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FRANCS.-The votes to decide the election of President of the Republic were taken on Sunday and Monday, the 10th and 11th instant. The re- turns will not be officially computed and announced before Monday next: the National Assembly has declared that if the returns then show such a majority that the votes of the distant dependencies cannot alter the result, the election shall be proclaimed forthwith. It is expected that this procla- mation will be made on Wednesday next.

The Beenement, a well-edited paper, gives this estimate of the compara- tive polling-

Louis Napoleon 66 per cent. Cavaignao 21 „ Ledru-Rollin 6 „ Respell 4 , Lamartine 3 „ At Paris, which was deemed the following were the apparent results

First Arrondissement

Laois Napoleon Bonaparte 16,989 General Cavaignac 6,015 Ledru Rollin 1,168 Raspall 719 Lamartlne 238 Respell Lamartlne Marshal Bugeaud Proudhon Beranger Arago 1,023 177 2

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Second Arrondissement. Eighth Arrondissement.

Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.... 12,538 Louis Napoleon Bonaparte 12,758 General Cavaignac 7,708

General Cavalgnac

5,518 Ledru Rollin 1,968

Ledru Rollin

2,841 EaaPail 1,155 Raspail 1,344 Lamartlne 365 Lamartlne 189 General Changarnler 11

Ninth Arrondissement.

Marshal Bugeaud 5 Louis Napoleon Bonaparte 8,534 Prince de Joinville 2 General Cavalgnac 4,300 Louis Blanc 2

Ledru Rollin

1,057 Dupont (de Mare) 2 Raspall 728 Considerant 1 LamarUne 137 Proudhon 1

Tenth Arrondissement.

Vidocq 1 Napoleon Bonaparte 22,326

Third Arrondissement.

General Cavaignac 11,247 Louis Napoleon Bonaparte... 6,106 Ledru Rollin 1,597 General Cavaignac 5,921 Raspall 840 Ledra Rollin 1,415 Lamartlne 399 Raspail 825 Changarnier 24

Lamartlne

277

Bugeaud 6

Fourth Arrondissement.

Larochejaquelln 3

Louis Napoleon Bonaparte...

4,605

Arago

2

General Cavaignac

3,571

De Montrol

Ledru Rollin

1,257

Abd.el-Kader

Raspall

1,185

Le General Petit

Lamarline 175

Eugene Sue

Dupont (de l'Eure)

1

Fallon

General Changarnier

1

Mole

Lamehejacquelln

Hyde de Neuvllie

Proudhon

Prince de Joinville

Fifth Arrondissement.

Jerome Bonaparte

Louis Napoleon Bonaparte• • .

9,423

Berryer

General Cavaignac 5,595 Marshal Senn

Ledru Rollin 2,434

Eleventh Arrondissement.

Raspail 1,368 Louis Napoleon Bonaparte .... 834

Lamartine

276 General Cavalgnac 6,020

Sixth Arrondissement.

Ledru Rollin 1,615 Louis Napoleon Bonaparte... 10,621 Raspail 866 General Cavaignac 7,509 Lamartlne 290 Ledru Rollin 3,455

Twelfth Arrondissement-Eleven Sections

Raspail

1,405

out of Twelve.

Limarnne

394 Louis Napoleon Bonaparte 10,899

Seventh Arrondissement.

General Cavalgnac 4,616 Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. • • 7,097 Ledru Rollin 1,546 General Cavaignac 5,109 Raspail 1,198

Ledru Rollin 1,926

Lamartlne 227

These returns give to-

Prince Louis Napoleon 131,154 votes General Cavaignac 73,129 Ledru Rollin 22,279 Raman 12,656 Lamartlne 3,144

But few incidents have appeared in contrast to the general character Of Louis Napoleon's success. General Cavaignac obtained majorities at Valenciennes, at Lille, at Havre, and some minor places: at Havre the numbers were 45,599 to 23,026. At Brest, 800 votes were given for Louis Napoleon, and 1,200 votes for the Prince de Joinville. The authorities re- fused to receive the latter votes, on the ground that they were "ridiculous," and they are therefore suppressed.

