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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11. 1870 place until three o'clock for some one to purchase them. This, however, is not the only form which bribery takes. It is possible to make a contract which shall take effect contingently only ; a contract to pay on the condition of success. This kind of corrupt practice has been guarded against by a Provision in Lord HARTINGTON'S bill to the effect that any payment (however innocent) not included in the audited election accounts shall be deemed a corrupt payment, and shall invalidate the election. This is a stringent provision, and will doubtless pro duce some result. At the same time we do not sup pose, of course, that even this will render bribery im possible. The person who receives the illegal payment is not likely to announce it, considering that if he did he would not only stop all future supplies but render himself liable to criminal pro ceedings. At the same time M.P.'s will be cautious how they put themselves in the power of a man who will be able to do them irretrievable mischief. The M.P. who has once bribed will feel that he is never safe, and the thought of having to pay hush-money in addition to the bribe may prevent the first payment. Perhaps, however, the severe punishment inflicted upon Mr. FENNELLY will have the desired effect. A year's imprisonment and £l,OOO fine, look as if the country were in earnest at last. A briber has now been treated as a felon, a disgraceful punishment has been attached to an offence hitherto considered venial, and henceforth the offence itself will be considered disgraceful. Lord HARTINGTON'S bill is not intended merely for the electors ; there is a provision in it especially for the elected. The abolition of the public nomination is a boon for which the latter should be grateful. Even at a quiet election it is no slight trial. to make a speech in pouring rain, bitter cold, or burning heat. If to these desagremens are added the hootings of a mob, together with salutes of rotten eggs and stones that are only too solid, the ordeal is so unpleasant that it is won derful that anyone should voluntarily undergo it, still more pay for it out of his own pocket. This most useless and disagreable performance will now be abolished, to the delight of everybody except the hired street roughs. Another excellent feature of the bill is the prohibition of election com mittee rooms in public-houses. As the Ballot will put an end to intimidation and will certainly check bribery, and as the abolition of the hustings will put down riot, so this last regulation will be an important check to treating. Altogether this is not a bad measure; and, although we can sympathise with Professor Fawc ETT'S disappointment, and regret with him that the expenses of elections arenot hence forth to be borne by the persons who ought to bear them, there is no good ground for attacking the Government for not having done everything. Mr. FAWCETT should remember that even his own pecu liar crotchet will be greatly aided by the Ministerial measures. The present heavy cost of elections is made up chiefly by unnecessary and unlawful ex penditure. The unlawful bribing, treating, and the like—will now become very perilous ; the unnecessary hustings, wholesale hiring of public-houses, and the like—►ill be greatly diminished, and in some cases alto gether abolished. The member for Brighton will not find many of the Liberal party to join - with him in his complaining mood, which, we regret to say, has now become chronic. In the House of Commons last evening - Ow Under Secretary for the Foreign Department, in reply to Mr. Auberon Herbert, said that a telegraphic mes sage had been sent to Athens instructing the repre sentative of this country to procure the best legal advice in relation to the late massacre of captives, and at the same time t•o procure a postponement of the execution of any brigands now under arrest until a satisfactory investigation had taken place into the melancholy occurrence. For nearly .four hours the attention of the House was devoted to the consideration of an important proposition male by Sir Wilfred L twison, who asked the House to con demn the system of raising Indian revenue from opium. The hon. baronet, although he evidently had the sympathy of the majority, has met with consider able opposition from the Treastu y be n ches.,Mr. Grant- Duff moved the previous question, and based his con tention for the continuance of the system on fiscal considerations. He declared that the loss of so much revenue as £6,000,000 would bring India to.the verge of bankruptcy, and Mr. Gladstone darkly hinted that to give practical effect to the motion would imperil the peace and security of that country. A division took place on the previous question, which was nega tived. The Select Committee on Conventual and Monastic Institutions, as nominated by Mr. Glad stone, was agreed to. It was resolved, on the motion of Mr. Eykyn, that Anglican or other so-called raj gious institutions of a monastic or conventual charac ter should be includel within the scope of the Coin mittee's investigations. Having disposed of the orders of the day, the House adjourned at ten minutes to ten. To-day the Queen, accompanied by the chief members of the Royal Family and the great officers of State, will open the new buildings in Burlington-gardens devoted to the University of London. The