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_ ffo. 398, .November 7, 1857.] THE LEiD...
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THE I,ATE GENERAL. CAVAIGNAC. We briefly...
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IRELAND. Du.-"Walsi«k and this Patriotic...
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The Gre.Vt Eastern.—Failure In The : Lau...
" This melancholy occurrence seemed to exercise a most depressing effect , especially upon the workmen , though the tremendous strain to which the drum was exposed , and which even with the friction of only one break , proved sufficient to check the vessel with , a great and unexpected momentum on her , showed that the check tackle was all that could be desired . An examination of the place / where the accident occurred showed that the toothed wheels of the windlass '( which seemed totally insufficient in ' multiplying power to enable the men to exercise any check upon the revolution of the drum ) were broken , and appeared so out of gear that they were almost useless . Eeyorid this damage , which was of not the least importance , the rest of the apparatus of the drum and framework was as firm as ever . The vessel it was found had slipped down the ways
about 3 feet at the forward drum ,, and 4 feet 3 inches at the one fixed aft . The stern had progressed , of course , about 6 feet towards the river . " ' All this took place before a quarter to one o'clock , and it was two before everything was again ready to move her still farther down the ways . Before that time the weather , which , at no period bad been very favourable , became still worse , and the little drops of rain which , had now and then fallen at short intervals gave place to a "regular , steady drizzle , so that the public looked with unusual impatience to the launching efforts . At a few minutes after two o ' clock , the men were all again at their posts , and tbe signal was given to recoramence . This time every precaution was taken to
prevent a loop of alack in the chain again occurring . All the lighters from , tlie river got their hauling tackle in order , and began to strain upon the vessel , but without making the least apparent impression . The tide was then within a few feet of its highest , and it became evident to all concerned that if the vessel was to be moved at all that day no time -was to be lost . Again from out of the dense mass of timber of the cradles came the little hissing noise at regular intervals , which told that tho enormous pressure of the hydraulic rains was found requisite to start her ; still , ' iu spite of all , she never rnoved or showed the slightest symptom of being at all affected by the terrific pressure which was applied to her . After the pressure with the rams had been
continued some time , ' a rather loud crash was beard among the timbers of the foremost cradle , and some men ran from it . "What it really was did not transpire , but it was nothing of importance . The stationary engine , which , as we liave mentioned , was put to haul upon the chains to the bows , at last gave way , and the chain itself snapped in two , though not until some of the teeth of the wheels of the engine , as we were informed , had also broken before the strain . At the same time , a pin in the piston rod of the foremost hydraulic ram also gave ¦ way , and these two Accidents were irreparable . The signal was made to cease hauling , and in a minute or so afterwards the officials of the company announced that the launch was over ' for the day . ' "
_ Ffo. 398, .November 7, 1857.] The Leid...
_ ffo . 398 , . November 7 , 1857 . ] THE LEiDE B . 1063
The I,Ate General. Cavaignac. We Briefly...
THE I , ATE GENERAL . CAVAIGNAC . We briefly announced in our Postscript last week the death of General . Cavaignac . There is but little to add to the details of that distinguished man ' s last moments . The death appears to have been sudden —almost instantaneous . On the body being removed from the fields where the General mid his host , M . G-ustave de Beaumont , had been shooting , to the house of the latter , " Madame Caysuguiie , " writes the Times Paris correspondent , " would not hear of the remains of her husband being interred elsewhere than in Paris . She placed the body in a carriage , and , "with the head in her lap , anil accompanied by General Cavaignac , the uncle of the
deceased , and by her infant child , she proceeded to the railroad station at Tours , and asked that a special train should be at once got ready . The demand was at first refused ; but , on announcing who she was , and whose -were the remains she guarded , it was forthwith complied with . " This occurred on Wednesday , the 28 th ult . ; not Thursday , as stated last week . On being brought to Paris , the body lay in a kind of state , and was seen by several friends . It Cl WAltt bti *\ ? !» O 4 * ri «^ i-fc ~\ 4 ? + 1 v yi lAiri-if miil / iwj mi wl + ¦ * - \ 4-1 * *\ \
* * O A ^ iOiVVVA ilLUU \ JM . l \ J JK bllU UJ OUU- » Ul . l 3 OiVJU % * SJ LUV ^ General's child , " Look at your papa ; he is dead . " To ¦ which the child replied , with a loolc of 6 a , d curiosity , " He sleeps welt . " The funeral took place last Saturday in the church of St . Louis d'Antin , and is thus described by tbe writer already quoted : —
