The Republicans carried the Maine-et-Loire election against the
united forces of the Septennalista and Imperialists, at the second ballot, on Sunday, by a majority of 3,390 votes (51,417 against 48,027). Moreover, the successful candidate, M. Maine, gained 6,228 votes more than he received at the first ballot, while M. Bruas, the Septennalist, received 4,334 votes fewer than he and IL Berger gained together at the previous poll. The result is the more satisfactory, as the Department was regarded as the strong- hold of Monarchical feeling. It seems probable that at both polls those who still remain Legitimists abstained from voting,- 50,000 votes, or about one-third of the whole number, were not given for either candidate,—but unquestionably many who were Legitimists or Orleanists in 1871 have now become Republicans, and hold the cause of Order to be safest under the keeping of a Constitutional Republic.
