The Sun. — 1861-08-05 (London, England)

WILLIAM 111. conquered England than that Vainly it is true—still according to the te- GARIBALDI conquered the Two Sicilies. He beat, legrams. But th© very next intimation is indeed, those desperadoes of the KING'S 100,000 that the road between Centreville and Alexandria soldiers who remained faithful to the man who had was littered over with the dying, and the wounded, paid them ; but he conquered them through the and those who had dropped by the way from utter cordial, the enthusiastic aid of the people. exhaustion. The very next account being to the Sir G. BOWYER'S patriots Lord PALMEReffect that the Confederates pursued the defeated STON described in their true character. Northerns as far as FAIRFAX ! Now, Fairfax is He acknowledged that they were not brigands, be but one-third of the distance from Centreville to cause so much worse than brigands. Brigands murAlexandria—it is scarcely half the distance from der only incidentally. Their object and endeavour Manassas to Alexandria. Alexandria being is to get money by their captures. They want to about the same distance from Washington subsist only by plunder, and prefer a ransom for that—Fairfax is from Alexandria. And cer- their captives. Sir G. BOWYER'S favourites seek tainly if the defeat experienced by M‘DowELL nothing so much as vengeance. They plunder, inwas really and truly so complete and so ir- deed, even more than brigands, but their chief obretrievable in itself as it is said to have ject is to murder, torture, burn alive, and perpetrate  been in some of these exaggerated descriptions of it—that the Confederates should have stopped short at Fairfax, that they should have gone no further in pursuit than Fairfax, that they should have ventured no more than one-third of the way from Centreville on the road to Alexandria, does appear to us upon the face of it—rather unaccountable ! More particularly when we learn that " the whole of the Federal artillery of rifled cannon and the Rhode Island Battery, with large quantities of arms, stores, and small arms, were captured by the Confederates." But, we also learn that, instead of flying, routed and pell-mell, upon the capital, the Federal army had fallen back on Alexandria. They are still there on the Virginian soil: and they have the satisfaction of knowing that the defences around Washington have been reinforced so considerably that they are described as already strong enough to resist any attack from the Confederates ! Nor can this be wondered at under the circumstances. The repulse suffered by the Northern army at the Battle of Manassas—a repulse so serious and undoubted that it led, as we have seen, to a,hasty retreat, first of all to Centreville aid afterwards to Fairfax, compelling the whole Federal army in fact to fall back eventually as far as Alexandria—this unquestionable discomfiture, we say, of the Northerns by President DAVIS upon the foughten field of Manassas, so far from auguring the rapid close in an unexpected manner of this terrible civil war in America, really and truly in effect only at last just inaugurates it. The intelligence of the defeat of the Federal army at Manassas, we learn, has created a profound sensation throughout the Northern States. Of course it has. And already we know with what  every atrocity on those who had been guilty of preferring constitutional freedom, such as enables Sir G. BoWYER to defend the most atrocious Nil lains in his country's Parliament, to the dungeons, the illegal imprisonments, the police, the long confinements without trial, the hangings, the shootings, and the crucifixions in secret chambers, of the expelled BourbDns. Lord PALMERSTON did not hesitate to point to the source of all the evil—to Rome. We hope he will not point in vain. It is doubly intolerable that Italy should be deprived of its capital, and that the possession of it by the French should make it an asylum of the most savage murderers. From Monsignor MERODE'S conduct it seems that even the General of the protecting Army cannot obtain decent treatment from the Pope's servants, and it is gratifying to see how on all hands the hope is expressed that the French Emperor will take the hint. After all that can be said for protecting the Chief Bishop of Roman Catholics against his own subjects, and compelling them to bear the galling load of his temporal government, it seems intolerable that the man who must have Savoy and Nice to rectify the natural boundaries of France, should continue to withheld from Italians the natural capital of Italy. One thing only we should be glad to hear from Lord