The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-28 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

REACTIONARY PROCEEDINGS.
(non OUR OWN 0011131OPONDINT.)

PARIS, TININDAY EVEIRNG.

This is a day of melancholy reaction. In the
first place, the Moniteur contains a decree from the
Minister of Public Instruction, suspending the
lectures of the eminent M. Ernest Renan, the
newly-appointed professor of the Hebrew, Chaldaic,
and Syrian languages in the College of France, on
the ground that he has "broached doctrines which
offend Christian faith, and may lead to regrettable
agitation." I have not yet had time to read M.
Reflex's opening lecture, which was published in
extenso by the Debate a few days ago. I therefore
cannot tell what special offence it may contain to
justify the charge in the Moniteur. But I know in
a general way that M. Renan notoriously holds
opinions analogous tothose of the authors of "Essays
and Reviews." It was with this knowledge that the
government the other day appointed M. Ronan, to
the great disgust of the Monde and the Gazette de
France. Whether the step was a wise one or not is
much too large a question for a daily correspondent
to discuss fully. But, at all events, it was taken
with full consideration, and I cannot understand
the policy of "putting a hand to the plough and
looking back." As to the " agitation " which M.
Renan's lectures are alleged to have been likely to
produce, I can only say that a feeble attempt to
hiss him was silenced by an overwhelming majority
of students. His lecture was listened to with breath leas
attention, and, as you may, perhaps, already have
recorded, the students went to his house after the
lecture to give him an ovation, and in his absence
his venerable mother came to the balcony and bowed
to the crowd.

This day, in consequence of the publication of
the above decree in the Moniteur, a large procession
of students favourable to M. Ransil marched Co his
house in the Rue de Madame, followed by a strong
police force. There are reports of more arrests,
but of this I know nothing.
The next reactionary step of the day, and one
' more decidedly lamentable than the former, is a
warning given to the Opinion, Nationale, and signed
by the Oouut de Persigoy, for an article in its
bulletin of yesterday, which, "On the occasion of
expression of opinions by certain members of the
Senate, contains insulting expressions towards one
of the great bodies of the state."
To enable you to judge of the merits of this
warning I subjoin the corpus delicti—the very words
of the incriminated article of the Opinion .Nationak.
It is as follows :

The stormy debates of the Luxembourg continue, and are
commented on by the public. The nation is holding its
grand anises and judges the speakers according to the
principles of 'B9. The entire prose resounds with these
discuasiorm The violence of the reaction is everywhere
considered as the despair of the last hour. We are sorry
for it on account of the Senate, which is the first body of
the state ; but the expression of retrograde passions with
which the majority of its members are animated, or rather
blinded, hes produced as great a sensation abroad as in
Pail and throughout France. [Here follow quotations
from London and Belgian journals, referring to the recent
turbulent debates in the Senate, acid contrasting Prises
Napoleon's liberal sentiments with the intolerance of
the old legitimism] MM. de Segur d'Agueseeau and de
Larochejaquelin do not know the country to which they
■peak. They do not see with their own eyes, but with
those of their fathers and grest•grsndfathars. Nothwith-

standing the distinctions which they endeavour to draw,
they represent in reality nothing but Bowl:maim Franco
before the revolution. These gentlemen ought to be sit-
ting in the Spanish Corti•s at the present day. There at
any Me they might, on strictly constitutional grounds,
make war cm 'modern ideas and the liberal press, and cover
themselves with glory by campaigns in favour of ultramost-
tanism. The Swish constitution is exclusively netball",
and we have Put seen an honourable citizen, M. Matamoros,

sentenced to imprisosasat with hard labour far partastaat
Pr*P•Pnaiam-
There is nothing in the above which has
not been said by almost every independent
journal in Europe within the last week,
and I have seen infinitely stronger writing
to the same effect, not only in the Opinion
Rationale, but in the Temps, Prase, and Debate.
What rational explanation can be given for the
policy of the French government in taking part
with the D'Aguesseaus and Larochejaquelins at
the present crisis l It really looks as if the Emperor's
digestion waa affected by the bitter east wind,and that
indisposition rendered him most vulnerable to the
feminine and priestly influences which are
ever on the look out for a weak point.
It is impossible that he can long go
on in this way halting between two opinions.
One of Dean Swift's papers upon " Trim-
, mere " would be excellent reading for him at the
Present moment.

