The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-04 00:00:00

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.

ROBERT HOUDIN Continues to attract crowded and fashionable
audiences at the St. James's Theatre, to witness his extraordinary
and original SOIREES FANTASTIQUES, which he will repeat
THIS EVENING

and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Evenings, commencing
at Half-past Eight.
In consequence of the great demand for places, he will repeat his
MATINEES FANTASTIQUES TO-MORROW MORNING. Doors
open at Two o'clock.
Boaes and Stalls may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library,
33, Old Bond-street.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Re-engagement of Mr. T. P. COOKE.
THIS EVENLNG,
Will be performed a new and original Drama, in Eight Tableaux,
pour:raying by living characters George Cruikshank's celebrated De-
signs, entitled THE DRUNKARD'S CHILDREN. Edward and
Emma Roy (the Drunkard's Children) by Mr. N. T. Hicks and Mrs.
R. Homier, supported by this talented company.
After which, BLACK-EYED SUSAN. William, Mr. T. P. Cooke;
Black-eyed Susan, Mrs. R. limner.
To conclude with THE CHATEAU D'IF.
Manager and Treasurer, Mr. B. S. Fairbrether.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPRITREATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
ifltxball's new gorgeous Chivalrous Spectacle pre-eminently success-
ful.—Unparalleled Equestrian Feats.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed, the new brilliant Spectacle, founded on Sir
Walter Scott's celebrated poetical Romance, and entitled MAR-
MION ; or, The Battle of Flodden Field.
To be followed by the Inimitable EXERCISES OF THE EQUES-
TRIAN TROUPE.
To conclude with the Farce of THE FOX AND TIIE WOLF.
Box-office open from Eleven till Five.
Stage Manager, Mr. W. West.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Attraction unprecedented.
JULLIEN and his UNRIVALLED BAND.
New Quadrille, composed expressly for the Gardens.
Engagement of Miss HUDDAIIT.
Continuation of the Engagement of Mdlle. LOVARNY.
The DAYLIGHT VIEW of ROME, by Denson.
Superb and Unique MENAGERIE.
Grand Display of FIREWORKS, by the Messrs. Southby.
No Extra Charge.
MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, TILURSDA.Y, and
FRIDAY.
View of Rome —Promenade Concerts, Vocal and Instrumental,
. Conducted by Mons. JULLIEN, whose splendid Band of Solo Per-
formers includes Messrs. Baker, Barrett, Bauman, George and Viotti
Collins, Ciati, Collinet, Kcenig, Lazarus, Richardson, Sonnenberg,
&c.—Two Solos each Evening. —Mdlle. Lovarny will sing two fa-
vourite Songs, Miss Huddartwill sing a favourite Song, and with
Madlle. Lovarny will execute an admired Duet.—Also to be seen,
during the day, the beautiful Menagerie—Shakspere's House—The
Magic Bridge—and other novelties will be exhibited, the whole
concluding with a most magnificent and not to be rivalled display
of fireworks, by the Messrs. Southby, representing the Girandola
during the Holy Week at Rome.
Gates open at Ten A.M., Feeding Time FIVGI —Jullien's Coneert at
a Quarter past Six—Fireworks at Half-past Nine.
Adntission, as usual, One Shilling.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
No communication can be attended to unless autheati,
cated by the name and address of the writer.
Rejected communications cannot be returned.

THE WEATHER.—►SUN OFFICE, JULY 4.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 54; Highest, 67; soon, 67.

BAROMETBR, 30.13.
WIND—Morning, N. `V.; cloudy. Afternoon, N.E.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAT.
Morning .. 14 min. after 4 Evening .. 34 min. after 4

