The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-15 00:00:00

VICTOR COUSIN.

The death of Victor Cousin, which has been an-
nounced by telegram from Cannes,will be read with regret
by all who have taken au interest in the philosophic move-
ment of Europe for tLe last half century. He may be said,
indeed, to have died in armour, for simultaneously
with the report of hi.) death comes the an-
nouncement that • new edition of his "History
of Philosophy " has just been published by Didier and Co.,
of Paris. Victor Cousin was the son of • clockmaker, and
was born in Paris, in 1792. He was, therefore, 74 years
of age at the time of his death. After a brilliant career
in the Lycke Charlemagne, he was sent to
the Normal School, when) the lectures of Lam-
raigukre, Royer-Collard, and Maine de Hiram
decided his vocation in favour of philosophy. At first he
came out in the chair of the Sorbonne as an opponent of
the philosophy of the 18th century, and he, devoted the
whole of his lectures in 1817 tothe inculcation of the Scotch
school of philosophy which bad been some time previously
introduced into France by his master,Royer-Collard. lathe
same year he took a journey to Germany, where be made
himself acquainted with the philosophy of Kant, Fichte,
Schelling. and Hegel, which he taught in his course of lec-
tures between 1819 and 1821. Suspended as a teacher at
the Sorbonne by the reactionary government of the
day, M. Cousin became tutor to the son of
Marshal Lunen. After this he directed his at-
tention to Greek philosophy and brought out an
edition of Proclus with • Commentary, in li vela., and
a translation of Plato in 13 vols. In 1824 and
1825 he made a second journey to Germany, where
ho was arrested on the suspicion of Carboesrism
by the Dresden police, and sent to Berlin, where he
was imprisoned for mix months. Restored to his
chair in the Sorbonne by the government of M. Villele, he
divided with IL Villemain and M. Guizot the renown
' which that @drool of education obtained at this period.
The revolution of 1830 opened ri more brilliant career to
Cousin. He war made a Councillor of State, mem-
ber of the Royal Council of Public Instruction,
officer of the Legion of Honour, member of the
Freuch Academy, of the Academy of Moral anal Political
Sciences, Director of the Normal School, and Peer of
France. But it is as a plilosopher, and not as • poli-
tician, that Cousin will be best known to posterity. It
can hardly be said that he had any philosophic system
of his own. He was emphatically an eclectic philoso-
pher, selecting from all systems what he thought best
and most in harmony with the constitution of the human
mind. But he evidently inclined at this period of his life
to the transcendental opinions of the German school, and
once used thus words (which he afterwards suppressed)
with regard to the system of &belling :—" This system is
true." He was accused of Pantheism on account of his
leaning to the German school. But, like Schelling himself
in the latter years of his life, he felt disposed to Laws ali
philosophy on morals and religion, and it is said that
he returned to the Catholic church, which he oer.
tainly abandoned in the most vigorous period of his
I intellect, M. Cousin was a very voluminous writer. His
philosophical writings alone extend to many volumes, but
in addition to Lis philosophical works he has written
"Lives of Jacqueline Pascal, Madame de Longueville,
Madame de Sable, Madame de Chevreuse, Madame do
Hautefort ;" "Studies on the Women and Society of the
17th Century," besides works on public instructicm, re-
views, and memoirs.

Several of the prisoners said that they hat too
clonally been sliding in the Park.
The Magistrate remarked that there oonld be no °Vt.
Lion to that, but there wee only the km excuse fur their
TEE SOUTHERN PRESS IN THE UNITED I re-commencing in a place where it wee dangerous to Pet'
*engem. _

STA TA&

CLERKENWELL.
ROBBERY AT THE LANGHAM HOTEL.

The Mobile Advertiser is moved by the presenta-
tion of a gold medal to that true Southerner, General
Thomas, by the Tennessee Legislature, to ridicule the
general and the loyalists of Tennessee. It nays:—" If
Tennessee herself had presented the medal, it would pro-
bably have been of leather, and under the words of Gene.
rid Thomas, 'We will hold the town till we starve,' she
would have placed the inscription, ' I'm sorry you did'nt.'"
A paper called the Southern VentlietiV,r is published
at Pine Bluffs, Arkansas. the editor of which considered
himself to be expressing Southern opinion when he defined
his position, only two or three weeks ago, as follows :
" If so destroy a tyrant is assassination, then I would de-
stroy the tyrant. . . . When the news of Lincoln's
death reached me. I rejoiced. When I learned that •
man who never identified himself with the confederate
cause, struck the tyrant low, I thanked God that He
had selected an instrument from the heart of radicalism,
right under the tyrant's guns, to deprive America of a
radical tool. And when I laid down my arms, after a
bloody struagle fur independence, I thanked God from the
fulness of my heart, that Abraham Lincoln did not live to
mock our misery."
Many of the Southern papers are talking of • renewal of
hostilities. The Chariest."' Alereuru. the pioneer of seces-
sion, tenders " to the martyr and sufferer who occupies the
executive chair the services of the late t onfetlerate soldiei • to
put down the traitors of the North." The Mohile Trees
says in the same vein that " The South will resist with
force any change in its present political status. The
Pine 13taff Vindicator, in another article quoted above,
says :—" Let us have no more servility by the press and
public men of the country. Let us bear no voice coun-
selling submission, but all proclaiming our rights or war."
The Memphis Avalanche continues its proscription of
Union men in that city, and publishes a black list of busi-
ness men who were opposed to the rebellion. In • recent
article it says:—" From this time henceforth and for ever,
let every true Southern man, who was an ex-rebel, or
whose son, brother, father, or kin was one—let hint avoid
the business houses of Wolcott, Smith, and Co., and W. It.
Moore. Henceforth they are famous. ' Smallpox,' or
' tarantula.' Either will answer."

