The Express.
London, England, 1864-06-14 00:00:00

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PARIS, MONDAY MVDNYNO.

K Reran, submitting to the Emperor's decree,
did not attempt to take his seat among the pro-
fessors of the College of France at their meeting yes-
terday. But the professors, the majority of wham
sympathise with M. Rena; took an indirect method
of making a demonstration against his dismissal.
They nominated to the new chair of "comparative
grammar," the creation of which formed part of
the arrangement connected with M. Renan's re-
moval from the Hebrew chair, M. Adolphe Regnier,
a well known Orleanist, who resided for a long
while with the Duchess of Orleans at Eisenach, and
was tutor to her children. K Regnier is a mem-
ber of the Institute, and the author of a translation ,
of Schiller. The Emperor is not bound to accept
this nomination, although it is almost a matter of
course that he should do so ; but what adds to the
complication of the affair is the fact that in all pro.
bability M. Replier will refuse to take the oath of
allegiance.
The Moniteur du Soir affirms that the English
expedition against the Ashantees has been beaten
back with a very heavy loss, especially of officers.
The Siecte has a long article, the object of which
is to show that Austria, so far from entertaining
any gratitude towards France for having made a
present of the throne of Mexico to an Archduke
of the house of Hapsburg, now treats Venice
worse than ever, and is reinforcing the quadri-
lateral with the especial view of exercising a
pressure upon the election of a new Pope in the
shortly-expected event of the death of Pius IX.,
and preventing the triumph of French influence
at Rome.

That irrational and indiscriminate patriotism
which in France goes by the name of Chaurinione,
and which lately showed itself in the dishonest,
and to this hour uncorrected distortion of the case
of File de l'Air at Epsom, and in the disgraceful
hissing of Blair Athol at Longcbamps, is now illus-
trated by the Paris newspapers in their account of
the cricket match between the Warwickshire
Knickerbockers and the Paris Club. French people
never play cricket, and know nothing about the
game. The French papers took no notice of the
match between the Paris Club and Sir Robert
Clifton's Nottingham Eleven, in which the latter
were victorious. But now, running away with the
story that Paris has beaten Warwickshire, they at
once proceed to boast of the national superiority in
cricket as in other things. They say nothing about
the " Paris Club," but announce that the " Pari-
sians" have taken a " splendid revenge" over their
adversaries on the " other side of the Channel."
The fact that the Paris Club consists entirely of
English residents is conveniently suppressed. The
/haiku,. du Soir and other journals attempt to
explain the game of cricket, and in so doing make
a number of amusing blunders. They succeed
pretty well in their description of a wicket,
which they translate quichet. But then,
confounding wicket ant cricket, they say it
is a most surprising thing that the men who play
the game are also call.d quichets. it is now, on
the faith of the Parisian organs of public instruc-
tion, a settled thing that France is as superior to
England in cricketing as in horseracing.
Madlle. Fix, one of the best actresses of the
Theatre Francaise, who left the theatre about a year
ago on her marriage with M. Salvador, a director
of the Credit Mobilier, died yesterday in childbed ;
the infant is also dead.

The Bourse was greatly affected by the news of
a fall of in Consols, which was coupled with
rumours of a ministerial crisis in England. Rente
fell 20c. for cash and 15c. for account, closing at
66fr. 75c. and 66fr. 80c. Mobilier fell 40fr. Rail-
ways were from 21r. 60c. to bfr. lower.