support of the amendment have already been repeated
usque ad nauseam during the protracted debate that
took place before the House went into Committee.
In fact, the subject has been completely exhausted;
but still the time of the House is taken up, at a period
when so much remains to be done—while the advan-
tages of monopoly are enlarged upon, and
the Legislature is called upon to retrace its former
steps, and again to impose restrictions and impedi-
ments upon trade and commerce for the advantage
of a class—to fix duties, not for the legitimate object
of obtaining a revenue for the national exigencies, but
for the sake of protection. For that purpose we are
called upon to risk a loss of nearly one million ster-
ling, at a time when the income of the country is ina-
dequate to its expenditure and there is too much reason
to fear that there will be a deficiency, if not to the
amount at first supposed, still to an extent sufficient
to impress a prudent man with reasonable apprehen-
sions, for the consequences, and which, if con-
tinued, must lead to an increase either of
our public debt, or of our already enor-
mous taxation. The Hon. Baronet attempted to
show that the loss would not amount to so large a
sum as that estimated by the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, but we cannot say that his arguments were
by any means satisfactory on the point, or such that
the Minister of Finance would consider himself jus-
tified in acting upon and encountering the risk of so
serious a loss. The question, too, would not by any
means be settled, even if the proposition of the
Hon. Member was acceded to. Indeed, he de-
clared that "he could express no decided
opinion as to what should be done at the
end of the period for which he proposed
this duty; he would give no explanation as;to whether
he would then equalise the duties or have a descend-
ing scale." In fact, the object of the West Indians,
as we have already shown, is that a permanent pro-
tection should be obtained, all their arguments go to
that extent ; but as the proposition might appear too
startling if put f. wa►Ut plainly and unequivocally,
they only ask for that protection for a limited period,
when the discussions are again to be resumed, and
we are again to hear of the ruin of our colonies, and
the abandonment of the cultivation of sugar therein,
unless the protection, which was merely tolerated for
the period of transition from an erroneous to a wiser
and more politic system, should be perpetuated.
Nothing could possibly be more injurious than this
uncertainty to all parties concerned. It would keep
up that feverish and excited state which is so very
prejudicial, and consumers would be compelled to
pay higher prices without any actual or real benefit
to the producers. Whatever may be done, let it at
least have the appearance of finality. If it should
appear to be based on incorrect principles, the Legis-
lature may review its decision, but do not render the
renewal of the discussion a matter of necessity.

The amendment of the lion. Baronet found 169
supporters last night, there being a majority of 62 for
Ministers. On the division which took place o❑
Thursday last, 245 Members opposed going into
Committee, but, as we then showed, the minority on
that occasion were actuated by the most conflicting
and opposite views, and would not again be found
going into the same lobby on a division. The Go-
vernment resolutions will therefore be carried, al-
though the business of the country may be retarded,
and serious injury inflicted upon the very parties
they desire to serve, by the stubborn and pertina-
cious resistance offered by the Protectionists.

During the last three or four months, in our politi-
cal world, as in our theatrical world, the home in-
terest has been eclipsed by the foreign. When
abroad revolutions were of daily and almost hourly
occurrence, when every succeeding bulletin an-
nounced some new marvel, was it possible that
public attention should keep its Argus eyes rivetted
upon homely matters ? When, in other countries,
republics started up to-day, kings were dethroned
yesterday, and emperors might be to-morrow, do-
mestic affairs dwindled into insignificance,
and " motions made and questions put;'
in the 'louse of Commons, seemed unworthy of
consideration. The patriotism of Chtrtism, indeed,
endeavoured to render England as politically conspi-
cuous as her neighbours, but those magnanimous
efforts, as Lord BEAUMONT said in speaking of
the theatres, only presented us with indiffe-
rent translations of French pieces, than which
it were preferable to see the originals. So
thought the public on the 10th of April and
the 12th of June, and the Chartism retired from
their too-ambitious position, like the Theatre llisto-
rive from the boards of Drury-lane. But, added
Lord BEAUMONT in the observations just referred to,
were national talent adequately displayed, the
British drama would again becoms a rallying
point of attraction. Some such consideration
as this has, apparently, suggested itself to our
political actors. The Liberal party, at least, have be-
stirred themselves to afford a correct representation
of the spirit and sentiment of the country. They
have been so far successful inasmuch as the pro-
ceedings of the House of Commons are now again in-
vested with their due importance, and regarded with
more than ordinary public interest. Thanks to Mr.
HUME'S motion we are no longer producing bad
copies of French pieces--we are now perfectly
original. While the continental nations are rough-
hewing constitutions modelled after the pattern of
our own, we can afford to occupy ourselves with
the perfecting and improving of that admirable but,
as yet, in some respects faulty and unfinished struc-
ture. While the great question of Reform is under
the consideration of the House of. Commons, the
House of Commons will be again the focus of public
attention. It will be again, as it should be, the
paramount object of interest to the inhabitants of
these kingdoms—the paramount, but assuredly not
the sole object of their interest. The political
affairs of foreign nations are now of too important a
character, and the well-being of those nations is too
immediately connected with our own, and moreover
the bond of sympathy which knits nation to nation is
now become infinitely too powerful, to render it
possible that the English people should feel indifferent
to events occurring abroad. It is impossible but that
we should still continue to regard with anxious
interest the struggle of the young Republic across
the water—the fabrication of the new French Consti-
tution will still arrest our scrupulous attention, the
memory of the late Executive Government which
was inspired by the glorious moderation of LAMAR..
TINE will still elicit our most cordial eulogium,
notwithstanding the slanders of the now domi-
nant faction, and the designs of the Socialists
will still excite our indignation and apprehen-
sion. It is impossible, likewise, but that Spain,
with its unhappy SOVEREIGN, with its Ministerial
tyrants, and with its generous but ill-used people—
Spain, more especially with whom recent events have
placed this country in a peculiar and ominous posi-
tion—it is impossible but that the Iberian peninsula
will be the source of very considerable interest
to the English people. Italy, in like manner,
will arrest their regard, and their warmest sympa-
thies must inevitably follow the• Italian patriots in
their protracted struggles. The kingdoms of the
North—Austria with its self-exiled Emperor, Hun -
gary, Prussia, and Germany, newly animated with
the spirit of nationality—will each in their turn claim
a share of English sympathy ; nor will the buried
glories of Poland be forgotten ; her coming resurrec-
tion will be watched for with unceasing hope. Ne-
vertheless, with all these claims, these peculiar and ,
important claims on our attention, with all these en-
thralling subjects of interest soliciting our re-
gard, it must not be forgotten, that, as we
have already said, the Parliament of England
should be the paramount object of observation to
Englishmen. By the decisions of our Parliament
it is that we have obtained those liberal institutions
and those great reforms in which we glory, and by
the decisions of our Parliament it is that we look to
receive those yet more liberal institutions and those
yet greater reforms which the people of this country
so much require. Their immediate and zealous at-
tention to these necessary and much desired mea-
sures, is a duty the Parliament undoubtedly owes
to the people, and their unceasing interest and cordial
co-operation the people owe to the Parliament. It is
a consideration of these mutual duties which induces
us to regard with so great a sense of satisfaction the
popular course recently adopted by a large body of
our representatives, and the earnest sympathy testi-
fied by the people in the deliberations now
taking place at Westminster. V.o subject could pos-

sibly be better calculated to call these relative duties
into existence than one which so nearly and so pecu-
liarly concerns both people and Parliament as the
question of reforming our system of representa-
tion. That great question, on its first intro-
duction, gave occasion to one of the most inter-
esting and eloquent debates which has taken place
this session. To every succeeding debate upon this
important subject the public will look with eager in-
terest. The manner in which the matter progresses
will inevitably excite their interest and anxiety, but,
as to its ultimate result, we ara confident that, like
ourselves, the people of the country entertain no
doubt whatsoever.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.

The Moniteur publishes the following handsome
testimony to the loyalty of -the proceedings of the
English Government, which, daring the days of the
insurrection in France, M. FLopoN had thought proper
to calumniate before the Assembly. The insinuations
directed at the tribune of the National Assembly
against a neighbouring country by one of the mem-
bers of the late Government having justly moved
the Ambassador of England, his Excellency thought
it his duty to protest energetically, by a note, ad-
dressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, dated the
27th ult., against the possible application of these words
to the English people or English Government, whose
good faith and character are of themselves a suffi-
cient reply to such attacks. The Minister for
Foreign Affairs, appreciating the noble suscepti-
bility of Lord NORMANDY, replied as follows :

" THE MINISTER! OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO HIS EXCEL•

LENCY THE AMBASSADOR OF ENGLAND.

" My opinion, and that of my Govern-
ment, is, that the Government of her Majesty the Queen
is too loyal to have taken any part in exciting the
frightful scenes in Paris. I see no impropriety in your
giving to thin cloGlaribtivit, tte well ,as to yonr own note,
such publicity as you may deem proper. I should see
you do so with the more pleasure, as it would afford a
new proof of the reciprocal sentiments of good friend-
ship which animate both our Governments.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord,
" Your most devoted,
" JULES BASTIDE."
The lioniteur also gives Lord PALMERSTON'3 reply
to Mr. WTLD in most conspicuous form.
The; process of disarmament still goes :on with
energy. On Sunday a force of 500 men surrounded
the village of Puteaux, near Neuilly, and disarmed
the inhabitants. Puteaux was the head-quarters of
the Socialists. The imprisonment of M. EMILE DE
GIEARDIN still continues. lie is guarded au secret,
and although Madame GIRARDIN has offered bail for
him
,in 100,000 francs, it has been refused. The
cause of his arrest and detention is the discovery of
certain correspondence implicating him in treason-
able practices against the Republic, and not the pub-
lication of articles in his newspapers.
The attempts at incendiarism and assassination
still continue. A few nights since an attempt was
made to set fire to the Chateau de Beaumont, near
Blois, belonging to M. DE LATouR. It was neces-
sary to send for a body of troops, who succeeded in
extinguishing the fire, but the incendiaries have
escaped.

We have before alluded to the connexion of the
Legitimatists with the insurrection, and to the
fraternization which is going on everywhere between
the Aristocrats and the Communists. The following
is an additional proof of the connexion of the Legiti-
matists with the outbreak of the .23d June :—Count
DE FOUCHICOURT and his son, a young man twenty•
four years of age, both residing at No. 7, Rue St.
Anastase, near the Rue St. Louis, distinguished
themselves for their resistance at the barricades, of
which they were the chiefs, in their quarters. The
COUNT planted a white flag on the barricades at which
he fought. He was recognised by M. LAMBERT,
lieutenant in the 6th Legion, and that gentleman,
assisted by some comrades and mobiles, arrested him
at his own house on Sunday evening. "It is true,"
said M. DE FOUCIIICOURT, " that I fought at the
barricade, and I did so in the name of order ; for, in
my opinion, order cannot be re-established in France
without the restoration of legitimate royalty."
BM:USES, and the prisoners arrested on account of
the affair of the 15th May, have been transferred
from Vincennes to Ham.

The following report of the proceedings of the Na-
tional Assembly yesterday will be found most im-
portant. General CAVAIGNAC, it will be seen, an-
nounced the dissolution of the Ateliers Nationtals,
and M. GOUDCHA.UI made a financial exposition of
so satisfactory a nature that there was a great rise in
the funds immediately after.
The President took the chair at a quarter past two.
The President read a letter from the members of the
committee of inquiry appointed to investigate the cir-
cumstances connected with the late insurrection, de-
claring, as they generally held two sittings:a day, of from
four to five hours each, they begged leave to be dis-
pensed with for a short time from attending the ordinary
sittings of the Assembly.
General Cavaignac, President of the Council, ascended
the tribune amidst the deepest silence, and said that he
came there to redeem the promise which he had given to
the Assembly in the course of the past week relative to the
national workshops. The organization of that body had
reached a most critical point ; the original idea had been
good, but in the course of time it had become altogether
dangerous; it had, in fact, been turned away from the
first intention, of giving aid to the poorer classes, and
had been converted into a powerful instrument to assail
the Republic and public liberty. He should not enter
into an examination of the details connected with these
establishments, but he must declare that it was evident
that most decisive measures were demanded respecting
them. Now that the Republic was relieved from the
danger which had of late so seriously threatened it, he
had thought it useful to ask the opinion of many as to
the number of workmen engaged in the late insurrection,
and the estimates given were of the most diverse charac-
ter. The highest number which he had heard men-
tioned was 50,000, and as there had been from 105,000
to 106,000 inscribed, it was evident that less than one-
half at most had been engaged. A great number of
the men had in fact continued well disposed ; still a
terrible attempt had keen made, and the Government
had come to the resolution to dissolve at once the estab-
lishments in question. As to the support to be given to
the persons of good conduct thus thrown out of bread,
he had given orders to the mayors to continue, fur the
present, such assistance as might appear suitable under
the circumstances, and which should be withdrawn
according as the revival of work would permit it. Aid
was at present regularly given, and would be continued
until further orders. He had now, therefore, to announce
that the national workshops were dissolved, but
the Assembly would easily comprehend that the
Government must be prepared to bring forward
measures to supply the place of the assistance
previously given. That had already much occupied
the attention of the Minister of Finance, and he would
continue to do everything in his power to restore con-
fidence. He had to announce, in the first place, that
the State was resolved to fulfil all its engagements.—
(Hear, hear.) For the present moment, the measure
which the Government should propose, as more particu-
larly affecting the working classes, was a Bill demanding
a credit of 5,000,000 f. to be advanced to the persons
engaged in building. This would not only give em-
ployment to a considerable number of men directly,
but would be advantageous to the various trades con-
nected with building. He should leave to the Minister
of Finance to state what financial measures he intended
bringing forward. The National Assembly would, he
doubted not, give them such support as would soon
restore manufactures and general business.—(Hear.)
M. Goudcbaux, Minister of Finance, said that the
reports presented in the name of the Finance Committee
had shown the Assembly that the large amount of the
floating debt bequeathed by the Monarchy to the Re •
public had imposed on them the sad necessity of adjourn-
ing the payment in cash of the sums due to the savings'
banks and to the holders of Bons du TrSsor. This ad-
journment had produced the very worst effects on credit,
public and private. He determined in consequence to
pay off immediately the persons interested in these two
matters. The Bons du Tr6sor should be consolidated
in three per cent. at the price of 48f. for a sum total of
246,835,464 f., of which 126,458,562 f. were issued before
Feb. 24, and 120,376,895 f. renewed by the decree of
March 16, The depositors of the sums placed in the
savings' banks, amounting to 330,608,134 f., should
be paid in Five per Cents. at 70f. As to the loan men-
tioned by his predecessor in his financial statement, of
150,000,000 from the Bank of France, he could not but
approve of such a measure, and did not intend to inter-
fere with so happy an arrangement. His predecessor
had also spoken of 100,000,000 as likely to come from
demands for rentes from the provinces, but he considered
that though the idea was good, the sum to be yielded
would not be anything like what was estimated—at the
most, owing to the shock given to credit, not more than
twenty-five millions could be looked for. As to the 100
millions arising from cutting down of the State woods, he
was obliged to consider such an amount as exceedingly
doubtful; it was, in fact, impossible to fix any sum with
exactitude for such matters; but the Government would
do all they could to render the idea of his hon. predecessor
a productive one. He might, however, observe that the
sum fixed appeared altogether too high. His prede-
cessor had also set down 45,000,000 f. as the sum held by
the railway companies. The Government considered
that to continue that plan would, from the large issue
which it would require of rente to pay for the lines, pro-
duce a great depreciation in the public funds, and would
tend to still further injure the state of public credit. In
consequence the Government intended to abandon the
measure in question.—(Loud cries or " Hear, hear.")

He thought it right, however, to proclaim that the
principle acted on was a just one, and that the State
certainly had a right to expropriate these lines or any
other such property, if the interests of the State
demanded it. The State had also determined to
withdraw the Bill to enable the Government to take
possession of the insurance offices. The duty on mort-
gaged property, proposed :by his predecessors, which
had been set down at forty-five millions, but which
would not produce more than twenty millions, would be
retained, but only for one year. To meet the expenses
of the year the Government was obliged to devise some
means of meeting the expenditure of the year, and, in
consequence, it intended establishing duties on legacies
i and donations, which would bring in, it was calculated,
thirty millions. The Honourable Minister concluded by
bringing forward five Bills. The first relative to the
150 millions lent by the Bank; second, on the savings'
bank; third, on the Bons du Tresor; the fourth, on the
legacy duty; and the fifth granting five millions as an
advance to the persons engaged in building.
M. Duclerc declared, that as the principle of the
Railway Bill was not objected to, he would undertake to
show, when the discussion came on, that the Bill would
not produce any of the ill effects spoken of.
In the course of the sitting, AI. GOUDCHAUX read
the following exposé des motifs with respect to the
loan of 150 millions of francs, concluded with the
Bank of France :

" A negotiation relative to a loan of 150,000,000 had
been commenced by my predecessor with the Bank of
France. I have lost no time in concluding that
important operation. 75.000,000 can be paid into
the Treasury before the termination of the next
quarter of a year, and 75,000,000 in the first three
months of 1849. The guarantees given by the Bank
are—for a sum of 75,000,000 of Rentes derived
from the Sinking Fund, in conformity with the or-
donnance of the 15th of June, 1834. that is to
say, on three-fourths of the value. For the other
75,000,000, forest belonging to the State, and amounting
to 84,729 hectoires. The first half of the loan will be
reimbursed by the Treasury in three payments in the
course of the year IESO, the second half by the produce
of the sale of the forests, and under the condition that
whether the sale be effected with a profit or with a loss,
the difference will be to the profit of the Treasury, as
will be covered by it. Such are the basis of the loan of
the 30th of June, 1848."

Several detachments of workmen from the Ate-
liers Nationaux have left Paris for the purpose
of joining the Piedmontese army.
The discussion on the project of the constitution is
going on in the several bureaux with great animation.
In some of them the preamble has been entirely re-
jected ; in others most important modifications have
been made in the enunciation of the so-called (trait de
travail, which it is to be hoped the Assembly will re-
ject entirely as absurd, and impossible to be carried
out. The mode of government proposed has also
given rise to warm discussions. One of the bureaux,
on the motion of the Count DE MONTALEMBERT7
adopted as a resolution that " The separation of powers
was an essential condition of the Government of the
Republic."

M. PIERRE LEROUX gave it as his opinion
that the constitution of three estates (pouvoirs) was
necessary in order to escape the despotism of mem-
bers. M. QUINET, on the other hand, contended in
favour of a single Chamber as necessary for the cen-
tralization of the democratic power, which is to re-
place that of the monarchical power. M. DE MONTA.•
LEMBERT contended warmly for two Chambers as a
necessary check on the march of democracy.
The Commission of surveillance over the savings'
banks has been reinstated, with the consent of the
Government, and the Committee on Finance has
ordered the restoration of the funds belonging to the
Tontine Companies, which had been seized by order
of the late Government.
The state of the prisons in France occasions con-
siderable anxiety. The Constitwtionitel says—
"We have on several occasions called the attention of
the Government to the central houses of confinement
and correction. We see with pain that for the last
three months about 18,000 individuals confined in those
establishments have been left totally without employ-
ment, and that it has been almost impossible to maintain
order and discipline amongst them. It is well that the
Minister of the Interior should be made aware
that, in the eyes of the prisoners, the laws and
regulations which were made by the old Govern-
ment have been all annulled by the Republic, and
they therefore rebel against their compulsory silence,
and the deprivation of wine and tobacco. If the system
of labour in the prisons is not promptly resumed, we
much doubt whether the directors of them, with all their
energy, will be able much longer to exercise any
authority over the prisoners. Formidable disturbances
have already broken out which have necessitated the in-
terference of the armed force. At Melun, Limoges, and
at Loos, the agitation has been very great. At Loos
the prisoners attempted to break out of prison, and at
Melun they barricaded themselves in their sleeping
wards. Yet when it was so necessary to have experienced
men at the head of those establishments, the last Minis-
try replaced the former experienced directors by men
who had never put their foot inside a prison."
General CAVAIGNAC has announced that the sum
of IQO,OOO francs, payment demanded by the Go-
vernment for the expense of the bureaux, is unne-
cessary.
The project of law relative to primary instruction
laid before the Assembly by M. CARNOT on Friday
last, has been published in calms°. According to
this plan, education to a certain limit is declared com-
pulsory. If the parent cannot, or will not, educate
the child, the State will do it. Gratuitous education
to a certain limit is offered by the State to all with-
out distinction. A parent who will neither provide
education for his child, nor avail himself of the gra-
tuitous instruction offered by the State, is guilty of
an offence punishable by fine and suspension of civil
rights. That portion of instruction called primary,
and which it is declared in this project necessary to
impart to all French children as the indispensable
qualification to the future exercise of their rights as
citizens, is declared to be as follows :—l. Reading,
writing, grammar, arithmetic, the metrical system,
measures of magnitude, elementary notions of
physics, agriculture and industry, drawing,
singing, and French history and geography.-2. The
duties and rights of a man and a citizen, the develop-
ment of the sentiments of liberty, equality, and fra-
ternity.-3. Elementary precepts of health and exer-
cises useful to physical development.—Religious in-
struction by the ministers of the different worships.
Such is the extent of education which this project
declares it to be the duty of the State to impart or
cause to be imparted to every child of either sex
under the Republic. The machinery by which this
immense design is to be realised is declared to con-
sist of public schools, private schools, and family
instruction, all of which are to be directly or indi-
rectly controlled by the State. The public schools
are to be conducted at the expense of the State, and
administered under the direction of the Minister of
Public Instruction. The masters and mistresses of
private schools must be licensed by the State, and
their qualifications must be tested by means appointed
by the Minister of Public Instruction. All children of
every class, from the highest to the lowest, are sub-
ject to the surveillance of the Minister of Public In-
struction, whose duty it is to see that none are unedu-
cated.
The following is the fourth section of this project,
in which the means of compulsion are enumerated :
Every father, whose child aged full ten years, is
notoriously known not to frequent any school, or re-
ceive primary instruction, is obliged, on notice from
the mayor, to present him to the commission of ex-
amination as to instruction. If the child be not pre-
sented, or if it appear that he does not frequent any
school, or receives no instruction, the father may be
cited at the request of the commission before the
/age de Paix, and reprimanded. The judgment shall
be publicly posted up at the Maisie for a month. If
the Commission report on the following year that he
has not attended to the reprimand, the father shall be
cited before the civil tribunal of the arrondissement,
and condemned to a fine of from 20 to 500 francs and
suspension of his electoral rights during a period not
exceeding five years. The punishment shall cease
when the Commission shall report that the child has
received primary instruction.
BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, JULY 3.
THREE O'CLOCK.—The Bourse was very animated
to-day; and the financial project of the new Minister of
the Finances produced a great rise in the Rentes and
Shares. For the Account, the French Three per Cents.
have risen lf. 50c.; Five per Cents. have risen 2f. For
Money, the Three per Cents. hare risen 21.; Five per
Cents. have risen 2f. 75c. Bons du Trevor are at 14
discount. Bank of France Shares have risen 80f. Bel-
gian Bank 'Shares not quoted. Two,and-a-half per
Cents. are not quoted. Spanish Funds, nothing ,done.
Roman has risen 4 per cent. Rothschild's Receipts have
risen 4 per cent. Exchange on London (30 days),
25 50; ditto (90 days), 25 40.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JULY 3.
Boulogne and Amiens, 61,sz—Northern of France, 474—
Sambre and Meuse, 3.

EXTENSIVE FIRE NEAR EXETER HALL.—Shortly
before two o'clock this morning great alarm was occa-
sioned by the discovery of a fire in the lower part of the
premises of Exeter Hall Cigar Divan, Strand. Having
been opportunely discovered by Carr, the Savoy watch-
man, his timely information enabled the quick arrival of
Dowden and Solomons with the Chandos-street fire-
engines.;Unfortunately a delay occurred with the sup-
ply of water, but notwithstanding this somewhat diffi-
cult matter the windows and doors were kept closed till
water could be procured, when other assistance had
arrived, and by such judicious measures, aided with
the redoubled exertions of the brigade, West of Eng-
land, and County firemen, the damage, to a very great
extent, was confined to the stock, shop, and lower part
of ;the building. Mr. Hunt, the proprietor, is insured.
As to the cause of the fire nothing decisive was known.
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