NEWS OF THE WEEK.
D Y far the most important incident of the week is the return ..1) of M. de Bourgoing for the Department of the Nievre by a vote of 37,599 against 32,157 given to M. Gudin, Republican, and 4,527 to Count Penis, Monarchist. In the election of 1873 the Republicans had a majority of 11,000, but in this election M. de Bourgoing, an officer of Napoleon's household, an avowed arkd defiant Bonapartist, who oaks for support as a proof of confidence in the Empire, defeats Royalists and Republicans put together. Of course explanations are offered, one of which is that the can- didate was backed by the Prefect, but in other cases when the Prefect is Royalist the electors set him at defiance, and the only explanation is, we believe, the one given in another column. The peasantry are weary of an Assembly which will not obey the motional will and organise the Republic, which intrigues in favour of impossible monarchs, and which is as repressive as the Empire. 'They desire a dissolution, and failing to obtain one, fall back on the party which promises a plebiscite.
