The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-05 00:00:00

THE REVOLT AT STRASBURG.

The following biographical sketches will be read with in-
terest at the present moment :
Colonel Vaudry was in 1830 only Lieutenant-Colonel.
It is stated that the fact of his having raised his sabre
against his superior officer obtained him the rank of Colo-
nel under the Ministry of Marshal Gerard, but it was long
before he could find a regiment willing to be commanded
by him. He was then sent on a mission to Corsica, and
subsequently he was appointed to the 4th regiment of artil-
lery. Colonel Vaudry has always been a violent character,
and difficult to manage.
Commandant Parquin—The Emperor Napoleon was at
a review when a young Lieutenant of cavalry, after his re-
giment had been inspected, dismounted, and placed himself
at the end of the line in front. The Emperor was struck
with the commanding person and fine countenance of this
young officer, to whom a wound in the upper lip had given
a peculiarly martial expression. Napoleon, in his abrupt
style, asked him who he was, and what he wanted. The
answer was, "29 years of age, 11 years of service, 11 cam-
paigns, the life of a Marshal saved, and three standards
taken from the enemy—l demand the cross." The cross
was given. This officer was Charles Parquin. At the se-
cond Restoration he had attained the rank of Captain, and
the Duke de Feltre, Minister of War, gave him the com-
mand of the company of chasseurs of the Cantal, of which
M. Lauriston, jun., was Colonel. Captain Parquin never
disguised his infatuated attachment to Napoleon, and, con-
sequently, has been involved in several conspiracies. In one
of these conspiracies an unknown hand sent him the uni-
form of a Chef d'Escadron, but he had the prudence not
to yield to this invitation. He was not so prudent at Stras-
burgh, where, no doubt, he was dazzled by the epaulettes
of a General Officer. Since 1830, he was nominated a
Chef d'Escadron of the Municipal Guard of Paris. He
is brother to one of the most distinguished advocates of the
French bar.
Lieutenant-General Baron Voirol was born a few leagues
from Neufchatel, in Switzerland. When 18 years of age he
was in a commercial house at Basle ; but his military ar-
dour was irresistible, and he set out one day for Huningen,
where he enlisted in a French regiment as a grenadier. In
a few years, from his courage and merit, he rose to the
rank of Colonel. In 1814 he had the command of a regi-
ment of infantry at Nogent-sur-Seine, at the moment when
the town was invested by the allied troops. Count de Bour-
mont, then General of Brigade, was at Nogent wounded, and
sent orders to Col. Voirol to evacuate the place, as it was im-
possible to resist superior forces in an open town. The Colonel
replied that he should only obey the dictates of his own
courage and duty, and would defend Nogent until his last
cartridge was exhausted, as he had promised the Marshal
Duke de Bellune, who was the Commander-in-Chief of
that corps of the army. The enemy arrived, and, with a
few hundred men, the Colonel resisted, for three days, an
army of 15,000 men. This defence was reckoned a pro-
digy. The Emperor was so much struck with it that
he inquired who was the General. Bourmont was named,
and, notwithstanding Napoleon's prejudice against him, he
was appointed General of Division. Colonel Voirol's name
was not mentioned, he having obtained the command of
the regiment only a few hours before ; while the Colonel,
who had preceded him, was promoted to the rank of Gene-
ral of Brigade. The Emperor repaired this error during the
Hundred Days, but it was too late. In 1815 he destroyed
under the walls of Strasburg, an Austrian division with a
single infantry regiment. From this period he has been
held in h;gli esteem by the inhabitants of the town. The
Revolution of July found General Voirol at Marseilles, in
command of the reserve of the army of Africa. He was
sent to Nismes as Commandant of the sub-division of the
Guard ; and that Nismes was not involved in blood in 1830
was owing to his influence over the Protestants, of whose reli-
gion he is, and more so to the confidence his upright charac-
ter inspired in the Catholics. When the people wished to throw
down the crosses, and the hatred and animosity of three
ages standing between the Catholics and Protestants was
revived, General Voirol protected with his body one of the
crosses threatened. Some days after the General sent in
pursuit of the too-famous Quatretaillons of Uzes a com-
pany of Voltigeurs, commanded by Capt. Gaillard ; and
this assassin of 1815, after a vigorous resistance, dyed the
waters of the Rhone with his blood. Thus the system of
rapine just recommenced was stopped. From Nismes,
Gen Voirol was called to take the military command at
Toulon, where he received a despatch from Marshal Ge-
rard, appointing him to lead the vanguard of the army sent
against Antwerp. He returned from Belgium with the
rank of Lieut.-General. Since that period he was sent to
Algiers with the title of Commander of the Forces and In-
spector-General of Infantry ; but he governed the colony
for two years only, during which time he conciliated the
good will of the natives, as well as obtained the gratitude
of the French. On his departure he received the most
flattering and well-merited testimonies. A gold medal was
presented to him by the FrenCh colonists, and the Arabs
offered him arms of honour manufactured within their camp.
' Being appointed a few months ago to the command of the
fifth military division, he has proved himself to remain, as
he has ever been, without fear and without reproach.

