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her commercial legislation, she sought to satisfy ber own
interests, and the event proved that in so doing she was well
inspired, but it cannot be denied that the measures sbe
adopted were likewise eminently favourable to French inter-
ests, and that there was no reason to condemn her policy.
If ever a government deserved the applause of mankind it
was that of England under these circumstances. What
would the prohibitionists have said if the parts were reversed,
and if it were the French government which had, without
demanding any reciprocity, opened the entire extent of her
territory to British produce, free of duty, or subject only
to ten par cent ? What would they have said if this change
in our tariff was limited only to Articles in which it is noto-
rious we excel, such an millinery, bronzes, stained paper of
superior quality, articles of Paris, silks, merinos. They would
have poured forth a flood of metaphors. M. Mimerel would
have repeated with increased solemnity what he said twenty
years ago when spun cotton of N 0.143 and upwards was allow-
ed to enter, and three years since, when Belgian cottons were
allowed in on paying a duty of 30 per cent. viz., that the
manufacture of all these articles was ruined in France. He
would say so, I may be permitted to add, with as little
reason, for everybody knows what has become of all those
sinister predictions. The manufacture of cotton thread of
No. 143 and upwards has increased tenfold in France since
its importation has been authorized ; and as to Belgian
cottons, with which we were to be inundated, the most in-
significant quantity, less than five quintals in fact, was im-
ported in 1855." _ _

The pamphlet of M. Chevalier has been largely
circulated. It can hardly fail to bring conviction
home to all who read it, at least all who are not
influenced by the merest selfishness in maintaining
the pre'sent barbarous system, or who are invincibly
ignorant.

The following is an extract of a letter from Spain,
under date the 12th inst :
General Pielago, one of the most distinguished officers in
the corps, was dismissed yesterday from his post of Director
General of Public Works, because he was found too honest ;
not only he would not take bribes himself, but would not
suffer others to take them, and it is precisely in this depart-
ment that there is perhaps, the best opportunity for officials to
make money. He is succeeded by one of the editors of
the Espana.
On M. Pidal acquainting the Queen on the evening of
the Bth with the attempt made on the King of Naples, her
Majesty was affected to tears, and said to those around her
that the was not only grieved on her uncle's account, but
because it was further evidence of the hatred entertained
towards the Bourbons.

The clergy are at work both with her and the King, in
order to obtain the cancelling of ',he sales of national pro-
perty effected for the last eight or ten years, the re-establish-
ment of the convents, and also a sort of ecclesiastical
tribunal for protecting the morals of the people—in fact,
an Inquisition. They have various agents here representing
the Archbishops and Bishops. The Archbishop of Santiago
and the Bishops of Tuy, Orense, Lugo, Mondonedo,
Oviedo, and Astorga, are representented by a very in.
triguing mitred Abbot, named Cristoval Hernandez. The
arrogance of the clergy is beginning to pass all bounds.
A despatch from Rome of the 11th announces
that Queen Maria Christina had arrived there the
same day, and had soon after an audience of the
Pope
The following private telegraphic despatches
have been received :

MARSEILLES, DEC. 15.
The. Journal de Constantinople of the Bth gives the fol-
lowing under the head of" Serious News :
On the 22nd of November, the Russian General Philip-
son re-took Soujak Kaleh, and drove out the Circassians,
after an obstinate resistance. On the following day the
same General captured a Turkish brig and 18 boats, under
pretence that their papers were not regular. Some other
boats escaped and got into Trebizonde, where the Consul
drew up reports of the affair. A proclamation by Persia
accepts the war declared against her by England.
" The English," says the Journal de Constantinople.
" have already taken possession of the islands of Ormuz and
Barrack. Russian troops are concentrated on the Araxes.
The friendly mediation of France is expected?'
"TEHERAN, Nov. 7.
" There have been great rejoicings on the occasion of the
capture of Herat. They were, however, rendered dull by
the death of the Prince, presumptive heir to the throne, six
years of age. The Shah is profoundly affected by his loss,
•
although be has still two sons."

