The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-27 00:00:00

TROOPS FOR INDIA.

CHATHAM, JUNR 28.

A considerable amount of activity prevails among
the troops at tMs garrison, la coneequeoce of an order which
lea bees received from the Wer-oflce, for the embarkation

k nearly 3,000

*Moen sad men, belong-

Ins to the pro redone] batteSon, fur the papaw of joining the
service octupeniesof their respective regiment. in India. The

detachment; will be selected from the following depots, via..
Bth, 10th, 21th, 27th Inniakilling, 28tb, 32nd, 36th, 43rd
Light Infantry, 52nd Light Infantry, 63rd, 60th Haien 61M,
64th, 70th, 74th Highlanders, 78th Highlanders, 81st, 83rd,
84th, 80th, and 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers. The Ire
detachment, consisting of 220 ..no of all ranks, of the 36th
Regiment, will embark at Gravesend, on the let of July, on
board the Butephalua, for Calcutta The whole of the
detachments are to embark at Gravesend daring the month of
July, sufficient transport acomansodalkst having been tam
up by the Hon. East India Company.

THE TRENCH ELECTIONS.

(From the Examiner.)

It appears that in the late election for the depart-
ment of the Seine, out of 336,069 registered electors, 212,899
voted, end 143,170 abstained. In the elections of 1832

trio wens 338,813 registered electors, of whom 246,073
voted, and 02,770 abstained. In the same year, out
of 248,073 vote., the government bad 134,487 and
the opposition 87,778. In the rations the other day, the
government candidates bad 110,628 votes, and the "No-
rris 96,299. These are not result. calculated to Improve
1 the Emperor's appetite, or give him sounder eltunhers.
They ray, however, give him mouthing better, both for
himself end the nation over which be raise; they may
prove • timely warning to him that Frame is neither so
charmed with his name, or enchanted by his policy, or
dusted by his eneeemor to forget that the earth ha. not
circled the sun ten time* sines ohs powered • limited
mo•arcby, end • free parliamentary constitution. Lore
Nepotism MIA be blind Indeed sot to nes I• these electoral
phisomens, the unmistakeable signs of • esed purpose on
the pert of no small inaction of the Frisch public to recover,
by asidattional ether, if possible, sumo portion at leer
of their swished liberties Ms will the Emperor fail to be
Ansel' with the wry eignitheat bet that MX. Csrnot and
Coudrk••s Were rot mil for the principal repheepore
quarter of Perth that oldie Temple tat the Ens 84. Martin.
If Gamma Cavaignac, too, had bat • small majority In
the third district, Bathurst, wars popular candidate,

was deleated by one equally mall h theaeovniL la the
ninth district, °Under and Fasts, oppositioniats, but

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were together equal to Faris, the salnistarislist, as were
13mtide and Denman, slao rind oppositionista, to Lan-
coatin in the seventh. Two seats were lost for Paris through
want of armed between different sections of the liberals.
The legitimists of the Faubourg St. Germain secured his seat
to X. Teton; but for them he would have been ousted by
Panatela.

We lawn these details from a comespondent at Paris, who
also gives ua the following additional information

of The Interest excited by the elections has been antost
altogether confined to the chief towns, the rural population
throughout France being always reedy to do the bidding of
the Meiro, and the Nairn that of the Prifet. There ere
_ _ _ _

Nine provinces, Normandy for example, numbly eonstita-
tional in their opinions; but their opinions have not been
eapreased upon this occasion. There are several depart-
ments, on the other band, where Comma:am is pmlomi-
sant, but a great many sit the Communists (and with ex-
cellent reason) do not consider the potent gorernmsot
diametrically antagonistic to them. It at least keeps down
and deprives of influence sad freedom that bourymis clam
which to communists is kill moo hateful. There is nothing

more certain then that ths catmenzietic mad "'Mallet pert;
has rather grown than demand in Francs of bete yews.
Yet it has made no sign in the elections, the members of
opposition or of the republican party returned, having, with
the exception of Carnet, no sympathy with socialist doc-
trines ; and It was a bourgeois constituency that elected
Carnot.

" As to the Legitimists, they sa well sa the priestly, party
have seconded the government everywhere; or rather, the
government hoe adopted them. A very large portion of the
Chamber of Representatives undate of aristocratic nuns
all reedy to wear the Buouparte livery, and thus prepare the
way, u they imagine, for the restorstien of their prince
and their own peaty. Among the deputies elected we And
the Marquis of Latour-Alanbourg, the Marquis of Gram-
mont, the Marquis of Ilehnont-Briancon, tho Marquis de
Tallionet, the Marquis de Chaumont, the Marquis d'Ande-
larre, M. de Morteneart, D'llerlieeowt, M. Comte de Ker-
mint, M. Comte de liergerlay, M. de Rol:tenure, Iloimy
D'Asgloa, chort, them is s Detarbonist Howe of
Peon in the present Imperialist Chamber of Representa-
tives.

"With all this the name darer, really generous end pa-
triotic Legitimist ie excluded. What men pvo more homage,
er really rendered more terrine to the Emperor, than MM.
De Montslembert and De La Itochejsquelinr But these

mines are no longer en the list of the iteputies."
The imperial ergs= would Dave it that the electors who
.sketainod from voting ere to be counted upon their aide.
We do sot believe it, and the claim agrees badly with the
infinite pains taken by the government to urge the con-
stituencies to vote. The admirers end supporters of the
empire must have known well how important it was that
they should come forward end strengthen it silk their suf-
frages. M. Billault's letter was surely explicit end Gamma
enough upon that point.
We ob•orvo that the question is dimmed what course the
few oppoaitionists who hare ploughed their way through
such difficulties into the legislative body ought to pare=;
whether they ought to take their seats and their share in
its business and deliberations ; or, contest with the triumph
of being elected, repudiate the oaths and reline with a
theatrical protest spinet the Empire. We regret to hear
such a question men debated. To take the latter course would
simply be to pull out the wedge the moment they have suc-
ceeded in getting it is. Their rota in the legislative
body might be unavailing, but not so would be their voices,
raised with temper and moderation; not no would be the
exisuiple of a few men faithfully representing Franco in
crowd of the Emperor's minions, exercising a moral Maros
in the union, abundantly compensating for their becommy
poweriessitem in the Chamber.
Meanwhile, however, every friend of freedom In Europe
will tricky to see that its spirit is not yet dead In so peat •
member of the European family as France; sad the advocate
of the ballot will be especially gratified to observe that mast
suffrage was the weapon that struck so effective • him, la be-
half of expiring liberty. France is not yet blotted out of the
soap of the free nations. The despotism of the Empire hes
received a check, and a check of the most salutary kind, an
' orderly and legal one. Little remained of parliamentary in-
stitutions, but of things so precious there is great ebbs' even
in the smallest remnant, and it is cheering to find that there
are OM still setae with the sere sad the 'yet to re it.