The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-08 00:00:00

[BY SPECIAL AND ORDINARY TELEGRAMS.]

PAR ES, TUE3DAY MORNING.
So far as the results of the elections are known,
they aro favourable to the Opp, s'tion, but not
so decisively as was expected. In Paris the com-
paratively moderate men have been returned.
Jules Favre has defeated Rochefort by 3,600 votes.
The Republican, Gamier Paris, has overcome the Red
Easpail by nearly 5,000 votes, probably owing to the fact
that the latter candidate has already been elected for
Lyons ; and Thiess has won easily, his two competitors,
the official candidate and the Red, receiving less votes
than on the previous occasion. M. Ju'es Ferry, the Red,
has defeated the official, M. Cochin. Thus the Liberals
have carried the whole of the nine seats for Paris.
In the departments, the Opposition has carried two
scats at Marseilles, Gambetta defeating M. do Lessees,
one at Rouen, and one in the Nord. But several seats
which the Opposition might have been expected to gain
have been won by the Government. At Nantes, for
instance, at the first ballot, the official candidate received
12,001; M. Gu6pin, the Liberal, 11,679 ; and two
other Liberals more than 7,000 votes between
them. As these two last retired in favour of M.
Gudpin, it was expected that he would be returned,
but M. Gaudin has won by 2,300 votes. In the Loire, at
the first ballot, the official candidate received 12,603 votes,
and the three candidates of the Opposition more than
14,500. It was calculated that the sing'e Liberal at the
second ballot would get in, but he has lost by a few
hundred votes. A similar issue has been experienced at
Lyons, where M. Ferras has defeated the Republican,
Esquiros, who, however, is returned for Marseilles.
The returns from the two circumscriptions of the Seine
Inferibure are very confused, but it appears that th
two Opposition deputies have been elected.
Later returns are still less favourable to the
Opposition. In the Finisterre, where the total
Opposition votes at the last ballot were above 16,000
against 14,100, the official candidate has, nevertheless,
been returned. In the Puy-de-Dome, on the other
hand, the Opposition has gained an unexpected victory.
In the Gard, the Opposition votes a fortnight ago out-
numbered those of the Government, and still the official
candidate has won. In the Pas de Calais, the official
candidate has likewise been returned. At Auxerre,
Limoges, in the Vosges, the Haute Saone, and as
Orleans the Opposition has been successful. The Govern.
ment have carried, in some cases much to the astonish.
ment of the Liberals, the sth Finisterre circumscription,
Herau!t ; 2nd circumscription of the Loiret, Bourges,
and Grenoble. The official returns state that
up to the present time twenty-five Liberals of
different shades and nineteen Opposition candidates have
been returned. Full reliance is not to be placed on this
statement ; but it is quite certain that the Opposition has
not carried so many seats as was expected. It was hoped
that the official candidates would not be successful in half-
a-doz en instances. These second ballotings shew that
the authorities have exerted themselves to the utmost to
retrieve the losses they sustained a fortnight ago. The
result is clear'y reactionary to a certain extent. The
number of electors polling all through the country has been
ye. y larg in most cases considerably greater than at the
fiest balloting. Same of the contests were very share.
A great conc„urse of people assembled on the boulevards
after the announcement of the polling. Some disturbances
are announced, and it is said that 12) persons have bees
arrested.

Lord Cairns is stated to have convened a confer-
ence of leading Opposition peers (fifteen is the number
given), to bo hold at his own res.d.:r.ce on Wednes.lay.

A Fermanagh paper states that the Right llon.
Henry Corry is about to retire from the representitiou of the
county of Tyrone. it aide tut hi 3 son will be notniinted in
his room.

The latest rumour in connection will the repre-
sentation of Nottingham is to the ()MIA flit Mr. y
Seymour, Q. 0., Recorder of Neweas.lo-on-TynP, as leen
asked by " the Independmits" (the party whom tl.e
Sir Robert Clifton represented) to contest the borough

A respectable =lister, named Samuel Russell, of
Norton, near Pontefract, has been taken into custody on a
charge of forging an acceptance of a bill of exchange fc r he
payment of £2OO, and another for .C 350, with intent to dc.
fraud Messrs. Thomas Seaton and Co., brewers, Doncaster.
Jae was taken before the magistrates at \Yentbridge on
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