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12, 1851.
LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER

SimuPaneously with the commencement of the
annual Cattle Show, in Baker-street, the Society of
Arts has afforded the public the advantages accruing
from another lecture suggested by the Great Exbi-
bition. It was, appropriately enough, upon the sub-
ject of the raw products displayed in the Crystal
Palace—products' both animal and vegetable. The
lecturer was no less distinguished a philosopher then
irufessor OWEN. Delivered, as the discourse
was, during the time when the Cattle Show, already
mentioned, v"..ls still on view, it imparts ;in additional
interest to those peaceful triumphs of research and
of industry which h
illustrated the
history have, more especially of late years,
Everyone must, or of the Anglo-Saxon race.
less, have long since rn:rre-
marked the very extraordinary
pursued
contrast visible be-
tween the course
the people of this country
andm our generation by
rest of Christendom. For ourselves,
by the peoples of the
directed our energies with a
advancement of the useful arts inult theirev devotion to the
and to the development of the physical
as well branches,
the
abstract sciences. Meanwhile the nations of Europe
of
furope
have found their capacities frittered awaytoE
a very
considerable extent by the political anxieties in which'
they have been involved. Fur them revolutionary
movements—for U 5 engineering enterprises. For-
them revolts—for us railways. For them experi-
ments in government—for us experiments in chemis-
try. For them republican constitutions—for us the
electric telegraph. Not that we would for an instant
be understood to depreciate the progress made by

THE SIIN,

France, by Belgium, or by Germany in matters
where we have shown ourselves, as a community,
such proficients. All we mean to assert is this—
that whereas with ourselves we have been enabled
to dedicate the whole of our capabilities, to the
advancement of the interests of civilization, our
continental brethren have only been enabled
to travel in a similar direction through the number-
less impediments of a social and political character
thrown in their way by a series of tremendous revo-
lutions. That they have, notwithstanding all these
obstructions, advanced as far as they have, is a marvel
honourable to their resolution and perseverance.
But, necessarily, they have been prevented,
to a considerable extent, from proceeding as
far as they would otherwise have done, if
they had, like ourselves, possessed the advantages of
uninterrupted tranquillity. The facts here referred
to are notorious to all intelligent observers in both
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hemispheres ; -and the late Industrial Exhibition
seemed to be the crowning event of their celebration.
It was suggestive and significant enough that that
Exhibition of the results of the toil and ingenuity of
the human race was held in the capital not of France ,
of Austria, of Russia, of Italy, of Turkey, or of China,
but of Great Britain. Accustomed as we are to
arrogate to ourselves a certain political pre-eminenc
as being the conservators and custodians of a truly
representative and liberal form of government, we
have yet greater reason to claim a position of un-
questionable superiority, as the natio❑ in which are
preserved and cultivated all those arts and sciences
most essential to the development of the interests of
civilization. For this reason, therefore, we say that
the Great Industrial Exhibition was appropriately
held in London, as.the metropolis of the land in which
the cause of industry is most cared for by the popu-
lation.
We should find some difficulty, even if we re-
stricted ourselves to panegyric, in exaggerating the
merits of the remarkable lecture delivered on
-Wednesday evening before the Society of
Arts by Professor OWEN—his discourse elu-
cidating with extraordinary skill the importance
of one of the most interesting class of objects contri-
buted to the Industrial Exhibition. The Professor
commenced by observing that for the raw materials
derived from the animal and vegetable kingdoms,
mankind owed more to the power and operation of
❑ature than to the inventions and appliances of art. A
memorable reflection, which he might have still fur •
ther enforced by the assertion that the vast majority
of those same inventions and appliances of art were
originally suggested by that power and operation of
nature. Beginning with the raw materials derived
from the animal kingdom, Professor OWEN explained
the peculiarities of those employed in textile fabrics
and clothing. Here it was that at the very outset he
instanced the peculiarities of wool as affording a proof
of the correctness of his previous observations—wool,

