The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-02 00:00:00

THE MILITIA.

The South Lincolnshire Militia is not to be em-
bodied at present, although the officers have volun-
teered for service through the Lord-Lieutenant of
the county.
The King's Own (Ist) Staffordshire Militia, under
the command of Col. the Hon. Wellington P. Tal-
bot, will assemble at Lichfield on Tuesday, the
3d, for garrison duty. This regiment did duty at
Windsor from 1798 to 1812, and in Ireland until
1816, and was at Dover and in the Mediterranean
for nearly three years during the late Crimean war.
it is rumoured the regiment will again go abroad.
The Leicester Militia will assemble at Leicester
1 on the 3d inst.

The Royal Sherwood Foresters (Notts Militia:
will, it is expected, be shortly removed from New
ark to Sheffield.

The Victoria Rifle Regiment of Volunteers for
the county of Middlesex will muster for drill every
Wednesday evening during the winter months at
Allen's Riding School, Bryanston-square.
Fifteen officers and 400 men of the Royal Lan-
cashire Artillery leave Liverpool by rail for Ports-
4mouth to-day, for the purpose of entering upon
garrison duty.
The Royal Merioneth Rifles have been dismissed
from their annual training, having been previously
inspected by Colonel Raymond, who expressed his
high satisfaction at the discipline of the corps and
their excellent private conduct. The regiment
numbered its full complement, and was very
anxious for permanent embodiment. Several
soldiers volunteered to the Line, principally to the
Fusilier Guards, 9th and 53d regiments

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leave the York and Albany Tavern in the Regent's-
park, in a state of great excitement, having been noticed
to wait about in expectation of some one the best part
of the afternoon. She was seen to descend to the towing
path of the canal, in the direction of Kentish Town, and
soon after she was lost sight ef. Some boys who were
fishing on the banks of the canal went to the police
station in Park-street, Camden-town, and gave infor-
mation that a woman had thrown herself into the canal.
The drags were obtained, and being taken to the spot
pointed out by the lads they were put in requisition, but
up to six o'clock in the evening the body of the unfor.
tunate young woman had not been discovered.

PARIS, SATURDAY.
The funeral obsequies of General Cavaignac took
place this day in the church of St. Louis d'Antin.
The various detachments of the garrison selected
to pay the last military honours to the deceased
began to move from their quarters at 11 o'clock,
and shortly after that hour took up position in the
Rue Caumartin and the other approaches to the
church. The detachments were taken from the 45th
and 85th of the line, with a battalion of foot Chas-
seurs • at their head rode General de la Charriere,
with Lis staff. The cortege left the General's resi-
dence, 29, Rue de Londres, at half-past 11, and
reached the church a few minutes past 12. It was
opened by a detachment of the Chasseurs of Vin-
cennes, followed by two troops of Hussars, four
companies of infantry carrying their colours, riddled
with shot and beating the word " Sebastopol."
'The eagles surmounting them were veiled with
crap; and the drums were muffled in the same
sable covering. Two mourning carriages followed
for the officiating clergyman and his assistants,
and then came the hearse, surmounted at each
corner with tai-coloured flags intermingled with
lofty black plumes. The General's sword and
military decorations were laid on a velvet cushion,
which was borne after the chief mourner—General
Cavaignac, the uncle of the deceased. The ends of
the pall were held by MM. Goudehaux, Bastide,
Guinaud, Bayard, and de Foissy. The friends of
the deceased next followed—they were very nume-
rous, s.nd among them were a few working-men in
their blouses ; then came the General's private car-
riage awl eight mourning eoaches. When the
hearse turned into the Rue Caumartin from the
Rue St. Lazare, the cure of the church of St. Louis
d'Antin, accompanied by his clergy, issued out in
procession, and received the body at the church
door, whde a funeral symphony was executed by
the military bands. After the usual prayers at the
entrance, the coffin was placed on the catafalque
before the It gh altar, and the military hat, sword,
and star were deposited on a cushion of black vel-'
vet by its side. Among the persons who stood by
the catafalque were MM. Odier (father-in-law of
the deceased), O'Dillon Barrett, Dufaure, Piscatori,
Crewieux, and a considerable number of political
and literary celebrities. Mass was celebrated by
the cure of the parish, and the solemn music was
executed alternately by the choir and organ and
the military band. The ceremony was performed
throughout amid the profoundest attention. After
the absolution was pronounced the body was again
placed in the hearse, and the cortege, preceded by
a squadron of Hussars, and followed by the de-
tachments of infantry already mentioned, moved
from the church by the Rue Chaussee
Rue St. Lazare, and Rue de Clichy, to the
cemetery of Montmartre, the burial-place of
the family. The streets in the neighbourhood
were crowded with people, and the windows of
every house in the Chaussee d'Antin, Rues St.
Lazare, Victoire, Provence, Joubert, St. Nicolas,
Londres, Tivoli, and Cliehy, from which even a
slight glance could be got of the hearse, were
thronged. A troop of the mounted Paris Guards,
and several squads of Sergents de Ville kept the
passage clear, and their exertions prevented confu-
sion in the narrow thoroughfares. All was con-
ducted with order and regularity, though the crowd
who accompanied the hearse to the gates of the
cemetery could hardly be less than 15,000. A small
portion only of the cortege was admitted inside.
Most of those forming it were well-dressed persons,
apparently merchants and shopkeepers, who, no
doubt, remembered with gratitude the services ren-
dered by the deceased General in June, 1849.
Thera were not many of those unmistakeable
characters who usually swell the funerals of other
political leaders, and it was remarked that there
were at least six times as many of the Republican
party present at the funeral of Godfrey Cavaignac,
the General's brother, who died in Paris not long
before the revolution of 1848. Every one expected
to see an Imperial carriage in the train, but such
was not the case. As the hearse passed slowly along
every hat was raised, and the spectators often re-
mained bareheaded until it was out of sight.
The body was interred in the family vault, where
lie the remains of the general's mother, and his
brother, Godfroy Cavaignac. No speech was pro-
nounced over the grave.
Among the political and private friends of the
deceased were most of his colleagues in the govern-
ment of 1848 and many other well-known person-
ages. The most remarkable were MM. Senard,
Odillon Barrot, Creulleux, Duvergier de Hauranne,
Frelon, Vaulabelle, Bixio, Colonel Guinard, Car-
not, Dufaure, Ferdinand de Lasteyrie, Ravin,
Dubochet, Betbmont, Jeanron, Jules Simon de
Tocqueville, Generals Rulhieres and Piat. The
pall-bearers were MM. Goudchaux and Bastide
(both ex-Ministers), Colonel Guinard, and a work-
man in a blouse, named Baillard, an elector of the
circumspection of Paris for which General Cavaig-
nac was recently elected. The chief mourners were
General Stanialas Cavaignac, M. Fermin Cavaignac,
and M. de Foissy, all cousins of the deceased.
The usual military salutes were fired over the
grave.