Lord and Lady Maynard are gone to Dover, where
his Lordship has taken a house until Christmas.
Lady Wenlock, relict of the late Peer, has arrived at
Caniveil Hall, Staffordshire, from Bifrona, the seat of her
sister, the Dowager Marchioness Conyngham. The English
Peerage of Wenlock is now extinct ; the late Lord, for-
merly Sir Robert Lawley, who died in Italy in the spring
of 1834, not having left any issue ; but the Baronetcy de-
scended to his brother, Sir Francis Lawley, Bart.
Lord and Lady Carrington have arrived at Deal
Castle, near Walmer, where they are entertaining a select
party.
Earl and Countess Cowper and family arrived in
George-street yesterday, from the baths of Nassau. His
Lordship has -derived considerable benefit from the use of
the waters. The Noble family were accompanied during
their teur by Dr. J. Lilburn, of Bruton-struet.
Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell will return
to town on Tuesday morning, from Holkham Hall, to at-
tend the Lord Mayor's dinner, at Guildhall, the follow-

10a (I'l}'.

Sr John and Lady Johnstone have been entertain-
ing a party at Hackness Park, Scarborough. The Arch-
bishop of York, and Captain and Mrs- Harcourt, from
Bishopsthorpe Palace, have been visiting the Hon. Bart.

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Lord Kinnaird has been entertaining, with true
Scotch hospitality, a large party at his scat, Inchtire, in
Perthshire. The guests have been numerous, and the at-
tentions of the Noble host unremitting.

The Earl and Countess of Jersey will entertain a
select number of visitors next month, at Middleton Park.
Prince Esterhazy, the Duke of Wellington, Earl Rossiya,
Marquis Douro, Hon. Capt. and Mrs. Villiers are expected
to be of the circle.

From a Quebec Paper received this morning, of the
3d October :—" The House of Assembly this day, at one
o'clock, presented their Address to the Governor-in-Chief,
to which his Excellency returned the following answer :
" Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly :
For the portions of the Address which are directed to me
personally, I cannot but thank you ; at the same time, my
sense of public duty, and the warm interest I take in the
welfare of the province, compel me frankly to express to
you my deep regret at the conclusion to which you have
come. The determination you express, never to resume
your functions under the existing Constitution, virtually de-
prives the country of a domestic Legislature, and places it
in a situation in which the greatest embarrassment must be
felt, until a remedy can be applied by the Supreme Autho-
rity of the empire. Your Address shall be transmitted to
England, without delay."
MONEY-MARKET, FRIDAY EVENING.—It iS
understood, that both on Wednesday and yesterday the
discounts at the Bank were on a large scale, and that the
directors have dealt liberally with the trading interest in all
cases where confidence could with propriety be placed. For
the present, too, the pressure on the Exchequer-bill market
seems to be suspended, so that evidence is afforded in two
ways of our getting into a safer position. A new cause of
uneasiness, however, as regards the future action on the
currency, has sprung up out of the state of the corn
trade, as large importations of grain would tend to de-
range it under any circumstances, and at present there
are causes enough acting against it which it is difficult
enough, without new embarrassments, to control. On this
part of the subject it is impossible to obtain any opinion in
the city that is of much value. There are very good judges
of the question who confidently predict a large importation
in the spring of next year, and treat it, indeed, as inevitable ;
but this is a very wide matter to deal with, and equally
confident predictions have been made in former seasons
which were followed by no such result. Our own impres-
sion is, that the extent of this danger is rather over-
rated, and, being at all events a distant one, for which,
when it arises, some corrective from the general state of
trade may arise with it, no great weight ought to be attached
to it in estimating our present situation.—Times.
GRIMSTONE'S EYE SNUFF.—We have just seen
a letter from Dr. Guthrie, of the Opthalmic Hospital,
Charing-cross, to Mr. Grimstone, in which the most satis-
factory testimony is afforded of the great benefit derived by
the patients of that Institution, labouring under obstinate
chronic opthalmia, opacity of the cornea, and other dis-
eases of the visual organ, from the use of Mr. Grimstone's
Herbaceous Eye Snuff. Dr. Guthrie has requested Mr.
Grimstone to make arrangements for supplying the really
indigent patients of the Institution with the Eye Snuff, at
a reduced price ; and we understand the latter has, with
the most praiseworthy and humane promptitude, complied
with Dr. Guthrie's request. The letter of this celebrated
oculist furnishes another proof of the extraordinary efficacy
of this preparation.