M. Blanqui's election for Bordeaux was annulled in the French
Chamber on Tuesday as illegal by a majority of 372 against 33,—most of the Right abstaining from the
division. Of the thirty-three who voted for confirming M. Blanqui's election, six were Bonapartists, who voted, we presume, ostensibly on the principle that a popular vote whitewashes all political sins, really to swell the numbers of the Irreconcilables. Six other Bonapartists voted with the Government, and the rest abstained, so that on this question the Bonapartist vote was simply neutralised.. Ten Monarchists voted for the annulment of Blanqui's election, but all the rest abstained. Of the extreme Left, four, including even M. Madier de Montjau, who has incurred the vehement wrath of his party by his vote, had the courage to vote for the annulment of the election and the supremacy of the law. It is sufficiently curious that it should be deemed by any party the sign of loyalty to the democracy, to treat the favour of a locality as repealing a law passed by the representatives of a nation. On that principle, England, for instance, ought to regard the election of Arthur Orton for Stoke-upon-Trent, or any other large constituency, US equivalent to a free pardon and a qualification to sit.
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