The Correspondance Havas publishes a curious
plan of campaign in case of an intervention by
Russia in favour of Persia against England. It
is given in a letter from St. Petersburg, of the
7th :
Reports have reached the Minister of War from several
of the Generals who command the different detached corps
in Asia. It is stated that General Chruleff, who commands
the most advanced position, has submitted to the Minister
a plan of campaign which could be successfully executed by
the troops under his orders. He was waiting, before mov-
ing, for the arrival at Tiflis of Prince Baryatinski, who was
still occupied in inspecting the new Asiatic frontiers. The
new Governor General of all the Caucasian possessions has
extended his tour of inspection on the eastern coast of the
Caspian Sea, where Russian Generals had already corn-
mmced, in the time of the Emperor Nicholas, to erect
four or five fortified stations, which will secure to Russia
the possession of that coast. All the war steamers are
now fully manned by the arrival of a large body of
seamen from the naval ports. This squadron may at
any time be used for the conveyance of provisions
and military stores to the troops stationed at Khiva
and to those who have taken possession of different
islands in the Caspian Sea, and who are thus placed
in the immediate reighbourhood of the Persian port of
Asterabad. According to the opinion of staff officers who
have served in that country, all the military arrangements
there, have been made with so much order and regularity
that the Russian columns may at the first signal enter Pers;a
at three points at the same time. The first corps, composed
of two divisions of infantry, with artillery and light cavalry,
may without difficulty penetrate from Nachitecheran to
Choi and to Tabriz ; the second corps, in moving from
BAlcou, may proceed along the western coast of the Caspian
Sea as far as Asterabad, where, supported by the Russian
squadron, it would readily cross the fertile valley as far
as Herat. The third corps may penetrate in the Khoras-
san and into Khiva. These strategic combinations have
been prepared from the first moment that information was
received at St. Petersburg of the projects of England on
Persia.

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On the other hand, a letter from St. Petersburg,
of the same date, in the Borsenhalle of Hamburg,
says :
" The statement made by several foreign journals of a
convention having been concluded between Persia and
Russia, by which the latter is bound to assist the former, is
comple ely untounded. Neither is it true that there are
Russian officers in the service of Persia. The two officers,
MM. Duhamel, stated by the journals to be with the Persian
army before Herat, are now in this capital, one in the
Senate, and the other unemployed. The military move-
ments made by Russia are solely confined to placing a corps
of observation on the Persian frontier."
Ox beef and likewise mutton have fallen 2c the
kilmogramme in Paris. Cow► beef has risen 8c and
veal 4e the kilogramme. The price of bread of
the first quality is 47c the kilogramme.
The deposits received in the Paris Savings Banks
on Sunday and Monday last amounted to 368,991 f.
—the deposits withdrawn to 490,163 f.
The Moniteur publishes a report to the Emperor
from Marshal Vaillant, Minister of War, proposing
in consequence of the daily increase in the general
and special affairs, which tends to make the labours
of the Council of the Government of Algeria more
and more arduous, to add to the members of that
body the Inspector General of Finance in the
colony and the directors of the political bureau and
of Arab affairs. The report is followed by a decreo
carrying out the above recommendation.
The Debats announces the death of M. de Sal-
vandy.
A letter from Serajevo, of the 13th of November,
in the Moniteur, says :
Mehemet Rechid Pasha, the new Governor-general of
the province of Bosnia, has arrived, and taken possession
of his post. His predecessor, lineschid Pasha, named
governor of the province of Monastir, left two days after for
his new residence. The firman nominating the new governor
has been read publicly, in presence of the Pasha, the
general commanding the military division, the members of
the Grand Council of the province, and the seperior officers
of the garrison: After the document had been read,
Mehemet Rechid Pasha, addressing the inhabitants who
were present in great numbers at the ceremony, exhorted
Mussulmans and Christians to treat each other as brothers
and as members of the same family, declaring that such
was the will of the Sultan, who considered all classes of his
subjects as called on equally to participate in the benefits of
his reforms. The Pasha added that he would cause that
wash to be respected, by himself setting the first example
of tolerance. These words produced a marked impres-
sion, and augur well for the administration of the new
govelnor.
A letter from Algiers, of the 12th inst, announces
a successful razzia accomplished by Captains
Colomb and Leroux, against the tribes of the
Hamyans and Djembas, who had refused to submit
to the French domination. After an obstinate
resistance the Djembas were put to flight, with the
loss of forty killed and seventy wounded, 15,000
sheep and 1,800 camels remained in the hand's of

