The elections of the delegates who will form the majority
at the election of the French Senators in January came off on Sunday. The results are not yet ascertained, but it is believed that the vote for the Republic was very heavy, and that the Republican Senators will have a majority after January of at least twenty - five. The few returns known, indeed, already secure a majority to the Liberals. In view of this result, it is stated that the Chamber of Deputies will abstain for the present from all new projects, and occupy itself mainly with the discussion of the Budget and administrative details. The Republican journals are most hopeful, but it should be remembered that it is after the election of Republican Senators that the time of trial for the Deputies will come. At present, the Left is restrained as to some of its ideas by the certainty that they will obtain no hearing in the Senate. It is when it becomes possible to transmute them into action—to carry a Bill, for example, abolishing the clerical exemption from army service —that smouldering questions will begin to blaze.
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