New-York daily tribune., 1862-05-14
FROM FRANCE.
From Our Own ColrespordenL


PARIS, April %, 1862.
b. some unaccountable cantrap sle.ht, the last
two pages Of my last letter escaped uuobserved the
fate that enveloped the rest. Discovered under a
newspaper mex, morning, the ave hereby forward
cd, with additions. The Ms. sent broke off in the
mids, of remarks upon the prof ssorshpo Of Compare
tive Medicine aud Of Histology newly created and
Sled BY imperial decree. W 81 the comparison Of or
gsnsms says the report of the Minister of instruction
recommending the decree, is to anatomy, what the
comparison of functions is to physiology, the COM
parison of malsdies from species species and from
class TO class is to pathology.
For more than twenty years, physician cele.
brated by extensive labors and large experience and
renowned for his devotion to science, DR.. Rayer has
constantly pursued the comparative study Of the
msladies of man and Of animals; and 10 him is
awarded, by appointment, the new chair. Histol-
ogy has 10 do with the organized substance, solid
and liquid that is directly active in the body Of man,
OF animals and in vegetable matter. ls object lie
determine the elementary forms of their substance,
to study it's intimate euents that invisible
" the naked eye, and to IO.nt ont the elementary
functions inherent in each OF hose FORMS Here ss
in the preceding case by the side Of the new chair
il found the best 10 fill i--Dr. Robin-so honor.
ably krown in the scientific world by the published
results Of his ori yinal microscopic and chemical
lnve 'igaions in Histology. Il IA honorable gain Of
DIR. Robin is our loss this appointment being the
final adjournment Of purposed visit TO the Unit-d
States, during which be would have given lectures
on his specially, III ewYork, Boston, and other OF
our Clties.
II will be opposite 10 note here that the opening
sentence OF the Minister'S II ort, recommending
these al aIpointnents, Is meie Official compliment
\ oui Majesty watches wl.n constant solictude
over the progress OF the Establishments for public
inst uctiOD. 1he lust-meu toned present is bv no
means novel nor final ipsancs IN proof. The NOM
inaI0n Of ReDau TO a Hebrew profossorsbip was
another OF several striking examples showing that
Napoleon Ia, IN THE matter ol education, as we'll as
OF finance and war and policy, doneslic aud foreign,
q " man OF bis time." Embarrassed here as in ile
rest doubtless by falseness OF personal pos ion and
the impediments OF dynastic ambition. so Prof. Re-
nan whom he will not dismiss, cannot Yet he prilnit
ted Iesuue II was announced tie other dsy
he would at the College of Franc, bis ia anonsly.
interrupted course OF lectures OIL the Semitic Lii.
guages every Thursday, and on The Book OF Job
every Saturday; no, we, ImperatOr by grace Of
God and will Of the people, who would IL this lii
tie affair, grant free course Of scisD,ibe phology
non possrmus. The subjective imperi.l will yields
with polite wisdom 70 the indicative elces Of
ths present time. The Pope.KiDg's non-possamus
Is an obstinate effort TO bring over the departed past
into the present.
But we were speaking OF Education: Here i, an
other fresh Report of the Minister Of Instruction
followed by its recommended decree, urging the
on the pecuniay side Of the condition
,f the primary ry-school teachers in France The pro-
visions of the imperislly-signed decree still leave
heir material estate low enough; but this is the
Iecond increase Of their hardly earned recompense
authorized under the present regime. And never
Ould increase Of income be more welcome than pow.
The "times" are very hard Throughout France,