3 MAY 1873, Page 1

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE French elections of Sunday turned out great triumphs for the Radicals, as far, at least, as success at the poll goes. The results, which we have analysed carefully elsewhere, were in brief, that three extreme Radicals, more or less Red, were returned, for the departments of the Seine (Paris), of the Gironde (Bordeaux), and the Bouches du RhOne (Marseilles); 'four moderate Republicans for the Jura, the Marne, the Nievre, and the Correze ; and one Legitimist for the Morbihan (Brittany). In Paris, where the state of siege and the absence of the Assem- bly at Versailles are intolerable to the citizens, M. de Remusat, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, was defeated by M. Barodet by a majority of 45,000 (180,000 against 135,000), and as a consequence -the reactionary papers, Legitimist and Imperialist, are declaring that the Republic is at an end,—that the Mountain is again about to devour the Girondist party, and to make the struggle one be- tween Order and Anarchy. Nevertheless, the five rural elections have none of them resulted in the choice of violent men, unless the Legitimist elected in Brittany be so regarded ; and on the whole, we hope that M. Thiers will see in the result less a blow to the Administration, than a protest against the reactionary pas- sions of an Assembly which is now fairly standing at bay against the indignation of France herself.