Tho various detachments of the garrison selected to pay tho lqjt military honours to the deceased began to move from their quarters at cloven o'clock , and shortly after tliat hour took up position in tho Hue Canmnrtin and tha other approaches to the church . The detachments were taken from the 45 th and Bfith of the Line , ¦ with a battalion of Foot Chasseurs ; at their head rode General de la Charriere , with his stuff . Tho cartAtti left tho General ' s residence , 21 ) , lino do Londres , nt haifpast eleven , and reached tho church a few minutes past twolvc . It wan opened by a detachment of tho Chns-„«•
flours of Vincennea . follows ! l » v ?»< - > +.- ^^ ,, n Hours of Vincenne 8 , followed by two troops of Hussars , four companies of Infantry carrying thoir colours , riddled ^ vith shot and bearing the word « Sebaatopol . '
The eagles surmounting them were veiled with crape , -i and the drums were muffled . Two mourning carriages followed for the officiating clergyman and his assistants , and then came the hearse , surmounted at each corner with tricolored flags intermingled with lofty black plumes . The General ' s sword and military decorations were laid on a velvet cushion , which was "bornj after the chief mourner—General Cavaignac , the uncle of the deceased . The ends of the pall were held by MM . <} oudcbaux , Bastide , Guinaud , Bayard , and de Foissy . The friends of the deceased next followed—tkey were very numerous , and among them were a few working men in their blouses ; then came the General's private carriage and eight . mourning - coache 3 . '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 , while 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 high altar , and the military hat , sword , and star were deposited on a cushion of black velvet by its side . Among the persons who stood by the catafalque were SIM . Odier ( father-in-law of the deceased } , Odilon Barrot , Dufaure , Piscatori , Grenrieux , 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 . 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 detachments of infantry already mentioned , proceeded to the cemetery of Montmartre , tbe burialplace of tke family . The streets in the neighbourhood were crowded with people , and the windows were thronged . A troop of the mounted Paris Guards , and several squads of Sergents de - Yille , kept the passage clear , and their exertions prevented confusion in the narrow thoroughfares . All was conducted ¦ with order and regularity , though the crowd who accompanied tlie hearse to the gates , of the cemetery could hardly have been less than 15 , 000 . A small portioa only ¦ of the cortege was admitted inside : Most of those forming it were well-dressed persons , apparently merchants and
-shopkeepers . 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 iu Paris not long before the revolution of 1 S 18 . Every one expected to see an Imperial carriage in the train , "but I could perceive none . As the hearse passed slowly along , every hat was raised , and the spectators often remained bareheaded until it was out of sight . " When tbe coirLn was deposited in the tom"b , and the praj-ers for the dead were recited , the troops fired ove " r tbe grave of the departed soldier , and paid tbe other military honours usual on such , occasions . No address was spokeu . The troops soon re tamed to tlfeir quarters , and in less than an hour the streets through which , the
cor / Jf / e passed resumed their ordinary appearance . "In addition to the names I have already mentioned , the following were also present at the funeral ceremony : —MM . Dufaure , De Vatry , Senard , Carnot , Ferdinand de Lasteyrie , Bethmont , Bucbez , Uixio , Acbille de Vau-Inbelle , Taschereau , Jcanron , Lanjiiinais , Corbon , Devinck , Bisset , Alexandra Dumas , Ilavin , Louis Jourdan , Dumont , Uonifaco , Duras , Thomas , llequet , Forgues , Ilaurean , Degouve-Denuncques , Edmond , Adam , Jules Simon , Chatard , Duconx ( former Prefect of Police ) , Trouvd-Chauvel , Laluyo , Hertholon , Morellct , Peauger , Aubert ( former Prelect of Corsica ) , Ambert , Jean Keynaud , Pclletan , llerve , Ilippolyte Belloc , A . Rex . " At the Emperor ' s desire , tlie deceased received the honours of a General of Division in active service , and as if he had commanded in chief at tho moment
of his death . A cast of the head has been taken by the sculptor Jeanron , and a portrait of the ex-Dictator will , it is said , be i ) laced in the picturegallery at Versailles . It appears that some communication took place between the police and the relatives of the General with reference to the nature of the speeches at the grave ; and it may havo been owing to this Lliat none were delivered . Eugene Cavaignac was born in Paris on October ibini nsiu uicrcioio
, suz , ana juhl coinpiuucu ms fifty-lif ' ili year at the time of Ins deatli . It has been said that the family is of Irish extraction , and that the name was originally Kavanngh ; but there is a tendency on the part of the sister island to claim every continental celebrity as remotely connected with herself . The late General was the son of Jean
B . iptiste Cavaignac , a member of tbe Convention during the drat French Revolution , and a brother of Godfrey Cavaignac , also a staunch Republican , who was distinguished in connexion with tho Revolutionary party during the early years of the reign of Louis Philippe . Having received a military education , Eugene was appointed in 1824 to the 2 nd Regiment of Engineers . He served in tho Moron in 1828 ; and in 1830 , on tho breaking out of . the revolution of July , hia regiment was quurtcrc 1 at Arras , the birthplace of Robespierre ilu was ono of the first
, ^> at « -. >* ., ^ !>?<« ^^ h * ,.. 4-l * . t ** . . it 1 . k . nt . ^ 4 s ^ / I j ¦/« I > t ¦ * f ~ \ l ihit 4 I h jv t ^^^ itp among his brother otliecrs to declare for tho new order of things . Jn 18111 , he was at I \ lutz , and signed the project of the National Association , for which