The National Vice-President is to be chosen by the Assembly from a list of three persons presented to it by the President within a month of his election. The following has been circulated as the most probable list of Napoleon's first Ministry-

11. Odilon Barrot, President of the Council and Minister of Justice.

B. Achille Fould, Finance. General Oudinot,Wer. M. Barthelemy St. Hilaire, Public Instruction and Ecclesiastical Affairs. M. Leon Faucher Public Works. M. Bineau, Commerce and Agriculture. Admiral Cecille, Marine. stronghold of General Cavaignac, the as collected on Wednesday afternoon- M. Leon de Malleville, Interior.

M. Drouin de Lhuys, Foreign Affairs. MM. d'Audiffret and Hypolite Passy are said to have refused the Fi- nance department The clergy objected to the appointment of M. Bar- thelemy St. Hilaire, and M. Falloux was again talked of for the department of Ecclesiastical Affairs. It is stated that Napoleon intends to offer Ca- vaignac the government of Algeria.

The result of the election is not more surprising to many, than the ef- fect produced by that result in the capital-

" Paris," says the Evenement, " has declared a holyday. The inhabitants everywhere exchange expressions of joy and enthusiasm. The people, the bour- geois, and the army, congratulate each other on the triumph of their candidate. The partisans of M. Louis Napoleon, already friends by opinion, have become bro- thers by success. Paris never offered such an appearance of contentment since

the day when the First Consul reopened the churches. The popularity of the name of Napoleon seems to be still enhanced by that universal acclamation. That glorious name has now completed the immortal list of its victories. Hitherto it had only conquered Europe; since yesterday it has conquered France."

A Parliamentary incident which occurred towards the end of last week was seized by the Napoleonists and used against General Cavaignao's

election prospects. One of the earliest acts of the Provisional Government

of February was the appointment of a Commission to report on the claims of all persons entitled to recompense from the Republic for losses and sufferings incurred in combating the Monarchy and establishing the new order of things. M. Albert was the honorary president, and Colonel Grimard the acting president of the Commission. The Commission in-

vestigated 7,204 claims, and held 4,500 of those claims to be to some ex-

tent well founded; and it recommended application to the Assembly for a grant of 600,000 francs of rente and 1,000,000 francs of ready money as pensions or gifts. It added a list in two categories of the persons whom it

recommended to the State bounty. In September last, a bill was intro- duced by M. Senard to carry out the principle adopted by the Provisional

Government: it was referred to a Committee of the Assembly, with the Ministerial expose de motifs, and the list of persona prepared by the Commission of Recompenses. But the delivery of this list of names was not made at the time it was first ordered, nor on nu- merous subsequent demands of it made by the Committee; and it was only obtained early last week, in consequence of peremptory inter- pellationa threatened in the Assembly. When the Committee obtained it, they were shocked to find that it included the names of " assassins, mur- derers, and infamous characters," or their descendants,-the names of Pe- pin's wife and children; Lecomte's sister; of Boucheron, who was con- demned to ten years imprisonment for the attempt against the lives of Orleans, Nemours, and Aumale; of some conspirators with Fieschi; and of many men under infamous sentences. It included Cabet, Sobrier, and Caussididre; and even recommended for annual pensions, persons so little needing them, as MM. Armand Marrast, Recurt, Flocon, and Gervais de Caen. A copy of this list got publicity in the Paris papers on Wednesday the 6th, and raised such a general ferment that M. Dufaure withdrew the bill from the Assembly, with semi-apologies and disclaimers. On Thurs- day, M. Senard defended himself for his share of the matter: he asseverated his ignorance of the nature of the lists prepared, and declared that they were never regarded as more than bare suggestions to the Committee of the Assembly in their deliberations: he protested against the idea that he

purposed to endow assassination and rubbery. General Cavaignao said that he had signed the bill in approval of its principle, but ignorant of the

detailed recommendations: he repelled the idea that he or the Government had brought forward a list partly composed of honourable men and partly of robbers, with a view to indiscriminate recompense. M. Baroche, chair- man of the Committee of the Assembly, could not agree with M. Senard as

to the character in which the lists were sent to the Committee; he thought they were "really set forth in sober earnest, as suggestions for recompense."

