The French elections of last Tuesday have again given to
the Republicans two more of those decisive victories which, often as they have been repeated, seem to avail them so little in the divisions of the National Assembly. In the Haute Marne, where 60,389 voted out of 74,077 electors, M. Danelle Bernarclin, the Republican candidate, received 35,000 votes (or rather a few hundreds more, the votes of two or three communes not being counted in this total), against rather more than 24,000 given to M. de Lesperut, the Government candidate. M. de Lesperut was not only recommended by the Monarchists, but owed a good deal to the popularity of his father, and the services his father had rendered to the country in a long Parliamentary career. On the other hand, M. Danelle Bernardin was a new man, whose devotion to the Republic gained him his seat In the Gironde, where there are 205,000 electors, and 145,740, or nearly three-fourths voted, the Imperialist and Monarchical candidates together fell short of the Republican can- didate's poll by more than 2,000 votes ; but it cannot be denied that the Imperialist candidate, General Bertrand, polled a very good vote. M. Roudier, the Republican, who won the seat, got 74,424 votes ; General Bertrand (Imperialist), 47,977; and the Government candidate, Admiral Larrieu, only 24,380, little more than ten per cent, of the electors. Evidently the party which commands the least confidence in France is the party in power.