The Opinion Nationale bad prepared an article
on M. Renan's suspension, but announces that
after the warning it has received prudence forbids
the publication.
The events of the day seem to me to add point
to the observation I made yesterday about the ex-
treme tenderness of M. Billault in dealing with
the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. The
government by its present conduct holds out
its cheek to the buffets of that jesuitical society,
which boasts that it has an army of nearly 200,000
men, which makes a merit of not having used its
influence to thwart the financial measure of the
oonversion of the Four-and-a-Half per Cents., and
threatens an emigration far more formidable than
that at the time of the old revolution, if the go-
vernment seta it at defiance.

The Bourse is very firm Bente rose 35c. and
25c., closing at 70fr. 900. and 71c. In other secu-
rities there was little change.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

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SATURDAY. SUNDAY.
N. Britain.—N.W. to K, E. to N. and W., moderate to
dente, *owe rain or snow in fresh.
places.
Ireland. —N.N.W. to X, mods-

rate, fine.
Central.—N.to. E., fresh to

moderate, floe
Coast.—N.E. to Sit, fresh.
L England.—Easterly, fresh or
strong, to moderate. fair.

X. to X and 13. F., moderate to
fresh.
Aa next above.

N. E. to S. S. E., fruit to mode
rate.
E. to S., fresh to moderate.

EXPLANATION.
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level : e7c171.61e-st7a7Mtialrilii,eaisinieft-satiosib
of an luck diminution ; end mob 10 doff., above It deb., cerise
nearly three-hundredths Mamma r..—Mtposed thermometer
In shade. 11.—Ifolstened bulb (for evaporation and dew
point). D.—Direction of wind (tree—two paints kit of sarg.
nettle). I.—Force (1 to 12—edbeated). C.--Wood (I to 9). I.—
Initlsls b, blue sky :o. deeds (leteebed): fog
Ughtains. to. misty (basy); evereset r, ran mew
thander. H., rain-fall. or mow, or WA dam Mit report, in
incbes sad decimals. 9.—fteedletartalros (120

THE COST or THE WAREIOI.—We 1031112 by a
parliamentary return which was issued this morning that
the total cost of the Warrior, before being ready for ma,
was 354,8851. The hull was 251,6461. ; the engines,
71,8751. ; masts and rigging, 18,5384 ; and tittiop and alter-
ations, 12,8281. _ _

- . .
A return to parliament informs us that the
Winos dee by the Greek `o►ernment in respect of the
Greek Irani' 847,5441. Ilis. Id.

The sum remaining to be discharged on the Sar-
dinian loon advanoed by her Majesty's government is
1,875,3891. 18s. 6d.

The founder and editor of Notes and Queries,
Mr. Thome, of the Paper-office in the House of Lords, has
been appointed sub-librarian to that chamber.

A memorial, influentially signed, has, we (Critic)
beer, bees presented to Lwd Pahnerston, praying that Mr.
Leitch Ritchie, author of several well known works, and at
one time the editor of Ohasebers'e Journal, be allowed a
pension from the Literary Fund.
The Rev. James Sherman, who died at Black-
heath last week, has left a voluminous autobiography,
which V to be published under the editorship of the Rev.
Henry Mon.
The prosecution of the Rev. Mr. Quinn, Roman
catholic curate, for an alleged libel on Mr. Armstrong ea a
landlord, is to come on at the, approaching Armagh anise&
It is stated that the priest has secured the advocacy of Mr.
Whitcalde, ILP., by a retaining fee of 100 guineas. The
excitement about the trial is so great that the sheriff has
resolved to inns= equal number of tickets for each aide, to
prevent overcrowding and confusion in the ociart4touse.
The captain of the steam frigate Descartes, at
Toulon, received a telegraphic message on Friday last from
the Minister of Marine to proceed forthwith to Alexandria
with ammunition for the army in Cochin Chime. She takes
out as passengers the Bishop of Pekin, with seven miss' ima-
ms and fifteen sisters of charity, two staff surgeons, an