Queen he'd a drawing room yesterday. Among the presentations, which were very numerous, was that of Miss Dickens, by the Countess hussell. The Prince of Wales will hold a levee at St. James's Palace on Monday, the 30th. The Prince of Wales has offered a challenge cup to be competed for by British and American yachts of 100 tons and upwards, and a meeting of the Royal Yacht Squadron is to be held next Saturday to settle the con ditions of the match. The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar yesterday dined at the mess of the Gentle men-at-Arms in St. James's Palace. The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland and the Countess Spencer are preparing for a tour in the north of Ireland. The Earl and Countess Russell and family arrived in Chesham-place yesterday from Pembroke Lodge, Rich mond-park. The Earl and Countess of Shrewsbur3 have arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Alton Towers, Cheadle. Mr. Childers, M.P., has recovered sufficiently to transact business. Miss Burdett Coutts bas left town for the re mainder of the present week. Last night a dinner in aid of the funds of the Belgian Benevolent Society was held at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street, the Lord Mayor presiding. Messrs. Emanuel, of Burlington-gardens, yester day submitted to the Prince of Wales the Grand Inter. national Pigeon Shooting Cup, for competition at Baden- Baden. Great efforts are being made to decide the ques tion of the candidature to the Spanish throne. General Espartero has been chosen by the Progressist Club. At a meeting of the committee appointed by the Wesleyan Conferenca to watch the education question held yesterday, it was resolved that the teaching of any catechism, formulary, or dogma, would be opposed by the Wesleyan body, and that it would equally insist upon the reading of the Bible in schools, and a Bible lesson by the teacher. The International matches between the American schooner yacht Sappho and the English schooner Cambria commenced yesterday morning. The latest accounts report that the Sappho maintains the lead. In the Queen's Bench, Dublin, yesterday, counsel applied to admit to bail Peter Barrett, charged with the murder of Captain Lambert, pending his third trial. The motion stands over until the Attorney General informs the Court if Barrett is again to be tried. The Court refused liberty to file criminal informations against Lord Greville for misdemeanour in sending money to persons, not expense agents, during the contest at Longford. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE PLEBISCITE. THE NUMBERS. Up to Monday evening the results of the voting, inclu ding those received from Algeria and a part of the army, and only excepting five arrondissements of France, gave : 7,138,000 Ayes. 1,518,000 Noes. These figures must approximate to a perfectly accurate return. The five circumscriptions, and the remainder of the army will make some difference, but not of a kind to affect the ratio denoted by those numbers. The propor tion of " Ouis" to " Nons" is as four and two thirds to one—though of course the abstentionists must be reckoned against the Emperor. Indeed many of his most uncompromising opponents declared for abstention. Those who did not vote at all must therefore be added to those who voted " Non." The abstentionists and the negative voters together would leave the Emperor's majority a little over two to one. The returns from the following towns are interesting. They shew that the town popula tion is almost uniformly against the Emperor. His great strength lies in the country districts : Ayes. Noes. Aix Agen Angers 4,822 ... 5,135 Avignon Angouleme 2,600 ... 1,205 Beaune Bordeaux Brest Cherbourg Creuzot 1,837 ... 3,723 Dijon 3,226 ... 5,339 Grenoble Fontainebleau 1,514 ... 550 Havre Marseilles 18,412 ... 34,829 Metz Montpelier Mulhouse 3,398 ... 3,074 Nantes Nancy Rouen Rennes Toulouse Tours 4,261 ... 4,196 Valence 1)231 ... 2,634 In the following towns the abstentions were as under : Avignon, 8,648 ; Bordeaux, 15,040 ' • Colmar, 10,173 ; Chateaubriand, 4,732 ; Douai, 5,791; Havre, 12,847 ; Lille, 12,153 ; Marseilles, 22,617; Nantes, 20,508 ; Rennes, 4,454; St. Die, 8,460; Toulouse, 9,151 ; Tours, 3,686 ; Valenciennes, 8,954. The Libel*, in 'chronicling the votes of the army, so far as they are yet known, reminds its readers that in 1851 the votes of the army exceeded 30,000 non. A protest from some of the leading Republicans has appeared in the Rappel directed against the manner in which the votes of the army were taken on the Bth. It complains that electors were not allowed to enter the polling booths established in the barracks, and declares that the vote was taken in defiance of all the conditions prescribed by the common electoral rights. The Marqnis d' Andelarre has written to the papers, explaining a phrase in his recent brochure, which has been misconstrued. So far from approving unconditionally, of Plebiscites, he thinks they should be strictly reserved for extreme cases, and objects to anything like a regular system. The blank votes, which were numerous in Paris, never theless fell short of the hopes of the Republicans. According to the election tables of 1869, the Government candidates only obtained 67,000 in the department of the Seine while the ouis on Sunday in the ballot-boxes of Paris de Sceaux and Saint Denis amounted to 139,538 or nearly double. The Opposition, which