The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-06 00:00:00

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Kahn 29.31 40 B.W.
Aberdeen V.OI 39. W.
L3ith 29.7142 W.S.W.
Ardrossan V.7I 45' W.
Greencastle 29.09 491 W.S.W.
Liverpool 29.86421 B.E.
Holyhead 29.30 49, W.B.W.
Pensamm . 29.79 951 8. W.
Brest .. 29.90 55' B.W.
Lorient 30.90 55, 5.3. W.
Rochefort.. . 30.12 4e 8.
Plymouth
Weymouth 29.56 53 S.S.W.
Portsmouth 29.91 b 0 8.8. W.
London
Yarmouth 41.9:149 S.W.
Scarborough. 29.54 40 W.
29.74 49 S. W.
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REMARYi.
The weather on the coasts has moderated, but It continues in
sn unsettled state. The winds are still south-westerly, and on
the southern coasts rather fresh, with high temperature. Can-
Winery signals have been repeated on the western maxi&

A letter from Compiegne, of Monday, says :
" The Emperor went out shooting to-day with several of
hiy guests in the preserves of Royal-Lieu. The weather
was magnificent, and not fewer than 1,295 head of game
were brought dosn. The Emperor killed 1 stag, 9 hares,
125 rabbits, 82 pheasants, 10 partridges ;in all 227. Of
the other sportsmen the Prince de Metternich brought
down 100, Prince de la Moskowa, 168 ; Baron de Corberon,
149; Lord Gros►enor, 113; M. de Iliteeren, 109; Count
da Moltke, 97 ; Count Walewski and the Duke d'Albu-
fere, 85 each ; and General Viscount de Noue, 72."
According to the Moniteur de la Meurthe, the
use of horseflesh as food is making progress at Nancy.
M. I'ineau, to whom the Acclimatisation Society ha■ just
conceded the enterprise, has already a dozen horses in his
stables fattening. At present the average consumption is
two animals per week. The farmers are beginning to
place themselves in communication with M. Pineau to
sell him such horses as they are obliged to get rid of from
accidents. The price of the animals under these circum-
stances varies from 60fr. to 80fr.
M. Jules Fevre, famous for his eloquence iu the
Legislative Chamber, and at the bar, of which he is the
pride and ornament, has just published in one volume hii
inaugural discourses as head of the Order of Advocates
(Ditcmnier), his memorable pleading for Orsini, and four
speeches which he pronounced in the Chamber last ses-
sion. "He is one of the few public speakers," writes
the Paris correspondent of the Times, " whose orations
might be printed off-hand without altering a phrase,
a word, or even the punctuation."
THE STUDY OF GRAMMAR.—A FRENCH VIEW.—

Duruy, Minister of Public Instruction, has addressed a
circular to the rectors of colleges, recommending them not
to torment their pupils by forcing them to commit to
memory the abstract rules of grammar. He says :
" Children of 10 or 11 speak of transitive and intransitive
verbs, simple and complex attributes, incidental, expLina-
tory, or determinatory propositions, circumstantial
complements, eta. One must have no notion of
children's minds, which are averse to abstrac-
tions and generalities, to believe that they can com-
prehend such expressions, which you and I h.ive long since
forgotten—it is simply an effort of memory, and not of
the slightest use. If the serious study of grammar is of
the utmost importance, if by an analysis of language we
are led to discover certain laws of mind, if by a comparison
of the construction of grammars among themselves we are
led to find the affiliation of nations and races ; if, in short,
this study constitutes for a mind, already mature,
one of the most fruitful applications of philoso-
phy enlightened by history, it must be admitted that,
for children, it is only too often an object of terror. Viva
rare lessons ought to be substituted: grammar must be
reduced to a few short and simple definitions, to a small
number of fundamental rules, which can be illustrated by
examples : it will also be necessary, in proportion as the
intelligence of the child becomes developed to place be-
fore it extracts from our best literary works, to make it
comprehend the different shades of meaning expressed by
the worts, the connexion and sequence of ideas, and, at a
la'er period, the inversions and even the bold peculiarities
of genius."
THE LAST DAYS WORSE THAN THE FIRST. —The
Mexican republicans seem determined to make the last
days of the French invaders as unhappy as possible. They
are making war on the enemy of their country and on the
various military detachments stationed at different point.,
with an energy which has not been equalled since the fall of
Puebla. New leaders are appearing in all directions,
and each of them seems to find a band of followers, with
horse and carbine, all ready for the fight. If the imp,-
rialiat pretensions over Mexico were absolutely, finally,
and in all respects abandoned, we could wish that the
republicans would let the French alone while they are
hastening forward their preparations to embark. But they
still put forward some claims to authority, such as that
relating to the collection of customs at Mexican ports,
while Maximilian has not yet doffed the purple or re-
signed the sceptre. The warlike activity of the repub-
limns will help to hasten the relinquishment of all foreign
pretensions in Mexico by showing both Napoleon and
Maximilian the impossibility of exercising any sort of
power against the will of such • people. It would be
hard now to exaggerate the disgust with which the
" regenerators of Mexico " will leave that irredeemable
country.—New York ruses.