The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-17 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(ram OUR OWN ocasserommar.)

PARIS, TOXBOAT EVINIZIG.

By the election of M. Guiroult for the sixth cir-
cumscription the triumph of the opposition in
Paris is complete. The government left no stone
unturned to prevent it from being said that Paris
had " unanimously " rejected all the men recom-
mended by the administration. It has been
signally defeated. M. Gudroult, although he has
many personal enemies among the democratic
party—although he is suspected (unjustly, as 1 '
have always thought, and still think) of being
ready to compound with Napoleonic tyranny, on
condition of concessions to certain St. Simonian
theories—has beaten both the government and the
church, and that by au enormous majority. The
close of the poll last night was as follows :—M.
Gudroult, opposition candidate, 17,495 ; M. Fouchd
Lepelletier, government candidate, 11,016 ; majority
forGudroult, 6,479. It had been sedulously averred
by the government journals that within the last
fortnight the electoral excitement had abated, and
that the taking of Puebla would get the govern-
ment a great many votes. The result shows how
mistaken were all these suppositions, and how
steady and determined is the tide of opposition
which has arisen against M. de Persigny's notions
of order and public safety. At the poll of June 1
M. Gudroult had but 11,100 votes, now he has
6,395 more. This accretion of his majority is com-
posed of about 3,000 votes which on the first occa-
sion were distributed between the liberal candidates,
M. Prevost Paradol and K de Jouvencel, and of
upwards of 3,000 more which were given to M.
Cochin, the clerical candidate. It is calculated
that about 1,500 of M. Cochin's supporters gave
their votes this time to M. Fouchd Lepelletier, the
government candidate, thinking him a lees evil than
such a virulent and powerful enemy of the temporal
power as M. Gudroult. Upwards of 2,000 of the
Cochin men (Cochin Chinois, as the ribald journals
call them) followed the advice of the Monde, Union,
and Gazette de France and abstained from voting.
These was never before an instance in the history
of France of all the members for Paris being hostile
to the government. Such a consummation was
reserved for Napoleon 111. Whsn, in 1850,
the three republicans, MM. Carnot, Vidal, and De
Flotte, were returned for Paris at a partial
election the burgraves of the Rue de Poitiers Club
got frightened, and proposed the law of May 31,
restricting universal suffrage. But the Emperor is
stopped from resorting to any such remedy on this
much greater occasion, because his main plea, and
most plausible excuse, for his coup &Rat was the
restoration of that universal suffrage which the law
of May 31 (assented to him it must always be remem-
bered)had taken away. Any tampering with the suf-
frage is now out of the question. The government
journals are reduced to extenuate their defeat by
the desperate argument that the unanimous opinion
of Paris is of no importance when set against the
great numerical majority obtained from ignorant
peasants by prefectoral drilling. But the Emperor
knows better than this ; and in spite of all sinister

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rumours, I cannot believe that he will fail to take
the warning so unmistakeably given, and which he
may so safely act upon.
The result of the provincial batotages are
all known. The opposition has gained five
seats and the government four ; but the go-
vernment majorities in the four cases were
exceedingly small. The Hew opposition members
are M. Planat, in the Charente ; M. Maurice
Richard, in the Seine-et-Oise ; M. Ancel, in the
Seine-Inferieure ; M. Malezieux, in the Aisne ;
and M. Jules Favre, in the Rhone. The govern-
ment new members are M. Curd, in the Gironde ;
M. Boitelle, in the Nord ; M. Perras, in the
Rhone ; and M. West, iu the Haut Rhin. I
anticipated the election of M. West, but had no
idea that Count Migeon would obtain against Lim
so large a minority, as (in round numbers) 12,000
against 13,000. At Bordeaux, M. Lavertujon has
only been thrown out by 40 votes, and that small
majority has been obtained by immense pressure
by M. Pietro, the prefect, which will be the
subject of a protest. It is to be remarked that the
3funitettr, now that M. Curd is elected for Bor-
deaux, calls him, for the first time, a " govern-
ment" candidate. M. Pietro had styled him " a
sympathetic," and a " non-opposed" candidate.
The fact is that he is an honest bourgeois of strong
local interest, who was returned as an opposition
candidate in 1857, and being dazzled by an invita-
tion to the Tuileries, abstained on all important
questions, instead of voting with the five.
It is now certain that the opposition iu the new
chamber will count 35, which is the figure I men-
tioned as probable a fortnight ago.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

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