Three elections were held in France on Sunday,—two for the
Alpes Maritimes, one for the Pas de Calais, and one for the Seine- et.Oise. The result is the usual one, that the Republicans and the Bonapartists are the only two parties in the country. In the Pas de Calais, always Imperialist, the Bonapartist, M. Delisse Eugrand, beat the Republican, M. Brume, by 65,906 to 61,500, but a second ballot will be required. In the Seine-et-Oise, the Republican won by 60,000 to 45,000, but the Bonapartist, the Due de Padoue, was of the most pronounced type, and had quarrelled with the Septennate. In the Alpes Maritimes, the Republicans also won, but their adversaries were suspected of a wish to reunite the Departments to Italy. The Legitimist candidates, when they stood, polled some 10 per cent, of the voters, and that seems to be about their strength in political elections. They do better in elections to the Councils-General, but they are so frightened that they talk of postponing the dissolution to 1880. Why not pass a law making the Assembly perpetual, and decree the exemption of members from mortality?
