The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-24 00:00:00

THE ELECTIONS.

MB DAY.
(BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.)

(raox ova OWN

PARIS, WEI:ON/SEW" /1011-11 NO.
The list result of the elections known is as fol-
lows: Yes, 3,497,029; No, 310,017.

PARIS, TVEIDAT EVENING.
A marriage. is on the tapis between Louis Napo-
leon and a princess of Sweden. In connexion with
this news, which reaches me from a sure private
source, I may mention that an Aulic Counsellor of the
Czar, M. de Despine de Fohrn, brother-in-law d
Prince Anatole Demidoff, has just arrived front Stock-
holm, in Paris.
The latest news received np to 4 o'clock at the
Ministry of the Interior gives the result of the poll
in 48 departments. The total number of affirmative
votes is 3,500,000. The total number of negative,
467.000. No further results are expected to-night
except from Marseilles. The Lithographic Intel-
ligence states that of 4,500,000 voters which were
known at five o'clock, 30(1,000 only arc against.
In the forty-eight most populous departments
in France, Bonapartism is most predominent. The
38 departments' whose polls remain to be known are
those of the west and south. As to Brittany, I gave
you warning early of the false interpretation which
the perfidious jesuitism of Montalembert had given
to the abstention policy recommended by MM. Bee-
ryer and de Falluux, and have sent you the letters o,
these eminent legitimists, which protest against that
I calculated misrepresentation. The policy of absten-
tion rather than of negative voting. was adopted
in Brittany and by the legitimist party ge-
nerally in the departments, although not in
Pal is, obviously on account of the difficulty of driving
the peasantry to the poll. The policy of abstention,
while it covered this weakness, had the advantage of
wearing the semblance of a protest against the
legality of the poll altogether. Nothing could suit
the sentiments of the legitimist leaders better than
this reserve, at once expedient and dignified. In tho
south the socialists are in great force. Louis
Napoleon is not expected by those who have the best
means of calculating to glean more than a million
L and a half of votes in the 38 departments whose re-
turns remain to be known.

the Pope once more fixes his yoke upon tile eon- mummy ...a ~..-oose., ..... ~..,.. . „,., i,,,! ~,. ~,,, Au
PARIS, TVEIDAT Eves/ism.
marriage is on the tapis between Louis Napo-
and a princess of Sweden. In connexion with
From an article in the Constitutionne/, vindicating
seeeglanedd_mteutestpaecwkenrow-
fall.
and descriptions of securities sympathesd as .h the
It is stated that in a few days the lffierty of the
news, which reaches me from a sure private
IPiastedfmalelelinttisent'o}ale
sciences
e di egneeet sh
that sheth e
press in France will bo regulated IT it new law,
*, I may mention that an Aulic Counsellor of the bent - .
transports, it appears that the government has
which will repeal all existing laws on th : subject,
M. de Despino de Fohrn, brother-in-law of
ulterior views with respect to the colonisation of
the choice teayenne us the destination of the pole
and of which the following arc said to 1,. !he most
cc Anatole Demidoff, has just arrived from Stock- .
important clauses :
a in Paris. serious attention : Every editor of a journal at present in exioence or to
me latest news received rap to 4 o'clock at the French Guyana. The following passage is worthy of
it --33 be published in future, will be bound to (hp. it e eerier
retry of the Interior gives the result of the poll As t‘acthe u
proof of that can be re- money to the amount of 200.000 fr. (4,000/.) .1' hin •,a ,i C3-50
I departments. The total number of affirmative
wa?s.teirnanreglattempts, more or less fruitless, whsch have of conviction may be increased to 100,fr,
tilitLerleolZsointhgetrhis fine country, h al-
sis 3,500,04.10. The total number of negative, micro ade by every government in turn. America daily
DOO. No further results are expected to-night takes a larger part in the movement of commerce and in- suspend the publication of any journal ut wee. it ,eic suspea,
The executive power will reserve to itself tee sight to
pt from Marseilles. The Lithographic Intel- dustry throughout the world. The United States are ere sion may appear necessary.
