The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-03 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY, 5 P.M.
In yesterday's sitting of the National Assembly no
question of interest presented itee'f. The faculty of
theology escaped the greater part of the reduction
proposed by the committee, while the professors of
the Ecole de Medecine bad their salaries cut down by
I,ooof. The amendment of Mortimer Tereaux, which
proposed to suppress the aids granted to the lyceums
and communal colleges, was rejected by a large
majority. The redactions of the committee on the
Museum of Natural History were voted. The
assembly stopped at public libraries.
The great event of the day was M. Vidal's option
for the Bas Rhin, which opens once more the electoral
lists of the Seine to a struggle between the two great
parties.
Before the public sitting the representatives met in
their bureaux to appoint two committee, one on the
bill proposing to carry over to the year 1843 a sum of
446,393 fr. 69:., remaining unemployed out of the
credit of five millions voted in September, 1848, for
agricultural colonies in Algeria; and the other, on
the bills lately presented relative to pensions to be
granted for the families of the persons who were
killed in February, May, and June ; both committees
are favourable to the measures proposed.
But for an animated speech by Jules Fevre the
sitting of the Legislative Assembly would have pre-
sented today little more interest than yesterday. A
series of minute economies, the sum total of which is
insignificant, were proposed and mostly adopted. The
discussion of the budget of public instruction was
cloned. A lucky under-librarian caught the house in
a fit of nee ion against excessive parsimony, and es-
caped a proposed reduction of his salary to the
amount of 2,6001 r. The chapter concerning pensions
for the encouragement and supptrt of literary and
scientific merit drew from M. Charles Duran and
some others a feeling remonstrance against so uncivi-
lised an economy. Nevertheless a reduction of
17,000 fr. was voted. Oa the chapter of scientific
missions a reduction of 61,000 fr. was voted and
carried. What gave this part of the debate
some faint interest was • mares proposed by M.
Placatory in favour of the French school at Athens,
which the Minister of Public Instruction had the
sincerity to avow was an invitation founded with a
political aim. The items of " publication of inedited
documents," "aids to the fund of ministerial pen-
sions," "public instruction in Africa" suoceeded. -The
pension-fund obtained assistance to the amount of
half a million of francs, but redactions were effected
on both the other items. The budget of public in-
struction having been finishe,d, the Assembly pulsed
to that of worship. A division took place on the pro-
position of M. Wallow, to effect a reduction on the
personnel. The number of votes was 678: For the
random, 324; against, 255.
The Assembly ed to appoint four com-
mittees, the first torrret: members, to consider the
propositions emanating front parliamentary initiative,

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Avignon and Ilarrellles, 197 30, Strasbourg ant Basle, 116 25
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423 73 ; Paris and Strasbourg, 333; Tours sod Nantes, 238 73 ;
ktoateresa and Troyes, 10373; Bordesui sad Tree, 30; Versailles
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