23 JUNE 1888, Page 2

General Boulanger did not carry the Charente. The counting on

Sunday showed 31,400 for the Bonapartist candi- date, M. Gellibert de Seguins, 23,900 for M. Weiner, the Republican, and only 20,000 for M. Deroulede, the General's nominee. A second ballot will be necessary, and will issue, it is supposed, in the return of the Bonapartist. The meaning of the instinctive voting is tolerably clear ; General Boulanger is losing popularity, but of a hundred thousand votes on the register, the Republican could only draw out one-fifth. Even if the passive electors are counted on his side, he has not a majority in the Charente.