. •
Offences of the press are no. longer to be m., . eitted to a
'es in the northern, central, no u Special tribunals ale to be constant,
1 fur that
en at five o'clock, 500,000 only are against, growing greatness, men"' • the beatpositions i ry•
southern parts of the American content
ice states that of 4,500,000 voters which were ',idly developing their influence. England, uneasy at this .
purpose.
the forty-eight most populous departments Offences of the press are to be classed in the - eteeor:es:
!ranee, Bonapartism is most predominent. The check. Between these two vigorous champions, whose Ist. An attack on the Prs -idcnt and on tit, , aucie:e d
.epartments! whose polls remain to be known are struggles are only beginning,there exists in America a peorel
for keeping the continual aggrandisement of her rivals in
the government.
2nd. Exciting hatred hatred
.amongst citizens. .
warning early of the false interpretation which by
tbenizotnwnemake
numbers andhane sueyeraionn, y of
and division. The Brazil!,
oof rho west and south. As to Brittany, I gave of Spanish and Portuguese origin,
.who_wtohuelidr
sboeilpeisTettheu
tiCliAci; thosealtan .o'relmrenensgia'ne'i's! :el nilial:lireleirl;'l:,7,..risonme
perfidious jesuitism of 3lontalembert had given were.
waieb are every day by
Ulla increasing, which cons of five years, by transportation for 20 years, at.,) by a teat
t
he abstention policy recommended by MM. Bcr-
: and de Falloux, and have sent you the letters or tent of coast, and the finest sad safest harbours-the Bil-
ie eminent legitimists, which protest against that Lain the finest river in the world, which possess a vast ex- of from &,000f. to 100,000 E
sits are not, however, yet strong enough to resiLtrEan,ttablelh
elated misrepresentation. The policy of absten-SPAIN.
onw the clitorary, is precious for the population of South
rather than of negative voting. was adopted
Brittany and by the legitimist party ge- a ouliPhn.cr bygivtbe etrmleevelaves aTonl master. t The England French alliance,
BIRTH OF A PRLNCESS.
illy in the departments, although not in other; it is a protection, not an invasion. France, steongly
A telegraphic despatch, received in I's: is from
America ; it is a lien which unites those people to one an-
th Madrid, announces that the Queen was ,iedvered of
peasantry to the poll. The policy of abstention,
is, obviously on account of the difficulty of driving established in
eGudyahncar,
iwhottuldhcgoivetLicruhrohdttoage.4rotailts.;
wouldfs.
South
have the infallible result of multiplying the commercial The ifwlrid Gazette of the 18th, cunt ails a noti-
Ott America, and her disinterested support would a princess on the morning of the 20th.
Ile it covered this weakness, had the advantage of !atandte
ring the semblance of a protest against the
relations or France, of encouraging Crh navigation, and of fication from the Director of the Publi, bele, that,
day of the poll altogether. Nothing could suit opening new outlets cur her industry. We have th, puexag-
the payment of the half-year's divielt ed duo 31st
sentiments of the legitimist leaders better than gyrated nothing in saying that the colonisation of yaiia
but December will commence on the 2nd.
i reserve, at once expedient and dignified. In the would be a grand thing.
alit
Tisi not to be done
tt day,a,,.o,
will
th the socialists are in great force. Louis the government th t
.sb ao y b
i•t d g 1 the country.
have acquated new claims to chi gra i u e i
soleon is not expected by those who have the best PORTUGAL.
million It is noted in the Bourse that the Five per Cents.
ins of calculating to glean more than a _... -
Ithe Three per
are not quoted at so high a rate as
a half of votes ut the 38 departments whose re-THE QUEF:N'S SPEECH.
Cents. I call your attention to this fact, as a sign
ns remain to be known. SOUTRADIPTON, 'iv ..-maxi:sea% ' ; 'memo
:he following was written before the above ieturnsare beginning already to occupy them-
that people - . .
