The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-09 00:00:00

FRANCE.

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Utoman 65

TILE GEATERAL ELECTIONS IN TRANCE.

',FROM OUR OWN coursroNDENT.)
PARIS, TrESDAY,

The battle is finally over. VVith the exception of a few
re-elections in cases where one deputy has been returned
for two constituencies— and these cannot in any way
affect the relative strength of parties—the great contest
is at an end. The returns are complete, and the relative
terms on which the Emperor and his foes will compet efor
the next six years may now be estimated. The second
balloting has greatly increased the strength of the
Opposition. Nevertheless the victory has not been so com-
plete as was expected. The Government has snatched a good
many seats from the fire, and the corpse of many a stout
Opposition candidate strews the field of battle. The
Liberals have to regret the defeat of M. Lavertujon in the
Gironde, M. Cranieux in the DD)me, MM. Taxile Delord
and Gent in the Vaucluse, M. E. Pelletan in the
Bouches-du-Rhone, M. Jules Simon in the Herault,
and of others whom it expected to secure as members of
the Corps Legislatif. But there is much consolation even
in some of these unexpected reverses. If the Liberals
have not gained seats, they have won votes. All over
France the contest has been remarkably close and
desperate. In places where the Government won
with scarcely an effort in former years, the utmost
tightening of the screw has but just enabled the
prefects to save their men by the skin of their teeth.
16,086 and 15,800 ; 15,457 and 15,088 ; 13,085 and 12,638;
10,394 and 10,357 (won by five !) ; 13,798 and 13,079 ;
13,189 and 12,926 are some, but not all, the respective
numbers which will give you an idea of the desperate
strait to which Imperialism has been reduced. The
numbers polled, even more than the increase
of the Opposition deputies, decisively prove that France
has-really awakened from her long slumber. The votes
given at the first balloting were largely in excess of
former years, and it is noteworthy that fully
the same large proportion of electors have pre-
sented themselves at the second ballot. In England
the rule is that a second re-election shews a falling off in the
number of votes recorded. Here there has been no falling
off, in several cases rather the other way. On the whole
the proportion which the electors polling bear to those
inscribed on the register has been larger than the same
proportion in England. This settles the question as to the
popular interest felt in the contest.
What has been the net result of the fifty-nine circum-
scriptions in which the second balloting has been found
necessary ? The Government has carried twenty-four. The
Opposition has been successful in thirty-four cases. From
one. of, the Finisterre circumscriptions the result is notyet
arrived. These figures, you will doubtless perceive, do
not quite accord with those published by the authorities ;
but, as I have before said, the authorised figures are to
be taken with salt. The official organs state that so
many candidates supported or not opposed by the
prefects, and so many candidates opposed, have
been elected. This is not a satisfactory mode
of calculation. For instance, in Paris two battles
were fought between Rochefort and Jules Favre,
and Raspail and Garnier-Paes, the Government not
opposing any of these, simply because it was useless to do
so. The question is, how many Imperialists and how
many Liberals have been returned ? and to this question I
answer 24 and 34.

To estimate the full strength of the Opposition in the
whole House is more difficult. Several deputies who have
been elected have been claimed by both sides. One very
fair calculation gives 24 Opposition deputies and 37 hide
pendents or Third Party men, as the number returned at
the first balloting. Add to these the number 34,
just elected, And the full strength of the Oppo-
sition of all shades amounts to 95 ! But, as
I have said before, all these are not to be relied on to
oppose the Empire on a great many questions. But some
highly important reforms will be supported by the entire
strength of this formidable minority, whilst the Opposi-
tion proper can seldom fail to fall below eights
votes. This is, indeed, a great change on the
state of things prevailing in the last Chamber. The
triumph of the Liberals is great, and it is all the more
satisfactory, because the ultra-Republicans will not
muster so formidably as was expected. The people of
France deserve all credit for their decision at this
juncture.

The disagreeable topic of riots once more intrudes itself
upon notice. There were some serious disturbances on the
boulevards last night, and the authorities did not fail to
make the most of them by arresting a large number of
persons—about 130 altogether. I have no desire to diminish
the gravity of these disturbances, but undoubtedly
the police have behaved badly. The tumults were not
such as to warrant 130 arrests. Too much intervention
has again produced the ordinary effect. It appears that
the tumults chiefly broke out in the Quartier Latin—the
circumscription in which Jules Favre and Rochefort
contended. Many of the supporters of the latter,
irritated at the defeat of their candidate, gathered round
the office of the Rappel—the journal which supported
Rochefort—in the Rue du Faubourg Montmartre. They
undoubtedly did indulge in cries of " Vive Rochefort !"
and "A bas Jules Favre !" but the Patric states that they
entered the cafjs and indulged in personal conflicts with
the occupants, which I think hardly likely. The police en-
deavoured to keep up the circulation of the crowd, and
their ordering and pushing seem to have brought about
some little struggles, of which the result was 130
arrests. Considering that all the districts in
which the contests took place were crowded to
excess with people, a little excitement might have been
expecte'l. Certainly cries of " Vive Rochefort !" cannot
be held to justify this wholesale incarceration ; and be-
yond these cries the mob really did nothing. There were
disturbances is other parts of Paris, but very slight. The
Quartier Latin was the great centre of the effervescence.
At Bordeaux and Nantes there have been some outbreaks.

