The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-04 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY, 11.30 A.M.
The project of law relative to primary instruction
laid betore the Assembly by M. Carnot on Friday
last, has been published in crime°. According to
this plan education to a certain limit is declared com-
pulsory. If the parent cannot, or will not, educate
the child, the state will do it. Gratuitous education
to a o rtain limit is offered by the state to all with-
out distinction. A parent who will neither provide
education for his child, nor avail himself of the gra-
tuitous instruction offered by the state, is guilty of
an offence punishable by fine and suspension of civil
rights. That portion of instruction celled primary,
and which it is declared in this project necessary to
impart to all French children as the indispenaible
qualification to the future exercise of their rights as
citizens, is declared to be as follows :-1. Reading,
writing, grammar, arithmetic, the metrical system,
measuies of magnitude, elementary notions of
physics, agriculture and industry, drawing,'
singing, and French history and geography.-
2. The duties and rights of a man and a citizen, the
development of the sentiments of liberty, equality,
and fraternity.-3. Elementary precepts of heelth and
exercises useful to physical development.—Religious
instruction by the ministers of the different worships.
Such is the extent of education which th,s project de-
clares it to be the duty of the state to impart or
cause to be imparted to every child of either sex
under the republic. The machinery by which this
immense design is to be ralized is declared to con-
sist of public school., private schools, and family
instruction, all of which are to be directly or indirectiy
controlled by the state. The public schools are to be
conducted at the expense of the state, and
administered ander the direction of the Mi-
nister of Public Instruction. The masters and
mistresses of private schools must be licensed
by the state, and their qualifications must
be tested by means appointed by the Minister
of Public Instruction. All children of every class
from the highest to the lowest are subject to the sur-
veillance of the Minister of Public Instruction, whose
duty it is to see that none are uneducated.
The following is the fourth section of this project,
in which the means of compulsion are enumerated:
Every father, whose child aged full 10 years, is
notoriously known not to frequent any school, or re-
ceive primary instruction, is obliged, on notice from
the mayor, to present him to the commission of ex-
amination as to instruction. If the child be not pre-
sented, or if it appear that he does not frequent any
school, or receives no instruction, the father may be
cited at the request of the commission before the
Jugs de Pair, and reprimanded. The judgment shall
be publicly posted up at the Mairie for a month.
If the Commission report on the following year that
he has not attended to the reprimand, the father shall
be cited before the civil tribunal of the arrondissement,
and condemned to a fine of from 20 to 300 francs and
suspension of his electoral i ights during a period not
exceeding 5 years. The punishment shall cease when
the Commission shall report that the child has received
primary instruction.
Gen. Cavaignac, who now discharges the functions
lately fulfilled by the executive commission, having
announced to the assembly that the sum of 100,000
francs per month demanded by the ex-commission
for the expense of its bureaux ie unnecessary, that
payment has been discontinued, and the decree grant-
ing it repealed.
The committee on the secret service funds has pro-
posed that in future the Minister of the Interior shall
submit to a special committee the details of their
application.
It appears that the statement that M. Huber, ex-
President of the Revolutionary Club, who, on the
13th of May, pronounced the dissolution of the
Assembly, had been recognised by the agents of
police among the wounded at the Hospital of St.
Antoine, and arrested, is not true. M. Haber, when

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set at liberty, through an error committed a the
Mairie of the 4th arrondissement, on the evening of
the 15th May, has been in vain sought by the police,
and it appears pretty certain that he has gone to
some foreign country.
The result of the election which has just taken
place in Corsica for a representative in the Assembly,
has been the almost unanimous return of Prince Louis
Napoleon, who obtained 33,903 votes, the entire num-
ber being only 38,197.
' The tollowin4 appears in the Moniteur this morn-
ing : " The insinuations made at the tribune of the
Assembly against a neighbouring power by one of
the members of the late government having justly
made an impression on the British ambassador, his
excellency has protested energetically, by a note ad-
dressed to the Minister of Foreign Atfairs on the 27th,
against all possible applicati m of these allusions to
the English people or government, whose honour and
character of themselves would prevent them from
such attempts. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, ap-
preciating the noble susceptibility of Lord Not inanby,
has sent the following reply : "
The Minister of Foreign Affairs to his Excellency the
British Ambassador ,—My Lord,—My opinion, and that of
my govtrnment, is that the government of h.r Majesty the
Queen is ton loyal to have taken any part in the incitemert
to the deplorable events of Paris. I see no objection to your
giving publici,y to this declaration, Al well as to your note.
I shall inch td see theta with so much the more pleasure, as
they will be a new proof of the reciprocal sentiments of
frienlabip which animate the two governments.—(Signed)
1:71.E8 BAST Ills.

