The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-11 00:00:00

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THE SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1861.'

The bolder and the more cautious men in America
each send us their own interpretation of the inten-
tions of the Washington Cabinet, neither knowing
them more than we do, and perhaps hardly so well
able, amid the excitement and rumours which sur-
round them, to judge so calmly as we can. One pre-
dicts a speedy forward movement on Richmond, the
rebel centre, from Ohio and Western Virginia on
one side, and Fort Monroe and Alexandria, or
James River, on the other ; thus Richmond, the
capital, is to be captured, Virginia compelled to
rejoin the Confederacy, and all the South is humbly
to follow " the old dominion." Compromise is then
again to resume its sway, and Free States and
Slave States are to be happily united by the bonds
of Fugitive Slave Laws and moderate extension of
slavery. We are sorry to believe that one part of
this political prophecy is likely to be true enough—
that the Northern States are as willing as ever to
be slave-hunting States, and to uphold slavery, if
the South would but give them back the glory and
prestige of Union.
More exact investigation, however, finds no facts
at variance with the other programme, which
reserves the main operations till late autumn.
" The Southrons" have, if we trust the best accounts
we can find, 10,000 men at Harper's Ferry ; 12,000
at Fredericksberg, near to Washington ; 10,000 at
*Richmond; and 8,000 at Norfolk. In front of each
of these the Federalists are probably more nume-
rous, though at Harper's Ferry the rebels were for-
tifying heights on the Northern side of the River
Potomac. Perhaps the advance of the large bodies
from Pennsylvania on the North, and from Ohio
on the West, which latter could soon cut them off
from Richmond, may paralyse the energy of the
rebels at Harper's Ferry. It looks like designs on
Richmond that 5,000 soldiers have been landed
at Acquid Creek, which commands a railway from
that place on the Potomac to Richmond. It is
plain, however, that the Federalists were not ripe
for a great movement forward at any of these three
principal points when the last accounts left.
Some of the incidents of the war are amusing.
General BUTLER seems to have improved on his
policy of delivering up slaves ; he now retains them
as " contraband of war," He tells complaining
officers who come to reclaim their "property" under
the Fugitive Slave Law, that if they will swear fide-
lity to the Union and fight on the right side,
they
shall have their property again ; as the matter
stands, he has employed the" property" in working
at the Federal fortifications. One communica-
tion suggests to us that there must be
a peculiar aptitude in the British race
for that kind of military mismanagement which
the Crimea has immortalized ; what could be more
thoroughly Crimean than this " All is not
upon velvet in our land service. Com-
plaints are common, and not at all unfounded.
The Pennsylvania troops appear to be the worst
treated of all. They sleep in light blankets, are
clothed with rotten garments, and are fed witk
stinking meat. Their blankets are only 90 ounces
below the proper weight, being only 22 ounces
when they should be 112. Even model Massa-
chusetts has made some blunders. One of her
regiments that sailed flora Boston found that a.

its blankets had been placed beneath all the

rest of the cargo, and there was no getting

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at them until the steamship should have a
chance to discharge her freight. Enormous amounts

Of stores were sent from Boston to Washington for

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the use of our troops, and the packages were as
guiltless of all direction as if they bad been a lot of
contract coffins ; and they were, when I last heard
of them, lying unopened." The Southern Privateers
have, it seems, done some effective service. Several
valuable Northern ships and cargoes have been
captured, though the Northerns have taken about
fifty in return, a great part of which are Vir-
ginian, and laden with tobacco.
England comes in for unmeasured wrath for
conceding belligerent rights to the Southern
Privateers, and for citing as precedents the case of
Greek privateers against the Turks. We are to re
ceive, however, the punishment due to our humane

neutrality. Congress meets on the 4th of July; it
Was supposed that that masterpiece of stupid folly,
the AIORRILL Tariff, would then have been modi-
fied; but a very intelligent writer at Boston assures