The Oriental Company' • - : '' '•
s steam-pay pie -.. Madrid,
selves again with the probability of an impending
l become known :
conversion of ltente. The government is stated Captain John Weeks, has just arrived, ...nd landed
The results of the poll have been hitherto favour- this -
•her mails under the charge of 1: 1 • •
the C'onstited ion ncl to be favourable to this
e beyond the most sanguine expectation for Louis by
obstacle It N
measure ; and, as the chief thereto, u. n- .. ~Admiralty agent. Her dates an :Gibraltar,
Icon Lp to the present moment the total of
Po •der the reign of Louis Philippe, was the cir- Dec. 16; Cadiz, 17; Lisbon, 19; 0p0.,.). 24): and
•f 11 w .-Yes 2 418 936 ;
Mil votes is as o o s . , , , No,
4,358. The l'ays gives apparently a more ad- tof the Five per Cents NI! 20. Her cargo includes 7 packm; s-I sixecie.
cams once . being , ,
teed state of the poll, of which the ;lumbers are as quoted considerably above par, which made he Coitus were opened on the lath I s :iie Queen
owe :-Yes, 2,911,963 ; No, 431,037. proprietors of that stock kick against the notion of in person.
Tho negative votes, according to this state of the its being paid oft' at par, it is highly probable that an Exchange, 5311. Discount of Lisbon 13.e,1cN0te5,21..
1, would form about 1-1 per cent. of the sum of occasion will be seized to effect thu conversion while The late events in Paris had excited it. -uprise in
;a • aye and affirmative votes polled, and a much
the 5 per Cent. Bente is about par. Lisbon.
s fraction, considering the numerous abstentions The fall of securities at the Bourse today is attri- Steam communication with the culoiCr s had been
the sum of votes inscribed. There is as yet no
bitted to disappointment at more votes net having established.
•
leinl account of the number of electors inscribed in been polled in the departments. It was expected The America yacht was in the Tagus, I, icing Ikea
de artments which de :ices the list of the dc-
that Louis Napoleon would have had more detained there in consequence of the ilief ss or her
rtme
pntal polls ,
of an essential feature, von will than in 1848. But according to the returns I owner, Lord de Blaguiere, who has tie .•tiall-pox,
serve that the sum of negative votes is
na-
highest have already given from 48 depuetments, it scents but was on the 19th fast recovering. She ~ "4 t:11, days
the sth and 13th arrondissements,
that] he is not likely to realise so many. It is coming out, and is reported to have be! reed well,
sal guard has been di-stated. In the 6th, the
thought that the sum total will be some hundreds of and to have attained a speed of 15 knot :. She will
pulous working quarter of St. Martin and the thousands less, shortly proceed to Cadiz, &c.
mple, the 910118 amount to upwards of ten thou-
MM. Duvergier de Hauranne and Bixio have been Our correspondent writes as follows :
ad, and the abstentions to nine thousand. Tke set at liberty to-day. LISBON. Dec.l9.
.
sorry is composed of those classes which ara The impn.soned representatives at SL Pelagic have Notwithstanding every Cakalista pr,.;,,,k,tu1t.0a
ceutiully political, of legitimists, Oileanists, a few been divided into three categories. 1. Such us were and secret plotting to the contrary, the Cortes met
Lelerate republicans, ant: in the great rows of so-
taken at the barricades. 2. Such as can be proved on the 15th. The Queen attended the epening in
ilists. by conclusive evidence to have instigated the insur- person, which was accompanied with the usual
"As the votes of the army are now distinct, and not section. 3. Such as are suspected and may possibly pageantry, and delivered the following speech :
reprised in the precedino• statements as relates to be convicted by circumstantial evidence of being im- Worthy Peer, of the Kingdom, and Gentle... n Depaties
131, we must add about 49,000 votes for the army Placated in the outbreak. AU three categories arc of the Portuguese Nation,-1 come to express to you nay
Paris, which makes a total of 230,796, or 38,000 to be tried by court-martial ; the two first, upon con- hroatlitacm‘slyattliscereni7 wttrehnaistiTts"imrocal:reste'P•
‘ll,lr,..ertunitml
des more than in 1818. In fact, generally in every victim, will receive sentence of transportation to from whore assembly lam sure to perfect with erinness and
rendissemont the votes have been more numerous Cayenne; and perhaps the latter also. prudence the great work of reform that was proclaimed,
nu in 1818,except in the 10th,where the Legitimists The marriage of General Cavaignac with Millie. which the nation embraced, and to whist I cordially
:oral'. The great majority in favour of the Presi- Odier will be solemnized to-morrow. It is under- adhered.