a year ago mustered 240,000 votes, has now only been able to put forward 184,246 nails. Thanks to the Liberal reforms of the Government, and to the excesses of the Radicals, they have lost more than 50,000 votes in a twelvemonth. The abstention, so strongly advised by the Marseillaise and other malcontents, seems to have been too tame a course of action for Frenchmen, who prefer to share in the excitement of voting, even if they put in a blank paper. It is worthy of notice that the Government had a majority in the circumscription of Paris which is represented by M. Thiers, whereas the old circumscrip tion, which was represented by M. 011ivier, the com mercial centre shewed an uncompromising hostility by 21,673 " Non" against 14,114 " Oui," and 6,316 absten tions. One or two incidents are spoken of as occurring on the day of the vote. M. Leclauche, a well known Demo crat, insisted upon taking up his . position at the ballot box in the Rue Fontaine Saint George. On an inspection of the box, votes of " Oui" were found made up in packets of 300, shewing that official impartiality was not alto gether reliable. At the Ninth Arrondissement M. Peyrouton wished to enter the voting hall, but was steadily refused by the President of the bureau. In the evening a party pf some fifty persons assembled on the Quay Jemmapes, and shouted, " Vive Rochefort 1" but soon dispersed. Later on, a few of them re-assembled outside Prince Eugene's Barracks, and sung the Marseillaise. These worthies subsequently marched through Saint-Martin, Saint-Denis, and other parts of Paris, but did no damage. The Central Committees of the Plebiscite have kept anxious watch over the voters, and their messengers were in every district. Every quarter of an hour the returns of the votes were sent to the Emperor. An amusing anecdote is told of M. Mocqueris the son-in law of M. Pelletan, the well-known Liberal deputy who presented himself at the Mairie of the 14th arrondissement on the day of the Plebiscite, together with his father-in law, to register his child. He wished to give it the name of " Non." The employe objected that the name was inadmissible. " What do you say, then ? " asked M. IVlocqueris, "May I call it Oui ? ' The official again refused, and the eccentric father accordingly took refuge in the Calendar of Saints. ------- It appears that in the inroad at the office of the Rappel it was not the ordinary forms that were broken up, but the stereotype plates, so that the journal could not be printed again. The Government, it is said, determined to act with vigour, whatever the result of the Plebiscite. In case of success they would have the prestige of triumph —in case of defeat they were prepared to act in the inte rest of the Empire. - e* .c4 A 1 t tjlt 01;,-**42,‘ INIORNING EDITION LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1870. Another appeal to France has elicited in favour of her Imperial ruler a cry of approval from between 7,000,000 and 8,000,000 voices. Thrice previously the chosen Sovereign of the foremost nation of Con tinental Europe had received a like magnificent evi dence of national approbation. Anything comparable to this reiterated attestation of confidence in the Prince seated upon the throne of the modern CESAR, SESOSTRIS, and CHARLEMAGNE, is not discoverable in the modern annals of Christendom. The smallest majority ever obtained by NAPOLEON lII. namely, that by which he was first of all called to power immediately at the close of 1848—surpasses immeasurably the largest majority ever accorded to another potentate. It approached the then unparalleled aggregate of 6,000,000 suffrages. This, when the ballot-urns were under the guar dianship of the Prince PRESIDENT'S rival, CA VAIGNAC. Upon the occasion of the second of these most memorable and historical appeals, the grand total very nearly reached was one of all but 7,000,000. This was upon the morrow of the coup d'e'tat when the population of France thundered its approval of the course pursued at a crisis of supreme emergency by the Chief of the State, who preferred to outwit the whole of his antagonists rather than allow them to mature their seriously meditated plane for his own incarceration in the Castle of Vincennes. The aggregate attained upon the last two occasions by the ruler of the French people being even yet larger, advancing not from 6,000,000 to 7,000,000, but from 7,000,000 to 8,000,000. To depreciate the value and importance of these astounding statis tics would be simply preposterous. They are nowhere, in the history of any country, to be, in any one particular, paralleled. They attest, beyond the possibility of contradiction, the fact that the reign ing Emperor of the FRENCH is one of the most legiti mate of living Sovereigns. Uncrowned though he is to this day, these four plebiscites constitute, in a manner, his quadruple coronation. Raised to power two and twenty years ago, the Heir to the fortunes of NAPOLEON the GREAT has so acquitted himself of his immense responsibilities, that the country under hie rule has prospered alike in peace and war, has acquired new glory on the battlefield, has very largely increasel its re sources, both by the expansion of her com merce and by the development of her agriculture. Paris, already wittily said to be France, has, under the magical wand of his wonder-, working Edile, been Trajanised into a magnificence.. rendering it not unworthy of being called the repre sentative