The Express.
London, England, 1863-11-14 00:00:00

SPEECH OF IL TRIERS.

(nom oul OWN CORRISTONDINT.)
PARIS, THURSDAY Evuniga.

In the Corps Legislatif yesterday, there was a
rather animated debate upon some electing not seriously
contented, which suffices to show, notwithstanding the
studied moderation both of the government and the oppo-
sition dories the first two or three days of the 'maim, that
there is • storm brewing. The Marquis d'Andelarre,
although • government member, objected with great
warmth that H. Bertrand, the mayor of Caen, was not
duly elected, because the ballot box had not been sealed as
the law requires, and had not, moreover, as the law also re.
quires, been deposited during the night in a room
with sealed doom. He also complained that H. Faucher
de Cared, the opposition ciandidate,waa refund the necessary
authorisation to print his election address, and that the
election room was so filled with partisans of the mayor,
that electors could not put their own bulletins into
the box, but were faced to pass them from hand to
band through • crowd of the mayors agents. To these
charges M. Bertrand, the mayor of Can, who defended his
own election in person, answered th►t the ballot-box was
the same that had always been used for elections at Caen,
and that although not sealed, it was secured by four
locks of such enormous strength, that they might
have been forged by Vulcan. (Laughter.) As to
the refusal to print the opposition candidate's
address, it was made by the printer, who mistakenly
alleged that the prefect would not allow it, end moreover,
H. Foncher de Cared went to the printer's on a Sunday. A
printed paper which the prefect would not allow to be
hawked in the streets was *a electioneering !squib written
by an agent and not entitled to the privileges which the law
accords to candidates only. The fact of the bulletins being
passed from hand to band to the ballot-box he stoutly
denied.

M. GLAIR BIZOIN, one of the new opposition members,
maid that iu this scretiey the chamber ought to have two
objects in view : flint, the validity of the election kern*.
distal), in discussion ; and, secondly, to take are that the
abuses which had occurred should be so exposed as to serve
as a lesson to the country and the administration with the
view that they might not occur again. He read a letter
from the sub-prefect of Falange to all the shopkeeper, of
his arrondissement, recommending them to vote for the
government candidate, in terms which evidently conveyed
a threat. Being interrupted by ironical cheers from the
majority, M. Wail Bizoin said, "This is no laughing
matter, gentlemen, it is humiliating."
M. Bertrand wee then declared duly elected, without •
division.

VibCOUnt LINJUINAIS (tbe opposition member for Nantes)
complained that although there had been no protest mated
hi election, the bureau to which it wee refined bad kept
him waiting for three days, and refused to make a report
upon the pretext that a protest was expected.
ROUREI (Minister of State) wished to my that the
Minister of the Interior had only that day received a pro.
test spinet M. Lanjuinais' return, and that the protest
must by this time have reached the chamber.
A conversation coned, in the course of which M. Rather
admitted, and the Duke de Moray (who was in the chair)
strongly baited that the bureaus ought to make their re-
ports without delay, sad not hold them over to wait for
protests to come. It seemed to be generally speed that
there was a cants oniants in the law as to the time within
which a protest against an eleetios ought to be made. 71m
report of the barman in M. Laojuimis' case not being ready
it necesserily stood over, but with an nadentandlog that
no further evidence against the return was to be received.