The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-07 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(non ova owa ooaaseroavarr.)
PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.

The debate to take place in the Senate after
Easter upon the too great latitude which, ac_
cording to the church petition, is allowed to free-
thinking professors in the university is prefaced by
a very curious published controversy between a
young physician named Grenier (who, after re-
ceiving his diploma in Paris and commencing
actual practice in the country, got notice from the
Minister of Public Instruction that he was no
longer licensed to kill or cure because some

materialist doctrines had been discovered in his
answers to certain questions put to him by the
examiners, and he must therefore go through his
examination de novo) and the Bishop of Orleans.
The legal right of M. Duruy to revoke a diploma
regularly granted is very much questioned.
Prosecutions have been instituted against the
Journal du Roubaix, the Prop* du Nord, and the
Echo du Nord (of Lille), for having accused the
French government of an intention to supply
English manufacturers with capital for the purpose
of enabling them to undersell and ruin the French
manufacturers at Roubaix.

The Preue, whose sensational news it is right to
observe very frequently fails to be confirmed, says :

A messenger arrived yesterday at the Italian Legation
with despatches said to be of the very highest importance.
The memenger stayed but one day in Paris, and then re-
turned to Florence. We are sound that the despatches
in question relate to a modification of the September Cat-
vention.

The Joan of Aro tower at Compiegne fell down
on Saturday, and the crash caused great
terror in the quarter of the Rue Jeanne d'Aro.
There was no loan of life; but a little girl, the
daughter of a wine-shop keeper named Gruing,
escaped death by a marvellous accident. Owing
to a temporary illness she was taken out of her
little bed a short time before the accident occurred
, to sleep with her parents in another part of their
house. When the tower fell the bed which the
child had recently quitted was smashed into
atoms. . .

At the Bourse, Rente, after rising fully 10c.,
about Saturday's quotations, became dull—not to
say depressed, and closed, with a fall of 22}c. for
cash and 12ic. for account, at 69fr. 25c. and
69fr. 2t 4c. In other securities there was scarcely
any change.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, with Primus Albert Victor mid George, and the
Primer Louise, attended by Sir W. Knollys, the Hoe.
Mrs. W. Grey, Major Grey, and Mr. Holz man, left Merl.
borough.house yesterday for Sandringham, where they
will remain for a week, at the expiration of which time
they will return to town prior to proceeding en their visit
to Ireland. The improvements on the royal estate are being
pushed forward with rapidity, aced at the present season of
the year the appearances presented is if the most interesting
character. The new wing of the hosesewhieh is to °sateen the
royal suite of apartments approaches completion, and a
much more plaasaat view from the Priacem's boudoir and
the drawing-room has been oecered by the removal of the
old steward's house end wheel room which stood in the
park, near the little church, and which interrupted a
pretty view aeress the park in the direetica of Oaetlering.
Almost the greaten want in the otherwise beautiful
grounds of Sandringham has bees some ornamental water,
and a fine sheet, which may almost be called an artificial
lake, has bees made, streaking away from the front a/
the measles and Wand room towards the dumb, in
which some picturesque csacarks, lee., are being provided.
The proems ot improving the reads still continues.
Lord and Lady Branum, who have recently
arrived in Ireland from a bridal tour, reached Bray on
Saturday in ea epee cambia and four, ea route to !Likud-
dory, the scat of the Seri of Meath, the bride's fseher-in-
law.
The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P.,
left Wlsitaball•prdens yesterday for Draytoa Wow. The
right ben. baronet and Lady Zwilay Peel cams to teem for
the season shortly after the ID* inst.
The beautiful estate of Sea Cox has (says the
ifeideices Journal) spin changed heads, thressli ifes
wag of Yr. W. S. Poster, the peosont wllOO Wag the
Bight Res. G. J. Gosobsa, M.P.
The Austrian Archduke Irnest has just resigned
the military semmeed whisk he held at Grate. The owe
of this set, as we learn from Vienna, is sample in the
intention el the young Prisms to follow th of lie
brother Henry, manying a lady not of noble birth.
This animism is stated to be disapproved of by the limperor,
, who, in his capacity of heed of the Imperial fussily,
has
refused his easeett.