interpreter for the Chinese mission, and 100 seamen to sup-
ply deficiencies in the fleet in Cochin China.
Mr. Ambrose L Kimball, of Haverhill, Massa-
ebussetts, who was tarred, feathered, and ridden on a rail,
for expressing Southern sympathies in his newspaper, is not
going to let his persecutors off unpunished. At the
Superior Court at Salem, he has indicted six of the ring-
leaders among the townsmen, end the court required toil
of 1,000 dollars from each of them, in order to take their
trial on the charge.
The Emperor of Russia has just decreed the
gratuitous omosseion of two hundred equate yards of laud
situated at Great Norskaia, Saint Petersburg, for the con-
struction of a church of the Germaa reformed religion.
RICAPTION or Ma. CONSUL PANNE{ AT Dovia.
—Yesterday the mayor sad corporation of Dover gave en
officio.' reception to Mr. Consul Parkes, the narrative of
whose captivity, io ooujunction with Mr. Locke, sad several
other English gentlemen, in the course of the lets war with
China, excited the deep commiseration of their fellow
countrymen. Mr. Parkes had arrived in England a day or
two previously, and was staying at the Lord Warden Hotel,
where the gentlemen of the town council waited on him
yesterday morning to cougratub.te him on his safe return to
his native lard, after sufferings which had elicited the
strongest sympathy and indignation of every Englishmen.
FATAL Duet.—A letter from Kehl, iu the
Coarrier da Bat Rain, states that on Saturday, the W.nd
lost, a duel took place in the forest which extends be-
tween Korck and Legelahuret. The two advereeries were
M. de Bonin, a first lieutenant of the Dragoon of the
Prussian Guard, and M. de Roulet, of Neuchatel, for-
merly an officer in the Prussian cavalry. It was agreed to
place the combatants' 15 paces apart, with the right of
advancing five paces to fire. The two shoes occurred so
simultaneously that the amends at first thought bat one
of the parties had fired, but at the same moment M. de
Roulet uttered a piercing cry, and fell dead, struck by
the ball of hk adversary above the left eye. Imme-
diately afterwards M. de Bonin, with his second, Lieute-
nant itimelmann. repaired to the tribusal du baillage at
Kurck to make his declaration relative to the duel which
had just taken place, and judicial proomdiags were at coos
commerical Two hours after the deal a relative ef IL de
Roulet arrived at the theatre of the event, charged by the
mother of the unfortunate young man, a wealthy widow ef
Neuchatel, to bring about arecoottiliatioa betimes her only
ono and M. de Bonin. H. de Roulet was a fine young roam
20 years of age, 11011 belonged to one of the most respectable
families of the cantou of NeucheteL The pistols were pur-
chased the previous evening at Strasburg. A Irene& and
a Baden surgeon were present at the rasooeuter. The body
of M. de Roulet was conveyed to Neaehatel.
GEOLOGICAL &GINTY, tlottaasaT HOUSl.—Papers
to be read March 5, Ina at Burliegten.home, at 11 o'clock:
1. On the glacial origin of certain lakes is Switeerbuel,
Wales, Scotland, and elsewhere, by Prohmor A. 0. Hammy,
F.R.S., President Geological Society. 2. On the ppoesemm
' beds of Westmoreland. Cumberland, and DnfsrfesaMn
by Pawnor R. Harlow% PALS., F. 0.8.