7.11 E LORDS AND THE BILL.

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The Globe says that the Times is mistaken in supposing
that there is any wavering on the part of the peers who
determined on Saturday to vote against the second reading
of the Irish Church Bill. The Globe contends that the
question of disestablishing a Church is widely different
from a Reform Bill ; for while the House of Commons
was entitled to have its decision respected with regardtoits
own constitution, the Lords are bound to defend such an
institution as the National Church. The fact that the Liberal
journals have already declared that any amendments made
by the Lords will be rejected by the Commons, renders it
useless for the Upper House to amend the bill in com-
mittee. "The Peers are told they must yield; the hymn
of triumph is already shouted over them, and they wish
at least to meet the danger in front, and fall, if fall they
must, like men."

The London correspondent of the Western Daily Press
telegraphs that should the Lords persist in their deter-
mination to throw out the Irish Church Bill, Mr. Glad-
stone intends, by the end of the month, to ask the Queen
for leave to prorogue Parliament, and to give him power
to create, if necessary, new peers. In the event of being
refused he will resign, and Mr. Disraeli will be sent for.
It is intended, on the rejection of the bill, to move to
limit the supplies to two months, so that Disraeli could
not dissolve the House ; then a vote of no confidence
could be immediately moved. Mr. Gladstone would not
exercise the power, supposing the Sovereign accedes, to
call the younger sons of Liberal peers to the Upper House
unless the Lords throw out the bill a second time.

The same correspondent says the Marquis of Salisbury
will speak for the second reading of the bill and vote
against it.

A rumour is afloat (says the Echo) that the Archbishop
of Canterbury has advised the members of the Episcopal
Bench not to resist the second reading of the Irish Church
Bill.

TILE CENTRAL CHAMBER OF AGRICUL•

TUBE.

A meeting of the Central Chamber was held on
Tuesday at the Salisbury Hotel, Mr. C. S. Read,
M.P., in the chair. Among those present were Lord
Egerton of Tatton, Sir Massey Lopes, Bart., M.P., Hon.
G. W. Milles, M.P., Major-General Herbert, M.P., Mr.
Corrance, M.P., Mr. W. M'Combie, M.P., Mr. W. D.
Fordyce, M.P., Lieutenant-Colonel Corbett, M.P., Mr.
J. R. Ormsby Gore, M.P., Mr. S. W. Clowes, M.P.,
Mr. D. Chadwick, M.P., Mr. W. Parker, M.P.,
Mr. Cornwall Legh, M.P., Mr. W. Hodgson Barron,
M.P., Colonel Brise, M.P., Mr. Edmund Turnor, M.P.
Mr. W. J. Leith, M.l'., Messrs. Clay, Duckham, Masfer,
Blich, Varden, Captain Craigie, R. J. More, H. Neiht,
Myott, Long, Jabez, Turner, Stratton, &c.
After the usual preliminary business, Sir MAssEv
LOPES, M.P., read the report of the Local Taxation Corn•
mittee, of which he is chairman. A sum of upwards of
£2OO had been promised to carry on the agitation ; and
the utmost interest in the object of the committee had
been manifested from all parts of the country.
MAsFEN (Staffordshire) proposed---" That this
Chamber re-affirms its resolutions of April Gth as to the
provisions essential for tendering the Contagious Diseases
(Animals) (No. 2) Bill acceptable to the agriculturists of
the kingdom ; and considers that, if the moderate amend-
ments of which Mr. C. S. Read has given notice should
fail to be carried, the most determined opposition should
be given to the bill."
Mr. WILLsoN (Leicestershire), in seconding the motion,
expressed his entire approval of it.—The resolution was
passed, as was also one authorising a petition to be pre
seated in favour of Mr. Clare Sewell Read's amendments
to the bill.

