General Cavaignac—>As Getidral Ga vaignac must occupy, at least for some consi derable period, a prominent place in the cur rent history of' Europe, and'is ljust now, I suppose in 'England, as-here, 1 to use a trite -phrase, "in- everybody's mouth" —-I take it iforgranted any information touchinghis an tecedents will- be acceptable to'your readers. Cavaignacis by no means an unknown or obscure personage. He is a soldier in every sense_ of The ATord —a soldier by laste/by edu cation, and I may say by descent. His father particularly distinguished himself at Auster litz, at the the head of "the lOth regiment of Dragoons ; and afterwards took service as general under Murat, King of Naples. He signalised himself in various contests with the 'English and *lth the" insurgent Calabrians, over whom" he gained a decisive victory on the 20th of June, 1809, He went through the campaign of Moscow, Whence he took re fuge at Dantzic, and at the restoration of the Bourbons, sent in his adhesion, and was ap pointed Inspector-General of Cavalry. .Still fyirther back one generation; and I find that the'grandfather of the present military dicta tor'was an actor of some note in the old Wench Revolution, being one of its most ar dentJ!and strenuous* partizans. He was a member of the Convention, and voted for the execution of Louis XVI. The present 'Ge- i rieral Cayaignac is about 40 years of age. I j have been informed by-one who knew him in- \ timately, that duriug the reign of Louis Ehi- j lipjpe he was noted among his compeers for j the strong predilection he had for Republican principles, and the boldness with which he avbwed'them. Having been employed in the army in, Africa, he soon showed that there was something.about him above the common stamp and ma^k,p.f-men. His gallant con duct and sol^ipti'y^skiil -raised him rapidly to the grade of seneral,pf division ; and at the proclamation 'of theljt^ubJic in February last, the Provisional Gp r ver^meijt made him Go vernor-General ,o£ A'gef &•,',' $|pee t^at they recalled him, and plfic^ .him at the head of £h,e war department.- A mosc daring feat of personal courage was performed, by him du ring the campaign, , against Abd-el-Kader, w.h(en being spijpr.ised^lan^ iy a dozea Arabs, h.e, adopted the well-Jcnown Horatian strata gem., ,^nd,ba^ing caused .them to stra^gg|e.|n their pursuit, single-handexl p»t them sllhors. 