But not one member of the Committee thought that M. Senard, M. Da- fage, or General Cavaignac, knew anything of the documents. After some warm debate, the Assembly passed to the order of the day. The effect of these explanations was so satisfactory, that it was plainly desirable to send the reports of them into the provinces, in order to coun- teract the effects on the Presidential election which the original charges would produce. With this view, the Ministry ventured a most unusual interference with the public mails. Several of the largest printing-offices in Paris were engaged during Thursday afternoon and evening in printing millions of copies of the exculpatory speeches. Enormous masses of these were brought to the post-office between eight and eleven at night, when the mail-posts, which had been kept waiting since six o'clock, were literally crammed with them inside and outside; the spaces devoted to passengers being reserved for them. Besides these, special trains were prepared on the different lines of railway, which started laden with them at one in the morning. The departments of the West were the especial objects of this attention.

In the Assembly on Friday, M. Vavin put questions to the Government on the subject of the delay of the mails for six hours the previous night.

M. Trouve Chanel took the responsibility of that measure: he believed that he was acting in accordance with the wishes of the Assembly. He admitted that his object was to send the exculpatory speeches of the mem- bers of the Government into the departments at the same time with the charges against them. After some animated discussion, the question was adjourned.

IratT.--The Pope remains at Gaeta, surrounded by the Royal Family of Naples, and by those Roman courtiers who have chosen his side in the civil struggle. He has issued a manifesto " addressed neither to the ex- isting Ministry nor Parliament," but protesting against the " violence which had compelled him to separate himself temporarily from his subjects and children," and nominating a Commission of Government under Car-

dinal Castracani. This nomination was not acted on in Rome: some mem- bers of the intended Commission had fled from the country, and others de- clined the office proffered. The Chamber of Deputies resolved, on the 3d instant, that the Gaeta manifesto had no official character, not being countersigned by a Minister; that the present Ministry should continue in office; and that a deputation of both Houses should go to the Pope. The great towns have adhered to Rope.

AUSTRIA.-The news from Vienna is of little interest; it is to the 9th instant. The Breslau Gazette states that the Emperor Francis Joseph has dismissed Prince Lobkowitz, an official courtier who insulted the deputa- tion sent from Prague to Olmiitz. He has confirmed the Ban Jellachich in the office of civil and military Governor of Croatia. A letter from Cologne states that the young Emperor intends to separate himself from his family for a rime. The whole family circle has already broken ups—the Ex-Emperor and his consort for Prague; the Arehdutchess Sophia and the Archduke Francis Charles, for Munich; the Archduke Ferdinand d'Este, for Berlin and Dres- den. The Moravian Diet has decided that the words "gentle and good" shall be added to the name of the Emperor Ferdinand in the annals of Moravia and the documents of the Diet.

It is reported from Pesth, that when the news of the late Emperor's abdication and the present Emperor's accession arrived, the Hungarians resolved unanimously, " that since they had not been consulted, they must consider the abdication an unconditional resignation of the crown; but that they refused to recognize Francis Joseph as their King, for it was ex- pressly stipulated in the Pragmatic Sanction that no person under twenty years of age should succeed to the Hungarian crowns; and that for the future Hungary should be a Republic." They are preparing with extraor- dinary energy and care for war. They have fortified Presburg and Pesth, added to the fortifications of Komorn, undermined all the roads to their principal cities; and, it is said, burned all the towns and villages from Bruck on the Leitha to Presburg, so as to starve the Imperialists in their winter campaign. Prince Windiscbgratz is making equal preparations on his side: it is observed that he hesitates to move with his, present means. " Not only is the whole expedition devoted to endless procrastination," says the Times correspondent, " (it is now five weeks since the troops first marched upon Bruck and Theben,) but he is collecting all the troops he can from all corners of the empire, and has even gone so far as to reduce Use garrison of Vienna to its ordinary strength of 25,000 men."