the French. At the same time General de Beau-
fort'made an excursion, with a moveable column,
towards the northern frontier. His rear gUard was
attacked by the hostile tribes. The general wheeled
round, attacked the assailants, and dispersed them
with a loss of sixty killed. among whom were three
marabouts remarkable for their fanaticism.

The Three per Cents closed to-day at 661. 30c.
for the end of the month, and the Four and a Half
at 91 f. ; Orleans Railway shame, 1,300 f. ; Great
Northern, 9301.; Strasburg, 805 f.; ditto new shares,
740 f: ; Paris and Lyons, 1,355 f.; Lyons to the
Mediterranean, 1,725 f. ; Western of France, 855 f ;
Bordeaux and Cette, 7551.; Great Central of
France, 600 f. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 1,445 f. ;
Austrian Railways, 787 f. 50 c.

STATE OF NAPLES.

NAPLES, DEC. 11

Later inquires, as well as the tone of the state-
ment given by the Official Journal of the late
detestable attempt, so tar confirm my former re-
port that I have little to correct. Some addition,
of course, had to be made, as but a very short
interval of time transpired between the fact I re.
corded and the hour of posting. Without re-
capitulating the details which you have already
had, I shall content myself with giving you what is
new.

His Majesty, who was on horseback, and not
more than 15 or 20 feet from the soldiers who were
passing before him, was alone, with the Hereditary
Prince also on horseback a little behind him, and
the Queen and her family also behind on the right.
On the 3rd Cacciatori defiling in front of the Royal
person, a soldier darted from the ranks, and with
his sword-bayonet slanting upwards, made a thrust
at the King, which had it taken effect must have
killed him on the spot. The bayonet, however,
striking against the handle of the pistol, glanced
aside, and wounded His Majesty slightly in the
side. Failing in his first attempt, and without any
impediment, as far as I can discover, he was about
to renew the blow, when Lieut.-Colonel Latour,
who had been despatched by His Majesty to a dis-
tant part of the field, coming up, and perceiving
what was going on, rode down the man. On his being
arrested, and the officers of justice attempting to
bind him, lie said that it was quite unnecessary,
as he should make no attempt to escape. He was
then removed from the ground as I have already
described. His Majesty, it cannot be denied, dis-
played great pluck ; and by his sangfroid and
collectedness of manner we have probably been
saved from consequences which it is fearful to con-
template. He suppressed all movement, reassured
those about him, and continued the review as
though nothing had happened. From what I hear
too, he was the means of saving the life of the
assassin, who, but for his interference, would pro-
bably have been sacrificed on the spot. His Majesty
had more real courage than those about him. On
the troops leaving the ground, ho accompanied them
some distance on the road, occasionally addressing
a word to the Swiss who were by his side; and on
arriving at the palace, immediately left for his
evening drive, together with his family. During
his absence the foreign ministers and ministers of
state went to the palace to pay their respects, and
were received by the Prince Bisignano ; during the
evening, too, many others went to offer their con-
gratulations; but I have not heard of any (at
least of the foreign ministers) who saw his Majesty
except Mons Buschenthal, minister ot the Argentine
Republic. To a question as to whether he had
been wounded, his Majesty replied, " slightly." In
the course of the evening the examination of the
prisoner, which I have reported, took place, and
which corresponded well with the spirit at least of
the official report. It is added that the prisoner
spoke with great bitterness of of the expedition
of General Nunziante into Calabria, which had
brought death and ruin into his family, and which
he swore to avenge on the ".cause" of all. If
what I hear be true, he further said that his only
regret in dying was that he had not accomplished
his intent. He seems to possess much firmness,
and considerable intelligence, is of gentle birth,
and was educated as a priest, having been expelled
from college for misconduct in 1848, when he
joined the insurgents. Arrested on suspicion of
