The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-02 00:00:00

THE FRENCH ELECTIONS.

PARIS, June 1, Evening.
The Presse of this evening gives the following as
;he result of the elections in Paris :

"In the second arrondissement M. Thiere, the
Opposition candidate was elected by 11,112 votes,
against M. Devinck, the Government candidate,
who obtained only 9,857 votes.
" In the third arrondissement M. Emile Oliivier,
ex-deputy, Opposition candidate, was elected by
18,651 votes, apinst the Government candidate, M.
Varin, who rEceived 9,957 votes.

" In the fourth arrondissement M. Ernest Picard,
ex-deputy, Opposition candidate, was elected by
17,046 votes, against General Perrot, ex-deputy, the
Government candidate, who received 6,487 votes.

" In the fifth arrondissement M. Jules Favre, ex-
deputy, Opposition candidate, was elected by 18,655
votes, against M. Frederick Levy, Mayor of 11th
district, the Government candidate, who obtained
8,507 votes.

" In the sixth arrondissement M. Gueroult, chief
editor of the (ipinion .Nationale, Opposition candi-
date, obtained 10,717 votes; M. Fondle Lepelletier,
ex-deputy, Government candidate, 9,323 votes; M.
Cochin, Opposition candidate, 6,000 votes; and M.
Prevost Paradol, editor of the Journal (les Dc'bots,
Opposition, 2,200 votes. None of the candidates
having obtained the two-thirds majority, requisite
by the electoral law, the ballot will be resorted to
in this district.

" The results of the elections in the eighth and
ninth arrondissements have not yet transpired."

The 7ernps announces that M. Havin, political
editor of the Siecle, has been nominated by the
Opposition in the first arrondissement ; and La
France states that the Opposition has nominated
M. Darimon, ex-deputy, in the seventh arrondis
Bement.

PARIS, JUNE 2,

Intelligence received from the provinces states
that MM. Berryer and Marie, candidates of the
Opposition, have been elected for Bou2hes-du-
Rhone, but it is doubtful whether M. Thiers has
also been chosen in that department.
In the department of the Nord, MM. Plichon,
Lambrecht, and Kolb-Bernard have been elected.
M. Thiers has failed at Valenciennes, and the
ballot has been resorted to in the 7th circum-
scription.

M. Betssieres has been elected at Strasbourg, ob•
taining 21,353 votes, and M. Barrot, 6,365.
M. Dufaure has failed in two circumscriptions of
the Charente Inferieure, and in the first circum-
scription of the Gironde, The numbers were for
M. Cure 6,782, Cavertiyou 6,992, Dufaure 3,240.
The ballot will be resorted to.

At Lyons M. Herron, candidate of the Opposition,
was elected.

M. Thiers has also failed at Aix as well as at Va.

lenclennes.

All the Opposition candidates have been elected in
Paris, with the exception of the 6th district, in
which the ballot will be required.

PARIS, JUNE 2

The Constautionnel, in an article signed by M.
Paulin Limayrac, states that the candidates, MM.
Dufaure, Montalembert, Barrot, I'assy, Merode,
Dupont de I'Eure, L'Herbertte Glais Bazone,
Jouvenel, Renneville, Freslon, Charamond,
Flavigny St. Marc Girardin, de Civrac Bac, Jules
Lasteyrie, Mortemart, Prevost Paradol, Victor Le-
franc Barthelemy, Saint Hilaire de Mornay, the
Duke Decazes, and Gustave Beaumont, have failed
to be elected.

The writer continues—" The success of the Op-
position list in Paris was forwarded by the divisicn
produced in the ranks of the friends of the Govern-
ment by the attitude of the journal La France.
But in all the Departments the Government can-
didates are triumphant."

A letter has been published, addressed by the
Minister of Public Worship to the Archbishop and
Bishops who signed the memorandum recommend-
ing the electors not to abstain from voting. The
Minister censures this act as being in opposition