The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 9,

NILITARY CHANGES LV THE UNITED STATES

The following General Order was issued from
the Adjutant-General's Office at Washington, dated
March 16, 1869:
GENERAL ORDERS, No. 18.—By direction of the Presi-
dent of the United States, the following changes are
made of Military Divisions and Department Commanders:
1. Lieut.-Gen. P. H. Sheridan is assigned to the command
of the Military Division of the Missouri.
2. Major-Gen. H. W. Halleck is assigned to the command
of the Military Division of the South, to be composed of
the Departments of the South Louisiana, the Fourth Mili-
tary District, and the States composing the present De-
partment of the Cumberland, headquarters at Louisville
Ky. Major-Gen. Halleck will proceed to his new command
as soon as relieved by Major-Gen. Thomas.
3. Major-Gen. Geo. 11. Thomas is assigned to the com •
mand of the Military Division of the Pacific.
4. Major-Gen. J. M. Schofield is assigned to the command
of the Department of the Missouri. The State of Illinois
and the post of Fort Smith, Arkansas, are transferred to
this Department.

5. Brigadier and Brevet Major-Gen. 0. 0. Howard is
assigned to command the Department of Louisiana. Un-
til his arrival, the senior officer, Brevet Major-Gen. J. A.
Mower, will command, according to his brevet rank of
Major-General.

6. The Department of Washington will be discontinued
and merged in the Department of the East. The records
will be sent to the Adjutant-General of the Army.
7. The First Military District will be added to the Mili-
tary Division of the Atlantic.

8. As soon as Major-Gen. Thomas is ready to relinquish
command of the Department of the Cumberland the De-
partment will be discontinued, and the States compris-
ing it will be added to other departments to be hereafter
designated. The records will be forwarded to the Adju-
tant-General of the Army.—By command of Gen. SHER-
MAN.

The following General Order was issued by the
Secretary of War, Match 16, by command of Gen.
Sherman :—"ln compliance with section 2, of an Act
of Congress entitled an Act making appropria-
tions for the support of the army for the year end-
ing, June 30, 1870, and for other purposes, ap-
proved, March 3, 1869,' the infantry of the army
will be consolidated into 25 regiments, as follows :
The 43d regiment will be consolidated with the Ist,
the 16th regiment with the 2d, half of the 37th with the
31 ; the 30th Regiment with the 4th ; half of the
37th with the sth ; the 42d Regiment with the 6th ;
the 36th Regiment with the 7th ; the 33d Regi-
ment with the Bth ; the 27th Regiment with the
9th ; the 22c1 Regiment with the 10th ; the 24th
Regiment with the 29th ; and will thereafter be de -
signated as the 11th ; the 45th Regiment with the
14th ; the 35th Regiment with the 15th ; the 11th
Regiment with the 34th, and thereafter will be de-
signated as the 16th ; the 44th Regiment with the
17th ; the 25th Regiment with the 18th; the 28th
Regiment with th 3 19th ; the 32d Regiment with
the 21st ; the 31st Regiment with the 221 ; the
38th Regiment with the 41st, and thereafter it will be
designated the 24th ; the 39th Regiment with the
40th, and thereafter it will be designated the 25th.
Second : The field officers for the 25 regiments will
be selected hereafter, and will be announced in
general orders from the headquarters of the Army.
Third : The senior company officers of each grade
present for duty with any two regiments to be con-
solidated, and fit for active service, will be the offi-
cers of the consolidated regiment. The supernu-
merary officers will be ordered to their homes to
await further orders, and supernumerary non-
commissioned officers will be honourably dis-
charged unless they elect to remain in service
on a lower grade. Fourth : The ',laces of all
officers of the first twenty-five regiments, who
are absent from their regiments •on detached
service, leave of absence, or otherwise,' more
than 30 days, will be regarded vacant, and will be
filled as above provided for. Fifth : All vacancies
that may hereafter occur in the 25 infantry regi-
ments will be filled by assignment of the senior
officers of the same grade from the list of officers
awaiting orders. Sixth : No new enlistments will
be made until the number of men is reduced to the
maximum number authorized by law for 25 regi-
ments, but re-enlistments will continue to be made
in the 25 authorized regiments, according to existing
regulations. Seventh : Commanding officers of the
Veteran Reserve regiments are authorized to grant
honourable discharge, on their application, to any
of the enlisted men of their regiment who are unfit
for active service."

