The French Elections have ended in a great victory for
the Government. In Paris, although half the electors abstained, M. Vautrain, the moderate Radical, supported by M. Thiers, has been returned by a majority of 27,000, while in seventeen other places fourteen Republicans have been successful. Two of these, it is true, are said to be only "official Republicans," or "Republicans hoping for place ;" but that would be no argument for them with their electors, and the point is their opinion. Of the remaining three, two are Bonapartists, who, however, do not preach Bona- partism, and one is a Legitimist. It was believed in Paris that the first consequence of the election of M. Vautrain would be the return of the Government to Paris, but this Assembly is full of those who may be brayed in a mortar without result, and the majority mean to keep where they are, and punish Paris, even at the coat of an insurrection.
