The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-27 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

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BERLIN, &LPL 26.
The Berlin A ligenteine Zeitung of this evening
says:

" It is rumoured that Count von Bias:nark Bohan-
batmen has had interviews with the Deputies Her
Boekum-Dolff, and /angst.
" It is also reported that it is the intention of
the government to propose to the Chamber the
voting of the budget in monthly portions."

BELGIUM.

SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS.
111001 ID DAT.

8E17133EL8, SLIT. It
Yeateaday the melons again met in the Palais
Dual, whoa several questions of considerable interest
wew iblellMld. The following is a summary cd the
preeesdinga;

The various laws rep/ding the prom were inverigeted.
N. B. Di 011AZDIN 00DteDded that the per ought not
to be rekject to any legislation. A free press could essrody
cared ea offence. The crimes sad offences ol the press were
perel=enery. The existing governments were actirm
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you wide the) °Medd the Leweilkeil naemnora The prim
could sat Task* a good goar.bed sae. am a bed
goverment a pod one. It est rake a \endgame
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eared by a journalise carried . sksog with 4,
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grew as religious pokers&
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plonsibi Amis. and et IL de 04.
moan. besense in meat emenit wee est
essepreed of isolated kidloidede. Tbe bad
mosielphedre hie few N. Demmer senseirsed with the
let sperm es le dkneenopielo brier se paler* ter ail I
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himself in freer of doe vio and poem!
el the Inoopend ordepidlort Is Illeoligiene. .
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relli ol lke thriaryligr rifiar but be could not agree
in die mese, by "bib ba mipperted it. No, the press
a est pereriese Theorem *NSW de mash harm, became it
weld do wash Ilse press, like another hams Write.
tree, waa of either good or evil. That which would
be all Jared read be perfeediso. It wee en
wooer% of the if arid do that there cm& to ha SO I'
is from with the peer.
legislative
"Ds Gnus= replied to the objections shield
whir , hiss. Be, however, meintaieed his the* mad
iodated upoo the impotency of the press
The discussion was rationed to 4 o'clock, rhea the
swam rose.

Samoa 2.—EDUCATION.
The Secretary reed the followieg Wier front IL Vidor
Hugo, which wee received with mach applause :

". Eniasiels, Beet 20.
" Gentlemem—You were food mum* to desire my pre-
sence at the come= which u to awandsie oa the =ad MA.
at Brussels. I regret that urgeot bunkum requires my
prawn at Onerseey, and that I gall be deprived of the
;demure et milked ot the imporemt disoraidam that are
about to be opened. I send you at least my complete ist-
hmian. A great impulse might be crewed, I have wawa*
by the cower so usefully °Devoted by you. Amass' all
the quest/ow kid down in your moonset um
the meet fruitful of any appears tow ripe or solo=ei
Belgium espimislly. his that which may be calledthe
quwtiom namely, gratuitous and obligatory instruetion.
One nuili Rotel recommends itself by its OWN MAUI to tie
attention of congress. This quokka solved, a good kw
may be made apes your initiative, and the rasa* thus
given to other peoples would have an admirable meek.
Mere was no more urgent question than that of gratuitous
and obligatory eduestow. The present moment ie weighed,
but it pewee. Let use tarn our eyes to the great to morrow
which civilkation waits for—lee us prepare for it. The
child—this is the supreme question—the child has in hk
cradle the pesos or war et the future. It is from that
cradle we mast chase away darkness. Let us cause light to
arise I. the soul of iabsocy. Twenty-five years of gratuitous
and obtory instruction would change the Laos of the
' world.. The child, I repeat it, is the future. The sod there
is generous • it gives more than an ear for the gram of
wheat. Apps.y • spark there it will become a blue et
light. To make • citizen let us begin by making • man.
Let us open schools everywhere. Where them it sot
in aa individual the interior light which instructiou gives.
then he is no mac. Be is no better than the head et •

beast as compared with the multitude—one which exists la
idleness, and which the muter will take by and by to the
pasture, sada/ torwards to the abattoir. In the human
erestrre that which miste slavery is not matter—it is in-
telligence. Freedom commences when ignorance Is
die-
permed. fluid wished to say these things to you, and other
things also. I cannot renounce the opportunity of doing so
without much regret but you will not want eloquent
voices and generous spirits. These councils of hate=
convoked from time to time are efficacious. The problems
of the age are pressing us—they come—they are there. The
moment is come whoa we should be prepared to receive
them, and to raise the old warning cry of the Romans—
Ad porta; !—I pray you,
.gentlemen, to be my interpreter to
the congress, and to receive the assurance of my warm
cordiality. " Vivien How."
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M. cc Gaorrx opposed the principle of obligatory edn- I
cation as being contra', to the liberty of the father. .
M. ALBERT Lacamx advocated obligatory iastructica,
and cited the example of those countries which had
adopted it to prove its practicability and the good months
arising from it. Neither the liberty of the instruction nor
the freedom of a father of a family is involved in this quer
tion. The father has a duty to fall in relation to his son,
and one also in relation to society. The law boa the right
to provide for the strict accomplishment of those obliga-
tions. The culture of the mind was as essential a part of
the bun= being as the nourishment of the body. The
civil law, in declaring that the husband and wife by the fast
of their marriage bad contracted the obligation of nourish-
ing and bnoging up their children, bad merely responded to
this double want of human nature.
M. Foocara DE CARRILL opposed the
s=ans of obli-
gatory education, because they did not au • y take into
consideration the most essential part of education for man.
This question, examined in an economic pant of view,
cannot well be solved, because a system of obligatory in-
struction could not be carried out gratuitously, and the date
ought not to give anything for nothing. The object 'ought
for was no doubt noble and grand, but the means proposed
to west it were whol inadequate.
M. Jorge Bums said whet he wished to see established
was this—that in regard to education the state should not
stop in to aid the system until it was found that the cotn-
mtuis wen unequal to it, and that the commune should not
interfere until the individual in question was shown to be
without any mesas. The state aid commune would act in
this way only as supplementary aids.
In the remaining sections no questions were considered of
great public interest.