13 JULY 1867, Page 3

An effort is being made by the Paris Excursion Committee

of the Working Men's Club and Institute Union to render the visits of English artizans to the French Exhibition one of permanent instruction as well as mere amusement. The French authorities have been induced by the efforts of Mr. Hodgson Pratt and Mr. A. IL Layard, M.P., to open to the excursionists several most valuable institutions, and to provide the means for their receiving full ex- planation and instruction with regard to them. A prize fund is established by the Committee for rewarding the authors of the best reports on certain specified branches of industry, towards which. a grant of 2501. has just been made by the Science and Art Department.