In consequence of the organization of 20 Regiments
being dispensed with, the following changes have been
made. The rule which guided General Sherman in
retaining officers, was a good record, and the fact of
being on duty at the time, with their commands.
Gen. Buchanan, of whom so much has been said in
reference to his course as military commander of
Louisiana, retains the colonelcy of the Ist Regi-
ment. The command of the 2d Regiment is given
to Gen. S. W. Crawford, well known dering the
war as a division commander in the Army of the
Potomac. Gen. Sidney Burbank, the former com-
mander, is put upon the list of supernumeraries.
The colonelcy of the 3d Regiment is taken from
Gen. Hoffman, and given to Gen. Geo. W. Getty,
former commander of a division of the Sixth Corps.
Col. Frank F. Flint is promoted from Lieut.-Col.
to the command of the 4th Regiment, in place of
Gen. Silas Casey, who is on detached service as a
member of a Board of Examination. Gen. Nelson
A. Miles is transferred from the colonelcy of the
4th
.R-giment, and placed in command of the sth
Regiment, vice Gen. Butterfield, who, it is expected,
will
resign, as he will be sent abroad as a foreign
minister. Gen. W. B. Hazen, of Fort M'Allister
fame, is transferred from the 38th Regiment and
given the command of the 64th Regiment, vice D.
L. Floyd Jones, who goes on the list of supernu-
meraries. Col. John 'l'. Sprague is retired from
the 7th Regiment, and command of the same
given to Gen. John Gibbon, formerly commander
of the 25th Corps in the Potomac Army. The Bth
Regiment remains in the command of Col. J. T. Born-
ford. The 9th Regiment, which has been stationed
in California for many years, retains Colonel J. 11.
King as its Commander. The Colonelcy of the 10th
Regiment is given to 11. B. Clitz, recently promoted
from Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Colonel E. B. Alex-
ander, placed on the List of supernumeraries.
General A. C. Gillem, one of Johnson's pet gene-
rals, and who opposed reconstruction while in com-
mand of the Military District of Missis,ippi and
Arkansas, is transferred from the 24th Regiment
and put in charge of the 11th Regiment, vice
Colonel W. S. Ketchum, placed on the list of
supernumeraries. General 0. B. Wilox is trans=
ferred from the 29th Regiment, and given the
Colonelcy of the 12th Regiment, vice Augur,
promoted to Brigadier-General. The 13th Re-
giment remains in command of Colonel J. V. D.
Reeve. Colonel Charles S. Lovell remains Colonel
of the 14th Regiment. General 0. L. Shepherd,
who did good service while in command of the
State of Georgia, remains in command of the 15th
Regiment. General Galusha Pennypackcr is trans-
ferred from the 34th Regiment, and succeeds
Colonel C. C. Sibley as Colonel of the 16th Regi-
ment. General lleintzelman's old regiment, before
he was retired, is given to Gen. T. Cullender, for-
merly in command of the 32d Regiment. Gen. T.
H. Rugor is transferred from the 33d to succeed
Col. H. B. Carrington as Colonel of the 18th Regi-
ment. The 19th Regiment is placed under coin-
mand of Gen. C. U. Smith, formerly of the 28th
Regiment, vice Col. Samuel R. Dawson, placed on
list of supernumeraries. Gen. George Sykes, re-
cently promoted from Lieut.-Colonel, is made
Colonel of the 20th Regiment, vice Frederick Steele.
The 21st Regiment remains under command of Gen.
Geo. Stoneman. Gen. D. S. Slanley retains com-
mand of the 22d Regiment. Gen. Jeff. C. Davis,
now in Alaska, remains in command of the 23d
Regiment. The 24th Regiment is placed in com-
mand of Gen. R. J. Mackenzie, of cavalry fame in
the army of the Potomac, vice Gillman, transferred.
The 25th Regiment is placed in command of Gen.
J. A. Mower, vice Gordon Granger, put among the
supernumeraries. Gens. John D. Stevenson, P. R.
De Trobriand, Abner Doubleday, Daniel E. Sickles,
John C. Robinson, T. G. Pitcher, and Wager
Swayne lose their commands by the consolidation.

