28 MAY 1864, Page 2

He was the son of a peasant, entered the Military

School of St. Cyr, and fought his way up to a Marshal's bitton in Algeria and the Crimea. He was principally known to Englishmen for an act committed in 1845, when he suffocated 500 Arabs, men, women, and children, in a cave in the Dahra. He was not a soldier of the first rank, and a man of singularly uncourtly ways ; but he was a brave officer, an efficient disciplinarian, and very popular with the rank and file of the army. His death leaves the course clear to Marshals Macmahon and Niel.