The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-07 00:00:00

OFFICIAL CANDIDATES IN FRANCE.

A serious defeat has been sustained by the
system of official candidatures in the French Corps
Legislatif. The Marquis de Sainte Hermine was an
official candidate in La Vendee, and was duly elected,
thanks to the exertions of the local prefect, who did
not scruple to direct the manager of the prefectoral
journal to insert damaging statements against the non-
official competitor. The Government did not suppose that
any particular importance would be attached to the affair,
which is, unfortunately, only too commonplace, and when
an inquiry was made in the Corps Legislatif, M. Forcade
did not trouble himself about the matter, and left the
defence to M . Jolibois. The result, however, was very
different from the expectations of the Ministers. The
case was taken up, not only by M. Tachard, the new
deputy for Mulhouse, a good Parliamentary orator, but
by M. Buffet and M. Jules Favre. M. Tachard succinctly
stated the facts, shewing that the paper bearing the date
of the 7th of June was printed and circulated in the Ist
Circumscription of La Vendee on the sth, so as to in-
fluence the election, and that the journalist who signed
the article confessed, when examined before the commis-
sion of the Corps Legislatif, that he had been directly
inspired by the prefect. M. de Foubrune. M.
Buffet and M Jules Favre took up the question
on general grounds, M. Favre, in particular, dwelling
on the shame he felt in seeing the representative of justice
take part in electoral manoeuvres. A division of 209 mem-
bers showed 91 for the validation of the election, and 118
for its being annulled, M. Emile Oliver being
amongst the latter. The majority against the official can-
didate and the Minister who supported him was conse-
quently 27. This vote, which was quite unlooked for,
produced a great effect, and was believed to shew conclu-
sively that it is simply impossible for the Ministry to hold
their places much longer. The election of the Marquis de
Saint Hermine was supposed to be one of the least
precarious.

THE DIME OP GENOA.
The advices from Spain and Italy alike affirm that the
candidature of the Duke of Genoa to the throne of Spain
may be looked upon as a failure. The Politica announces
that Senor Olozaga, the Spanish Ambassador at Paris, has
written to say that the candidature had better bo

:THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA.

The Emperor of Austria has not found matters unproved
during his absence. The campaign against the Dalmatian
insurgents has terminated in a. disastrous retreat. It will
be necessary to organise a new expedition in the spring, in
order to bring affairs to a settlement. Other difficulties
await the Emperor, for the Reichsrath will meet on the
11th, and the speech must be prepared. The questions of
electoral reform, of the Czechs, of the Poles, and also of
the military confines so dear to the Hungarians, mus;, be
dealt with. The task will be a burdensome one, and en-
compassed with almost insurmountable difficulties.

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