We regret to learn of the death, at Washington,
of Colonel Lawrence, Consul-General for the United
States in Italy. He left Florence in excellent health be-
fore Christmas, for his native country on leave of absence,
and his death, which was wholly unexpected, has cast a
gloom over his many English and American friends. His
father, Mr. Abbot Lawrence, was at one time American
Minister in England, and Colonel Lawrence was a great
favourite, not only with his countrymen, but everywhere
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METROPOLITAN GOSlP.—Mursday.

The schism in the Conservative party is serious. The
Carlton Club meeting, which the Record announced, did
actually take place, and great is the disgust of the High
Tories at the position in which they find themselves
placed. The more hot-headed members of the
party, including at least one English prelate, are
urging their friends in Ireland to raise the " green
flag "—to shout for a repeal of the Union. Of
course they do not wish any such revolution as that,
but they think the cry will frighten the Liberals, and
indeed they are already declaring that their tactics have
had this result. It must be confessed that this is playing
with very sharp-edged tools indeed. No one knows this
better than Mr. Disraeli and Lord Stanley. These two
politicians find it impossible to sympathise with their
followers as regards the Irish Church, and are, there-
fore, naturally averse from committing themselves to a
manoeuvre so dangerous as the one I have mentioned. The
consequence is that Mr. Hardy is the man of the hour,
is the idol of the Squires. Nor is this surprising. He is
of the Squires squiry. He is of robust, manly person, has
a good command of language, is resolute and straight-
forward in his language, abhors a paradox as
much as a philosopher abhors a pun, is troubled
with no considerations about the future, but
sees less shame in being beaten for what he believes a
good cause than in winning with what he holds to be a
bad one. In fact, he is the very incarnation of that frank,
manly country gentleman whom we all admire so much
on the magistrates' bench, but who is not quite the man
for the Treasury Bench.

However, the sceptre has not yet quite departed from
Mr. Disraeli, and it is possible that it may not do so
at all, though the Daily News will not give him five
years' purchase of it. He has issued a circular, conven-
ing a meeting of the party on Monday, in order to consider
what shall be done with the Irish Church Bill in com-
mittee. The Spofforth-Aytoun plot has signally failed.
Not all the ravings of the Record, the Rock, and the Adver-
tiser, nor the intrigues of the very able, but occasionally
too clever, agent of the Conservative party have succeeded
in bringing about an alliance betweeen the Conservative
Squires and the Scotch Liberals. The latter body will, I
hear, have nothing to do with Mr. Aytoun, and so his
performance on the present occasion is likely to be an even
more signal fiasco than that of last session. The fact that
Monday's meeting takes place at Lord Lonsdale's house,
or houses rather, for he has two of the mansions in
Carlton-house-terrace, gives rise to not a little speculation.
Of course Arlington House was out of the question anyway,
even if it were not being pulled down, for Lord Salisbury in-
tends to support the bill., But why was not Lord Derby's
house chosen? It is quite large enough to hold the 270 and
odd gentlemen who now constitute the Conservative party.
The inference is that Lord Stanley's speech at Glasgow
has had not a little to do with the matter. He declared
that resistance to the bill was hopeless. It would, there-
fore, have been somewhat strange if his father's house had
been used for a meeting summoned to consider resistance.
The course which the Lords will take is not known even
to themselves. The Bishop of Oxford has been vainly
endeavouring to persuade his brother prelates not to vote
against the bill on the second reading. That astute pre-
late knows well that the Bishops are endangering their
position by maintaining a prolonged opposition to the
measure. Nevertheless, with all his eloquence,
lie could not persuade more than two of his
brethren to support his policy, and it was
defeated by a large majority. Thus it came
to pass that when the Times published the preva-
lent rumour as to the abstention of the Bishops, the
Bishop of London caused an authoritative denial to be
made in a Conservative weekly paper. At the same time
it is by no means certain that they will vote against the
bill. They, like their temporal brethren, wait for the
chapter of accidents ; and, as Lord Wharncliffe said the
other day, not even Lord Derby knows what the Lords
will do. The Marquis of Salisbury, as I have said, will
support the bill, and it is fully expected that the
Earl of Carnarvon will follow the example of his col-
league.