An attempt to make preaching legal in the public
krlo of liiTerPo9l Lao been defeated by the Town Council

THE .ENGLISH CHURCH UNION AYD ITS

OPT OXENTS.

to
The English Church anion has been making overtures
the Church Association, which, if accepted, would have Piped
together. the rival societies in a crusade against rationalise].
The Eon. C. L. Wcod recently made a proposal to the
Council of tho Church Association that the societies
should jointly raise the sum of £l,OOO to present to the
Archbishop of York to assist in defraying the expenses
of the suit instituted against Mr. Voysey. This joint
action, it was urged by Mr. Wood, would be
"a token 093
wbotever d.fferonce may unhappily have divided our t,"
societies we recognise in them only an additional incentive
for united action where it may bo had in the hope that
such co-operation in defence of truths common to
us both, may tend to allay the strife and soften
those differences which are so infinitely hurtful to the
Church of Christ." The chairman of the Church Association
in reply expresses his "opinion that as the Church Union
has been actively engaged in promoting the errors and Per-
versions of our Reformed Church which the Church Asso-
ciation was instituted to resist any idea of co-operation
between two societies having such opposite objects seerae,
nndavisable, and adds for himself "that with every feelelg
of personal respect" for Mr. Wood he " should decline ee
a loyal Churchman any association with the body e/e.ir
which he regrets that Mr. Wood presides. The Council
of the Church Association, when the matter was brougbt be:
ford them, agreed in " the views expressed in their chain-012'
letter.' When the idea of joint action was found to be irtl.
practicable the Council of the E.C.U. offered for themeellee
the sum of £5OO to the Archbishop, but his grace writes in
reply, "Calling to mind the proceedings of the ChUrch Unl°/1.
Society, and of some of its members who appeared to represe;
it, and have not been disowned, towards me in my diffielll
office for two or three years past, I find myself unable °,
accept as an appropriate sequel to them this largo gift ot
money. I will therefore beg leave to decline with than.
the liberal proposal of that society."

PARLIAMEA TA RY AND MUNICIPA.I

ELECTIONS COMMITTEE.

At the sitting of this ciiilmittee on Tuesday, some interest'
ing evidence was given as to the employment of troops,
Irish elections, by Lieutenant-General McMurdoch. 13
said according to law a soldier was not allowed to 11Je
his arms on any provocation without the COni.;
mand of his superior. Believed that in TiPPerl"
if there were no troops a great many persons would refrsio
from voting, that was supposing the ballot did not exist.
Believed the priests could do a great deal towards keeping
.
the mob quiet if they liked. The police might be pear
away with if people had an opportunity of voting 13eLf
their own homes. It was not always that the attscs,
were made in towns ; it often happened in the countri:
Did not believe there would be mob violence and intl6l2.
dation if people voted near home, though there would°
landlord intimidation still existing. Bringing the inilll3llll
to an election was like holding a red rag to a 1)%
It was the feeling of the voters when being convele
under escort that they were being taken like prisoner:.
When called out to a riot the soldiers acted as eitizenb;
but as soldiers when escorting voters. There was no d°un
that soldiers were placed in a "cruelly false P°sill°,-;
The attacks on convoys during late years had "e",,,
exceedingly well organised, and they selectedproper pas
from which to attack the troops which were acting '
were
convoys. He believed the majority of voters
coerced. He believed even with the Ballot persons 011°12
vote near home,

By Mr. Bright : Was a Protestant.
By Sir Michael Beach : Some of the voters were Wive
Irish miles from the polling places.

POINT OF DIVORCE LAW.

AO.
A case which, as Baron Penzance observed, should "lave
the greatest publicity given to it, came on in the Disc°e
A
Court on Tuesday. A man had successfully petition%
the court for a dissolution of marriage on the ground et.ll,:t
wife's adultery. The decree nisi had been pronounced'
between that period and the time wheh it should bavel)Aeene
made absolute, the petitioner was married, after giving
notice of banns, &c., to another woman. The Attorner,
General appeared for the Queen's Proctor,
and allege('
adultery
that by his action the petitioner had committed
and bigamy, and was therefore not entitled to have his deerei:
made absolute. Mr. Inderwick, for the petitioner, s3idj)
client was an ignorant man, and appeared personalbr.%
the trial, and when the decree nisi was pronounced,,ne
imagined that his first marriage was fully annulled.
acted with perfect bond fidesin the matter,and did uot con-egie
his second marriage. Lord Penzance said that as 3
ignorance was no excuse for an illegal act, and the Pec;
tioner had no doubt committed adultery. The Div°l.
Court had certainly a discretionary power and the petition!)
appeared to have acted perfectly bona' fide, and he (theftell":e
thought that his decree should be made absolute. tt-
same time the Queen's Proctor was right in bringieg, t)
matter before the court, and too much publicity cold(' "
be given to the proceedings.