con-
ditions, and who can tell the difference it would
make.

But most to be noted is the effect, so far as we are
permitted to know it, of the late reverses on the
North. The symptoms are very grave of total dis-
trust of the Administration, who, it must be con-
fessed, have given ground enough for it. The
opinions of newspapers, when the Press is at the
mercy of a Secretary of State, " That unless the
Cabinet be reinforced with new vigour and ability
the T:Jnion cause will be overthrown,' must go for
rsor.nething, since nothing but the certainty of pub-
lic opinion concurring with such an opinion of the
journalist, would induce him to hazard the suppres-
sion of his paper. But we have not only the
opinions of journalists every one is arming; the
Government clerks at Washington have commenced
drilling, the bayonet being likely to be wanted more
than the pen. The Governor of Pennsylvania calls
on the State to form volunteer organisations; the
New York War Committee proposes to raise two
armies of its own of fifty thousand men each, to
put them under the command reaper_
tively of Generals MITCHELL and FREMONT,
or any authority the Federal Government will
accept. A step which appears to imply at once the
determination of the people and their dissatisfac-
tion with their leaders. At the same time General
HALLECK refuses to call out the New York City
Militia, alleging former shirking of duty; which,
of course, the officers indignantly deny. It would
not seem to be the time for quarrelling about old
offences, but rather en occasion to condone all by
common a.nd renewed exertions.
But the meeting of the Governors of four States
:inc, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and
I-land—has, surely, a grave significance.
can the four State Presidents meet for, unless
nd their states begin to think that a contest
era's et jocis is approaching, and that the PRE-
SIDENT of all the States, or of the people, is not
It can hardly be simply to

equal to the occasion.

apprc►rc and back up a policy and Administr;tion
whiell 646 pro A-ed such tn utter failur3—which has

le"litt!cl only in spending money, and sacrificing life