New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-06

in each division again the ccnel' Of the four regi
mens, infantry or cavalry, and the chiefs Of bate
res are directly dependent upon the general Of the
division. The generals Of brigade, being entirely
superseded By this new arrangement are attached
to the staff of the divisional general, as bis heuten-
anita and seconds in command. The reason OF all
this is plain enough.
Upon Prince Gorchakof the Emperor can rely;
and Gorchakoff again can to some extent rely upon
the officers of his personal staff. With the bureau
cratic nicely and hierarcbic gradaons of the former
system the direct influence of the commander-ln IN
chief ended with the chiefs of corps they and their
stats had TO transmit the orders to the divisions,
whose staffs again handed them to the brigades,
from whose stats they reached the colonies OF
regiments, who saw TO their actual execution.
This was nothing but well-organzed scheme of
fraud, embezzlement and larceny and the better
the service itself was organized the better organ
lied and the more successful was the plunderiug Of
the treasury. This was shown in the march of the
first, second and third army -corps from Poland to
the South during the war; and it is simply with
view Of removing the evil that the Russian Govern
ment has done away with sll but the names Of the
commanders of corps and entirely with the CON-
manders of brgades. There are now but two inter-
mediate grades between the commander in chief and
the company officers namely, the general OF divis-
ion and the colonel and there is but one staff that
of the division, which can be used for purposes OF
embezzlement. If the Government should succeed
in Graduating the habit Of plumber from the dVis
ional stats, it may reasonably expect to Danish it,
BY and by, from the regiments also.
Thus the whole organization Of the army is upset,
by taking out of the chain two links the necessity OF
which in time of war; is sure TO show ITSELF Indeed
the Russian Government acknowledges that neither
chiefs Of corps nor generals Of brigade can DO en-
tirely left ont of its military hierarchy The Chief OF
the corps is left there, but as mere dummy, while
the general of brigade is completely relieved from
his command, and made simple appendix, TO
the general of division. This means nothing bue
that the command of these officers is sis-
pended during peace, while they are kept an
readiness for use as soon as war breaks OUT. In
the only army. indeed which still faces the enemy
that of the Caucasus-the brigades have been no
tanned Il any other proof wanted thai the aooii-
ton of brigades in the remainder OF the army Is
only an attempt to render brgadlers ana their
stalls innoxious while peace lasts
Another important change is the dissolution OF
the great dragon corps, consisting of ten resi-
ments of eight squadrons each, drilled tor infantry
as we'll as for cavalry service. This corps was
intended to play brilliant part in all great
battles. When the decisive moment approached,
il was 10 fall with the rapidty of cavalry upon
some important post on the flank or rear OF the
enemy, to dismOunt to form into sixteen bat
talions of infantry and defend the post, supported
by it's heavy horse.artillery. During the whole OF
the late WAT, this corps was nowhere; and the
total unftness of these hybrid troops for active
warfare appears to have been recognized on Gil
hands. The consequence is, the change of these
amphibious mounted foot-soldiers into regular
cavalry and their distribution, in twelve regiments
ofeght squadrOns each with the six army-corps ot
the 80 first army" Thus the two great creations by
which the Emperor NlChOlas expected to establish
his place among the greatest military organizers
of his time, have both disappeared within o few
years Of his death.
Among other changes, we may mention the es-
tablshment of second battalion of rifles for every
army.corps, and the formation Of two new infantry
regiments in the Caucasian army. BY the
former innovation, the great scarcity of
light cavalry is to some extent remedied.
The latter shows that Russia is resolved to
finish the Caucasian struggle as soon as possible.
For the same reason. the reserve brigades Of the
Caucasian corps are still held together. 1t is,
therefore likely that by this time campaign of
,ned in that country