; he was placed on half-pay , bat was restored to the . service in . 1832 , and sent with his regiment to Algeria Here he greatly distinguished himself againsfc t i \ , ^ ' SradaaU > - rose ia his profession . Ill health compelled him-in 1840 to return to France , and , at his own request , he was a second time placed on half-pay . His health being restored , he solicited a return to active service . Again appointed to a post in Africa , he once more earnel a brilliant name in connexion with the . French operations against the Arabs ; and in 1844 he was named General of Brigade and Governor of the province of Oran . The Provisional Government of 1848 raised him to the rank of General of Division , and named him Governor of Algeria . The Executive Commission of Five having been formed :, he accepted an offer
previously made to him , through the influence of his brother ' s friend , ' Armani Marrast , of the post of Minister of War ; and accordingly returned to France . In June , 1818 , the well-known insurrection broke out , and to Cavaignac fell the task , of supressing it . He has been accused of acting with dilatoriness at first ; but , however that may have been , he finally quelled the rising by an immense exhibition of military power , and by a masterly direction of the movements of his troops . Regarding the insurrection as a veritable civil war , he acted as against an enemy in the field ; drove the insurgents from post to post ; and regained possession of the whole of Paris after three days' hard lighting . Cavaignac
was then made Dictator , and was armed with absolute power . This he used with a sternness -which , though nqcessary under the circumstances , alienated from him the more extreme of the revolutionists . He imprisoned and transported thousands without trial ; but the punishment of death was not inflicted , as that had been abolished for political offences by the Republic . Hard labour for life , however , was decreed in a great number of cases ; the press was suspended ; and France passed from a state of extreme liberty to one of military despotism . The approaching election for the office of President . found Cavaignac one of the candidates ; bat he only obtained 1 , 500 , 000 votes , while iouis Napoleon , to the
surprise of the Arorld , won 5 , 500 , 000 . After tlie latter had taken the oaths , he complimented General Cavaignac on the loyalty of his character , and on his high sense of duty , as evinced in his quietly resigning the position of an absolute Dictator , in obedience to the will of the people . The new President then descended from the tribune , and offered his hand to the General , who took it , though but coldly . On the coup . d ' etat of December , 1851 , Cavaignac was one of the arrested Generals , but was soon set at liberty . He afterwards married Mademoiselle Odier ; was elected to the Legislative Corps in IS 52 , but refused to take the oaths ; and remained hi privacy till the elections last
June and July , when he was twice elected , by a very large majority , for one of the departments of the Seine , thus defeating the Government candidates . He has lived in great privacy since the events of December , 1851 , and has refrained from expressing any very precise opinions with reference to politics : consequently , some speculation has been excited as to whether he would or would not have taken the oaths on the meeting of tbe new Legislative Chambers ; but those who are best informed state confidently that he would have acted again as he did in 1852 . The thorough -Republicanism of Cavaignac has been doubted by some , on account of his serving the Government of . Louis Philippe for so manyyears ; but his conduct since 1348 shows that his
demoerntical opinions were firmly fixed , and he even once , in a committee of tho Legislative Chamber , went so fur as to say that the Republic is superior to the will of tho people , and maybe enforced in defiance of it . HcwaB a brave , honest , honourable , and kind-hearted . man ; and his death has removed another obstacle to the supremacy of Napoleon , and another hope from those who desire to see tho reostablishment of the Republic in France ,
Ireland. Du.-"Walsi«K And This Patriotic...
IRELAND . Du .- "Walsi « k and this Patriotic Fund . —The Roman Catholic lit shop of leighlin and Ferna has sent a reply to an . invitation to attend the Carlow mooting to assist the sufferers in India ., in which lie refers to tl » a accusations which have recently bwen made against the
administration of the Patriotic Fund . While expressing great horror at the atrocities committed by the Sepoys , and sympathy with the sufferers from the revolt , ho thinks that tho Irish Itouaaa Catholics would bo inore likely to contribute largely to the fund if guarantees wore given that tUo money now collected will be fairly distributed . Thk Irish in Amkiuca . —Monsignor Francois Maria Charbonelle , Bishop of Toronto , Upper Canada , passed through Kilkenny a few Auya ago ; celebrated mass at the chapel of the Capuchin convent ; and , in a
subso-.. - . n v *¦ ml . lun . m -i ntnl , itHi ml <] i ri Btatmtijl i- S \ *•* " »« Y * Illtl 111 I Vffcl l \ Y \ f 1 qucut address , oxliorted tho people to remain in Ireland it' they possibly « ould , as the misery of the Irish ia America is almost incredible .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 7, 1857, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07111857/page/7/
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