The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-20 00:00:00

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THE WEATHEIL—SUN 01110 E, AUGUST 20, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
70—highest since noon yesterday.
51—lowest this morning and during the night.
66—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-30.12.
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THE SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1861.

We ought now to have the truth respecting the
Federal losses at Bull's Run. General M'DowELL's
official report has arrived ; and as it has nothing in
it improbable, we may, we presume accept its state-
ment. As might be expected it is better than some
reports, and worse than others. He enumerates
as killed, nineteen officers and four hundred and
sixty men. The wounded are stated at one thou•
sand, the missing at twelve hundred. These are to
be sure somewhat round numbers, and are not to be
received, therefore, as exaet to a unit. The killed
and wounded are not more numerous than was
natural from the length of the contest even
at the distance of five hundred yards for
small arms, and a thousand yards for artil-
lery. The missing are no doubt chiefly
deserters, who had no inclination to renew their

acquaintance with an enemy's fire.
The stores captured must have been a great boon
to the South. Thirteen loaded provision waggons
was no trifle to men whom, we had learned, were
much in want of a dinner ; three thousand bushels
of oats were very acceptable to the cavalry, the
rumoured approach of which, with black riders,
proved so terrific on the 21st ; and the 2,500 mus-
kets will equip as many men who had been a short
time before testing the value of their fowling-
pieces for a field of battle. Above all, we may be
sure that the eight thousand knapsacks and
blankets made many a Southern recruit think himself
almost a monarch, in regard to soldierly wealth,
unless they had wonderfully improved their equip-
ments since Mr. RUSSELL'S visit to them. General
111‘DowELL says nothing of the lost guns ; yet
they must have been a greater gain to the South
even than a loss to the North. His army took
forty-nine galls into the battle, and of these twenty-
five remained with the enemy. They are described
too as rifled brass field guns, the very class which
the enemy ivost needed. Indeed, the North has
quite set up many a Southern regiment with some
comfort or other, and has furnished their artillery-
men with deadly- weapons for the next Ball's Run.
We are tem now on all hands that matters in
the North are improving. The President has been
invested, as was needful, with almost dictatorial
powers ; especially in that all-important point the
nomination of officers, he is now authorised to dis-
miss them at once, without even inquiry. The
nuisance of notnination of important party politi-
cians to commands had reached such a pitch, that
nothing but the most decisive measures in regard
to officers, could insure the confidence of the men,
or prevent a. second panic from the most trifling
cause. The last statement, and probably the true
one respec ting the panic is, that it began
with a company of artillery rushing back in haste
to replenish, their stock of ammunition, and that the
nearest regiments, mistaking it for flight, turned
immediately, fled with precipitation, and communi-
cated the panic to others.
Of course the all-important question is, are hos-
tilities likely to -be prolonged ? We fear there is
no doubt of that. The South would not give in
after a victory ;; the North would not, and could
not, after a defeat. The South has ridiculed the
North as cowaris ; this first battle will not diminish
such taunts ; and it is not in Northern nature
to endure them. Besides, the North will not
hear of secession yet ; and to reunite, with the
character of chivalry on one side, and of runa-
ways en the other, would be merely a union to live
in perpetual domestic strife. The universal opinion
now in the North seems to be that it must be fought
cut. They do not seem to doubt their power to
reclaim the wanderers, and they are more resolved
tow, we are told, than ever, to use their power to
the latmost. By an 64 intentional mistake," it is said
Congress has voted LINCOLN one million men, in-
stead of WI that number, if he likes to use them ;
and it 1,1
determined that no means shall be
wanting to insure victory next time. Then it will \
be time enough to
talk of what they will do.

Anything may .no\v, - ---
ntlng to a sudden close the
pasetive resistance of the poles. Precisely as any-
thing may terminate abruptly that course of
.._non-
intervention upon which ao nia
n3lof the. Powers of
Europe have adventured
while watching the won-
derful rise and. progress of the Cause of Italian
Independence. Ever since the interview of the
Two Emperors at Villafranca the fate of Italy has