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Mandement of Archbishop of Lyons concerning M. Dupin's
Manual; condemnation of the Mandement by the King and
of M. Dupin by the Pope; adhesion of the French Episcopate
to the Archbishop of Lyons .

Comparative attention to the Latin and Greek languages in

French schools

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Bossuet not approved by the present ecclesiastical party of

France

The Pope condemns the liberty of the press; the Bishops con-
tend for the liberty of teaching

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Note from the "Edinburgh Review" on the "Relations of the

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Dieppe, Friday, Aug. 2, 1844.—Saw a parochial school kept by five sœurs de la société d'Ernemont. The pupils are 300 and upwards in number; learn reading, writing, book-keeping, and all sorts of needle-work. Every Sunday they attend the parish church, and are instructed by the curé there after vêpres, but all other religious instruction they receive from the principal sœur, whom we saw, viz. their prayers, creed, catechism, &c., and she also prepares them for their première communion, which they receive at the age of from twelve to fourteen years, according to their state of fitness and forwardness: some of them she instructs also after this. were some children in the school as young as five years old. Those who are able pay something for their education, but the school is mainly supported by the town.

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The sœurs are fully occupied from morning to night. The sœur wore a black cloth

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DIEPPE CATHEDRAL.

dress with a silver crucifix hung round her neck, a plain white linen cap, the under part bound straight across the forehead, concealing the hair-if there was any-the upper part consisted of two large flaps coming down the sides of the face; no frills. They were preparing for a public distribution of prizes, at which the authorities of the town were to take the principal part. A large collection of prize books prettily got up in glazed bindings, was on the table. Near the school-room was a small apartment preparing for a circulating library, to consist of good books, because, as the sœur said, there were so many bad books now abroad corrupting the manners of the people. This is called an École Chrétienne, and is close to the cathedral. The children looked very cheerful; the classes were in different rooms.

Dieppe Cathedral.-There was at ten o'clock a considerable number of persons quietly engaged in their devotions, almost all with books, and attending reverently to the service. In the cathedral there are a few lines of pews in the side aisles, which much impair the effect. At Rouen, in the cathedral, and in the great church of St. Ouen, are no pews, but simply moveable chairs. At Dieppe, in the cathedral, one of the most brilliant things in point of decoration is the chapel of the Virgin de bon secours, which is adorned with votive pictures of ships and sailors in distress.

We did not see any crosses by the road side all the way from Dieppe to Paris, which seems to me a

change from the state of things twelve years ago; no cross, or Calvary, as it is called, can now be placed on the side of the public roads of France without the consent of the municipal authority and of the préfet : such an erection partakes therefore of the nature of a civil act. Our conducteur told us that we should arrive at Rouen in time to see the installation of the new archbishop, who has been translated from Versailles, but we found on arriving that it had taken place the day before. He said that he and his wife had been confirmed by the late archbishop, who is generally reported to have been un très-brave homme. We met several priests coming, as we supposed, from the ceremony of the day before: they wore their black ecclesiastical dress (soutane), with three-cornered hats; this is also different from the practice of ten years ago in large towns, when priests scarcely dared to appear in their priest's habit. One I noticed in the coupé of a diligence which we passed, engaged in reading his devotions, which they, as is well known, say at stated times, though not strictly at the precise canonical hours; a lesson this, which might be imitated by us English clergy, who would hardly have courage to draw out our prayer-books from our pocket, and commence saying over to ourselves the daily service.

At Rouen, where we arrived at four o'clock P.M., the guests at the table d'hôte, three men and one woman, beside the maîtresse d'hôtel, were all finding

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