capital of the whole Continent. For eighteen years the EMPEROR has swayed the destinies of France with absolute authority. His sceptre has been the rod of an Imperial Dictatorship. During that epoch of despotic power,he has himself, as Com mander-in-chief, led the armies of France to victory upon the plains of Italy, at Magenta and Solferino Since when, his effigy upon the gold, and silver, and bronze coinage of France, has, by right, according to the science of numismatics, been encircled with the laurel crown of a Military Conqueror. Having wielded the sceptre of irresponsible power during nearly two decades, the reigning Sove reign of France has, now, in obedience to the requirements of the age, but at the same time, in the deliberate exercise of his own free will, taken the rod of empire—twice accorded to him, first in the Decem ber of 1851, and afterwards in 1852—and, voluntarily, with his own hands, snapped it in twain. He has fulfilled his promise of Crowning the Edifice. He has conceded Liberty of Speech, Liberty of Writing, Liberty of Printing and of Publication. The Tribune may be ascended, and turned, in the open day, into the rostrum of the enemies of his Government. The Legislature and the Administration are brought into satisfactory relations with each other, the Ministers being dependent—not as hitherto, upon the whim of the EMPEROR, but—upon the choice of the Le Corps Legislatif and of Messieurs les Senateurs. At the same time Order is still maintained, Anarchy is still vigorously repressed. The barricades, for example, which, upon the morrow of the day of the Pldbiscite were sparsely scattered over the disaf fected quarters of Paris, were only hurriedly erected to be swept away instantaneously by the armed guar dians of the legitimate authority of the' Liberalised Empire, France has spoken, and, in speaking, has ironounced deliberately and most emphatically in favour of the EMPEROR'S recent acts of Liberalization. ONE man sows and another reaps. A few weeks ago Mr. HENRY BERKELEY went to his rest after labour ing for more than thirty years in behalf of vote by Ballot. On Monday night a Liberal Government for the first ti me gave its official sanction to the principle of secret voting, and introduced a bill which, according to all appearances, will become law without serious opposition. The last general elec tion shewed that we are still a long way off from the enjoyment of that perfect law of liberty which ought to prevail. We cannot afford to wait any longer for it. We have extended the franchise ; we have increased the number of voters who are depen dent upon others for their daily bread ; and we are bound to protect them in order that the gift which we have bestowed on them may not prove a curse. The Parliamentary Elections Bill of Monday night is the inevitable sequel of Mr. DISRAELI'S Reform Bill and the general election that followed. We do not care to discuss with Mr. LEATHAM the particular mode of conducting a Ballot. We are sure Government desire only to obtain that which will best answer its purpose. It will be impos sible even for Professor FAWCETT to see in the shape of the Ballot-box or in the size of the Ballot-paper any ground for suspecting the chief whom he nominally follows. The one great advantage which the Ballot is bound to secure is the protection of the voter. To attain this in the most perfect manner must be the determination of the House of Commons. If Mr. LEATHAM can chew that his plan is better than the Marquis Of HARTINGTON'S, the House will, we trust, adopt it. The Ballot will undoubtedly get rid of one incentive to bribery. It is the hourly state of the poll, with its neck-and-neck race, which does all the mischief. Honest men lose their honesty when they find that a few pounds will make all the difference between victory and defeat. The temptation is too great for them to resist, and they buy up the venal men who have been waiting idle in the market (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. THE PLEBISCITE. PARIS, May 10, Evening. The total result of the voting, exclusive of Algeria, is : 7,257,379 .. Ayes. 1,530,909 ... Noes. The troops which had been brought to Paris on the chance of any disturbances returned this morn ing to their garrisons. The Journal Officiel states that the Government has every reason to believe that there will be no renewal this evening of last night's culpable attempts, which the authorities are determined not to tolerate. The France and the Moniteur Universal state that the Govern ment, in order to dissipate the revolutionary illu sions relative to a possible defection of the troops, have resolved henceforth to employ the troops of the Line to restore order whenever necessary. The Patrie announces that M. Emile de Girardin will probably be made a Sanator. An article by that gentleman in this evening's Liberte expresses a belief that the consequence of the vote of the Bth of May will be the abrogation of the laws which banish the two branches of the Bourbons from France. 