The Press.
London, England, 1855-09-15 00:00:00

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The death of CAPTAIN WILLIAN HENRY CECIL
GEORGE PECHELL, 77th Regiment. is announced by
a telegraphic communication to have taken place on
the 3rd inst., whilst serving in the trenches before
Sebastopol. This gallant and promising young
officer, the only son of Sir George Brooke Pechell,
Bart., and Hon. Lady Brooke Pechell, was born at
Castle Goring in May, 1830, and after passing
Harrow and Sandhurst College, entered the army in
1848; and sedulously applied himself to all its duties.
During the winter campaign in the Crimea he cheer-
fully shared in the arduous services in which the
77th Regiment has been engaged. The personal re-
gard and high esteem in which he was held by his
brother officers, and his kindness and attention to
the men under his command during that dreadful
period, will cause his loss to be most deeply deplored
by them. After the attack on the Redan on the 18th
of June, be was offered by Prince Albert to be placed
in his Royal Highness's regiment of Guards, which
would have been the cause of expediting his return
to England ; but the high position he held in his
regiment, and the zeal which ever stimulated him in
the conscientious discharge of his duties, induced him
at such a moment to decline quitting the post of
honour and danger to which he bad so nobly devoted
himself.

M. EINEAU, the late French Minister of Finance,
died in Paris on Saturday last. The deceased was
born in 1805, in the department of Maine and Loire.
In his earliest years he displayed strength of will
and love of labour. He distinguished himself highly
in his preparatory studies at college, and subse-
quently in the Ecole Polytechnique. He was asso-
ciated to the body of mining engineers, and rose
from rank to rank till in 1840 be became engineer-
in-chief. He pnblished various works that attracted
notice. His treatise on the railways of England is
suppossed to have mainly contributed to gain for
him the honour of being elected to the Chamber of
Deputies for Maine and Loire in 1841. From that
time he devoted himself pnncipally to the labours of
the Legislature, being attached to the ranks of the
moderate opposition. He took little part in the dis-
cussion of general politics, but was recognised as au
authority on all subjects connected with his favorite
studies, serving actively in all debates on concessions
of railways, on the police of railway carriage, on in-
terval navigation, and on financial questions. In
1848 be was elected member of the Constituent
Assembly for the department of Maine and Loire, on
which occasion he obtained 120,0(X) votes. M.
Bineau was an active member of the committee of
finance, and reporter on the budget in 1848. He
was one of the first to attach himself to the party of
the Prince President, who appointed him Minister of
Public Works on the 31st of October, 1849. After
the 2nd of December he was appointed a member of
the Consultative Commission, and in 1852 Minister
of Finance. The principal measures of his admi-
nistration were the conversion of the Rents in 1852,
and the loan of 1854. In the midst of his labours
his health gave way, but a desire to accomplish the
tasks he had undertaken kept him at his post. A
few months ago he snatched a brief interval of re-
pose, but it was too late, and be died a victim of over-
exertion.

MARSHAL RADETZKY last week celebrated by a fete
the fiftieth anniversary of his promotion to the grade
of general. He is HO years of age, and has served 71
years. In reply to an autograph letter from the
Emperor Francis Joseph, congratulating him on th.
restoration of his health, the old general has re+
quested to be allowed to retire,