that peculiar combination of hair, in consequence of
the interlacing or interlocking of its fibres, being cha-
racterized by smoothness, softness, and a singular
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laminated or imbricated surface, on which depended its
felting properties. Having described with exceeding
minuteness and lucidity the exact nature and mode of its
formation, the learned Lecturer commented upon the
extraordinary varieties of wool from all parts of the
globe contributed to the Great Exhibition—wool
from the east in China, the mountains of Thibet, and

the plains of Tartary ; from the west in the United
States ; from the south in the Cspe of Good Hope
and Tasmania ; from the north in Iceland and Scan-
dinavia. Later on, Professor OWEN enumerated the
other among the more remarkable raw materials con-
tributed to the Great Exhibition—the hair of deer, of
goats, and of camels from India and Persia, the hair
of rabbits from Spain, and the samples of bristles
from Russia. After recounting several of the more
peculiar uses of whalebone, the Lecturer.spoke at large
upon the value of silk as a raw material supplied by
a seemingly insignificant insect, and yet one fabri-
cating some of the most inestimable products for tex-
tile fabrics—particularising, as the most precious of
all the various kinds of silk, that produced by the
larva of a species of moth called the bombyx mari,
so called from its feeding on the leaves of the mul-
berry. Such were among the many interesting mat-
ters treated of by Professor OWEN in his remarkable
lecture—a lecture which nobly carried out the views

of the illustrious Prince who originated the series

❑ow in course of delivery at the Society of Arts.
That series, we are satisfied, must tend very greatly
to forward the cause which the Exhibition itself was
projected to promote—the cause of the industry of
the human race and of the general interests of civi•
lization.

The entertainment recently given by the American
Chamber of Commerce at Liverpool to the Hon.
R. J. WALKER, has been emulated by the great city
of Manchester. The merchants and leading com-
mercial gentlemen of that proud emperium of indus-
try have thus, in a marked and honourable manner,
testified their appreciation of his successful exertions
to obtain from the Legislature of the United States a
reduction of the prohibitive tariff on our manufac-
tures ; a happy measure of reform, which occurred
almost simultaneously with our own repeal of the
corn-laws. The opinions expressed on the occasion
of the banquet at Manchester on Tuesday evening last,
in favour of unfettered commerce, were mark-worthy
from the weight and experience of the speakers. Be-
sides the honoured guest, the names of such men as
COBDEN, BRIGHT, MILNER GIBSON, and RATIIBONE,
lent a veritable importance to the gathering of free-
trade champions who were assembled under the pre-
sidency of Mr. BAZLEY. Mr. WALKER developed his
views with his usual felicity, lucidity, aud soundness.
Ile supported them by an interesting and cogent array
of statistical facts, and whatever falls from this dis-
tinguished statesman is eminently worthy of atten-
tion, if it were but from his repeated aspirations—
aspirations bearing the impress of genuine sincerity_
for a cordial and perpetual connexion of amity be-
tween the kindred countries of England and the United
States. Justly believing that commerce is pre-emi-
nently the friend of peace, Mr. WALKER enunciates
his conviction that by the joint action of the two
countries in the repeal of our corn-laws, and in the
reduction, the very great simultaneous reduction of
American duties, more was done by those two single
acts to cement and perpetuate the friendly relations of
England and America than by all the preceding Acts
of Parliament and the statutes of the Congress of the
United States. The absurdity of the allegation that
the tariff of 1846 is really a Protectionist tariff, was
happily shown up by the hon. speaker, who, by the
use of a few figures, demonstrated that the measure
in question was a fundamental change. He called
attention to several items as taxed under the respec-
tive systems in the years 1844 and 1846, from a con-
sideration of which it is manifest that the average of
those duties, embracing most of the great
necessities of life exported from England to
America, was 88 per cent. under the tariff of 1842,
and 26 per cent. under the tariff of 1846. " For the
first time," said Mr. WALKER, referring to the latter
measure, " for the first time in the history of our Go-
vernment the ground was then assumed that it was un-
just, impolitic, and unconstitutional to impose any pro.
tective duties; that we could justly and properly impose
no duty except for revenue, and impose no duty beyond
a.revenue standard. When you bear in mind that
from
constitution the organization,
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no
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American Secretary had
ev!r dared to propose the
of protective w
abandonmentd
mutiealitb must, I think,
be conceded that the change
was great and important. Under the y
tariffa singleas it thenste p
stood, there was scarely an article manufactured of
cotton that the manufacturers of this day
could have
exported to the United States. With dutiesrangiug
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from 41 to 70 per cent. they would soon have become
—in fact they were becoming—absolutely prohibitory.
Now the export is nearly quadrupled. These are
some of the results as I have noted them from the
statistical tables of the United States, of what has
been the effect produced in that country by our re-
duced tariff. Our exports the last year of the tariff of
11842 were 113,488,516 dolls. ; in 1851, under the tariff
of 1846, they were 195,898,650 dolls. Our revenue
the last year of the tariff of 1842 was 26,712,000 dolls.:
the last year, under the tariff of 1846, it was
50,000,000 dolls. Thus, while we have reduced our
duties in this enormous ratio by one single step, our
revenue already is nearly doubled."
In the mutual exports and imports a similar ex-
; traordinary augmentation is apparent. In the cotton
'I trade a vast increase between the two countries has