s of the rev' i 1 f ril. law of
:rat will give strength enough to his government to stood that the General intends to remain about ten i
the statneeeloceint!acknowledanitofwatstemyntirs,t7nuttayito con-
table him, if willing, to relax the severe coercion days in Paris, and then to joie the family of his sult as soon asgpossible the national desire, by oleic- • g new
hich has prevailed since the coup (rant. I have bride's mother iu Holland. elections.
xvionsly announced that the pissoners of Hum The princess Murat gave birth to a son this morn- The want of an electoral law, which would secure tee
ould be set free after the final result of the poll ing. The Pneident of the Republic, and his cousin, fullest liberty of election, compelled me to a-snine extraue
is been proclaimed. Some relaxation of the metric- the Pritiessit Mathilde, have promised to be the god- •i I• I lase hich 1 used in order to regai ate
it ; awl
the supt7mwe of public safety imposed upna in th 1 e e ( :14
sus placed on the press may also be expected, end Lather and godmother of the infant. of supportiu4 by nt) authority whet the Come could cot
together a system betokening mere confidence in It is in contemplution to establish a body of French possibly do in the then state of the country. I decreed the
is state of public opinion. The next measure to factors in China, similar to the 'English and Dutch revision, and ordered that the newly elected should Lame
looked fur is the promulgation of the constitution. establishments now existing there. This body will furnished with the necessary authority for it.
"The department of the Seine was divided into be under the superintendence of M. de Montiguy, My ministers areaharged to present tot you the project it
an additionel articl(aces) to the constiution al charter at
15 sections, of which only two gave a majority the French consul at Shanghai, and is expected to the monarchy, which you in your wisdom will consider, in
suing Louis Napoleon." do great service in opening commercial relations with order that, sanctioned by me, those articles of our caustita-
It is expected that the scrutiny of the votes, he the Celestial Empire. tion may become duly reformed, which experience has
tiding those from Algeria and Corsica, will blh
e over
_'__e Count of Chambord, I hear from the best shown to be indispensable to correct and perfect, for this
i time for the official proclamation of tile result by source, is going to stay at Prague, on a visit to the better n
welly, and of the lk t guarantee of the liberty
.onf ales wh -0 fOl
ile hioyAlat
was is
Ilio-
unalterableprici
an. I. It is intended, upon the occasion of the pro- Empress, wife of Ferdinand- tended bl, the said charter to establish and apeoint,
lamation, that a solemn Tv Lenin 'shall be sung in An excess of military tyranny, perpetrated by the The prince royal, my best beloved son, having completed
kitre Dame, and that magnificent fifes shalt be officer commanding in the Allier, is stigmatised to-day the legal age, will appear amoneeyoteeoeeke the solemn oath
is'en in Paris. by men of political importance. In fact, a decree has to the constitution of the gate, which I pride myself ro
The new elections for the Chambers will not take limn issued by Gen. ((nerd, which sequestrates the assuring you lie will know hew to protect and maintain as
lace before April. The short-hand writers of the Property of 19 persons, under the plea that they na cron aiirindyitthaeh lye it ;ma ooffll ot.t,to P:le!roctotz F
prourtsbs. the ur-
[lnniteur have received notice that their services will have directed as leaders the pillagers of Donjon an gency of circumstances,' and the cogent nee, >site '
to apply
e retained. the assassins of La Pelisse. Several of the victims a prompt remedy to the various branches of the j,ublie eels
The following table presents a comparison be- on this list are wealthy proprietors. This decree, an mtnistratien, authorised me t.) use the same exceptional
weer the Paris poll of 1848 and that of 18,51 : unexampled instunce in France of the arbitrary power to decree some remedies of manifest utility, which
power committed to a military officer, is sigucd "are laid the foundations of reform, and will facilitate the
1818. I tail. " Moulins, Dec. 18." many more which it is necessary to take.
My ministers will present to you those matters, the are'l The manifestations of papal satisfaction at the tri- vial motives which determined them, and the prej •ets of
Number I Ilum'"v • umpli ot the sabre rule in France have oozed forth taw which they require fur their completion, and in order
eronaiesements of rais.oloivitan r of votes I N: caber euinherof .
