The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-29 00:00:00

EVENING, NOVEMBER 29, 1849.

body, which astansiltly was a unimittas assembled
Arm charitable purposes, are known to have bees
watched by the police for months paptcand it is even
said connived at by the authorities, in order that an
occasion which has been obtained might be seised to.
unveil a legitimist Dumping. M. de Laroche-
jeequelin sou informed, whether with truth
er not I cannot say, that the police were encouraging
Obese use, and he mentioned the eirearcstances at a
recent meeting of the club of the members of the
Right, which holds sittings in the Rue Rivoli,
stating that his name was being forged to letters of
which he did not know the contents, but which were
said to be brevets for the formation of a bodyguard.
M. de Latochejequelin was advised by M. Berryer to
be very cautious; it seems that at one moment M. F.
Barrot bad the intention of arresting M. de Laroche-
jaquelin when the men in the Rue Bamford were
taken, but that course was abandoned. That gentle-
man, however, accused M. Barrot of the intention,
which the other did not deny; upon which a most
angry scene took place. The members of the Club de
la Droite met last night in the Rue Rivoli, and all
agreed that there sou no reason for taking into any
account the intrigues connected with these arrests;
and it wee further determined that nothing should
be said of it in the Assembly till the government had
taken steps in the matter.
It is perfectly evident that the men now under ar-
rest were not actors in any deep-laid plot. The fol-
lowing account of the arrest is given by the Gasette
des Tribunal= :
Far the last two mouths the police have had their eyes on
a legitimist association, which had trkea the title of the
Legion de St. Huber, although at its origin it appeared to
occupy keen with ants of benevolence rather than politica.
The information which was obtained by the authorities,
clearly proving that the association had another object :has
that of charity, and that its real intention was to bring about
a change of government, the prefect of police dl not hesitate
to order measures to be taken for the arrest of the members.
For that purpose, the agents of the public force went
to the house of the president of the legion, M. P. de Cam-
moo', where the meeting was held. At the moment when
toe commissary of police and his agents entered the place of
muting, forty-five persons and the presidect were assembled.
They had just finished reading a pamphlet, relative to a
The
Frosaorf, published in February last by M. Didier.
The commissary made known the of jest of his visit, and de-
clared that ell present were in a state of provisional arrest.
This declaration produced a deep sensation amongst the
party, but no perimination nor c =plaint was uttered by
any one of them. A preliminary hiterrogation took placo.
The major part of them pretended that they had as-
sembled to consult u to the cuididates to be supported
in the approrching elections, but admitted that they
were acting illegally, as the de roe of convocation had
not yet been publish. ; same of the party avowed that
their re al object was to re-establish Henry V. on the throne
et his ancestors. The papers seized, end others which had
been tort up on the entrance of the police, the Iragmehts of
which were collected, cleared justified this la:ter assertion.
Among the papers were several commissions for officers,
having a green seal, hearing a boar's head. A certain
quaint. y of busts and medals bearing the effigy of Henry V.,
with the title of King of France, were also found. After
the parties bad been all taken to the prefecture, they were
conducted to their respective residences, where, in their pre-
sence a strict search was made, which led to the discovery
and seizure if arms and ammuniti,% with some, and with
others of papers of a certain importance, and at the resi-
dence of one was seised a sum of 3,000 fr. in gold : at that
of another ems franc pieces, bearing the effigy of Henry
V., and the date of 1850, aid a number of medals of a
similar character. The party were afterwards reconducted
to the Prefecture. Toe affair appears at present to be no-
thing more than a secret society. Among the 46 persons
arrested, there appears to be no person of any note belonging
ti the legitimist party : there were among them several old
servants of the household of Charles X., workmen, trades-
!
, people, a physician, a priers of the church of St. Severin, and
the beadle of the same parish, &c."
The melancholy 'Tote of the continued squabbling
in tte Legislative Are.embly, ending as is has so fre-
quently done in doe:s, which fortunately however
nave nut resulted in lore of life on either rd.., have
led to the proptsal, by MM. Gavioi and Failly, of
a motion by which any member of the Assembly will
in future tor.eit his quad y of repres ntative of the
peopl • from the very tact of his having fought a duel,
and further, be uneligible fur a year alter th• perpetra-
tion of the act complained of. This motion has been
referred to the usual committee.

The count! of Sr. Sulp:ce, the meeting of which I
announced to y ou at the time it took place, and which
was alto .ffid by all the prelates of the republic. has
just addressed a synodal letter to the c'ergy of all the
dioceses, of which the Cuttatitutionnel today gives a
mummery. This is a startling docunn nt, showing as
it does that the clergy have fallen low from the high
estate wince they held previous to the great revolu-
tion. This is admlted by the prelates themselves is
their letter, the obj. et of which is to resuscitate
amongst the clergy the virues of science, which it
appears the schools now no longer teach.
At the end of the last century (pays the Condi-
utionnel) an Engli h eta esman, on his return from
a journey through France, is known to h .ve expressed
himself in terms of the greatest admiration for the
French clergy, whose t..eolrgical and literary
knowledge was most extensive. Now all this
is changed. ' the spirit,' stye the synodal
letter, ' gives but of its abundance ; and fails
are there to prove that the French church since the
revolution has not given to its children all that they
might reasonably expect. Preaching is abolished in
churches, and ecclesiastical education is extinct. The
came of th's is to be found, says the let er, in the
want of sacred science amongst the elegy. To re-
medy this the council has decid. don the formation
of a course of studies on the broadest prl.ciples, with a
series of examinations, in order to et su. e .o the clergy a
sufficient amount of 'mewl. dge, arid the possession of
those worldly acquirements which one always expects
to meet with in every well-educated man. The small
seminari. s are also to receive more cam; etent teachers,
and for that purpose also a school of HO studies is
to be orgatasea, in which some of the chosen mem-
bers of the young clergy may acquire an instruction
which they can fructify.
While the clergy are thus proceeding in a course
of reform, the can e of tree education is receiving new
strength from the continuation of the system inaugur-
ated by M. Parma and the President of .he Republic.
Since the message of the 2nd of Nov., I have tad you
that the certificate of stiolies had beeu abolished.
Another measure has been taken u a sequel to the
first. No man in France can pass into any of the higher
branches of education mail he haska.sed the bee-
calawat (bachelorship), which is a 'vies of examina-
tions upon all possible sub ects. Tills examination has
given rise to numbers of superficial course,', in which
professors describe themselves openly as ctammers for
the baccalauriat. Toe knowledge thus atteiued being
but superficial, was, however, sufficient to permit of
Art pupils passing w,th ease. M. Perim was now
passed a degree by which these examination are
greatly simplified. Suppress.ons have been made in
algebra and ge,metry, in feet in all special science,.,
and the whole his been rendetel less profound and
more really useful. Cosmography is abandoned.
From history everything has been taken that would
require erudition, and reductions have also been made
in high philosophy.