A considerable number of French students, it is well known,
still recognize the old formula that Christianity is Catholicism, and as Catholicism is visibly not true declare Christianity false. Six of them recently attended a students' congress at Liege, and there took occasion to state their views, to declare God an evil, and proclaim property a robbery. On their return the Academic Council, naturally annoyed at this imbecile blasphemy, excluded them from the Academy of Paris, and recommended their exclusion from all the academies of the empire. The stupid Heys deserved a wigging, but a perpetual condemnation to ignorance is an &beard punishment, for blasphemy, and the offence having been com- mitted on foreign territory, the sentence is illegal. The students therefore are very wroth, hiss prominent members of the Connell, and have become so riotous that Government has ordered several arrests. It is believed that the Bill for punishing offences com- mitted by Frenchmen out of France will be reintroduced this session. If it passes we should recommend the exiles, including the Duke d'Aumale, to withdraw their property from Franc :.....
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