red the liarilitue. .1,t,, : given to let else stems- in various quarters. Besides the autograph letter of that the reform may be coherent and effleacions which lam
sorer.. thu NS-. curets. rive vote'. the Holy Luther to Montalembert, and the official pleased at having commenced, and which I trust sorely to
: tohon• I complete, with the aid of the representatives of the !TUC's.
one sent to the Nuncio to congratulate and applaudtaint.enien Deputies 01 the Portoguese Nation,-lac art-
ist arrondissement. 23,381° tams; 20,504. 15,000 the feats of Louis Napoleon, letters have been
;se- gencies of the public revenue compel sacrifice, in whieh ire
2nd e 23,846. 12,338! 23,890 15,712 caved from Rome by Monsigneur Parisis and other all partake, and, in order that useless, it ' they may not be
3rd , e 14,570; 6,106, 1.5,188 9 303
i ultramontaue prelates, indicating the fullness of joy necessary to organise our expenditure with on pc,aeveting
4th ~
21,26310869 4,6261
21,32 li 117
-;-. which lea ails at the Vatican at the extinction of an economy, and reform to such a point the heal mince,
6th o , 10,6261 21,522 12,065 P ' 'that the servants and creditors II be •
o f the state shasump
6th PO 23,438 10,621, 23304 13,240 civil and religious liberty. festly assured that such violent sacrifices wia never age"
7th 99 16,333 7,0971 14,332 8,133 M. Montalanthert's journal, the Univers, has a become necessary.
Bth 22,5431 12,758; 23,010 13,633 threatening article against the Sardinian government The burdens more equalised, tho imposts - more rep 'ar . ,
9th t 9 14,891 8,540! 9,843 6,212 on the subject of the concordat. and their method of assessment and receipt impre,•,d, so a
.oth 9, 36,536 T 2.3311 20,3E48 13,421 to form a productive expenditure, stimulating iudiedry.,
.Ith 17,4484 8,448, 14.478, 8,881 I send you an instance of the extent to which the
,2th o 18,797' 10,9161 18,6611 11 479
1- '
spy system is 110 W carried. AI. Kass, the registrar ci:noemereces,or iciiyulttur!,;isind the arts and sciences, which
of mortgages at Schlestadt, has been suspended by administration,'u:eceeccr civilisation
in governing, end Rented.
ecclesiastical affairs, in L. etablisumente of
Total for Paris .... 242,900' 131,573 216,093 132,981 the pre cwt for having blamed in strong the beneficence, " in
terms
adhesion given to the- President by one of' Ids col- servants of the state, it is a duty to make many improve`
Sceaux .... ......... 44,0671 30,313; 32,9341 27,594
3t. Denis . . 62,86:2d 36,0881 46,763 36,881 leagues. M. Kuss writes that the expressions core- meats which experience points out, and whlch requites
i planted of were used by him in a private conversation Vetere intervention.
General total 341,8 a 198,484. 296,390 196.339 with a friend with whom he happened to be alone in of communication, minuTicatioase ann
east facility
mostof public ways, and the means
requires oar care and at-
The following table presents the completest official one of the rooms in the Casino. The words were tentiou. A project of law will be especially presented to
statement yet published of the votes of the Seine : caught up by some listener in an adjoining room, you, to authorise the government to undertake a railroad
and at once reported to the willing ears of the go- which will elite us with the rest of Europe, reviving the
Amalie/emcee InAerthed.l Voters. l'es. No. vernment authorities. interior tragic of the country, and reeturine t..) Lisbon the
central em • pertain of the two worlds between which it is
Ist
- --- The papers every day continue to chronicle the situated.
2nd
3rd 19,433 13,188 9,303 6,691 France, many of them being persons of property and of the Portuguese Nation,-Our vast possessions iii Africa.
