Lyons also felt all the horrors of the crisis. In the same way as muslin and lace, silk found its consumption stopped. For several months the unfortunate Lyons' workmen had for sole subsistence the produce of the colours and scarfs ordered by the Provisional Government. At St Etienne and St Chamond, the principal points of our ribbon and velvet manufacture, and where 85,000 workmen were employed, the production went down two-thirds. At Paris M. Audiganne estimates the loss in what is called Paris goods at nine-tenths of the production. The loss on other articles, he considers, on the contrary, to have been only two-thirds on the sale, and a little more than one-half on the amount of the produce. We only touch in these remarks on the most striking points of the calculation; the total loss, according to M. Audiganne, amounts, for the workmen alone, to upwards of 300,000,000f.'" Such have been the consequences to the people of listening to the voice of their demagogues, who impelled them into the revolution of 1848--to the national guards, of hanging back at the decisive moment, and forgetting their oaths in the intoxication of popular enthusiasm. And if any one supposes that these effects were only temporary, and that lasting freedom is to be won for France by these sacrifices, we recommend him to consider the present state of France, a year and a half after the revolution of 1848, as painted by one of its ablest supporters, M. Louis Blanc. PROTEST. "While Paris is in a state of siege, and when most of the journals which represent our opinions are by violence condemned to silence, we believe it to be a duty owing to our party to convey to it, if possible, the public expression of our sentiments. "It is with profound astonishment that we see the organs of the counter-revolution triumph over the events of the 13th of June. "Where there has been no contest, how can there have been a victory? "What is then proved by the 13th of June? "That under the pressure of 100,000 soldiers, Paris is not free in her movements? We have known this more than enough.