10 P.M. At 8 o'clock this evening great crowds were assembled in the Faubourg du Temple, and there were some hostile groups at the toner of the Rue St. Maur, but the excitement is less thin it wa3 yesterday, and there are no assemblages before the barracks of the Chateau d'Eau. PARIS, May 10. A fire broke out the day before yesterday at Elboeuf (in the department of the Seine Inferieux), and is not yet completely extinguished. The loss is estimated at three millions of francs. SPAIN. MADRID, May 10. The Progressist Club has definitively adopted General Espartero as its candidate for the Spanish Throne. A meeting was held yesterday by the Junta, which controls the action of the majority of the Cortes, and a second meeting was held to-day for the elaboraFion of a scheme for a settlement, which is to be submitted to a meeting of the Majo rity to-morrow. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 9. The Armenian Catholics have presented a petition to the Grand Vizier demanding permission to elect a patriarch to replace Hassoun. INDIA:. CALCUTTA, May 10. The King of litirmah has ordered several large tracts of country to be devoted to the cultivation of jute. AMERICA. NEW YORK, May 10. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Closing prices Gold closed at 1141. ; the highest quotation during the day was 114 the lowest 1141. Sterling exchange on London, 1091. Five-Twenty United States Bonds, 1882, 112 ; ditto, 1885, 1114 ; ditto, 1867, 1134 ; Ten-Forty United States Bonds, 104. Illinois, 142 ; Erie , 23/. Cotton : Middling upland, 23c. Petroleum : Standard white, 28c. Flour : Extra State, $4 83c. to $5 4c. Corn : Old mixed, $1 16c. According to Messrs. Moffatt, Davidis, and Co.'s report Ihe receipts of cotton at all ports, for the last four days, have been 20,000 bales. Shipments to England, 22,000 bales ; to France, 3,000 bales ; and to the Continent, 4,000 bales. Middling Upland, Wad., cost and freight per steamer. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) P UGILISM ON THE MISSISSIPPI. A fight for the championship, between Mace and Allen, came off, yesterday on the banks of the Mis sisippi, 13 miles above New Orleans. In the first round both men went down. In the second, which was a severe one, Mace drew blood, and Allen went down. In the third Mace went down under a decided foul, and disallowed. In the seventh Allen's eye was closed, and both men went down. In the eighth Mace was thrown. In the ninth he was cleanly knocked down. In the tenth both men went down. Allen's eye was cut, his arm dislocated, and alto gether he was badly punished. Mace was not scratched. FIRE AT LEEDS. The model warehouse of Burnley and Nicholls, machine tool manufacturers, Leeds, was totally destroyed by fire be tween one and two yesterday morning. The building, which was about 200 ft. long by 50ft. broad, contained models collected during twenty years. The property was partially insured. DECLARATION OF THE POLL AT MALLOW. The declaration of the poll at Mallow was made onTues day. The majority for Mr. Waters was announced to be eight. Major Knox was not present. Mr. Waters in his speech charged Major Knox's agent with attempting to bribe, and exhibited notes for one hundred and forty pounds alleged to have been given to an elector to purchase three votes for the Conservative candidate; he indignantly denied the statement made by Major Knox, to the effect that he had offerbd informa tion to unseat Mr. Munster. Referring to political topics, he said he advocated denominational education and the release of the 'Fenian prisoners, whose acts were prompted by patriotic and unselfish, though mistaken motives. Mr. Wynne, Major Knox's agent, subsequently attempted to speak, but he had to desist, owing to the interruptions. THE NOMINATION AT LONGFORD. The nomination of candidates for the representation of Longford took place on Tuesday. Mr. Maxwell, chairman of the Town Commissioners, proposed the Hon. George Greville-Nugent, and the nomination was seconded by Mr. Thomas Gregory, ex-sub-sheriff of the county. Major Hepenstall proposed, and Mr. James Murtagh seconded the nomination of Captain Harman (Conserva tive). Mr. Patrick Smyth, late candidate for Waterford, was proposed, but afterwards withdrew in favour of Mr. Harman. The noise in the Court was deafening, and no speakers could be heard except partially by the reporters of the press. The show of hands was in favour of Captain Harman. Mr. Greville Nugent demanded a poll. The Sheriff fixed Friday. The Nationalists are expected to vote for Harman, and if they do his return is almost certain. The Roman Catholic clergy were conspicuous by their absence at the no-0. mination. The town was perfectly quiet. No rioting occurred. TRADE OUTRAGE IN SHEFFIELD. At Tunstall, Samuel Durber was charged under the following circumstances :—A short time since he went to the Clough Hall Colliery earlier than the customary time for going to work, and when the engineman of num ber nineteen pit proceeded at a later hour to lower the first cagefull of colliers, he discovered that there was something wrong and told the men to get out. This they did, and it was then found that a large iron nut had been placed between the cogs of one of the wheels. The prisoner was accordingly arrested. Before the magistrates it was explained that had the nut been placed a few teeth further off, the result would have probably been the smashing of the engine, and precipitation of the men to the bottom of the pit, 150 yards in depth. The prisoner was remanded. At Miles Platting, near Manchester on Tuesday, a goods' train ran into a passenger train, which was stand ing at the platform. The last carriage which, fortunately, was empty, was shivered to pieces, the next contained five occupants all of whom were much shaken. No fatal results are apprehended. The third-class carriages, which