The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 27 CO.

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

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50 Albion
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20 Anglo-Egyptian, lim all lid 201 201 I
20 Anglo-Hungarian
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40 Australasian
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50 Bank of Victoria, Australia '25 37 3a
10 Bank of :.\ ew Zealand all 151 ICI
50 British North American
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lia, nd China all
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London, and China all
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10 Consolidated, litu.
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tralian Chartered
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lies Imperial, Um 2O
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THE GENERAL ELECTIONS IN FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, WEDNESDAT.

The result of all the elections throughout France is bOW
definitely ascertained. The two seats in Corsica. will not
be disposed of until next Sunday ; but the contest in all
the 290 circumscriptions of France has been fought out,
and the gains and losses may to a certain extent
be calculated. Two hundred and three candidates who are
avowed supporters of the Government, or who were not
combatted by the authorities, have obtained seats. It
does not follow, however, that the Government has
secured 203 supporters. Several of this number, beyond
doubt, hold moderately Liberal views, and are disposed to
think that the Empire would prosper better if the liberty of
the subject were more completely provided for, and might,
perhaps, turn against the Government on various questions
in which arbitrary authority was pushed too far. But
considering that a terribly Red Opposition has been
elected, it would be hazardous to hope too much from the
Independents, whom the Government did not care to
oppose. They might have voted with moderate men, such
as Favre and Thiers, but they cannot be relied onto make
common cause with such "sanguinary" Democrats asßancel,
Raspail, and Gambetta. Hence the number 203, though
far in excess of the strength represented by the thick-
and thin Imperialists, may, perhaps, be counted on in a
serious time of danger to the Empire. The Opposition
has returned up to the present time twenty-eight depu-
ties. This is five in excess of the number mustered by all
shades in the last Parliament, and thus the Liberals have
secured a clear gain of ten on a division.

This, however, does not represent the whole progress
made. The Liberals are mostly of one hue, that of the
deepest red ; and thus the policy of the Opposition, be
itgood or had, will be carried on with order and unanimity.
More than this, a great many seats yet undecided must
fall to the Left. The Liberals have already gained five on
their former strength, and yet the unprecedented number
of fifty-nine seats have to be fought for again. Never before
has there been such a large proportion of constituencies
in which no candidate could obtain the requisite half of
all the votes polled plus one. The Left must win many
of these seats on Sunday week. Some, indeed,
are so sanguine as to expect that they will
gain them all. But four indecisive elections are
to be decided in Paris, and three in the Marseilles
district. The Radicals must surely carry these. In every
circumscription only one official candidate appears, whereas
there are in all these fifty-nine cases, several of
the various Opposition shades. With several of the
Liberals with a smaller number of votes, the fight in
nearly all cases will be carried by the single representa-
tive of the Left. Of course much depends on the self-
sacrifice of the unsuccessful Liberals in giving way
to their more fortunate brethren. This sacrifice
has, however, been made in many cases.
M. Clanzel, a Liberal, who was behind M. Lavertinjin,
another Liberal, at Bordeaux, retires, and thus one repre-
sentative of the Opposition is left. In Paris, Alton Sh4e
gives way to Thiers, Cantagrel to Rochefort, Gueroult
to Ferry, and, further detail apart, this example has
been followed in other cases. Thus the Left must gain
several more seats ; it is highly probable that its present
strength will be doubled; it may be trebled. The general
agreement of the English and French press, that the days
of personal Government are numbered, is not without
foundation.
The good order which prevailed in Paris throughout the
two days of polling was reported in most of the electoral
circumscriptions, but, unfortunately, not from all. There
have been a few disturbances to mar the general
quiet of an election which, as a whole, reflects
the highest credit on the people of France. From
Saint Etienne, especially, some grave occurrences are
announced. Herr Dorian, a Republican, was elected,
and the enthusiastic Liberals. resolved to appropriately
celebrate their triumph. "A has les Jesuites ! " and
" Vive Dorian !" intermingled with frequent doses of the
" Marseillaise !" resounded the whole nigh
aversion. t. The Jesuits e
were the special object of Bepuican Th
mob attacked the college of the Order, set fire to the
porter's lodge, smashed the windows, and broke the bars
of the ground-floor windows. The Prefect called out the
whole of the troops, but was not able to disperse the
rioters until daybreak. Some arrests were made. At
Amiens some 1,800 workmen assailed the manufactory of
M. Cosserat, the late deputy who has been re-elected,
and inflicted some damage. The gendarmes were obliged
to interfere to restore order. At Angers crowds gathered
before the Mairie and the Prefecture, singing the " Mar-
seillaise." Seventeen arrests, says an official journal, bad
to be made here. At Lille several arrests were made,
one man being taken with a gun in his hand. A mob, angry
with the defeat of the Liberal candidates at this city, had

gathered together and adventurously broken some of the
windows of the central police-station. At Toulouse a
crowd gathered on the Place du C'apitole, and advanced
gaiust a barrack which had been established near
the Palace of Justice. Stones were thrown, and one
officer and a soldier slightly hit. These details, I may
add, are given by the semi-official papers. The Liberal
journals say very little about the disturbances,
remarking that in no case was there any out-
break ot gravity. It will not, therefore, be prema-
ture to conclude that the character of these riots has
been purposely exaggerated by the Patrie, which gives a
most lengthy account of them. The semi-official journal
was found guilty of this offence but a few days ago, and
its readers, therefore, may be pardoned for not on this
occasion acceytiligits statements in full. No doubt the
riot at St. Etienne has been ot ratner tormtuable pro-
portions ; but at the other places it is clear that nothing
very alarming has occurred.
A somewhat singular fact, much commented on just
now, confirms this impression. The Independence Beige
has been seized by the authorities five days in succession.
The Patrie, as I have before mentioned, told a
dismal tale of revolutionary preparations in Belgium;
how a band of political exiles, including, of
course, Rochefort, were assembled at Brussels, and
were actively engaged in laying revolutionary trains
to I.low up the Empire. The Independence Beige denied
this story in no measured terms, and hence the seizure.
The directors of the Brussels paper has addressed a letter
to all the Liberal editors in Paris, stating why his
paper was seized, recounting the story of the Petrie,
and informing the public that the statements made by
that and another semi-official paper are "completely
false." The Liberal papers reproduce this letter, and thus
the design of the authorities in seizing the Independence
is frustrated.

The system of schooling pauper children is being
taken up in Liverpool. Apropos of the subject it was stated
at the meeting of the vestry on Tuesday that the vestry clerk,
acting on a recent recommendation, Lad communicated with
the managers of various schools in the town to ascertain
hether they would Le willing to receive the children of
paurers in receipt of outdoor parochial relief on the terms
which the select vestry had offered. Replies had been re-
ceived, some of which were unfavourable to the terms pro-
posed by the vestry, but it is expected that in about a fort-
night the vestry clerk will be informed as to the number of
schools in which pauper children may be received, and the
arrangements for carrying out the new system will then
soon be completed, and probably a large number of children
taken off the streets.

Yesterday morning a collision of a very serious
character occurred on the Mersey, near Monk's Ferry. The
new ferry boat, Richmond, which plies in the summer
months between Liverpool and Easthaven, left the latter
place at nine o'clock with a large number of passengers, en
route for Liverpool. The morning was thick and hazy, a
heavy fog hanging over tho river, and when nearly opposite
Monk's Ferry the Richmond came into sudden collision with
a large brigantine, lying at anchor off the Ferry. The
shock was such as to cause the Richmond to heel over,
causing the wildest consternation amongst the passengers.
As soon es the vessels got clear of each other it was found
th at the Richmond's funnel bad been carried away, together
with her sponson. Fortunately, no one on board was seri-
ously injured ; and after a slight delay the Richmond pro-
ceeded to Liverpool.

Another case of hell) poisoning is
,reported. Tt
took place at Foxdale, Isle of Man. A miner, named Thomas
Christian, lost his life by it. He and three other men seated
themselves to rest in a field, when their attention was di-
rected to what was apparently a carrot growing close by.
The root was pulled up, and the deceased eat a considerable
portion, two of his companions also partaking of it, but not
so freely as Christian. In a few minutes the latter was
seized with all the symptoms of poisoning from sonic power-
ful herbal poison ; and, at the same time, the others who had
eaten of it also began to feel a sick faintness. The latter two
succeeded at once in obtaking remedies which enabled till m
to overcome the effects of the deadly root, but the unfortu-
nate man Christian expired in great agony before any aid
could arrive. The co: tis uipro,:ed to have been belladonna
or deadly nightshade. The deceased was an aged man, being
npwards of 70 years old.

At the Sheffield Church Conference on Tuesday the
Archbishop of York made en important speech on Church,
extension. Ilis grace referred to the difficulties inter-
posed in the erection of new churches by the powers
and privileges given to different parties interested,
and said that ho would not allow any individual
to have the power of a veto from which there could ho no
appeal. He admitted the rights of the clergy and of patrons
but he thought that in every case there should be au appeal,
and he proposed in tire bill he had introduced into Parlia-
ment to make the first attempt to es fish anything like
compulsion in dealing with patrons-'and their rights. His
proposition was to take power to compensate a patrie