While I was at the House of Commons yesterday it
became known that Mr. Kavanagh was to be the next
speaker onl Mr. M`Mahon's Union Chargeability Bill.
As Mr. Kavanagh has no legs upon which he
can rise to catch the Speaker's eye, and not
even arms by which he may attract attention, it was
necessary to give previous notice of his wish to address
the House, and it was arranged beforehand that Mr.
Denison should call upon him. A good deal of interest
was naturally excited as soon as the member for Carlow
county began to speak, and his observations were well
received. They displayed a good deal of keen thought, but
they were delivered in so low a tone that few persons
could hear them, The House listened with marked atten-
tion, and, in some way which does them great credit, the
reporters picked up his observations. Mr. Kavanagh has
a fine head, with which he may do good work to the State,
and it is not unlikely that he may take a position as a
politician. He sits on the Conservative side of the
House.

I hope that now Mr. Layard has got over his honeymoon
he will have time to look after the parks. When Lord
John Manners was in office, he, being partial to inequali-
ties, both physical and social, expended his energies in
raising artificial mountains of from ten to fifteen feet high,
which, very unsightly in themselves, have the effect of
spoiling some of the prettiest views in the Londoners'
pleasure-grounds. This deforming process has been carried
on especially in Regent's Park, where the charming view of
the lake is quite hidden from one of the principal walks, and
the houses in Chester-terrace are shut out from their look-
out over the chesnui, avenue by a monstrous and hideous
mound, which seems as if it were endeavouring to imitate
that most unpoetical of eminences, Primrose Hill. The
same kind of work is going on now in Hyde Park, and I have
been amused to notice in my daily walks the rate of pro-
gress which is being made in this Herculean feat. It
has taken from six to eight men, I am afraid to say how
many weeks, to remove a few yards of grass from one part
of the park to another. One man would dig his spade in,
and pare off, a turf, amid the admiring gaze of his half-a-
dozen colleagues ; and when they had done wondering and
applauding, they would take counsel as to whether
another turf should not be removed, and, after due delibe-
ration, the operation would be repeated, amidst fresh
approbation and delight ; and so da capo. The result is
two bare patches of ground, which would have been
nearly as large as the park itself, but for the happy
arrangement under which labourers are paid, not by the
piece, but by the day.
This has been a great week for artists. Most of them
have thrown their studios open to their friends so as to
give these an opportunity of seeing the works about to be
sent to the Academy- On Tuesday evening Piccadilly
was blockaded with cabs full of the precious products of
the easel, for it was the last night of reception. The
number of works sent in is likely to be larger than
usual, for every one wishes to have a place in
the new gallery. Alas, the number of rejections is likely
to be larger than usual, for the
R.A.'s have determined
not to make use of their additional space, but to be just as
exclusive as ever. One of the studios has beeen honoured
with the presence of royalty, Mr. Leighton having had
two visits from the Queen herself. On Monday there was
a large gathering at Mr. E. M. Ward's, at Kent House,
Notting-hill. He exhibits the most highly-finished
painting he has ever painted, the subject being the
first introduction to Court of Grinling Gibbons,
the famous wood-carver. Nevertheless, I think there is
more power in another work of Mr. Ward's, a
very large picture of Luther, as a young man, studying
the Bible. " Beatrice," in "Much Ado About Nothing,"
is a charming portrait of a very charming lady, once
known to the world as Miss Terry, now as Mrs. Lewis.
Mr. Ward's fourth picture is a sketch of his fresco in the
House of Commons, representing General Monk declaring
for a Free Parliament. Mrs. Ward has only one
picture, but that is
a chef d'ceuvre. It represents the
Young Pretender standing on the step of a
state carriage, and receiving the homage of some
aged refugees who are living 'in France and are in a state
of great poverty. The contrast between the gorgeous sur-
roundings of the little Stuart and the poor attire of his
devoted partisans, as well as between his fresh youth and
their worn and aged countenances, is very striking. The
grouping and the colouring are alike most admirable.
The governess who attends on the Prince is a portrait of
the wife of a well-known journalist. Mr. Millais,
I am glad to say, will not be wholly unrepre-
sented. In spite of
his severe illness he will have
two pictures, one of them " Vanessa," a companion to
last year's " Stella." Mr. Orchardson has already sold for
1,000 guineas his picture of an ante-room of_ an art patron
in the middle ages.

