Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-03 00:00:00

DEATEE OF GENE3AL CA.VAIGNAC.

The name of Louis Eugene Cavaignac, whose death we yesterday
a mounced, will long be remembered by our readers as having
held the Diets orship of Frain after the revolt:snore of 1818. He was
born at Paris December 15, 1302, his father being the oil Con-
ventioaaliat of the same name. His elder brother was a celebrated
Republican, and sufferel a prosecatioe for the active share which he
tece'r, after p somothog the Revolution of 1830, in a tack ng the
measures of Louts Philippe's Government. While the brother was
thus o cap' al in the arena of pelt-ice the future general we; serving
in the army, which ha had entered on receiving a commission from
the Po'ys:echnic Seim!. In 1823 he hell aea am and in the
French expe :Won to tile 313r2a. Retarni lg. to F:aace, we fled him
in 1833 in gurrison at Arras, where, as afterwar is at Meta, he odenly
avowed his Republican sentiments. In cansequecco of this caudate
he was sent by the Government I sto honourable ostracism in Africa,
wherehe gained great distinction in the Alg,erme wars. In 1847 he
succeeded Latasariciere is the c and of the pro vince of Oran, and
its the fat:owing year was promoted to the Governor-leneraiship of
Alge-lr. Here he signalised his cammead by great firm sass and
i•algment, until he was cha.en a delegate to the Nation .1 Assembly
.or the two departments of Lo'. aid Sai se. He ele,:ted, however, to
sit for the former, as he hal some ancestral con section with the
Lical ty. By a decree of the Provisional Government February the
24th, be was made General of Divisioa, and by a seCOll decree he
was named Waist r of War, bat declined that pos b.icanse he
was not allowed to coacentrste in Paris envie a military
fu C 3 as he wished to maintaM. Its had scarcely been
recalled to Paris, in order that he might tale a part in the
debates of the Natioaal Assembly, wises events showel the
necessity of piscine the eup.em mil:try c ammand in the hands of
a single individual. He was appointed Minister of War, ani at once
entered up:n his command. In the outbreaa of the 22nd of June
our re dare will remember that two plans for its suppression were
proposed. The Exechive Committee were i 1 favorer of spree ing
the troops over the capital, and se prevea•ing the erection of the
berricatles. Caraignac's plea was the opposite of this, and consisted
in concentrating hie troops at certain peiats and bringing them into
action in large masses. Cavaignac treated the encoreaki not as a
mere insurrection, but as the co.-nmenecm tut of a o'll war, and met
it in tree order of battle. We do not intend to repeat here the
history of those eventful days, or to relate a' length how severe the
contest and how great' the bliolehed tied beam) before the National
Assembly passed a resolution declarin; Paris in a state of siege, and
appointed Cavaignac dictator, with a isolate and unlimited powers •
It is salon ;h to state that after four days of fight ng in the streets
of Paris, chin, which tie killed ant waanled on both sides
am rauted to above 8,0 )0, including area and Neerier, and M. Aire,
the Archbishop of Paris, Cavaignac fouls i ,himself the absolute
disposer cf the destlaies of Paris an .l of France. Had he been
capable of me,e selfish ambition, he might doubtless have secured
for himself, for a time at least, the possession of nalim ted
.authority. Ile was true, however, to his mill:siesta principles,
• and laid dew.' his " Dictatorship, " like same ancimt
Roman, as soon as he hz•l pacided the capital, , The National
Assembly, however, aware of the i.npertance of his service, appointed
him Fre Went of the Council, with power to nomtaate his own
tilialsry. At lenetn, after long and protracted dis..ussions, the

Assembly determine lathst a President should be elected by n siversal
Ina, age, Cavaignac WAS put forward by the moderate and respectable
R publicans. The result, it will be remembered, vras as blow-3
f)r Louis N ipoleos, 1-,33i,520 votes; for Cavalgnac, 1,418,302 ;
for Ledru R Alin, 37 r;43l ; for Raipsil, 35,7,64 ; for Lamartine.
17 gl4 ; for Chan3arxiier, -4,637 ; far ' sundry other candi-
dates, 12,434, the total nu ober of vote:3 po lei being
7,449,471. Oa laying down his extraordinary powers Cevaigoec
received the th .nks cf the National Assembly aid the compliments of
his successor. It will be remembe•ed that when Louis Napoleon
executed his coup rec at in December, 1851, one of his precautions
was to arrest Cavaiinfle in his bedchamber. The Gene:al, however,
was released after a brief detention, aril ills resided unmolested in
Paris ever since that time, though lee has never acciair,sced in either
the D,ctatorship or the Empire. Oar readers will Scarcely need to be
reminded that in Jily lass Coal ‘nac was returned' after a severe
straggle, as one Of the 10 Dputiei fit P4l;, in opNistion to the
Imperialist party: