Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-03-07

Nv of the aggression To raduce whole people to
me worse than personality, challenged as were, and
thus warranted by the signature Of the accuser MY para
graph concerning your article written under the mme-
date excitement what deemed gross injustice and fagant
inconsistency Afterwards read the same Judgment and con-
struc,ion in two Of the Paris journals has not been my
habit to allow political questions and conduct TO break up 80
ciaI relations but never be 10th to ray an esange
ept originating in the acutsness Of my national feelings
With regard my general euogy ON President JACKSON %
which YOU taifnngy advert you must have seen m the Anne
can papers reports Of worry particular and comprehensive pane
ryc Of his character and by Mr. WEBSTER and most
Of the chief aaversares Of his administration The tribute
which paid to his memory was strictly due"
I ,the present Minister of Public Instruction, SAL
vArpy. Is not of the phlosophic and anti-christan
school He has long viewed the sect Of Eclectlcs
with an unfavosbIe eyei he wouldc have spared
the Jesuits Of France as valuable INSTRUCTORS Of
Youth and jealous preachers OF religion. In the
College Of France Monsieur QUiNET, who held the
chair Of the Languages and Literature Of the South
was chiefly EMPLOYED in assailing all the modern
religious creeds, and emblazodng the anti-chrstian
results OF the French Revolution. SALvANDY sum-
moned him to return to the limits OF his chair ac-
cordng to its title. After an interchange OF pun
gent episdes, QUINET suspended his lectures his
hopeful pupils paraded the city, delivered public
and sedious addresses and were worsted IN s'ree.
conflict with the armed police. Ihe substitute OF
Mr.. Gu1zor. Monsieur LENoF,issr, In the chair Of
Philosophy, leaned to the Catholic cause, ana vln-
dicated in his teaching the doctrines and annals OF
Christianity. QUINET's disciples, with rabbie OF
young free-thinkers, resolved that while their mas
ter deemed himself under interdict, there should be
no featuring of an opposite purport in the college.
They therefore undertook to disturb and silence
LENoRMANT and several riots, which called Tor the
gendarmerie, occurred in the Professors hall. lie
has absolutely resigned, because he could not OBJ
tain from the authorities Of the college the degree
Of countenance and other necessary aid tor nani-
festaton Of his real scheme OF lectures, ana the
maintenance Of order. The heads of the college
faculty are inclined to eclectic philosophy; the
Government prefers that all teachers whose opin-
lions afford pretext and occasion for tumult in the
halls should set themselves aside. SALvANDY had
a greater difficulty than with either OF the chairs
IThe University was created under NAPOLEON, with
grand master of direct extensive power, and with
| a plan Of administration advantageously c0ntrasfed
with the general spirit of his despotisin. Under
the Restoration, a change was wrought which threw
all substantive rule and agency into the hands OF
special council of public instruction Monsieur
Cousin, chief and oracle of the Eclechcs, seized
entire sway in the council, and dictated professor
Ships courses, manuals, and the choice OF Junction.
aries throughout the colleges and other branches OF
the University in every part of the realm. Inc
Minister, SALvANpy, felt that he was shadow or
4 amesc instrupent. BY royal ordinance LOUIS
i PHILIPPE being with him in sentiment-he substi-
Ituted the original council-pla and swamPed the
lCousin-iunto by some twenty new members OF In
ldcpendent or Ministerial notions. clamor was
Immediately raised by the votaries of Cousin and
two divisions of the political opposition out OF
doors reproaches of violence, bigotry, iiiegahty
were layished against SALvANDY; the Catholic and
clerical parties and most parents OF any Christian
prediction, rejoiced in the change whether arDt
rary or constitutional The subject was entertain
ed in the Chamber of Peers, in the beginning Of
the session the late Minister of Public lnstruc-
ton, the celebrated writer, vHLEMAIN, sided ably
with the swamped ceuncil COUSIN exerted all his
faculties in defending his career, and SALvANDY
proved that he could make head, whoever were his
adversares. The rhetorical tournament, as it was
called, between the two eres and the present Minis
ter of Public Instruction, in which several orators,
Catholic on one side, Liberal on the other, took
jealous and brilliant share, deeply engaged the
attention Of the Peers and the press. The subject
is now under discussion in the Chamber Of Depu-
ties, where SALvANDY, who has just risen from a
fit of the gout is baited with erceness by motley
band, but where he has been accustomed to ardu-
Gus contests. The main cry is for an organic law
which should determine all the disputed points of
jurisdiction internal economy, doctrnal instruction.
and so forth. This University is State-monopoly,
lhkened to the establishments of judicature, army,
and navy the State teaching, the State Judging
or fighting; it is peculiarly beneficial in some re-
spects, and the condition of the people, on the
whole, may produce doubt whether free system
would be preferable, as in our fortunate country.
In the debate Of the 9th, Monsieur BoUnLAuD, an
eminent councillor and savant, said 81 was dis
|. tressed at the remark Of distinguished Deputy,
i that the level of studies has been ioscering in
|. France for years past. assert, on the con-
| trary, that they have made more progress, in
L the quarter of century just elapsed, than they
had done in the preceding centuries perhaps spe-
culative philosophy has not materially advanced,
but true philosophy, that which is based on OBJ
servation, has notlagged in this, France is queen
Of the world, she is in letters and the arts
throughout Europe, justice is rendered her on this
head if France, in politics. be no longer mistress
of the world, at least in instruction and civiliza
ton, she remains supreme" The supremacy
might be earnestly questioned; and the query could
be ventured whether education in general has been
essentially improved Cor century or more, excep
so far as the advances Of science mechanics discov
ery invention, have extended and facilitated studies
| The old themes of electoral corruption and cleo
toral reform have been again hammered in thu
Chamber of Deputies. Many unequivocal instance,
Of corrupt action undue influence are cited tn,
unscrupulous agency of Government, and frequen
unprincipled coalition of extreme parties, ar,
scarcely denied. The Government has the dispose
! Of budget of three hundred millions of dollars