21 MAY 1870, Page 1

The vote on the Plebiscite was announced to the Corps

Legis- latif on Wednesday, and the official numbers are ' 7,330,142 affirmative, to 1,538,825 negative, with 112,915 void bulletins. It is calculated that in 17 departments, where the number of those who cannot read is one in twenty, the proportion of Noes is 26 per

cent.; while in 63 departments, in which the number of the illiterate ranges from a half to three-fourths the Noes are only 11i per cent., loyalty being, says the Journal du Havre, in inverse ratio to intelli- gence. In all the great cities and in Algeria, the Noes have a ma- jority. The negative votes of the Army appear to be 46,210, against 286,657 affirmative, or one in seven. The Imperialists assert that in many regiments the Noes were given against the Colonel, not the Emperor. Very likely, but then how many " Yeses " were given to the Colonel, not the Emperor?