14 SEPTEMBER 1867, Page 3

An English working-man--one of the many enabled by Mr. Hodgson's

Pratt's thoughtful and benevolent plan to see the manu- factures of the Paris Exhibition critically, —sends to the Times of yesterday a report, which seems to us more able and lucid in descrip- tion than all the wearisome special correspondences with which the various daily papers have nauseated us. He is very strong in favour of a higher scientific education for working men, and says that there is far less of a chasm between the French designer and executor—the artist and artizan—than between the English ; and that they much oftener meet in the same person.