were full, were fortunately in the centre of the train. THE PARIS PRESS. The Constitutionnel declares that, to the honour of the country, it must be recorded that the vote of the Bth of May was carried out with the most perfect order. After some weeks of eager discussion, 8,500,000 electors recorded their votes without causing any disturbance to the gene ral tranquillity. This is a great fact, which shews the immense progress that has been made during the last eighteen years in our political conduct. Strengthened and renewed by the recent transformations, the Empire may look forwar d to long years of security, during which the liberty and prosperity of France cannot fail to be largely increased. The small minority which the united coalitions of legitimists, Orleanists, Republicans, and Socialists have exhibited shows the weakness of the Irre concilable enemies of the Empire and imparts a force to the Constitution of 1870 which that of 1852 had long lost. The Plebiscite of the eighth of May strengthens the Government and consolidates the recent Parliamentary liberties. It is at once a pledge of security and confi dence for the country. The Liberte says that the result of the Plebiscite has surpassed all their expectations, and that the Irrecon cilable journals may turn and return the figures, but they cannot deny their signification. The Reveil observed that unless Napoleon obtained a decisive majority he would only have gained a victory like that of Pyrrhus. The Liberte retorts that the Irreconcilable party have themselves gained a victory of Pyrrhus at Paris. If they get another like it their rout will be a complete one. Every one was surprised at the great order which prevailed among the Parisian population while the votes were recorded. There were no disturbances, and M. Pietri would not furnish the lovers of reaction with the oppor tunity they sought for. As M. Delescluze observed, there was the calm of force. The Liberal Empire has been established without commotion. The Siecle thinks that the Government ought to be ashamed of their precautions and preparations, which were made without the slightest cause, for there was nothing in the attitude of the people to justify them. Paris has crowned by its vote on the Bth of May its long series of protestations which began in 1857, and has morally proclaimed the free government of the future. The large provincial towns have rivalled the democratic firmness of the capital. The Journal des Debats believes that the result of the Plebiscite leaves the Empire strong enough to resist the revolutionists so long as it maintains a liberal policy. If ill-advised judges were to restore personal power, the con sequences might be serious. The appeal to the people has so far succeeded, because it was made in the name of progress and liberty, but the day when it shall be made in the name of reaction and despotism, it will meet with a total failure. It would be imprudent to risk another crisis of this character, and it must be long before we have another Plebiscite. OPERATIONS IN PARIS. The English papers were of course anxious to convey to their readers an adequate impression of the great vote in France. Not only was the occasion a momentous one, but the working of the ballot is of especial interest at a time when the means of introducing it are now under consideration in the British Legislature. Not content with the accounts given them by their regular correspon dents, some of the London journals sent "specials " to watch the operation of the Plebiscite in different parts of France. The correspondent of the Telegraph describes what he saw on Sunday in the capital :—I confess I expected to see some movement. As it chanced, there had been more noise than is usual even in that noisiest of thoroughfares during the whole night, and no doubt we had had dreams of drums. But, in fact, it was the same as any other day. A " St. Lazare " train had just arrived, and the early employes were passing into their offices, even though it was Sunday and voting-day; long lines of whitewashed blouses whistled, shouted, and danced to their work ; the heavy waggons, laden with blocks which shall, " one of these four days," be the " New Grand Opera," lumbered past ; and the six donkeys, salutem dando to men, and more to women, jingled by with their confounded and confounding bells. But of extra excitement, none. Several hours elapsed, and the scouts who came in reported that the city was as quiet as Paris ever can be, even at that early hour. At twelve o'clock I went up the Boulevtrds to the Mairie of the arondissement, in the Rue Druout. There might have been fifty people, half of whom were studying the bills of the night's Per.: formance at the Grand Opera, the other half look ing ' at the voting. In th e court-yard of the Mairie, where find many. many. of them' .were c h r i s t ene d and married,• 311 ; where elderly men m us t h ave S een c rurious Politics; performances, were grouped a co mpany of Nat ion l Guards, each man armed with a newspaPel'9, the lounging as only soldiers on guar d can do. Insiu e hall the voting was going on ; an Indian file (,f veto! advanced to the urn, each chewed his name and a( l, - 1 q . ;; 9 and gave the folded paper • which concealed the " o°l or " Non," to an official, who put it in the box, for such it is. Nothing could be more rapid, simple, or secure 11, the line advanced with hardly a halt. Though I ha d . :3 