taken place ever since the two Governments have re-
ciprocally adopted the repeal and the reduction of
duties. It is true that there is still a protective ten•
dency lurking in the tariff of 1846, but in comparison
with its predecessor it must be pronounced a splendid
and demonstrative', triumph of the free-trade princi-
ple, and the still existing duty of 30 per cent.
on British manufactures is but a wart to
Ossa, when it is recollected that our own duty on
tobacco is actually one of 1,200 per cent. It may be
said that tobacco is a needless luxury, well deserving
to be highly taxed ; but every man of sense must
know that it is held by a great proportion of the
people to be a positive necessary, and that the present
absurd tax upon it causes fully one-half of the quan-
tity consumed in the United Kingdom to be introduced
through a vigilant system of smuggling fostered by
a protective impost of such disproportionate magni •
tude as, without much enhancing the revenue, proves
a direct and irresistible incentive to crime.

So admirable were the sentiments delivered by Mr.
WALKER, not merely on commercial matters, but on
the mighty political results which an intimate
union between England and the States would
effect, that we shall content ourselves with a
simple expression of regret that he should have
taken occasion to speak in terms of hasty denuncia-
tion of the recent event in France. It is observable
that none of the subsequent speakers echoed his ill-
considered, nay, unseemly tirade against the French
PRESIDENT. That a dangerous spirit of despotism is
existent on the continent of Europe is as clear as the
sun at noonday ; but that the gallant French nation,
in the enjoyment of universal suffrage, will league
with Russian or Austrian despotism in a crusade
against the consolidation' of liberal opinions, is what
we cannot bring ourselves easily to believe. If the occu-
pation of the French must be belligerent, according to
Mr. WALKER, is there no tyranny to be combatted,
no oppression to be redressed, that they must
necessarily combine with tyrants ? It is
really rash, to say the least of it, to
I libel a great people and its ruler in this
off- hand manner. Let us rather hope, if the struggle
be impending, that liberty Must appeal to the
championship of her Anglo-Saxon children, that
whilst the joint flags of England and America
remain not furled at her appeal, neither may
the glorious tricolour of France be absent from
the sacred cause. The active alliance of the
two former peoples ought indeed to be effectual.
The communication of their determination to the
despotic Powers that the doctrine of non-intervention
must be observed—that every nation must be per-
mitted to judge for itself, and to select such institu-
tions as best suited it according to the will of the na-
tion, should suffice to arrest their march. But
we will not inconsiderately malign our brave and en-
lightened neighbours, nor their energetic ruler, by
ranging them on the side of the foes of constitutional
freedom, merely because the exercise of military
power has been found necessary for the emergency,
in order to anticipate and defeat detestable intrigues
and monstrous conspiracies against the peace and
prosperity of the French Republic.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Pays, the organ of M. LAMARTINE, has the
following remarkable article on the occurrences in the
departments :
The news from the departments cause in Pat is a
unanimous impression of grief and indignation. The
jacquerie has raised its head, and bands of assassins are
scouring the country, attacking towns, pillaging, burn-
ing, and killing everywhere on their passage. It is not
the days of fanaticism, but of barbarism and cannibalism
that we witness. Such men are on a level with brute
beasts. These frightful crimes are not merely a subject
