4 JUNE 1864, Page 2

M. Renan has been removed from his chair as Professor

of Hebrew, and appointed Assistant-Curator of the Imperial Library, an office for which his remarkable knowledge of Oriental languages and literatures perfectly fits him. The reason assigned by M. Duruy is that M. Renan's position, salaried but unable to lecture, was "contrary to the dignity of a distinguished scholar ;" the real reason probably is that the Emperor does not at this moment wish to irritate the priests without cause.