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TRAVELING, in France, like everything else there, has been reduced to science, or rather to art.  Companies are now formed at Paris which convey passengers to London and back at an expense of only thirty francs—­about six dollars.  They will pay all your expenses for this sum, and give you four days in London to see all the lions.  It took more time and more money a few years ago to journey from Paris to Rouen, which is only a few miles off.  These pleasure trains, as they are called, quit Paris on Saturday, cross the channel in a good steamer on Sunday, reaching London in the afternoon, give the voyagers Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in the city, leaving in time to get back to Paris by Friday night.

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FOUR courses of lectures will be delivered the coming season before the Lowell Institute, Boston.  One is to be on Political Economy, by Prof.  Bowen, of Cambridge; another course on Natural Religion, by Rev. Dr. Blagden, of Boston; another by Prof.  Agassiz, subject not known; and the fourth, on the Comparative Physical Geography of the United States, and the race that will shortly inhabit these States, by Prof.  Guyot.

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The Gazette des Tribunaux announces that M. Libri has ceased to be a member of the Legion of Honor, in virtue of the sentence of the Assize Court of Paris, pronounced on the demand of the Grand Chancellor of the order.  Since his flight to England, some two years and a half since, he has married there.  Madame Libri is now in Paris, attempting to recover possession of the furniture, and other personal effects, which M. Libri was compelled to leave behind him in his flight.

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The Opinion Publique has the following:—­“Is it known who at this moment inhabits the small house at Brompton, occupied some few months since by M. Guizof?  It is M. Ledru-Rollin.  Thus, M. Ledru-Rollin, an exile, succeeds at Brompton in his house of exile, M. Guizot, whom he succeeded at Paris in the Government.”

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The Committee of the Associate Institution for Improving and Enforcing the Laws for the Protection of Women, intends to offer a prize of 100 guineas for the best Essay on the Laws for the Protection of Women.

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DR. T. SOUTHWOOD SMITH, who was the medical member of the General Board of Health during the period of the Orders in Council, has been appointed the second member of the Board provided by the English Metropolitan Interment Act.

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The Gazette of Rome, of the 9th, contains the nomination of the Abbe Talbot, son of Lord Talbot of Malahide, and lately priest of St. George’s, Westminster-bridge-road, to the office of camereire secreto.