It is perhaps not generally known that General
Cavaignae's was never considered a good life. When
he was only a captain in Algeria, a general,
in a report) speaking of him iu terms of high
praise, observed that he was au officer who bad a
great career before him if his health would permit.
In 1839 he was obliged to leave his regiment for a
long while on account of illness. Ho had long suf-
fered from disease of the heart.
On the 17th of July last he wrote to his friend
M. Senard that he passed his life with a sense of
palpitation and suffocation, and, punning upon his
malady, said he perceived that nothing iu the world
was less grand than a Bros mum.
The Constitutionnel, while declaring that it was
always opposed to the political views of the de-
ceased, does not hesitate to speak of his military
and private character in terms of high praise. It
says

" General Cavaignac figures in the nolsle list of
military captains formed in the school of Africa. He
occupies a most honourable position between Mar-
shal Bugeaud, the master of a crowd of glorious
pupils, and the brilliant generation illustrated by
St. Arnaud, Canrobert, Pelissier, Mac Mahon, &c.
We will not inquire, like some over severe judges,
whether be commanded those eminent qualities,
those sudden inspirations, those magnificent reso-
lutions which make great commanders. The latter
are rare in all ages. It is sufficient to consult the
history of Algiers to render justice to the military
talents of General Cavaignac. When the French
selected for Minister of War the brother of God-
' frog Cavaignac, rather for his name than for his
merits, it found in him not a party leader, but a
commander capable of defending civilisation, when
threatened, against the Huns and Vandals of
the 19th century. General Cavignac was not found
wanting in that difficulty. He displayed in the
streets of Paris the coolness, tenacity, and courage
but nKonaeder. can ilis
his devotedness
plans may be open to
question
which he had brought to bear against the contin-
gents
energy. it will, moreover, be remarked that
the bitter censure directed against the conduct of
General Cavaignac in the days of June proceeded
from the ranks of the Republica,'
gcreintticsis ofm ; A
party. We, at
least, cannot be reproached with having attacked
him. When,in the inquiry opened by the Assembly,
Republicans accused the General of having disobeyed
the formal orders of the executive commission, in
not having concentrated sufficient troops in Paris,
when the first democratic orators reproached him
with having served as the instrument of a coterie
impatient of power, we never dreamt of question-
ing his claim to the gratitude of the country.
While opposing the candidateship of General Ca-
vaignac to the Presidency of the Republic, we
likewise abstained from pronouncing a single word
which could be interpreted into a slur on his cha-
racter as a public man or as a military commander.
We shall perhaps be told that, as a statesman,
General Cavaignac committed faults ; that he some-
times yielded too readilyto illusionswhich his friends
careless of compromising his name, suggested to his
mind. We eet aside all these cloudsin order to held to
a single point, namely, that one day, after escaping
from a very great danger, public opinion admitted
that the General had merited well of his country.
That day we shall never forget, and we inscribe it
as a glorious date on the marble of his tomb."
The following is the language of the Debats
" France has lost one of her most illustrious and
beat citizens. This is not the moment to call to
mind the eminent claims which General Cavaignac
had acquired to the gratitude, the esteem, and the
affection of the public. In the perilous post which
the revolution of February placed him,
he had the
glory and the happiness, which are bestowed on
but few men, of saving his country and society,
when threatened by one of the most terrible crises
they had to pass through for a period of sixty
years. From the elevation of his character, his
s raightforward conduct, and by the ardour and
sincerity of his patriotism, the General was one of
the mien 1* 'whom tile country had most placed its