of grief and horror for every honest man, they are also a
subject of serious reflection. Why endeavour to shut
our eyes to the fact? 1852 concealed an an abyss, and
the events which have taken place allow a glimpse to be
bad of that abyss which could swallow up everything,
Republic, family, country, society. It was not
civil war which menaced us: civil war is always,
no doubt, a dreadful visitation, but if it causes hu-
manity to weep, it does not make it blush. There
can be honour in dying for an idea; and if they
who so perish aro factious men in the eye of the
law which condemns them, they aro also sometimes
heroes in the opinion of posterity which absolves and
glorifies them. But men acting as we read of at pre-
sent in the departments are nothing but assassins. God
forbid that we should confound the people of France with
these bands of reprobates. In them the people have no
part; what we see is only the impure scum of society.
The hard-working people, who hope by their labour to
arrive at property, have nothing to say to these at-
tempts; they execrate thtm, they despise them, and, if
necessary, would rise up to strangle them in the irre-
sistible clasp of their patriotism and devotedness. In a
word, „the people do not menace society, they protect it.
But if the real bard-working people are ready to op-
pose such acts, it is unfortunately true that by their
side is a faction, indefatigable and implacable, for
whom the Republic is only a false mask under which
are concealed all kinds of immoralities, cupidities,
passions, and hatred. That faction is known to all—
it is known by the name of demagogy. Do you
know what has compromised the democracy? The de-
magogy. The Republic has had a great misfortune—
that in place of belonging to itself, and showing itself to
the country in the truth and hcnesty of its principles,
it had delivered itself up to deplorable aberrations, and
slipped away from the hands of the men who had kept
it puro and moderate, into those of men who have exag-
gerated and disfigured it. In the eyes of a part of the
country the Republic became socialism, and it is that
circumstance which precipitated us into inevitable crisis.
In the midst of the turbulent and demagogical faction
which desired to seize on everything, there arose natty
rally the absolute and inflexible reaction which would
not yield anything. The result was that the Constitu-
tion became nothing but a word, and the Government an
absolute impossibility. Brutal socialism, a paltry mino•
rity in the country, but audacious and capable of having
recourse to every means, was ready to dare every-
thing, and the narrow pass of 1852 might lead us
to its temporary triumph in blood, and on the ruins
of France and of civilization. There was a peaceful issue
to that situation, so pregnant with tempest, namely, the
revision of the Constitution and the re-establishment of
universal suffrage. France desired to issue from her po-
sition through the door, but the parties double-locked
door. When it was found impossible to open it, force
sas used, and it was burst open. The President appealed
to the sovereignty of the people, and he had succeeded.
We do not hesitate to say that what is passing in the de-
partments does not allow any one to pay attention to his
private grievances. What we could not comprehend, is
that any one should hesitate for a moment when the
public safety is menaced. Let the social war, now
commenced, find the whole of the country, which is well
disposed, ready to combat it. Republicans, Legitimists,
Bonapartists, and Orleanists, are all concerned in putting
down such devastations. Let us then defend the coue-
/ try from demagogy, appealing to right and justice, those
eternal gods of a Democracy which will not allow itself
to be stigmatised, and of a people which will not consent
to perish." _ _

