The Paris papers are full of statements relative to the
effect of the elections on the Government. First, it is said that the President of the Republic was desirous of resigning, and only prevented by General (Than- gamier; next, that M. Ferdinand Barret, M. Carrier, and General de la
tte, resigned on Wednesday morning, but were induced by the Presi- dent to hold office for the present ; next, that at least General de la Hitte- has resigned for certain, and that the two other Ministers are about to do as; To supply these vaeancies, actual or possible, M. Thiers, Id. Mold, M. Leon Faucher, and M. Lamartine, are invoked as candidates. The first two are said to have been "sent; for," to have merged all points of difference, and ae,eepted the mission of reorganizing the Government. Previous interviews with Lamartine and with Faucher had "come to nothing." The actual position of things is totally vague and unknown.
Out of thirty-one provincial representatives to be elected, the results of twenty-eight are known : seventeen Socialists have been successful ; only eleven Moderates.
Official proclamation of the three successful Socialists as representa- tives for Paris was made at the Hotel de Ville yesterday. An "immense military force" was paraded to overawe alleged intentions of disturbance ; but not more than 1,500 citizens were present, and their demeanour was irreproachably tranquil. The latest intelligence states definitively, that M. Barret retires; and is replaced by M. itouher, the Minister of Justice ; whose place is filled by Id. Earache, the present Procureur-General : M. Barrot to go to Turin on an embassy.
The National and the nix du People, yesterday morning formally warned their Socialist partisans against an "infernal snare "—an attempt to embroil them with the armed force. They have been seized, to be pro- secuted, for exciting the people to hatred and contempt of the Government.
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