NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE supplementary elections in France have not greatly altered the position of parties. The Republicans of all shades have, as'we expected, 330 members against -200 of all other parties com- bined ; and the Moderates have 270 against 260, a number which makes them independent of the 60 "Radicals," many of whom, however, will habitually vote with them on all questions. The Legitimists count 36, the Orleanists and MacMahonists together .58, the doubtfuls 14, and the Bonapartists 92, the latter being the largest single party opposed to the Republic, but little more than a sixth of the House. The Republicans, therefore, have a clear majority in both Houses on Republican questions, but of course will display on other subjects wide diversities of opinion. The tedious work of "verifying powers" has still to be accomplished, and then serious work will begin, probably with Victor Hugo's proposal for giving an amnesty to the Communists, which will, it is believed, be rejected, the Government pledging itself to a large number of individual pardons.