A n M'Sueenp,• aged 2,, a laundress, residing 17.
l'amden.street, Islington, was cl,lrged before 31'. Cook,:
with having in her possession some articles of what the
could not give a satisfactory account.
From the evidence of Mr. John F. Howe, pawc'•rslcr.
$3 and tiri, Itarnshury-road, it appeared that vest. r.' rh
prisoner offered in pledge a towel, two cambric 1. red
chiefs, and a silver cross. Finding that the too Inu
marled " Langhlon Hotel," and that the handle, :chic:.
were also marked, he asked her how she became po,e•-•e‘l
of them, and she said she had had them some e, hur
when he asked the fuitial ou the hamikerchiefs sSo 0 0
nut tell hint. In answer to his questions as to how -h•
i became possessed of the silver cross, she s. • I 0-.4
a friend who had gone to Australia had given it t•. h
Knowing that there had men an extensive rol,l ep•
the liinghaiu lintel he gave her into custody, aid "'•
then said that she had been engaged at the La;;;h:e.
Hotel and had taken the towel home with some hrnk
victuals in it. At the station she gave a different verso':
of how she became possessed of the property.
The prisoner said that she was innocent of corm:atm::
any felony, as all the things had been given to her.
The police asked for a remand to enable them to
further inquiries.
Mr. (244.11k0 remanded the prisoner, :ma refused to ••,'
bail.

MARY I.EitON E.
THE TOOK AT THE WEST END.

Th's morning there .ere :lout LOU able-bodied lahol.mi
smiting outside the police court, at the magistrate's •s•
trui,e. On the arrival of Mr. d'Eyneeurt the Apo:, sn
(.f them said he had been to the Marylebone Vt ei kh
for relief, and was refused.

In reply to his worship and to Mr. Tubbs. a
ovcrscer, the applicant said he did not apply It
was another man. He could only earn 7d. a day -Pqa•
breaking, and that would not keep his family.
Mr. Tubbs said if they were willing to work tb. v
all 1r supplied with stone tickets, by which th. v n Id
earn Is. a day.
Applicant said they were not allowed to can.
much as that. Even if they could that would not • Ipport
Mr. Tubbs—They are allowed to earn the fifter,..l,a •
Indeed experienced hands can earn as much i•cr
week.

The Boston .4drerti.er of the 29th ult. says :
"Gentlemen direct from military headquarters at
Charleston and Raleigh throw much additional and
startling light upon the negro-whipping question. It
appears that in all country towns the whipping of
negroes is being curled on most extensively. The
real motive at the bottom of it is to guard against
their voting in the future, there being a law in North
Carolina depriving those publicly whipped of the
right to vote. The practioe was carried on upon
each a Hale at Raleigh, that crowds gathered every
day at the Court House to see the negroes whipped.
Besides, the sale of freedmen for slight offenoes is going
forward rapidly in all parts of the state, and some of the
planters in the eastern portion are boasting that the old
order of things is practically restored for them, as they
now own their gang and have them in good subjection.
Mr. Johnson's setting aside of General Sickles's order
preventing whipping and ,ale, is thus regarded as utterly
barbarous, sa virtually returning the blacks to slavery."

Mr. d'Eyneourt said no doubt if they were wii ink t"
work for relief they would get it ; but it appeal:a they
wanted relief without giving any labour in return. It w
a hardship upon the ratepayers.
Mr. Tubbs said they would all be supplied with Ivor.. d
they only applied.
Mr. d'Eyncourt said it had come to his koowle tar.
when the snow was on the ground about soli
labourers applied at this work!uuse for relief, and ta y. r 2.
olio-col half a crown a day to sweep away the snow. r lot
of that large number only tla accepted the oiler, atl.l woe
supplied with tickets, and even of this latter ultnavr
did not go. He then advised all to go to the wol tho,e,
as he could not assist them.

Nice just now presents an epitome of the " t.,,mat
globe itself." On the Ist instant its foreign population
consisted of 123 Germans, 200 Americans, 486 15,g1,5b:
3 Brazilians, 16 Belgians, 7 Danes, 11 14paniox,i4. 11'
French, 2 Greeks, 8 Dutch, 1 Hungarian, 42 Italians,
7 !doldo-Wallschians, Turks, 11 Poles, 130 Russians,
3 Swedes, 21 Swiss—altogether 1,496.