New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-04-12
Pnblic In.IrucIIon.

Public Instruction was under the care OF minis
ter also. but the system being uniform and the
causes consequently the same, the results were IN
no respect more encouraging, &c tar az the people
were concerned. than those of the preceding minis
try. The Provisional Government has been blamed
for directing attention TO the ignorance literary and
political, of the mass of the French people but
the following facts will prove the wisdom OF that
step Though there were many schools under the
extinct dynasty, the instruction given was so bad
that it was actually than profound Ignorance
| la the most ignorant of the French departments
Correze, with s04 ignorants In 900 young men OF
| twenty one wears OF age, there was but one crmi
nal in 1860 inhabitants. In the department oil
Grouse. where the gnOrants were Cpl 10 600,
! there was but criminal In 81 600 inhabitants
whilst In the Seine lnfereure, with $40 ignorants
or Seine ct Msrne with 22s, the proportion was
400 inhabitants for one criminal IN the hrat and M
the second 6.l9i. The general average OF depart
mental criminal statistics gave one convict tor every
/ 637g inhabitants and asa ignorants IN 900 men
while in the forty three least aldepartments
the ignorants were 5ls In OOO and one convict 10
/ II 500 inhabitants These figures speak volumes
for the innate honesty Of the French people while
they zibbet" their late rulers ~ the unmitgated
ceasure Of posterity The result OF educational in
/ situations In France was. on al average, 9Ol com
/ pletey ignorant out of 900 young men twenty
| one years of age The average In forty three de-
partments was COO per 1000. In the forty three
] mOet AGRICULTURAL departments tut H'ttobC NoS
| ST.; and it was 435 in the forty-three most manu-
/ factaring.
! Closely connected with this subject IS the state
! of pauperism In that country; especially as upon
the closest investigation 1t could not be assigned ID
the majority of the cause OF the great com
! parative criminality prehgured In the foregoing
/ remarks liz was found, for Instance. by an exact
statistical investigation into all the circumstances
that the two departments which contain the great
eat number of poor a number out OF proportion with
the other departments, the Nord and Pas de Calais,
were among the least criminal. while, on the other
hand the Haut Rim and the Bias Kim, with the
very minimum OF psuperisrn. were most criminal
Ga the general average. the proportion was Tor tue
fOrty-three most pauperIZed departments seventy
poor per 900 inhabitants ssd one convict In s,i6f
inhabitants while in the fortythree other depart
ments the poor were lorty.two per 900 with one
convict for IA inhabitants. In this case puPer'
ism was less BY three sevenths; while the decrease
in criminslity was only one seventh
The Fine Arts.
The Fine Arts were under the supervision OF the
Minister Of the Interior. and were consequently
more or less employed as an agent Tor the promo
ton of the views Of the sovereign OF the French
people As in all other Dep sr,nnents OF the Govern
ment there were abundance OF places In the giit
Of the Crown connected with this branch Of the
Administration: and how dsgraceful the power Of
the State was trstti;ke has been 50 recently re
corded that no one needs 10 be reminded OF IT, The
last case Of corruption vas that OF the patent OF the
new theatre on the Boulevard which was assigned
20 literary minion Of the King, as reward Tor
bis support ol the measures OF the Ministry IN one
of the Paris journals The Administration OF the
Fine Arts was originally established merely for
the purpose Of gratifying toe taste for pleasure OF
the Parissns and Of patronizng some artists OF the
Metropolis Toe Departments derived no benefit
whatever from the 500 600 francs voted IN the an
nusl budget under that head. la that branch
625, 275 francs were yearly given sobyention 70
the three ROYAL theatres, by q Government which
could afford 20 dispense only 10000 francs 70 the
Society OF Maternal Charity. The number OF paid
officials or rather employees in the Administration
Of Fine Arts was about roo
Connected in some sort with the fine arts though
for the purpose Of patronage, separated IRON taem
in the matter Of administration was the Architecta
raj and Arche illogical Commission, established by
The Convention Of 1893. Attached 70 the late Min
istry of the Interior there was direction Of public
monuments, with President Council. Architects
in Chief Inspectors, Ordinary Architects Assistant
Architects and smplOySs Of all sorts, beside COZ
tractors The expenditure OF the administration
amounted annually 70 600 600 Of francs, 900 OOU
Of which were expended in Paris. principally on
the Royal Palaces. The number OF the employees
was about 800. II was iayorite theory the race
OF 0piiEisfs 10 this country. who saT N Loais rnh
ippe only the greatest and wisest OF French so'e-
reigns until his fall that he spent gil his immense
private property upon the decoration OF tnose pai-
aces bat those VINO read these iscts VII dooo'ess
cDme TO very different conclusion, and consl'er
such theories only as the result OF carefully con-