The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-18 00:00:00

GENERAL BANKS.
General Banks is in his 46th year. He has had.
no experience in the field, but while Governor of
Massachusetts he paid much attention to military
matters ; and to his labours in behalf of our volun-
teer militia the effectiveness of that force is princi-
pally due. He is a superior man as an organiser
and administrator, and has few equals in the coun-
try as an executive officer. Government knows this,
and wished to make him quartermaster-general, but
he preferred a more active post, and too he goes into
the field at the head of a division as major-general.
There has been a report that Major-General Butler• was to be recalled from Eastern Virginia, and to be
appointed to the command at Baltimore, while
General Banks shall take General Butler's place at
the head of the troops in Eastern Virginia; but it
is not confirmed.

GENERAL MTLELLAND.
General M'Clelland is in his 35th year. He is a
regular soldier, a Philadelphian by birth, a graduate
of West Point, and was distinguished for his good
services in the Mexican war, in several of the prin-
cipal battles of which he was engaged. He was a
member of the commission which our Government
sent to the Crimea and Northern Europe at the
time of the Russian war; and he wrote., a report on
the " Organisation of European A'Emies and the
Operations of the War." In 18571
and became connected with ler
Ailing railroad com-
.ie left the army,
panics. On the breaking
out of this war he was
tendered a major-general's commission by the
Governor of Ohio, and accepted it, declining to
accept a similar office tendered by the Governor of
Pennsylvania. Soon after this he was made a
major-general in the Federal army, and has com-
mand of the Department of Ohio, comprising the
States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, with por-
tions of Virginia and Pennsylvania. He ranks
next, tw Lientennnt-General Scott.,
GENERAL BUTLER.
General Butler is 43 years old. He is a Yankee,
being a native of New Hampshire, though a resi-
dent of Massachusetts. A lawyer by profession,
he knows nothing of military matters save what it
was possible for him to learn on the tented fields of
the Massachusetts militia; but the boldness and
" dash" that he has exhibited since he entered the
service have convinced the public that he has mili-
tary qualities, and his promotion from a Massachu-
setts brigadier-general to a major-generalship in
the United States army is universally approved.
He is one of the most successful lawyers of the
North, and in politics a Democrat ; and so little of
an anti-31avery man, that he was the Breckinridge
candidate for Governor of Massachusetts last year.
He is an absolute original—in appearance, in man-
ners, in his profession, and in his opinions; and
unless he should greatly change, or should be early
killed or disabled, he will prove himself an original
in the field. I have known him for years, and I
cannot say that I ever saw or read of a person with
whom I could safely compare him.
There are the new majors-general, and there are
several new brigadiers-general—M'Dowell, Lyon,
and others—of whom more at another time. As
the enemy's policy is to " mark down" our com-
manders, we may have a new batch of generals
every quarter.
MRS. ANDERSON'S CONCER2.

Mrs. Anderson's concert is always one of the
conspicuous events of the musical 3 ear, both from
her own reputation as an accomplished pianist and
from the judicious selection of the music. Yester-
day afternoon proved no exception to the rule. The
cencert, which was given in St. James's Hall, was
attended by a large and brilliant audience, who
appeared highly gratified by the entertainment.
The orchestra, which is usually the case at this
lady's concerts, was extremely effective. Mrs.
Anderson's own performances are too well known
to need criticism. She displayed her accustomed
brilliancy and taste in a selection from " Hummel's
Concerto in A minor," which was most efficiently
rendered and loudly applauded. She also played
Ferdinand Ries's arrangement of National Swedish
airs, which was likewise very well received. Herr
Strauss played Ernst's fantasia for. the violin
on the March and Prayer in Otello with unusual
excellence. The vocal portion of the concert was
also good. Mdlle. Titiens, who was prominent
Lamucernegziatheßgia
singers,or, " Com'e gave the beautiful air from
" The Last Rose of Summer" bello" and sang
with so much taste
and expression that she obtained an encore. The
same honour was accorded to Signor Giuglini's per-
formance of the famous " Ah ben si mio,"from the
Trovatore. The duet " Sulla Tomba," sung by
him and Mdlle. Titiens was also much applauded.
Madame Rieder displayed her accustomed brilliancy
in an elaborate air from Auber's Serment. Mdlle.
Parepa, whose fine voice is heard to advantage in
concert rooms, gave a cavatina from The
Amber Witch, besides taking part in
duets and quartets. Miss Augusta Thomson and
Signora Guerra/hello. acquitted themselves with
credit in solos and quartets; and Mr. Patsy, Mr.
Tennant, and Signor Dells Sedie were also very
effective in the several parts allotted to them. The
members of the Orpheus Glee Union attended, and
sang two part songs with so much spirit and success
as to obtain a general encore for the last one, Mr.
Hutton's "The Hunt is up." There were several
other pieces,
classed among the best and most successful of the
and the concert may altogether be
season.

EXTRAORDINARY LANDSLIP ON TIIE SEVERN
VALLEY RAILWAY.—A very extraordinary slip has been
for some time going on near a place called the Wren's Neat
en this line of railway. It consists of several acres of land
and underwood, which have separated from the main body
on either side. It has become perfectly locomotive, and
is travelling by night and day in the direction of the river.
The weight of the embankment and the pressure from be-
hind have lifted up the bed of the Severn at that point
converting it into dry land, and driving the stream into a
narrow channel against the opposite shore. A slip on the
side of a deep cutting at the Chestnut Coppice, opposite
Apley, has also taken place withill the last few days. •

r zinc, indigo, raw hides and skins, and precious
stones not set. In the free list are all books,
pamphlets, and tracts published by religious asso-
ciations, all philosophical apparatus and instruments,
all bullion and coins, coffee, cotton, garden seeds,
guano, bacon, pork, hams, lard, beef, wheat, Indian
corn, barley, rye, oats, flour, meal, gunpowder, lead,
rags, arms, and munitions of war, ships, steamers,
barges, and all agricultural productions in their
natural state not otherwise provided for. The law
is to take effect Aug. 31, and is made applicable to
goods then in warehouse. The remaining provisions
in regard to fraud and penalties for undervaluation
are similar to those in force in the United States.
The Confederates at Pensacola had sunk the
costly dry dock between the Navy-yard and Fort
Pickens. The object in sinking it was to preserve
it from the fire of the enemy.
THE AMERICAN GENERALS.

(From the Boston Correspondent of the Morning Post.)
GENERAL FREMONT.
There is one crop that will be abundant with us
in this year 1861, and we may have a second one,
and perhaps a third, as war is a terrible man-eater..
I mean the crop of Generals. Two new ones have.
just been made, completing nearly a dozen since tine
war began. They are John C. Fremont and N. P.
Banks. General Fremont has had a regular mili-
tary education, and has seen much service of a
nature to make him a good commander hi this war.
He is in his 49th year. It is expected that he will
be appointed to the command of that great force
which Government is rapidly organising in the
North-West, and to which will be entrusted the
task of sweeping the South-Western Secessionists
into the Gulf of Mexico. This force, which is is
operate both on land and on the great rivers of the
-West, will act in unison with a combined naveal and
military force in the Mexican Gulf, and the two,
will do up the work appointed for them after the
Naseby fashion—not negligently. General Fre-
mont hates the leaders of the rebels, as well per.
sonally as politically, and this will make him all
the more efficient as one of the principal actors in.
the grand process of crushing them out of life,.
He'll hammer them as Charles Martel hammered
the Saracens at Tours. Oild Blucher's bitter hatred
of Napoleon I. was of more service to the allies
than the Austrian alliance, and the same sort of
feeling will tell in our conflict.