4th 13,199 10,856 6,227 4,493 station. It would be an endless task to mention and those of Asia and Oceania, occupy my most uuceasing
sth 28.850 21,522 12,065 9,210 their names. solicitude. I have restored th.t ancient ultramarine counsel,
6th 32,591 23,681 13,240 10,134 a and stabili •ty to its temple • •ated admi-
7th 19,203 14,332 8,133 6,032 The police on Sunday seized at the door of several t‘ give' firm It nastration. I have provided extraordinarily for scene of
Bth 28,764 23,040 13,538 %my of the sections large quantities of bulletins bearing their most urgent necessities. The greatest are, to draw
9th 12,148 I 9,813 6,212 3,502 the word mu instead of ow% The were distributed closer their relations with the metropolie, increase oar
10th 20,233 20,398 18.421 6,388 to the voters by men en Muse. t was intended by marine, to stimulate indietry there, display eirilisatiou, wad
Ilth 18.623 14,478 8,651 6,576 this fraud that the bull e• h •ed h e ins tus print s ould turn spread the light of the gospel. For all this resources 2.01
12th 28,90 18,661 11,479 6,020 wanted. It is necessary that the mother country (ankh,
out lost votes. The men were arrested.
- --- ---. morally and physically, those vast uncultivated phew
Total
Vantage., t
St. Daub . 60,308 j 40,763 85,961 110,667 night when the poll of I'aris was known. most solid guarantee of our existence and national intle-
Sceane - pendence.
Total - --- lembert to congratulate him upon his letter I dh • I 1 have renewed negociatione with the holy see for the de-
-392,026 .296,390 190,539 96,597 •
I finiti"
of
..
interest
• st"
won to the act of December 2, and upon his enrol- , i the in
solution
some points which
Enough is now known of the results of the pMI I mutt in the consultative commission, we fare of the people, and the dignity of the Portugmee
crown. I. continue to receive from all the friendly and
throughout France for us to regard the coop tretat I On Friday several arrests were
made at Lyons, , allied nations the surest proofs of friendship and hartnotif•
. •
of the 2nd December as delibei•atcly adopted by a' and on Saturday the bivouacs in the public places I I have concluded a treaty with his imperial Majesty, the
i majority of the electors. The revolution limns- I were re-established during the poll. I Emperor of all the Ituesiae, to establish mutual radium a
plished on that day must be now regarded as a fait ; An important decree a pears in the Von ' • titlif, re- the
1 commerce and navigation. I have associated myself wilt,
accomidi accepted by the nation. Fivesand-a-half , I*the decree ph
-French republic it order to acknowledge, by a com, e
pee pealing - ! lion, the rights of literarN property, in the sante ways'
millions of voters in 1848 snatched Louis Napoleon '
Bonaparte from the ennui and obscurity of exile to ° sent, Mat 3, 1814, which reduced the cadre ZirthSardiaia, and afterwards with Lo lend and Ilitievottl
sway the executive of France, trammelled by , _ general officers in . active service, and the . the purpose of comtituting what in short will the
sway an cadre of the st..ff. Ile considerations upon 1 common right of all civilised people.
impracticable constitution. Five millions of votes in 'which this 1 rely epos the patriotism of the Caws to enable ail
of measure
.is based,.
1831 will have made him the autocrat of a country are the excessive government to perform its duty by realisins the lioiies '
the territorial
extent military divisions, and
which has been deluged with bleed and overwhelmeil the ' the country.
,
urgent necessity of augmenting the number of mill- I The session is opened.
with calamities in the achievement of its liberties.