conspiracy against the life of the King, he was set
at liberty on the ground of the evidence being
insufficient. That evidence was, acconling to law,
deposited in tho archives of the Grant Criminal
Court, to be again brought against him should
other misssing links be found. He was, there-
fore, under the surveillance of the police, and it was
only through the negligence or the connivance
of the Syndic that he could have procured his
pass and come to Naples. The Syndic, therefore,
of San Benedetto, and two other persons have, I
hear, been arrested by a telegraphic order. F
seemed at first to be very doubtful in what way he
was to be proceeded against. (He has since been
hung.) Some distinguished personages on the
ground proposed that a court-martial should be
formed forthwith, and punishment be thereupon in-
flicted. It now seems not improbable that he will
be tried in the ordinary criminal courts, and that
the old evidence will be adduced against him.
Doubtless strong efforts are being made to elicit
from him whether he had any accomplices, and I
regret to say that in many quarters I hear
that torture has been applied. It is -no new
thing to hear of it in Naples, not slightly
reported merely, but stoutly asserted, and with
many details. Nothing, however, has transpired
as yet to show that he had any accomplices, or
that he was in any way connected with the great
Liberal party of the country. A medical man from
the hospital of Trinita has been sent to examine
him, to ascertain whether he be mad or not ; but
the report was, that he is, on the contrary, not only
sane. but endowed with extraordinary intelligence.
It has been said too, that his Majesty was anxious
to pardon him, but that there was a strong senti-
ment in the palace against such a step. The regi-
ment to which the prisoner belonged was closely
confined to barracks on its return from the review,
and was strictly interrogated. On the 9th, an.
address was issued by the Cardinal to all the clergy
of Naples, ordering a Te Dem to be held in the
churches, and circulars to people of some conside-
ration, and invitations from the police agents have
been sent to the inhabitants of the capital requesting
them to illuminate. The act is called spontaneous
in the official journal—nothing is spontaneous in
the country, nor does the Government desire that
it should be so; even the appearance of satisfac-
tion is more highly appreciated when it is the result
of an order. It is unnecessary, therefore,'to say that
the illumination was general in the centre of the
city, and the effigy of the assumed Protector of
Naples and of their Majesties was perceptible
above the portraits of the King and Queen in many
public places. The King has been out driving every
day since the dastardly attempt, and there have
been receptions every evening at the Palace, but it
would be false to say that however strong is the
moral feeling which condemns the late attempt,
that anything like enthusiasm has been manifested.
The demeanour of the public has been a strong
protest against a crime which violates the first
principles of morality and religion, and which
injures a cause it is meant to serve ; but the de-
meanour of the public has expressed nothing more.
There are some featurs in the case which I must
be permitted to notice before I conclude my letter.
The assassin seems to have made the attempt on
private grounds, the sufferings of his family pm eyed
upon his mind. He had no accomplices, indeed,
had little communication with any one in Naples;
and participation in his crime, therefore, cannot
be imputed to a party. The party of Progress
in the country, patient and suffering, hoping
against hope for many a year, have never
been stained even by the suspicion of such
an act. Let no attempt, therefore, be made for
retrogradist purposes to blacken a large and
increasing party. Again, the prisoner made his
attempt under such circumstances, that had he
succeeded he must have known that his life
would have been the immediate forfeit. It shows
the deep devotion to the cause for which he
Sacrificed himself, and this fact should lead to
serious thought. It is the first too of the kind
which has occurred in the history of this country.
Amid all the disturbance and revolutions by'
which this unhappy country has been rent, a I