As to the individual elections, it is remarkable that almost
all the dismissed Republican mayors and the victims of official pro- secution have been returned with large majorities by the people. M, Gambetta received a far higher vote than on any previous occasion. M. Bonnet-Duverdier, who is in prison on a policeman's evidence of having insulted the Marshal, which a number of un- official witnesses deny, was returned triumphantly for Lyons. In Department after Department, the objects of the Government's censure have received the most enthusiastic proof of the people's confidence. The Due Decazes, the Foreign Minister, whose last speech insulted all the Republicans as Communists, and who thought himself sure in Libourne, whore his own estate of La Grave is situated, was rejected in favour of Dr. Lalanne, a local doctor, one of the 363, and will have to sit for Puget-Theniers, in the Department of y great success of any minister the Alpes Maritimes. The only was that of the man who has himself done all this dirty work, M. de Fourtou, who was returned for Riberac, by a majority of eleven thousand against six thousand. In Paris, however, M. Gr6vy received a vote more by 2,000 than M. '-['fliers received in the same arrondissement at the last election. On the whole, the re- sult of the elections is to prove that France is simply immove- able in her Republicanism, and that the most gigantic efforts of one of the most unscrupulous of modern Governments,—the largest promises of bribes in the shape of public works, and the severest acts of• official tyranny,—do not stir her resolution one jot.
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