The national will, according to this electoral mani- ter) elisions and subdivisions for the more prompt After the reading of this speech their majesties
festation, resigns all those liberties into the hands of suppression of disturbances. Hence the iuciispensa- ; rose, and retired with the same ceremony " they
a prince who has begun by showing his contem tof in ty, according to NI. de St. Arnaud, of re-establish- ! entered ; as did also the deputation of the Cham"cr
all law, freedom, and goodfaith. If France chi) • g the cadre of general officers and that of staff .of Peers and Deputies, who Lad attended to rani,/
officers on their own basis.. 1 their majesties and hear the speech read, and the
servitude it is her own concern. But what concerns k grand I
cathedral is to be built at Marseilles. At members of the corps diplo:natique. 102
• will
other nations is to kuow that France, in secrificing '
her own liberate, is not preparing to impose her yolee leastt the government promises to erect such a struc- ! observe by the foregomi speech, that the inf,rmazion
on them. There exist too many reasens to believe, ; A. I I gave you in a former utter, that the reform in des
however, that this is the else. It is already
the
forest
amnesty is proclaimed for breaches of Charter would be confined to the addin of an ad(?;
clear that the pressure which was exerted by Austria and Aernesitg laws
lit
the
departments of the Bas-Rhin tional article to ex plait. certain articles of iloub!Iu;
on one side against the constitutional government of . MNI ';e.eaning so as top prevent any farther sophistical
Piedmont is now aided by a corresponding pressure , . - . Adrien de Lavalette, Charles Scd Ration and : reasonmg upon them was perfectly cornet% It II
Achille M ' • 01.3befIll state that they have retired' from ' not merely, however, that this reform is so very necei•

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The following was written before the above loturns
had become known

" The results of the poll have been hitherto favour-
able beyond the most sanguine expectation for Louis
Napoleon. Lp. to the present moment the total of
known votes is as follows:—Yes, 2,418,936 ; No,
389,358. Tho Pays gives apparently a more ad-
vanced state of the poll, of which the numbers are as
follows :—Yes, 2,911,963 ; No, 431,037.
"The negative votes, according to this state of the
poll, would form about 1-1 per cent. of the sum of
negative and affirmative votes polled, and a much
less fraction, considering the numerous abstentions
of the sum of votes inscribed. There is as yet no
official account of the number of electors inscribed in
the departments, which deprives the list of the de-
partmentul polls of an etscntial feature. You will
observe that the sum of negative votes is highest
in the sth and 6th arrondissements, where the na-
tional guard has been di-armed. In the 6th, the
populous working quarter of St. Martin and the
Temple, the 910118 amount to upwards of ten thou-
sand, and the abstentions to nine thousand. 'fkc
miaorioy is composed of those classes which are
meutailly political, of legitimists, o:lc:mists, a few
moderate republicans, ant: iu the gnat 111w$ of JO-

" As the votes of the army are now distinct, and not
comprised in the preceding statements as relates to
Dial, we must add about 49,000 votes for the army
of Paris, which makes a total of 230,790, or 38,000
votes more than in 1848. In fact, generally in every
arrondissemont the votes have been more numerous
than in 18 IB,except in the 10th,whero the Legitimists
prevail. The great majority in favour of the Presi-
dent will give strength enough to his government to
enable him, if willing, to relax the severe coercion
which has prevailed since the coop traot. I have
previously announced that the prisoners of Hum
would be set free after the final result of the poll
has been proclaimed. Some relaxation of the restric-
tions placed on the press may also bo expected, uud
altogether a system betokening more confidence in
the state of public opinion. The nc2:t measure to
be looked fur is the promulgation of the constitution.
"The department of the Seine was divided into
233 sections, of which only two gave a majority
against Louis Napoleon."
It is expected that the scrutiny of the votes, in-
cluding those from Algeria and Corsica, will be over
in time for the official proclamation of the result Sy
Jun. I. It is intended, upon the occasion of the pro-
clamation, that a solemn .7C Drool shall be sung in
Notre Dame, and that magnificent jilts shah be
given in Paris.
The new elections for the Chambers will not take
place before April. The short-hand writers of the
"bn lm. have received notice that their services will
be retained.
The following table presents a comparison
be-
tween the Paris poll of 1848 and 'of 1851 :

2nd
3td
4th
6th
Gth
7th
Bth
9th
10th
11th
12th

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.1; but du hoped the Cortes will use their earnest
louts to put down that Cabralista spirit of assami-
aatwo shicb pervades sonic districts, particularly
Tats Red, where some new attempts at political
wader base been made.
The financial deer e, of which I sent you a copy in
or pant, has been received by all parties with a very
bid grace. The Cateslistaa attempted to turn it to
their own political advantage, by getting up a mob ,
eroccssicu to the Palace, but it failed.
Three extraordinary credits have been opened by
thc lint•ter of Finance, authorised by decree; one
t, ter 400,000 reit, to restore the tonnage duties to
the customhouses, Oporto ; another for 261,746 refs
to pay, the dad= and imports in the administra-
tive district of iliagnesai end the other for 4,000,000
fix other incidental dawnl the two latter belong-
leg to the year 1849.