The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-08 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, SuROAT EVINING.

The Moniteur has ceased to say a word about the
elections. It must necessarily declare the exact
state of the polls all over France as soon as the
official returns are collected ; but it waits patiently
for that bitter moment, and makes no premature
disclosures. With few exceptions, it has announced
the result only of the elections, and has given no
figures. It was not so in 1857. Then it lost no
time in proclaiming the immense government majo-
rities all over the country. There is good reason
for this reticence. The lists of minorities, when
they come to be added up, will convey a moral even
more striking than the return of upwards of
thirty opposition members in the place of five ; but
the great overwhelming fact which cannot be ex-
plained away, and which the Emperor is much
too wise to shut his eyes to, is that in almost every
considerable town in France the majority of the
electors has pronounced against the government. It
is not only in great cities, like Paris, Lyons, Mar-
seilles, Bordeaux, and Nantes (which have succeeded
in returning opposition members), but in almost
every place where the population was too numerous
to be drilled and terrified by the administration,
that the voice of the public called for liberty. The
liberal majorities of the towns have been swamped
by the blind mechanical votes of ignorant rustics,
who are marched to the poll by the mayor, the
gendarme, and the garde champetre.
Here are a few figures given by the Opinion Na-
tionale this evening. In the towu of Lille the opposi-
tion candidate obtained 8,500 votes, against 3,600
given to the government candidate. In 1857 M.
Reno° was elected for Lyons by only 12,000 votes,
whereas now in 1863 he has obtained 21,000. In
the Doubs, M. de Montalembert polled in 1857
but 4,378 votes ; now he has 10,000. At Rouen
the prefect's efforts only produced 11,000 against
10,000. It must be remembered, in estima-
ting the general results of the elections, that in
at least sixty circumscriptions the government can-
didates walked over the course, it being considered
hopeless to attempt any opposition against the for-
midable administrative organisation iu their favour.
A curious electoral incident has transpired at
Saint Quentin. Count Louis Cambachres, who was
the late deputy, elected by government influence in
1857, is now, notwithstanding the famous Bona-
partist name which he bears, out of favour. AM.
Georges was set up against him, and M. Malezieux
was the liberal candidate. The poll stood in
this way :—Georges, 11,430 ; Malezieux, 10,569 ;
De Cambachrea, 6,525. The government candidate
not having the absolute majority there must be a
new election next Sunday. Count Louis de
Cambaceres wrote a letter to M. Malt:Wen:, with-
drawing in his favour. The letter was communi-
cated, for the information of the electors, to the
three journals of St. Quentin, but not one of them
dared to publish it, and it now appears in print,
for the first time, in Paris. Of course the return
of the indepeudeut candidate for St. Quentin is
, certain.

M. Dufanre retires from Bordeaux in favour of
M. Lavertujon, who will certain]) be returned.
Nothing has transpired about the ministerial
council which the Emperor came up from Fontaine-
bleau to preside over yesterday, except that it
lasted an unusually long time.
As to Mexico the Moniteur contents itself with
saying in two lines that news has been received
by way of England to May (it means April) 27, and
that the " siege operations are going ou regularly."
If fur regularly we read slowly awl unsatisfactorily,