NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE elections to the French Senate were held on Sunday, and ended in a decisive victory for the Republicans. There were in all 82 vacancies, 75 due to the triennial retirement of a third of the elected Senators, and 7 caused by deaths. Of them all, the Conservatives carried only 16, leaving 66 to their opponents, of whom two were elected after a second ballot. This result completely changes the position of the Cabinet in the Senate, where they were, for all Liberal measures, in a minority of about five. As the Republicans are mostly new men, while the Mon- archists were in the Senate before, the numbers for the future are calculated at 177 Republicans to 123 Monarchists of all aorta. Several eminent Monarchists, as, for example, Marshal Canrobert, Count Daru, Count de Meaux, General Loysel, and M. Behic, have lost their seats, and entire departments, as, for instance, the Nord, formerly Monarchist, have gone over to the enemy. The new Republican Senators are almost universally moderate men, but it is noteworthy that seats are in no way con- fined to men from the upper ranks. Seventeen of thirty-six new Republican Senators are professional men or manufacturers. The Bonapartists are now the weakest fraction of the Senate, numbering only 26, against 35 Orleanists and 60 Legitimists, who will hence- forward dictate terms to their detested "allies." The exceptionally severe defeat of the Bonapartists is probably due to the double election, as their attraction is for the residuum.
