The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-20 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, MoirDAT Evutn.

The Minister of Public Instruction has written a
report to the Emperor proposing to establish, or,
rather, to re-establish a chair of political economy
and public law at the College of Law. M. Duruy
declares that this science, ventilated by the die-
cuasions of a century, affects the most vital con-
ditions of modern society ; or, in other words, the
minister finds France a hundred years behindhand.
He points out to the most civilised nation in the
world that this political science has to do with
public wealth and the purest speculations of the
mind ; it effaces from the ancient code that most
unrighteous maxim that the welfare of our neigh-
bours is our evil ; it encourages liberty, gives man
dignity, Christian sentiments, and a favourable
idea of universal fraternity. " This science," says
the minister, " which lately enabled a neighbour
jog power to pass through a fearful crisis for its
labouring classes without peril, has not a single
chair in the departments, and only two in Paris of
a special character, and where only a few scholars
already acquainted with its principles discuss its
application. All the young men destined for the
liberal professions remain without any instruction.
Your Majesty advised that the sound doctrines of
political economy should be taught to the working
chases, and an English minister, at about the same
epoch, remarked that this science had saved Eng-
land from socialism. Public opinion demands that
this want should be supplied, and schools of poli-
tical economy opened. Volunteers have taught at
Bordeaux, Montpellier, and Nice, and Lyons has
asked for a foreign savant to instruct its citizens."
But for the expense, the minister would recom-
mend the establishment of several chairs ; at pre-
sent, however, he will be satisfied with one in
Paris, but he hopes that other towns will profit by
the example of Lyons and demand professors, which
the government will be happy to appoint. The
Emperor has approved this report, and has con-
ferred another liberal measure on France. The
creation of this chair has been well received by the
press, although its utility at present may be ques-
tioned ; it would be of little good instructing a man
to swim by himself, and then forbidding him to ven-
ture out of his depth. However, this gift horse
should not be too closely examined.
The Opinione of Turin says that the treaty, to
which I alluded yesterday as about to be signed be-
tween France and Italy, stipulating for the evacua-
tion of Rome in two years, has actually been signed
in Paris. TLe Opinions gives the names affixed to
this document, important if it exists ; but after all
the Italian journal may, to use a sporting phrase,
only be trying to force the running, and by bringing
the question thus before the public oblige Franca to
move in the right direction. The Opinion Nationale
is satisfied that this news is true. That the wish
may not be father to the thought!

Prince Napoleon has left Paris for his estate of
Prangins, in Switzerland. The prime will be absent
about a fortnight or three weeks, ands to be back for the
fetes which are to be given next month at Compi4me in
honour of Prince Humbert on his arrival from England
nil Holland.

Lettere from Prussia talk of the almost triumphal
entrance of M. de Bismarck into Berlin, and tell how his
friends met him at the railway, enthusiastically applauded
him, sod escorted him to his residence, in acknowledgment
of which admiring demonstrations be made a little speech,
deprecating the honour paid him, and declaring that the
great recent success of Prussian policy was to be attributed
entirely to the King, whose firmness and courage had res-
dared the task of his ministers easy, and the evening of
whose life Providence bad adorned by bestowing viotory
on the Prussian army. For the glory gained, the advan-
tages won, the King, after God. was aloes to be thanked.
He spoke of the love and fidelity of the people to their
sovereign, but to the national will or to the parliament it is
scarcely necessary to say there was no reference made.

The correspondent of the Times at Vienna
writes ;—" A few days ago • lad named Kober, who is
rather more than 14 years of age, was tried here on •
charge of high rearm. The boy dropped his pocket-
book in the street, and the person who pinked it
up found in it • document which plainly showei
that its author and two other persons intended to make an
attempt oc the life of the Emperor. The principal conspi-
rator and his associates, who bad not attained their 14th
year, were arrested, and, as has already been said, brought
to trial. Kober was sentenced to five years' imprisonment
in irons ; the other lads ware acquitted. The whole affair
has produced • very disagreeable impression hare, and nei-
ther Dr. Her, the Minister of Justice, nor K. von Lien-
barber, the Prorcutor-General, would feel flattered if they
should learn what is publicly rid of them."

The Salut Public, of Lyons, publishes some inte-
resting news foe embryologists. la ebbing piles far the
bridge of Port Holland, which is being thrown over the
river Ain, the navvies employed discovered some armour
of gilt bronze, swords, and poniards. These articles have
been purchased by the conservator appointed by the Empe-
ror to enperinteed the Museum of Gallo-Roman antiquities
which be is forming in the old castle of St. Germaiti.en-
Iwye. They are of great historical Internet, as they may
serve to indicate the course permed by Julius Cam,
when, having entered Briancon from Italy, he pursued the
Helvetii, who were slowly moving towards the Annie.

An Athens letter says :"Illeasurea are now
being adopted in Greece to re-establish the medicinal
baths, and turn to amount the thermal waters which
that country p ossesses. The baths of Oedipeeus, io the
island of Elbow, which were formerly so celebrated for
their virtue* io rheumatism and diseases of the liver, h►ve
already been restored. Nearly thirty houses have been
already erected around the spring, and a physician resides
there during the season."

A letter from Richmoud, dated the 16th ult.,
says —" To report that an American July and August are
stiflingly oppressively, ezbauotively hot—is to utter nothing
but a truism. But it is worthy of notice that the last
twenty days are said to have been unparalleled in hest within
the memory of the oldest inhabitant. Night and day the
mercury of Fahrenheit has touched 90, and has sometimes
gone considerably above that figure. The effect of the
Intense heat is visible in the universal lassitude and pallor
which are perceptible in every countenance. Officers and
travellers who have lived in Bengal and Madras agree in
reporting that they find the American beat much more
oppressive than that of the Rut Indies. The American
houses are ill adapted for excluding heat or cold, and there
are no punkahs. The only mitigating circumstance which
makes the summer of 1864 more endurable than its pre-
decessor in Richmond since the commencement of the war
is that we have this y ear an &build/Ace of ice. But the
pale shadows which flit along the shady sides, of Riehmead's
streets this day, utterly devoid of English rosiness and
fleshiness, seem better fitted to reside in the dons. exilis
Pisa:midi than to be denizens of the working, tolling, moth.
enduring world in which at this moment their lot I. east."
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo-
nial-Aloe from the Governors of Cacia&, Vancouver's
Island, and British Columbia. Despatches wen seat to the
Governors of Gibraltar, Melte, Mauritius, Ceylon, Hoeg
Hoeg, Lhasa. and Australia,