The PRESIDENT of the Republic again visited the
wounded in the hospitals on Wednesday.
The statement that attempts had been made by the
Government to intimidate the correspondents of the
London journals is contradicted.
A decree of the PRESIDENT of the Republic, dated
the 9th, refers the investigation of all the facts con-
nected with the recent insurrection in the first mili-
tary division, and the trial of the persons concerned
in them, to the military jurisdiction. It also enacts
that four military commissions, each of three mem-
bers, under the direction of General BERTRAND,
shall make the investigations, and decide about per-
sons who shall be tried by court-martial or set at
liberty.
The llioniteur states that in the combats of the
last week the army had 25 men killed, one being an
officer ; and 184 wounded, 17 being officers.,
The Minister of the Interior has addressed the fol-
lowing report to the PRESIDENT of the Republic :
" Paris, Dec. 10.

s' Monsieur le President—The departments of the
Gers, the Var, the Lot, and the Lot of Garonne are
disturbed by insurrections. In several places the in-
surgents have attacked the public force, and engaged
in sanguinary collisions. They have made themselves
masters of towns and communes, which have since
been taken from them, thanks to the energy of the
authorities and the troops. But these attempts at civil
war have given rise to attacks on property and per-
sons, and it is urgent to apply a remedy to a
situation which is so much to be regretted, and which
greatly alarms good citizens. We must restrain by the
display of military force the factious, who do not fear to
carry mourning and terror into the midst of peaceable
populations. I have the honour to submit to your sanc-
tion a decree, the object of which is to place the de-
partments of the Lot, the Lot et Garonne, the Gera, and
the Var, in a state of siege. Receive, &c.,
" A DE MORN Y,
" Minister of the Interior."
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A decree of the PRESIDENT, dated yesterday, places
t Military Di-
cosiitr has published a notice, to inform all officers en
for the plebiscite of December is-
sued2,etnhcloaiwrtetcihnteioyPnawriisl
be admitted to vote by ballot on the 14th inst at the
office of the Staff, in the Place VendOme, at and after
ballot eleven o'clock in the forenoon. The will also
be open thei day after. All persons must vote in
person.
The following circular has been addressed to the
Prefects by the Minister of the Interior
" Paris, December 10.
" Alonsim le Paret,—X9ll have just passed through

some days of trial—you have supported in 1851 the so-
cial war which was to have broken out in 1852. You
must have seen that by the conflagration, the brigandage,
and assassinations which have characterised it. If you
have triumphed over the enemies of society, it is because
they have been taken unprepared, and that you have
been seconded by honest people. Be kind enough to
address to me a detailed report on facts, and on the con-
duct of persons. If in this supreme conflict, which is to
decide on the fate of France, some functionaries have
displayed weakness, send me the names, and they shall
be immediately dismissed. Point out to me, on the other
hand, those who have fulfilled their duty with courage,
in order that I may call down on them the gratitude of
France, and name them for the kindness of the President
of the Republic."
The Minister of War has addressed the following
dispatch to the various Generals in command of
corps :

" Dec. 9, nine P
"All armed insurrection has ceased in Paris by a
vigorous repression, and the same energy will have the
same effects everywhere. Bands, bringing with them
pillage, rape, and incendiarism, are placing themselves
out of the pale of the law. With such persons, there can
be no Raley, or summation; they are to be attacked
and dispersed. Every man that resists ought to be at
once shot, in the name of society defending itself legiti•
mately."
M. MADIER DE MONTJAIT, senior, was set at
liberty on Tuesday.
The Siade states that M. DAVID (d'Angers) has
been arrested.

The number of votes given by the army, in pur-
suance of the plebiscite of December 2, and known up
to this time, has (says the Patric) been 65,289. Of
these, 61,456 have been for the PRESIDENT, and 3,749
against him.
" A variety of rumours," says the Pattie, " were
in circulation to-day at the Bourse, of modifications
and remodellings of taxes, These are mere ma-
nceuvres of speculators, and we are able to affirm that
there is nothing true in what has been thus said."

Two days back were posted up at ihelliTti;ie of
the Ist arrondissement the preliminary publications
of the marriage of M. PONTEREAU, aide-de-camp
of the general-in-chief of the army of Paris, to
Mlle. PIERRETTE MAGNAN, daughter of the latter
officer.

