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The elections of the Conseils-Gadraux seem to show that there

will be in these Councils a great majority of Conservative Re- publicans, that is, of partizans of the existing regime, amount- ing to something like three-fifths of the whole of them, a small Radical party of not more than one-seventh of the whole, a still smaller Imperialist party of about one-ninth, and a Legi- timist party, smaller than any of the others, of less than a tenth. The worst sign is, however, as we anticipated last week, the great number of abstentions from the poll. The French hardly care how the elections turn out. In most places, it is said that hardly 40 per cent. of the electors polled.

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