Three very important elections took place in France on Sunday..
In the first, for Corsica, M. Rouher obtained the seat by a majority of more than five to one, the Corsican soldiers throughout France- voting for him in nearly equal proportion. The fact is of no par- ticular significance, as Corsica is naturally Bonapartist, but M. Rouher will be a formidable chief for the party throughout France. Henceforward he is protected by his inviolability as Deputy. In the COtes du Nord, a Legitimist department, a Conservative Republican, General de Lassalle, has beaten a Legitimist by 43,000' to 35,600 votes ; and in the Eure, another Royalist department, M. Lepouze, the Republican, has obtained 31,996 votes, M. Pouquet, the Bonapartist, 21,134, and M. Blosserville, the Royalist, 14,888. These two last returns would be most satis- factory, but for the difficulty of ascertaining whether the majority vote for Republicanism or for the powers that be. It seems clear, however, that no direct preassure is used, or the Bonapartist vote- would not be so heavy.
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