The funeral of Marshal SOULT, Duke de Dalmatia
took place at St. Amand-la-Bastide, on the 6th. An
immense concourse of people assembled on the occa-
sion from the departments of the Herault, Tarn, and
Lot. The Archbi.hop of ALBY and the Bishop of
Cauolis officiated, and were assisted by a large body
of the clergy, occupying the;,whole of the choir and
part of the nave of the small church where the last
service was performed. The authorities of the Tarn
and of the neighbouring departments were prevented
from attending, in consequence of the disturbed state
of the country. They sent formal excuses to the
Duchess for their absence. Everything passed over
with great pomp and in perfect order.
The Constitutionnel gives the following intelligence
from the Basses Alpes :
" All the department of the Basses Alpes is in the
power of the Soaialists. The mails are stopped and the
couriers secured. The dispatches are opened, and all
those addressed to public functionaries confiscated.
More than four thousand insurgents have invested the
Chef leu Digna. About three thousand men from the
rural communes are at Sisterton, endeavouring to take
possession of the citadel, which is only guarded by
eighty men. The municipal authorities have been com-
pelled to resign their functions, and a Socialist commission
is sitting at the Hotel de Ville. The Sub-Prefect and all
tho authorities have entered the citadel. The insurgents
are all armed. The town has all the appearance of a
place taken by assault. The Government has re-
ceived intelligence of what has taken place, and is
adopting energetic measures for the repression of the in-
surrection."
The inspector of the Var writes from Toulon, the
Bth of December, that the mail from Draguignau
brings news that 2,000 insurgents who were march-
ing on that town retreated in the direction of Brig-
nolles and Barjols, making some hundred bourgeoisie
and public functionaries march at their head with
chains round their necks.

The Director of the Post-office at Luo was amongst
the prisoners.
In the dispatch from Luc of Dec. 7 for Paris is en•
closed a regular sheet of advice signed by the provi•
sional director named by the sovereign people.
BOUCHER.

For some days past the diligence from Draguignau
to Marseilles, which carries the mail, has brought a
way-bill signed by the revolutionary directors of
Vidauban, Cuers, &c.
'We take from Galignani the following further par-
ticulars of the disturbances in the provinces :
" M. Carlier, commissary extraordinary in the de-
partments of the Cher, the Allier, and the Nievre,
arrived, in the night of the Bth, before Clamecy, which
was already blockaded by a body of troops. The pre-
sence of M. Carlier, who was accompanied by General
Pellion and M. Corbin, Prccureur-General of tho Court
of Appeal of Bourges, was hailed with enthusiasm.
Considerable reinforcements of troops followed these
authorities, and everything was arranged for retaking
the town, which had been given up to the power and
violence of the insurgents. The troops, while regret-
ting the terrible mission which they had to fulfil, showed
themselves full of ardour, and it was easy to see that
nothing could resist their energy; but before daylight
emissaries who had left the town announced that the
insurgents had taken advantage of the night and fled in
all directions. At six o'clock in the morning the autho-
rities, who had arrived during the night, again took
possession of the town, without firing a shot. An hour
afterwards the following proclamation, printed at Cla-
mecy, was posted about the town:—
"'lnhabitants of Clamecy—Bandits, factious men, and
assassins throw the town of Clamecy into mourning on
the sth, Gth, and 7th inst. Honourable citizens, old men,
children, and intrepid gendarmes, valiantly defending the
laws and society, have been massacred. Dwellings have
been devastated. The most honourable blood cries for
vengeance—the punishment will be severe. Let good
citizens be tranquillised, and unite in the name of
threatened family ties. M. Legeay, the Mayor of Cla-
mecy, who has forgotten all his duties in flying like a
coward under a disguise from his post, his family, and
his fellow-citizens, is dismissed from his functions. M.
Ruby, is appointed Mayor of Cla
courage,tre forbidden. They will be
immediately
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an armed force. All the cafes
mi aas assemblages
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dispersedblag e s
by
and wino-shops in the canton of Clamecy, and in the
communes of Corvol l'Orgueilleux, Entrains, and La
Chapelle St. Andre are closed. The inhabitants of the
arrondissement of Clamecy will always find me such as
.
they knew me theinsurrectional movements of 1835
and 1837, inflexible in the determination to rigorously
punish the factious, who only seek for pillage, murder,
and destruction.
(Signed)

