The Elections in Paris have gone fairly well. M. Rochefort
has, indeed, beaten M. Carnot in the first circumscription by 17,900 votes to 16,000, a result due mainly to the bitter dislike felt towards the Empress as a Spanish devote; but M. Creraieux, a respectable old Red of Hebrew faith and reasonable politics, has also defeated M. Pouyer-Quertier, the Imperialist Protectionist; M. E. Arago has headed the poll in his division ; and M. Glais-Bizoin has practically beaten both M. Brisson, Implacable, and M. Allou, Old Whig, for though a second ballot is required, his rivals have retired in his favour. The reasonable Reds are victors all along the line, and the Emperor, though he meets his Chamber with the present Ministry, will, it is believed, at all events talk Liberalism in his speech from the throne. At the very last moment, however, he wished the opening postponed because the Empress could not be back in time, a suggestion at which even his present Ministry are said to have remonstrated.
