28 NOVEMBER 1868, Page 3

The Imperial Government has sustained a great defeat in AngouRtme.

In 1863 the department' gave the Napoleonic can- didate 22,000 votes and his opponent only 1,700, while this year M. Laroche-Joubert got 17,000, and his rival, M. Mathieu Bodet, -only 13,000. M. Laroche-Joubert is not anti-dynastic but he is for liberty and reform, and he was zealously opposed by the officials.