The Sun. — 1862-09-10 (London, England)

SEPTEMBER 10, 1862.;  the combatants to cease. There was also a minor fight, in which a Confederate general is said to have been completely routed. These accounts, therefore, leave POPE in quiet possession of Manassas, and the Confederates making their way to their main body. _ _  But on these statements follows the latest news in a despatch from Gen. POPE, according to which the Confederates must be supposed to have mustered again near Manassas, on the old field of Bull's Run, and there have stood on the defensive, while POPE, by repeated assaults, drove them from it. If the first statements be correct,the Confederates must have returned northwards with their whole disposable force, and seriously threatened to cut off POPE from his base of operations at Washington, and utterly ruin him. POFE'S despatch would then recount the defeat of this second attempt to come between him and Washington. It is, however, quite as probable that there is some mis-statement in the former accounts, and that we shall find that there was but one main attempt on Manassas and Bull's Run. As to Porn's captures and accounts of numbers slaughtered, they can only be taken with the usual discount. The loss of nine guns and the capture of two Federal regiments is confessed by the North—how much more they lost we may know in time. Eight thousand is a heavy loss indeed for POPE to acknowledge, it could hardly be given merely to enable him to double the number for the Federals ; determined as the struggle trust have been, at Bull's Run especially, we may well believe that the carnage was something frightful. We know too little yet of the state of the armaments on each side to perceive from all these murderous conflicts what effect they will have on the issue of the war. If they teach anything, it would seem to be the substantial equality of the two parties. The Confederates may be exhausting themselves more rapidly than the Federals, but as yet there is nothing to show that they are not as well provided for the war as they were a year ago, indeed better. The marvel is whence they get their supplies. Even the North, with all its commercial and manufacturing means, is complaining of want of arms, but they can easily get a supply from Europe. We should think the South must be very ill armed as compared with the North, and their successful fighting is therefore proportionately wonderful. They have at last, we learn, driven the Federals to evacuate Baton Rouge —we should not be surprised if the evacuation of New Orleans follow in due time. It costs the Federals the presence of a very large fleet, for it is the Mississippi fleet, not General BUTLER, which really holds the city. In a few mails we may look for yet more important news—the retreat of the Confederates to Richmond, or a fierce battle. The latter, certainly, unless both parties are too much exhausted with their late efforts.  GARIBALDI'S own account of Aspromonte is now before the world. The wounded Hero, from his place of captivity in the Fortress of Varignano, in the Gulf of Spezzia, has told the plain truth right out. Those who turn with implicit credulity to the official narratives just issued to the European public through the Gazzetta di Torino, under the hands of Gen. CIALDINI and Col. PALLAVICINO, will do well to correct their impression as to the facts therein related by casting a glance also at the record of those same facts penned by the hand of Gen.