The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-11 00:00:00

ELECTIONS AND OPTIMAL CANDIDATINEUNA

Two million' of votes thin to the opposition cannot be
considered u the result al "some boil ensese;" they
were a deliberate demised for liberty. But for administre.
tire pnwisure all Frames would have associated herself with
the votes of the towns of Paris, Lyons, Museillse, Lille, Bor
Beaux, Nantes, Toulouse, Saint Bassin, Dijon, Havre,
Strasbourg, Brest, Ni..., Tadao, Metz. Mulhouse, Nancy,
Limoges, Augers, BomiopeMer, Saist-L6, Tours, Ver-
sailles, Saint-4=l:k Dunkerque, Geosoblo, Poitiers,
Wzien, Cott*, Laval, Elbsuf, Saint-Orner, Valen-
ciennes, Aix, Abbe Chillan.enr-Said, Butia,Chartres,
Perigueux, Aids, Vienne, Agee, Terme, Sedan, Moothscos,
Beauvais, Saint-Piserwlis Calais, Valence, Saint-Briaue,
Miss, Guebwiller, Libourne, Villetranche, Sens,
Beaune, Ac.
France is not mistrustful of herself ; she foals bend!
worthy to exercite all those rigida which are enjoyed by
other nations. Tba odininirkative liberties premier& her
will be of no vales union they serve to procure and fortify
political liberties. The former on neither supply ths place
nor obliterate the remembrance of the latter.

Fleeces! libeety which has bees coeteroatel sad violated
bpoy the
tical lid s cesdidateships ill the first of all
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Juke Fevre, Hesse, Delirium, Emil.
Ernest Pissed, Jodie SMOG, L. Ravin, A. Gut.
melt, Evens PsHelm, V. Lanjuinaia, Marie,
Glais•Bisoin, Du de Marmier, Dorian,

The law of public safety sad the exoeptiosal laws which
accompany it destroy individual liberty.
We cell for the repeal cl them laws.
Eugene Pellets., Maria, /linos, Dorian, Ad.
Gummi V. lanprissis, Magma, Marquis d'An-
delarre, Due die Marraier. Jules Fevre, Jules
Steam. L Hay* A. Daimon, Malesiime,
Glaaws.ss•Bitaia, Emmet Picsrd, Emil* 011ivire,
Th
LEWITT OP THE PR/185.
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France has in all times been the most active instrumeot
of civilisation. She is now under a constitution which de.
errea itself to be "perfectible (1. e.. susceptible of improve.
sect) ; all her hastitutioes are based on the Fine* of
universal suffrage.
To deprive France of the liberty of the press is to lower
her standing in the world ; it is to condemn her to diges-
tion while she is all the time promised program ; it is to tell
tricot to premium sovereign decisions upoe questioas
lint& eis aot allowed to dismiss freely.
Al. Glois.Biorin,Marie, Woos, Emile ()Moir, Meg
Mu, Jule Simms, Darien, Ad. Gueroolt, Harm,
Eng. Pelletsn, V. Loajuiaais, A. llarinion, Doe
de larmier, Jules Fairs, E. Plaid.
310111ICIPAL LIBIATIIB.
The exteosion of municipal aid departmental power' wil
be the first steptowarda true . decentralization
. .

It is urgent'that the privilege of appointing their own
preeidents and secretaries should be restored to the Cannel/a
General.

11;i electors of Paris and Lyons have condemned, as we
do, the system of municipal commissions.
The Mayor, who is the representative of communal in-
terests, should be elected by the Municipal Council.
The inanicipal omuscillors, who are mandataries of their
fellow inhales, should preened from election alone.
Erred Picard, V. Lanjuiaaia, Ham. Ravin, Male-
s:Wax, Eug. Pelletan, Doc de Mari:Mar, Jules
Fevre, isles Simon, Magnin, Dorian, Marie, Ad.
Gut,roult, Glairßizoin, Marquis d'Andelarre, A.
Dadaism, Emile Olivier.

The repeal of the law os melded, which we odd for
last year, will be a benefit. The workmen., deviated that
liberty is at once the only tee for order and employ-
ment, and the most source of moral end material
well-being, no longer ask anything of the state bat the right
to better their condition by their own exertions ; it is
&nimble to give them the means, by instruction and by a
pester latitude, to the right of emaciation.
V. lenjoinais, Marie, Dorking, Clain Sid*
Magnin, Duo de Martuier, Malesied.
Heed, D'Andelarre. A. Guiroult, Bug. Pelle-
ts; F. Picard, Jules Fevre, Doris., }Lavin, Jules
Simon.
GRATCITOrS PRIMARY INSTROCITOY.

We applaud the progress which you call our attention to
in the development of public instruction; nevertheless, when
we find that upwards of six hundred thoturod children
are still without any instruction, we cannot but express a
wish that, in mordant.e with the practice long followed
with mama in other coantries of Europe, primary ioatrue-
tics may be rendered altogether gratuitous. We cannot
forget that primary instruction is the obligatory corollary of
universal sittinige, and that it Lime can place the funda-
mental principle of all our institutions upon a durable bees.
L Ravin, A. Gueroult, Jules Simon, Malerieux,
Dm de Marrnier, Marie, V. Lonjuinais, Emile
Olivier, Marquis d'Andelarre, Jules Fevre, Do-
rian, Magma. Adarimoo, Glais Bisoin,
Ernmt Picard, Eugene Pelleten.