The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-15
EUROPEAN coRRnspoNDENcE.

| EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENTS
PARIS, February ~, 1s67.-With your leave, an
that OF your readers, propose to res ume GU
weekly chat, which to me. at least, was sourc
OF considerable pleasure during the greater par
OF last year. You will please also continue send
ing me TIE News for have not vet write,
enough to be above feeling proud of seeing mysel
Done IN type and printers ink. My letters will b.
from Paris, Berlin, Munich, Frankfort, and per
| maps from Swiss and italian cities; also from
| points within Her Britannia Majcsty's dominons
le., IN case the Fenian war should not render
mat country too uninviting to strangers. AS mat
ter OF course IN giving you my itinerary suct
an extensive range Of territory, it will sometimes
be impossible to avoid using terms not altogotho,
Ango-Sa1on. So take my advice, Mr. Editor, an6
| buy a Polyglot Lexicon for the use of your proo
reader or if that should be too heavy drausht Oh
| the exchequer of the News Office, procure set OF
Trench without master" F" sGerman in six les.
sons, = sthe Royal Road to Rome" etc., which,
perhaps, may answer the same purpose.
AS Ihave spent the winter in Paris, shall not
DC under the necessity Of beginning my series Of
foreign letters BY n1oting on your readers the oft
repeated story OF a sea voyage. I hope they viii
call that fer granted. But in case they would
h4e to refresh their memories they can find At
AAA'e 'oJ"6So oy eue btUSS IN every novel almost,
and certainly in every book Of European travel;
and If they have discovered that strong family ro-
sembance in these narratives which always stares
me in the face, I know they will dispense with any
further repetition Of the performance. So let this
go for preface; and now we viii to our task I do
not design doing" the Exposition until lator You
Will necessarily get so much Exposition" in the
course of tho coming summer, that T am sure you
vii -" ~ W. - as long as con
There is IN idea abroad that France, like Eng
land, ncglocts her slower classes THAT in the
matter of education, for instance, there is abun-
dant ano most excellent provision for the wealthy
but very inadequate arrangements for the poor
There is some truth in this. The Minister Of Pub
hc Instruction. not long since published three
documents, which merit the attention of all who
are Interested IN this great subject. He gives two
tables, showing what progress was made each year,
from 1888 to 1865, over the year preceding in re-
gard to the number of adult persons who enjoyed
tho benefit Of school instruction, and in the third
table, he shows, by departments, the number Of
adult classes open during the early part Of last
year, viz; 24,o65. Accompanying these tables
there is an educational Map Of France. The de-
partments are classed according to tho degree Of
education exhibited by the young conscripts of the
class OF 1864, and these degrees marked by diff
ferent shades of color. The white indicates the
n2ost, and the black tho least favored departments
Seven s1ioy tho honor Of being marked white; the
iliterate in these departments being only five per
cent. Twcnty-sn are painted in dirk brown, having
sxty-six per cent. of unlearned. E one-fourth Of
France, we thus find two thirds Of the young men
unable to read, and the education Of the girls is
even more neglected, IT is supposed that in the
said twenty-six departments not over twenty-five
per cent Of the women can read.
The classes for the instruction of adults are de-
signed to remedy this evil, and they are o-nd to
contribute materiallyto an attainment of this re-
suit. In 1868 there we're 1894 Of these schools; in
1854 1885, and in the winter of 1866 Sc the number
rosa to "a O65 The Government is evidently alive to
the Importance Of this matter, and intends in few
years to have thorough system Of public instr uc-
ton, which shall insure nodicum at least of edu-
cation to even the humblest. q
Preaching, as. q general thing, in the Catholic
Church, is not thought as much Of as among
.Protestants. But eloquence always finds ready
appreciation, and certainly in no country more so
than France. DAaUERRE and HYAcMTM are as
great popular favorites here as the BEEcHERs and
CHAP1Ns, and SPuRaEoNs and PUNcHEoNs of Prot
estantism. Her Imperial Majesty has just signi-
fed her regard Of the eloquent priest, DAauEKRE,:
OF the Madelaine who has been appointed Bishop,
She was SO much delighted by his sermons, with
which, every Sunday, he enchanted his hearers,
that she proDosed him to the Emperor as Govern
or Of the Prince Imperial The Emperor appointed
him at once to his Office besides nominating him
Senator or France, SO that the eloquent preacher
will receive an annual salary Of 100, ,JOOh. more
than is allowed even to the Cardinal Archbishop Of
Paris, and more by several thousand greenback
dollars than is enjoyed by the President OF the
United States
Considering the disadvantages the press has
been laboringunder during the present reign, it is
surprising to find how; notwithstanding all draw
backs, papers increased and multiplied. The pe-
riodica press Of Trance consists now of $50 polti-
cal and 1907 non political Journals ); 6s of
the former v and ,603 Of :=the latter are
published in Paris: The !: daily circulation Of
the most influential papers is as follows Steele,
$4,000 Moniteur, q, 900; Patrie, 1e 600; Prose-,
$1,000 Opinion NaGonale, a. 800; Constitutional
1896; ,Debats 9,166. What contrast is here ex-
hibited to tho press of New York !; where any one
OF the leading daies enjoys circulation as large
as all these put together. This argues badly for
the intellectual life Of the worlds gay capital The
theatres enjoy considerably more patronage than
the newspapers. 81 .t: 81:
The second part Of the Emperor's life Of julius
Cesar ~ see it announced, be ready for. sale
during, mppth Of April :Thiers Is engagea IN
writing Il Ihistore de 7esprit Francais." Victor
Hugo's new romance, s.Les Irayaineurs de
10 Mer,',:= is5+ now :printea in Paris and
Brussels in Frenoh,, in Berlin in German,
in Madrid in Spanish n London in English, in
Turin in ltalian, and in ST. Petersburg in Russian
Quite afortnne has been paid to the e7iled poet by
the various publishing. houses in these countries
4 have never seen the great man myself, and to
tell you the truth {but this strictly under the
rose) am no great admirer Of him. respect
him because Of the extraordinary hold he has on
the affections Of his countrymen. have again
and again tried to ssenthuse" myself in v1croR-
both in his prose and his verse-and have in every
instance failed. Hnuaua- VI yvu1' 1'Fzrzsu-
ers doubtless think with the French on this head,
and not with your correspondent, twill give you
the following, which prports TO be:a correct pom
picture Of the author OF Famine A magnificent
head-.thei brow pied mp square and compact,
where all the intellectual organs seem well and
evenly developed. Immense 'ideality, above which
the moral faculties 'airch the head into a well
rn,,nded dorna Euoe pots 1aroa l,rt door ora IN,