The candidates for seats in the new French Chamber of
Depu- ties, are busy canvassing the constituencies. Recent accounts confirm those previously received, of the probability of three fourths at least being elected from the Government party. M. THIERS is busily employed in corrupting the electors of the fifth Parisian arrondissement, by feasting, money, and promises. The fifth arrondissement is considered a democratic constituency ; and was represented in the late Chamber by M. SALVERTE, of the ex- treme Left; but the means used to influence them by the crafty and unprincipled Minister of the Interior, will probably result in the overthrow of the Liberal candidate. The political state of France must be rotten to the very core, when the leading member of the Government can squander the secret service money, day after day, in an open and unblushing attempt to bribe the electors of the capital.
The Parisian journals are filled with accounts of the pending trial of Dr. GERVAIS, the writer, and the editor of the Messager des Chambres, the publisher, of a letter in which the atrocities committed by the Police during the late &mute are vividly de- scribed. GISQUET, the Prefect of Police, is the prosecutor.
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