The following (affecting if authentic) letter by Robert Blum to his wits, written on the morning of his execution, has obtained publicity at i Lepsi g- " Sly dear good wife—Farewell, farewell for the time men call eternity, but which will not be so. Bring up our—now only your—children to be honest men; ao they will never disgrace their father's name. Sell our little property with the Bid of our friends. God and all good men will help you also All that I feel and would say at this moment escapes me in tears; only once more, then, farewell, my. dearest. Consider our children a treasure of which you must make the best use, and honour thus the memory of your faithful husband. Farewell, farewell; receive the last kisses of your Robert. Vienna, November 184$, five o'clock in the morning; at six all will be over. "P.S. I had forgotten the rings: on that of our betrothal I press for you a last kiss; my seal-ring is for Hans, the watch for Richard, the diamond stud for Ida, the chain for Alfred, as memorials. All the rest-divide as you please. They are coming; farewell."

Paussra.—All the Parliamentary assemblages of Brandenburg have dispersed, and the country is perfectly quiet. Before separating, the Op- position made some progress in a plan of operation at the coming election. It was resolved immediately to form election committees in the districts, with a central committee in Berlin, to work for securing majorities in both Howes.

The following is a brief enumeration of the most important points of the constitution, " octroye," as the phrase is, by the King of Prussia to his !subjects. Its, 112 provisions are classified on the model of the Belgian Constitution, under nine titles. The second chapter concerns the " Rights of Prussia": it proclaims the equality of all Prussians before the law; guarantees freedom of the person, including the right of emigration; free- dom of property, of religious. faith, of knowledge in its communication; giving every Prussian " a right to express his ideas freely—orally, scriptu- rally, by the printing-press, and by artistical designs "; and it declares the secrecy of letters to be inviolable. Offences in diffusing ideas are cog- nizable only by the general penal code. The civil validity of marriage is determinate prior to the performance of the religious ceremony. Feudal tenures, family entails, and privileges of rank, are abolished. The third title, " of the King," establishes the inviolability of the King's person, and the responsibility of his Ministers. The fifth title regulates the con- stitution of the two Legislative Chambers. The First Chamber is to con- sist of 180 members; who must each be forty years of age, five years resi- dent in Prussia, and in full enjoyment of civil rights. The Second Chain- her will number 350 members; each above twenty-four years of age, resi- dent six months, in full civil capacity, and not in receipt of public relief. The elective franchise for both Chambers is indirect; and is founded on population and property. " All Prussians thirty years of age," paying 24s. yearly.taxes, or possessing land worth 1,2001. or yielding a rent of 751., and who have resided six weeks, may vote as primary electors in choosing the direct electors of the First Chamber. The direct electors then choose the members of the Chamber. " Each independent Prussian," six months re- sident, not receiving, parish relief, may vote as primary elector in the choice of direct electors of the Second Chamber. The direct electors then choose the members of the Second Chamber. The sixth title, regu- lating the judicial power, places the judges at the appointment of the King, but gives them a life-tenure indefeasible except by judicial decision on grounds provided by law. No previous permission is to be necessary be- fore procedure against public military or civil officers for overstepping their authority. Title eighth, on Finance, declares that taxes or imposts can only be levied under special laws, and abolishes all exemptions from bur dens. Excesses of expenditure must be approved by the Chambers, and the Chambers alone can give the Government a discharge of its accounts; which must be submitted annually with the budget for the coming year. General provisions declare that laws and ordinances are obligatory only when published in legal form; but " when the Chambers are not sitting, ordinances on urgent occasions, and on the responsibility of the whole of the Ministry, may be published with all the force of law: but these are to be laid before the Chambers for approval at the nearest session."

" Immediately after the first meeting of the Chambers, the present Con- stitution shall be subject to revision in the legislative way."