General Boulanger is still marching to his goal. On Sunday
—after, be it recollected, he had proclaimed himself the enemy of Parliamentarism—he was elected for the great Department of the Nord by the amazing majority of 96,000 votes over his opponent, the Opportunist, M. Foucart. Nine thousand votes were given to M. Moreau also, and 100,000 electors did not poll; but as a large proportion of them abstained rather than offend the ruling powers, that does not diminish the importance of the victory. The acquiescent make good supporters for a Dictator. On the arrival of the news, the General, who had not even visited the Nord, and who had left electioneering to his friends, issued a proclamation thanking the electors for resisting intimidation, and for demanding with him "the dissolution of the Chamber and the revision of a Constitution not only anti-Republican, but of a usurping character." France, says the General, demands a Constituent Assembly to restore to the people that "large place" in politics which they are always promised and always deprived of. He means, it is believed, the right to give direct and final decisions through plAiseites.