Count de Fouchicourt and his son, a young man
twenty-four years of age, both residing at Ne. 7,
Rue Saint-Anastase, near the Rue Saint-Louis,

distinguished them-elves for their resistance in
the barricades, of which they were the chiefs,
in their quarters. The count planted a white
flag on the barricades at which he fought. He I
was recognised by M. Isambert, lieutenant in the 6th
Legion, and that gentleman, assisted by sonic com-
rades and mobiles, arrested him at his own house on
Sunday evening. "It is true," said Jl. de Foachi-
court, " that I fought at the barricade, and I did BO in
the name of order, for, in my opinion, order cannot be
re-established in France without the restoration of
legitimate royalty."

We have received the Madrid mails of the 28th, on
which day Pezuela, Captain-General of Madrid, gave
notice in the Gazette, that the state of siege imposed
May 7th was taken off the e ipital.
By a decree from the Ministry of War, inserted in
the same official paper, a new regiment of Lavalry,
entitled de Farnesio, was created.

Seventeen Car:let:officers were gazetted as restored
to their rank in the army cat 1)on Carlos.
MAUGID, Jlllll 28. —Three per Cents., 22; cash ; after Bobo, 221
paper, 22j cash.nye per Cents., 131 paper ; after Holm, 13 cash.
Parsires, 41 paper; utter Boise, 41 cash. Coupons, 8 cash. Rank
of at. Ferdinand, .6 cash, 80 paper. Exchange on London, at 90
days 41 20 cast.

ITALY, —The Venice Gazette of the 24th has the
following in a postscript :—" On the 22nd, at half-
past one, the enemy appeared along the river Osel-
lino, at the distance of a mile from Marghera, and
occupied two houses outside of Mestre, near the
canal. They were dislodged by a few cannon shots ;
and a shot from a howitzer killed eight Croatians and
two children. At four the enemy appeared on the
dyke leading to Campalto, but was repulsed by Capt.
Maino after a short fire. The Venetian forces made
two sallies on the 23rd, one from Fort 0, the other
from Fort Rizzardi, and succeeded both times
in destroying the works of the enemy. On the same
day an Austrian battery of six pieces, at Fussina,
maintained an obstinate fire against the Venetian
cannon-boats Pelosa, Calipso, Medusa, and the
Pirogue Vivace: after two hours cannonade the bat-
tery was silenced."
The Ricoryimenta of the 28th states from
Trieste that the Greeks residing there have
offered to send fire-ships against the Italian
fleet. The governor has refused. The Italian
ships are cruising at ten miles distance off
Trieste; they are 14 in number. 1,600 Sicilians with
12 pieces of cannon, under the orders of Ribotti, have
landed at Pacula, and effected their junction with 2,400
Calabrians. They intend dislodging the royal troops
from Palma.

'the Italia del Popolo of the 28th June publishes
advices from Ostiglio of the 27th, which say : " All
the line of the Po, the road from Mantua to Gover-
rioM, on the Mincio, and Ostiglia, are in the power of
the Germans. Massa and Rovigo may now be occu-
pied by thtm."

GERMANY.—RAILWAY COMMUNICATION BE-
TWEEN BERLIN AND COLOONL—On the 23rd the uninter-
rupted communication by rail between Berlin and Cologne
took place by the opening of the bridge over the Elbe
at Magdeburg. Thus the treaty concluded by the
directors of the lines between Berlin, Leipsic, Hamburg,
Bremen, and Cologne, comes into operation, which will
greatly facilitate the interchange of commerce hetween the
main mercantile towns. All the goods coming from these
stations, as well as frem Dusseldorf, Dusburg, Minden,
Hanover, Brunswick, and Magdeburg, for export, will then
be transmitted, within the space of three or four days, to the
most distant points of the line, without any reloading or
extra freightage on the iiitermeditte stations. By this con.
tract the Hanoverian transit duty is greatly reduced. Iris
expected that these will be an increase in the transmission of
goods at the rate of 600,000 cwts. in the course of the year.
HAMBURG, JUNE 30.—The Danish negotiations,
it is stated in private &deices, were actively carried en at
Malmo. They had been taken out of the hands of the
Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Envoy is England, which was
regarded as favourable for peace. The Danes, it was under.
stood, had retired from Apenrade into Jutland, and the
Prussians, on the contrary, were advancing, In Jutland
the Danes would be entitled to the assistance of the Swede,.
The Laueuburg soldiers had refused to fight against the
Danes, and returned home. It was feared, according to one
private letter, that a battle betwixt the Danes and the
Prussians would be fought, even after peace should be
concluded.