NEWS OF THE WEEK.
-L121TREMELY grave events have occurreitin France this I week. On Sunday, an election to the Chamber came off in Marseilles, and it was found that while M. Herve, the spokesman for the Comte de Paris, had received 23,638 votes, M. Fouquier, the Opportunist—that is, the representative of the existing Government—had received only 12,440, or little more than half. On the other hand, M. Felix Pyat, who is 78 years old, but who is the most advanced of Communists, and was once sentenced to death for his share in the Paris Com- mune, obtained 4,5,000 votes, or within 2,000 of all his rivals, even if we count 953 votes given to General Boulanger. That is a most serious symptom, but scarely more serious than the result on the same day at Laon, where General Boulanger obtained 45,089 votes from the electors of the Aisne ; M. Daumer, the Radical, 26,808; and M. Jacquemart, the Royalist, 24,670. Here also a second ballot must be held; but it is the first ballot, with its in- stinctive voting, which is just now important, and it was dead in favour of General Boulanger. He is so confident of the popular regard, that he has withdrawn in favour of M. Danmer, considering himself secure of the seat for the Nord, which is to be contested on April 15th.