This year's exhibition in Suffolk-street is better than last
year's ; but it sorely needs weeding. There are not far
short of a thousand pictures, and a considerable proportion
of them certainly did not deserve hanging. The most
striking works are the large Swiss pictures of
J. P. Pettit and Edwin Pettit. " The First Snow " of
the former artist and " The Matterhorn" of the latter are
really remarkable works. Mr. G. Cole's " Evening" is
one of the gems of the exhibition. Among the best, too,
must be placed Clint's " Littlehampton at Sunset ;" about
half of Cobbett's series of eight pictures ; Valentine
Bromley's " Against Orders ;" Roberts's " Night before
Bosworth ;" Walters's two river scenes ; Girardot's " De-
lighted Lovers ;" and Hayllar's " Little Briton," a com-
panion picture to " The Rover " of last year.

We have had the strangest weather to-day. The
early morning was wet and warm. At a quarter before
eleven there came a sudden darkness over the whole city,
and in ten minutes we had passed from noon to denaest,
darkest night. The atmosphere in the streets was not

thick, but the sun was as completely hidden as though it
had been blotted out of creation. The steamers had to
stop running in the river ; it was almost dangerous for
cabs to ply ; small boys chaffed the policemen,
saying, " Bobby, where is :Your bull's eye ?" The only
place where there was light was in the Underground Rail-
way. The feelings of a bridal party suddenly overtaken
by darkness in church can be better imagined than de-
scribed. Fortunately it did not last much more than an
hour, so that there was light as well as sweetness for the
bridal feast.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

TIIE POWER OF A PROPRIETOR.

Great indignation has been expressed at a piece of
tyranny lately exercised at Arkley, near Barnet.
Arkley possesses an episcopal chapel, erected by the
late Mr. Durant, silk mercer. It is neither consecrated
nor endowed, but is merely licensed. Its present
proprietor, the son of the founder, has the right of
presentation and removal, a right he seems deter-
mined to exercise. The congregation pays for its
minister and for the services through pew-rents,
and by the offertory. It is by no means beholden to
Mr. Durant. The minister has called the congre-
gation together, has been zealous in his work, :aid
obtained the esteem of his flock. But Mr. Durant,
by the sole act of his will, suddenly sends
to the minister, saying that he intends to displace
him immediately. " Why ?" the congregation asks.
Mr. Durant can give no reason—can only hope
that the coming incumbent will, at the end of eight
years. be liked as well as the present nnc` is now.