The Paris papers, down to yesterday, continue to busy themselves
with a defeat of the ascendant party in the Assembly on Wednesday; when a majority of 307 to 309 resolved that the bill on Public Instruction, brought in by the late Minister of Public Instruction, M. de Falloux, should ha referred to the Council of State. The bill, which opened the way to more power for the priests, is virtually shelved by this vote. M. Parieu, the pre- sent Minister of Public Instruction, stood neuter.
The Vienna correspondent of the Times, writing on the 4th instant, re- specting the extradition of the Hungarian refugees, says— "I am at present enabled to inform you that the matter'is definitively con- cluded; the Porte having pledged itself to keep in safe custody, in one or more of the Turkish fortresses, all those refugees whose names may be mentioned by the Russian and Austrian Governments, and immediately to banish the others—pro- bably with the exception of those who may in the mean time have embraced the Mahometan religion—from the Turkish territories. Of course, this perfectly au- thentic news completely confutes all the ridiculous reports, according to which Kossuth and some of his colleagues are already on their way to join Messrs. Pulszky and Teleky in England."
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