The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-07 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

DEFEAT OF THE GOVERNMENT.
(mom ems OWN COIRESPOWDIENT.)
PARIS, MONDAY Evvmco.
The ballotage., in the departments of the Indre
and Loire and Somme have turned out against
the government, and two new opposition
members will immediately take their seats in
the Corps Loginlatif, representing constituen-
cies which till now have, ever since the
coup d'etat, invariably returned the prefects'
nominees. The state of the polls, as already
approximatively known, is as follows :—ln the
Indre and Loire, M. Ho assard (opposition) obtained
10,879 votes against 7,627 given to M. Gonin (go-
vernment). This result is the more remarkable be-
cause M. Gouin, mayor of Tours, the chef lieu of
the department, was supported by all the in-
fluence of his father, a banker of great
wealth and respectability, whose elevation to the
Senate caused the vacancy. In the Sommo M.
d'Estournel (opposition) polled 13,005 votes
against 12,703 for M. Villemant (government).
The seat here rescued was that occupied by Dr.
Conneau, the Emperor's private physician, who
has also been made a senator. The result of these
accidental elections is of the highest importance
as an index of the opinion of the country,
which will have to be met whenever the general
elections come on. They cannot be postponed
longer than 1869 ; and as in all probability the
opposition feeling will go on increasing the interest
of the government seems to be to appeal to the con-
stituencies as soon as possible and know the worst
at once.
Since I wrote the above there is news of another
vacancy. M. des Rotours, a member for the de-
partment of the Nord, who only ten days ago spoke
on the Army Bill, died suddenly this morning.
A sort of euseute occurred last night at the Cha-
teau d'Ean, opposite the Prince Eugene barracks.
A number of people persisted in sliding upon the
boulevards, which in that part are very wide. The
police not being able to clear the place, the troops
were called out. A sergeant's guard was very badly
received by the mob, and did not succeed
in dispersing it without much difficulty and
after arresting a good many people. It was evi-
dently not a case in which the military ought to
have been wanted, and it will probably turn out
that its aid was over-hastily called in.
The following are the names of English prize-
holders, extracted from the Moniteur list of the
prizes distributed by the Emperor yesterday to ex-
hibitors in the agricultural and horticultural
departments of the Universal Exhibition of
1867 :—Agriculture—Grand Prizes :—Ransome and
Sims, Ipswich, agricultural machines ; James
and Frederick Howard, Bedford, agricultural
machines ; Clement R. Markham, London, intro-
duction and development of quinine culture in the
East Indies, gold medal, with works of art ;
Garrett and Son, Leicester, agricultural machines ;
Smyth and Son, Poem Hall, sowing machines.
Gold medals :—Marshall, Son, and Co. ; Pickaley,
Sims, and Co., James Jamieson, James Cooper.
Horticulture.--Grand Prize :—J. Veitch and Son,
London, ornamental shrubs.
The firmness at the Boone to-day was attributed
to several causes—M. Limayrac's pacific article in
the Counitutionael--the rumour that then is to
be no loan—and the formation of an Italian
ministry. Rent* rams 37*c. fer formation
and Ssa for
account, closing at 68fr. 82}c., and 68fr. 774 n ;
Italian roes 371 e. ; Credit Fannin, 17fr. 50c. ;
Comptoir d'Esoompte, Bfr. 75c. ; and Mobilier,
lir. 25c. The Northern Railway rose 6fr.

The Moriusento of Genoa says :—" The arrival
of the Crown Prime of Prussia at Florets, is announood
es shortly to take plans."
The Queen of Prussia, considering the distress
existing in the metro provinces of the kingdom' invited,
• few days book, waft seventy ladies, chiefly the wives
sod daughtewe el emateriol wen, to wan& with hoe
respelling the most proper means of oldies the neessoilene
I people. Tho holdieg of se inseam Weer is the royal
plan was determined en, all lb. ladies sagging to aged.
Gelgearii, describing the night fate at the Bois
I de Boulogne, says :—"The whole beauty sad fashion of
Perla net at this curious ontartalausant. Upwards of
9,000 amigos wire drawn up on the birders of the lake,
and at least 4,000 pews= hod bog enoveyed in lbw.
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