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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 151, 29 June 1868, Page 2

The political condition of France is beginning to excite some apprehension. The recent law for the recruitment of the army, which compels almost every young man in France to devote some portion of his time in military service, either in the regular army or in the reserve, has caused much discontent throughout France ; and riots have occurred in more than one town where it waa carried into effect. These riots were easily put down. But the Government of the Emperor is exceedingly sensitive, every popular expression alarms them, and hence these popular discontents have led to the publication of a pamphlet, said to be the production of the Emperor himself, in which the various elections hy universal suffrage of tbe elder and younger Napoleon to be the chief rulers of France are fully set forth under the significant motto, ' Vox populi vox Dei.' If the Emperor expected to conciliate popular favor by this pamphlet, he has been disappointed. It has been followed up by another, in which the greatly increased taxation by the Imperial Government, whether over a monarchy or over a republic, are set forth in all the rigid and un- ' bending array of figures. So much for politics. Ab for religious affairs, we find that the Romish Church is as much opposed as at first to the plan of the Minister of Instruction for the education of women. Pio Nono has now joined in the controversy, and cast in the weight of his authority against secular education. The Minister, however, is firm, and the schools appear to be crowded. Italy appears 'at last to experience a subsidence from the excitement of the last few years, and to Bettle quietly down to the duties and responsibilities of regular government. The legislature is now busily engaged in making provision for the enormous deficits into which the country has been led, and which every year's delay aggravates. The sale of ecclesiastical property forms a prominent feature of every scheme formed for such a purpose. An extraordinary step has lately been taken in photography. e ßy a process which/ says a writer in the Pall Mali Gazette, 'is still a secret, M. Adolphe Braun, of Dornach (Haut-Hhin), has produced an immense number of absolute facsimiles of the best drawings left by the great masters. These new photographs are superior to all former works of the same kind in the ordinary excellences of detail and surface-quality. They also reproduce exactly the tint of the original — neutral, brown, red, or greenish, as the case may be. They are confidently asserted to be absolutely permanent, but this must of. course remain to be proved by time.' A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette mentions a school in which the endowment was about £420 to JE43O a year. The one scholar left was the son of the chimney sweep of tbe parish ; and he at last took his son away from the school because his education was neglected.