right the officials kindly let me enter, and I staY some time ; there was then not the least excitemeak but I hear the stream of bulletins had been ,°,?,,, P ; stantly flowing in since six. At another Pcfit ne place thore was a slight excitement, for out of ten of the voters gave in their papers 0 1% and they were all "Oui." In the streets there w. nothing which could remind an Englishman of that n o t . ' hot, dusty transaction through which he has to g°, o order to make his calling and election sure. No n oise;L colours, no flags, no " Vote for —, the friend of eve" body," no music. In the streets I noticed two thing"; first that more shops were closed than ever there 00 1 + Paris, except on the Jour de l'An ; and, second , tl i there were a good many mounted orderlies going to 30_ fro, iergents de ville unusually rare, and the only suldie7 I saw were a fatigue party carrying bread and b e e ti l For the rest, "Le Sport" breakfasted outside its li w e li o cafds—lounged about with cards and glasses. t h e or three drags were paraded before the clubs, an d g largest pic-nic party, with the largest hampers, reied o to the races. One couldnot help standing still, an l ? ls "Is this the eighth of May—is this the day of the Pi e l e y cite—the day on account of which every barrack bristle; with bayonets, and every general is standing at ease the head of his division ? ' I answered myself by buYw e g a the Illarseillaise, which had just reaPPe,,,, after two days of confiscation, and not only confirmed dubious opinion as to the day, but I also found in t 'iit extreme paper "a notice," which at first sight I thou, might account for the peaceful state of things. jour.ll as follows :—" We have reason to believe that a d bance, far from displeasing M. Emile 011ivi,,„ er ' woula rather gratify him, as it would enable . in to proclaim the state of siege, or to take some otu e te exceptional step of the same kind. Now a i s t° ' o f of siege is the suspension of the laws and individual liberty. It is the closing of public meet% and the confiscating of journals and other things- beg the citizens not to give this wished-for satisfactioa to the Cabinet of the 2nd December. Let them rePli t to all provocations by contempt, calmness—and by voting." This advice, given at the last hour, sav°ll - of the intrepid editor of this paper ; but it tg , I think possibly just a ruse. OPERATIONS AT LYONS. The special correspondent of the Daily New ho s . o selected Lyons as a favourable point of view for obseol e the working of the Plebiscite. Writing on SundayPr, says :—The advocates of the ballot may derive a fax° l . l t h able illustration of their views from the tranquillity I ' 3 which the Plebiscitary voting is passing here to-dol t There is certainly no indifference ; but even in the 1 105 d excitable quarters the business is of a grave a n „ even mournful character. No one would Or . • to pose that the result of the vote to-day's 13 Le affect not a mere seat in the Chamber, but very basis of the supreme power. The Lyoullt, are early risers. Many shops in the principal thorong!e fares are open and the peoule astir in the streets bef°,, half-past five in the morning. There is nothing the. le , fore remarkable that, here at least. a considerable numb s ; persons were waiting at the polling places of r various sections to record their votes even before the ho i l ,! 0 of six, when the business commences. At seven stream at the Palais des Arts had become sufficient`' steady to keep the Bureau in constant employment. I n convinced that in the great towns at lea s t, th e votin6,. e conducted in such a way as al mos t t o p rec lude t% possibility of fraud. The secret of this i s su mmed in the word " publictity," which is the cherished Inc".; of the. Opposition. Every act, in fa c t, mus t b e donei r public, and if the president and his ass i s t an t s are P 3 one moment left alone, it is the fault of the electo rs only, and the want of organisation among thel?' Nothing, indeed, can well appear more si m pl e than tt e , whole business of secret voting as practised , France : nor is it easy for anyone who in once ' witnessed it to understand the plea sidst impracticability which is sometimes heard on our of the Channel. The business is conducted by 'wit is called • the " Bureau," consisting of the preside ], , who is either the Mayor or one of the principal memb er ; of the Municipal Council, and who is assisted by fc l „f assessors, being the two oldest and the two youngest,i; e the electors present. This is undoubtedly a defect in system, as there is nothing in the law at least to P,r', vent all these persons being of the same political pity. In practice, however, this inconvenience does not ails!, In the cities, at all events, the opposition party is org 3 nised, and care is taken even by waiting at the doors t , the building that at least one very young or very o' t voter of anti-Imperialist views shall be among the f: 10 • lit who enter the election chamber. Even b e f ore daylig ht this morning ardent members of th e Non-party wig"- have been seen stationed before certain public buikling3, and waiting patiently for the hour of six. Thus it inv i , s ‘ riably happens that the Mayo r or hi s representat i ve, 1 1 is in fact a Gove rnmen t o ffi c i a l, fi n d s hi mself watched checked in his operations by more than one pair of eyes and ears. Under these circumstances, it is not easy t ° see