General Boulanger has gained another victory. He is standing for
a vacancy in the Nord, the Lancashire of France, but his friends have also put him up for the Dor- dogne, a purely agricultural department far to the South. The election for this department came off on Sunday, and resulted in a vote of 59,400 for General Boulanger, against 35,700 for M. Clerjounie, his Opportunist opponent. About 4,000 votes were wasted on less important candidates, so that the General beats all his opponents combined by nearly 20,000 votes. In the Aisne, M. Daumer, the General's nominee, received 42,000 votes and was returned, though 11,600 electors threw away their votes by recording them for the General himself. In the Aude also, 8,400 voters made the same blunder, but the General's nominee came in with 24,900 votes. It really appears as if, were a dissolution sanotioned to-morrow, the General could return the whole Chamber, a fact which will not be forgotten by the Deputies when General Boulanger appears in his place to demand the revision of the Constitution. So alarmed, indeed, are the Moderates at the prospect, that M. Ribot intends to bring in a Bill to abolish scrutin de lisle, on the distinct plea that under that system a single man can, at a General Election, take a plaiscite. Of course he can, and so he can under any conceivable system, There is no reason in the world why, under our strictly localised plan, Mr. Gladstone should not be returned for six hundred seats.
