The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-28 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER.

AGITATION AMONGST THE STUDENTS.
(71011 OVK OWN COMUISPONDINT.)
PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

There continues to be some agitation in the
Quartier Latin, but it will soon die out, so far as
regards foolish breaches of order, although the pre-
vailing sentiment against clerical pretensions to
domination is taking a fast hold upon the rising
generation. It was reported this morn-
ing that one of the students who came
into collision with the police yesterday had
died of his wounds. This is net true ; but he is
in the Chariti Hospital, and his face is much dis-
figured from the blows he received. To-day, when
Professor See took the chair to deliver his lecture
he was so vociferously and continuously applauded
that he could not make himself heard for more
than ten minutes. At the end of that time
he said, " Gentlemen, allow me to tell you
that it is ten minutes past two, and my lecture
therefore begins ten minutes behind time. We
professors are often reminded that we are paid by
the state, and that the public money we receive is
given on condition that we contribute to the ad-
vancement of science." This rebuke produced
silence, and the lecture, the subject of which was
" typhus fever," went on.
A great many students daily leave cards upon M.
Sainte-Beuve. Some of those implicated in the row
yesterday proposed to give the rough music to Dr.
Machelard, one of Cardinal de Bonnechose's
friends, but who in a letter, humbly ad-
mitting that he was altogether wrong, excuses
himself on the ground that he is bard of
hearing. M. Sainte-Beuve made a little
speech to as many of the students who came
to see him in a body yesterday as were able to find
standing room in his small apartments in the Rue
Montparnasse. He told them that as an
old pupil of the medical school he was
very grateful for the compliment paid him. He
hoped for better times, and looked to the study of
natural, physical, and chemical sciences and phy-
siology' as a most important element in the progress
of the nation. He exhorted the students to work
with perseverance, and trusted they would avoid
any conduct calculated to give their enemies a hold
upon them.
An snidest happened yesterday to that prettiest
new toy of the season, the captive balloon of the
Hippodrome, in which hundreds of people have
lately experienced all the sensations of a balloon
went, minus the danger. M. Arthur Aguado

On Tuesday morning, a boat acciii. :.• , •
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lancholy nature, resulting M the loss of th. ...• .„
men and a boy, occurred near the Curr.A.,
the information we have at present glean.... .•;.:
circumstance, it appears that a yacht twhargha:
tleman residing in Belfast, and a •ton..s, s
pert y of Mr. Thomas Lyons, of Little !',::::• s.•
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lying adjacent to each other at tta• r.:.
distance from Larne Harbour. Ectwekh,
o'clock yesterday morning a dingy w p :‘,:
the stone-smack was put out to the yacht I. i• •';
of conveying a man and boy who were if.
on shore. A sailor named Robert l'airb...: I
the stone-smack, also got into the punt,
the purpose of assisting in running th• •.
land. The sea beinz somewhat ber.xy ;:. •
the punt war capsized, and the unfortai.. Tt t
precipitated into the water. A short tin....
punt was discovered by some men to ta•
water upside down. The yacht was beaA..!
found to be deserted; and on making ~ (~.
the smack, Fairbairn was discovered to • . tr•
only information obtained being that he 1.... • •• h
punt for the purpose of assisting in rowing..:.;.d
boy of the yacht on shore. At a late boa;
were informed that the three bodies were '
Fairbairn, who belongs to Belfast, has
family, and the grief of the poor woman whee
quiries at the quay last evening as to the frith t.: :Le
occurrence was most heartrending. The
man and boy belonging to the yacht have 1.4,:
certainty been obtained, but it is believed th..: te•
is the son of a Belfast pilot.—Norther„