how the President, even if so disposed, could influen ce the proceedings. A low table is placed transverse l y across the room, on which stands what is rhetorical -I F, called, " the urn," b u t i s i n f ac t an o bl ong d ea l b°x of about three feet in length and one in depth, ha viti r at the top a slit like that of a letter-box. The pr ess dent sits behind this box, fronting the entrance t° the cha:x ber. On hi s right and left are the assessor?, who take notes, for their own satisfaction, of each voter 3 1 arrival. The Ameri c a n max i m, " V ote early, " is Welt observed by the Lyonn a i s ; b u t t h e complement of this maxim which -recommends th em t o " vote often" Each certainly not within their power t o follow. Be'cl voter who presents himself at th e t a bl e hand s a document establishing his quality an d 'id e ntity to the President, who reads aloud the name a n t number, and taking the voting paper, which ral s be folded, drops it into the slit of the box. "I'" document already referred to is then handed back to Or voter, a corner having previously been torn off—a certai n sign that the vote has already been given. All this is co 11" __ tinned until six in the evening—exactly tw e lv e hours d when the scrutiny is commenced by the same persons 0 ,, in the same public way. So far the proce e di ngs a re ope n to no objections ; and the bitterest enemies of the EtuPir do not, I believe, allege any unfairness. In f ac t, the ollq complaints I have heard refer to the circumstance th at the bulletins bearing the word " Oui," which the Govern i went have distributed in millions, are printed on paper u ° such thinness that the printed word can be read tbroue; and of so rare a make that an Imperial bulletin can , by this circumstance alone, be recognised at once. Even to'', difficulty can, however, easily be overcome by a vo te s using a Government double-folded bulletin, u p on w hich 11 3 has first simply run the pen through the word " Oui,” an, substituted his own favourite monosyllable. Of con' this does not apply to th e army, w h ose vo t es , thong' governed by the same electoral law are taken und er regulations which are but imp er f ec tly known to the out . side world. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS The Times thinks the l ersecution of Mr. .rohnso the Bricknnkers' Union h.s two r markable featu One is the immense expense incurred by the uni ol3s by this system at a time when they a e endeavouri n g to get the law to rotect their funds; the other is that the opposition to machine made bricks is nothing else than t' conspiracy to pr. vent the cheapening of house i ent, at a time when good lodgings are the g, eat need of working me n ' Every operative in Munch ster has paid a tax to the brick' make s, and thee acts of terrorism s rely are unwise whO legislation is imp-mding Revolutions, says the Telegraph, are sometimes made wi tij rose water, and Lord Hartiugton's quiet introduction of o' o Ballot comes under this category. It will not lead to tb ° millennium, but it must check corruption. The ridiculot° farce of nomination day is also to be abolished, but why does not the House exact from all members a declaration that the member has not paid, and will not pay, any extra expens es whatever? Why, too, are not the municipal elections in eluded in the new Ballot ? It is to be hoped, too, that 113 e plan of throwing the election expenses on the constituen c y will be introduced into the bill, for we shall never ii:t v ii e f economical elections until the ratepayers pay the cost. course, such a plan requires some precautionary provision s ? but the evil calls loudly for reform, and all real refol o should now combine to produce a really effective measure. The Daily News is glad that the Government 1 ill is nc 4 th Ballot in disguise. Many will differ as to details, b ut ' 'sem y is the only possible protection for the vo' or. , i mong the suggestions for improv meat in the measure it mentlen° the desirbility of putting the ex enses of elections on tl' e constitue cy, .nd the importance of applying the ballot to mu. icipal ele tions. The Standard thinks that th Bridgwater and Norwic h inqui ies will mark a new era in election hist ry. sentences have not been pronounced upon the offende rs without very careful consideratio i ou the part of a le judges. It must be admitted, however, that the senteuce° press somewhat heavily upon the minor offenders If p r. Kinglake's sentence be sufficiently severe, that of Fenelly is too harsh. There is also a discrepancy hetwet' ) the punishments dealt out to Norwich and Bridgwat ol ' The extenuating circumstances in the case of the Norwicil bribers might have been taken into more account. The Post remarks that the Plebiscite has fulfilled its 0: - pectations of giving an overwhelming majority in the O r ' ma ive. The friends of the Emperor expected to find t : larger number of noes in Paris, and it must be rememberea that the commercial classes are well satisfied with the rc, suit of the vote. The Plebiscite has dealt a decisiv' 191° to Revolution and Republicanism, and France has publicli proclaimed herself as the champion of order. The estate of the late Anson Burlingame has bey' presented at the Boston Probate Court for administrati on and sworn not to exceed 60,000 dols. in personal properT Papers of administration were granted to Edward L. J 3l " lingame, the oldest son of the deceased, 11, e, eo