" PETIT DE LA FOSSE,

_
Prefect of the Nievre.'
ti A military court-martial was immediately organized
to execute justice on the guilty men who had been ar•
rested by the troops, as well as on those who were
brought in every moment by the inhabitants of the sur-
rounding country, who had organized themselves to seek
for and seize those who had fled.
" An insurrectionary movement had taken place on the
banks of the Loire, on an order which had been received
from Paris. The principal point of it was at Nevy-
sur-Loire, between Briare and Cosne. At the first news
of this disturbance, M. Ponsard, Secretary General of
the Prefecture of the Nievre, left Nevres, accompanied
by a strong detachment from the 41st and 18th regi-
ments of the line. On its arrival it found a strong bar-
ricade on the road near Neuvy, and the tocsin was sound-
ing. At the moment when the combat was about to
commence, the venerable cure of Neuvy, hoping to in-
duce the insurgents to lay down their arms, went for-
ward to address them. A ruffian instantly fired a mus-
ket, and the ball entered the breast of the worthy pastor.
A few moments after, the soldiers carried this barricade
at the point of the bayonet. The officer who commanded
the column of attack was the first to mount it, when
an insurgent placed a pistol at his breast, and was
about to fire, when he was killed by a soldier of
the 18th, who thus saved the life of his officer. The
insurgents soon afterwards took to flight; but numerous
art eats were made, particularly that of the assassin of
the Cure,. A court-martial immediately assembled, and
he was shot in presence of the people of Neuvy. It is
impossible to describe the terror of the men who have
been arrested. Some valuable revelations have been
obtained from the prisoners. They have put the autho-
rities on the trace of the guilty cowards who every-
where incite to civil war, without taking any part in it
themselves—reserving to themselves the chance of pro-
fiting by the work of others. It is hoped that, notwith-
standing the gravity of the wounds of the Cure, his life
will be saved.

" Grave troubles have burst out in the valley of the
Drome. The anarchists attempted a rising at Crest, a
little town between Valence and Die. Some fighting
took place, in which several gendarmes were killed or
wounded. The insurgents displayed a red flag, and
their rallying cry was Vivo la R6publique Democra-
Ogee et Social() All their efforts to seize on the town
were ineffectual, and on hearing that reinforcements of
troops had been dispatched against them, they dispersed.
Several of them have been taken prisoners.
The Bourse was more firm. The Five per Cents.
opened sit 95f. 75c, reso to 95f. 50c., and closed at 96f.
35c. for the end of the month.; the Three per Cents.
closed at 58f. 75c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 925 f.;
Rouen, 587 f. 50c.; Havre, 221 f. 250.; Great Northern,
475 f.; Avignon, 205 f.; Vierzon, 447 f. 50c.; Basle,
156 f. 25c. ; Bordeaux, 380 f. ; Paris and Strasburg,
371 f. 25c.; Tours and Nantes, 260 f.; Amiens to Bou-
logne, 260 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIIE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Dac. 11.
Boulogne and Amiens, 10—Great Indian Peninsula, 4
Luxembourg, 3)4—Northern of France, 115,4—Orleans and
Bordeaux, 4—Paris and Orleans, 35—Paris and Rouen, 23
Paris and Strasbourg, 12%—Rouen and llavre, 81/2.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 6th have arrived.
A letter of that date says that, as soon as the tele-
graphic dispatch of the 2d had been received, an
energetic circular was sent by the Government to the
Captains-General and Governors of provinces, order-
ing them to take every measure for the preservation
of order. No fresh accounts bad been received from
Paris in consequence of the unfavourable state of the
atmosphere, which prevented the transmission of
telegraphic dispatches from Bayonne.
MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 6.—Three per Cents., 354;
Five per Cents., 15i I. Exchange on London, 60 50,