Incapable Russian Generals

The Russian Generáis in Bulgaria are mainly very old men, who studied the art of war forty or even ñfty years ago. They are described by a correspondent of the Daily News as men who nevor look in a book and wbo rarely read a uewspaper, and appear to be utteriy oblivions to the march of progress, and of science espccially, in the military art. Their wliole lives may be Said to llave been passed in but one occupation; their whole minds, whatever they ever had, concentrated on onc object, aiid that the most trivial to whioh the human mind can desceñe1. - aard playing. They have done nothing else, thonght of nothing else, for years. Their minds have rusted until tbpy aro as dnll, as heavy, and as incapableof receiving new impression3 as the veriest clodhopper's. Called from their card-tables by the trumpet of war, they rise, rub their eyes, look round them completely bewildered, and as thoroughly out of the curfent of modern war as if they had been asleep for forty yeais. Not even Kip Van Winkle, -witii bis rusty gun dropping to pieces after his long sleep, was more bewildered aiid lost than the majority of these poor old Generáis suddenly tbrown iuto the campaign at tb o bead of their brigades, divisions, and corps. It may be asked why the Emperor does not send these old dotards back to their card-tables, and replace them by younger men, and men of talent, of wbich, after all, the Bnssian array is not destilute. The soit heart of the Einperor bas much to do in retaiuing these old inoapables in tbeir positioBs. He cannot bear the idea of depriving au old public servant of bis position and tlius disgracing him, and so unconsciously prefers to saenflee the lives of thonsaiids of brave fellows to this misplaccd feeling of kindness.