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should therefore remand him until Monday, so that
inquiries might be made.
The prisoner,. who seemed unempoiou% of the
proce_dings, was then removed tp llorsemonger-
lane Gaol.

LAM BETH. —John Shea and Michael Farrell,
Trish labourers, who have been in custody since
Su-day evening he, on a cha!ge of committing a
murderous assault on Sergeant Alfred Castleman,
P 38, were brought before Mr. Elliott for final ex-
amination.

Three witne,•ses were called, who proved a clear
alibi and the prisoners were discharged.

CJLERICENWELL. —Walter Spencer, a police-
constable, 424 S, was placed at the "bar before Mr.
Tyrwhitt, charged with indecently assaulting Fran-
ces Elizabeth Hill, a domestic servant, residing at
Holloway.
Mr. Reynolds appeared for the defence, and Mr.
Inspector Fidge, of the S division, to watch his
case on behalf of the Commissioners of Police.

The complainant on being sworn said—l am a
servant in the employ of Mr. Claxton, of Cromwell-
road, Holloway. The defendant is a stranger to
me. On Thursday night, about a quarter to eleven
I was in the freehold ground, Holloway. There is
a path across it, but I was on the ground. I was
out at the time, because my master had sent me
for some matches. The police,nan took hold of me
while I was walking on the grass, and said, " How
do you feel to-night ?" He was b hind me, and
took hold of me round the waist. There was no one
passing at the time. I said, "Go along, Ido not
want any of your nonsense." He then threw me
on the grass and committed the assault complained
of.. Before I got up I said, "I will report you."
When I did get up I went towards my residence,
and the policeman followed me. I. bad got a box
of matches in my hand, and in the struggle that
took place they exploded, but I pnt them out by
rubbing them on the grass. I was not quite five
minutes on the grass. I tried all I could to get
away.
Cross-examined—Before you put your hand
round my waist I' did not say that I was going to
meet two young men.
Mr. Claxton, a chronometer-maker, said the
complainant was in his employ. He had sent her
out for some matches. When she returned home
she was in a very agitated state, and said the po-
liceman had insulted her. There was no occasion
for her to go across the grass. As soon as she saw
the policeman she said he was the man.
Isaac Pinder, 112 S, said he showed the girl the
policeman on the adjoining beat, and she said he
was the man. When she was shown the defendant
she accused him, but he said nothing of importance
in reply.
Sergeant Kell, 31 S, said he met the defendant,
and said, "This gentleman charges you with inde-
cently assaulting his servant." He said, " I have
not seen the womanz-I know nothing about it.

He was placed in the charge room with-some other
comrades, and the complainant pointed the defen-
dant out as the man who had insulted her.
Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for trial.

THE FRENCH ELECTIONS.

Private letters from Paris represent the Emperor
as showing more anxiety and excitement about the
Elections than about any movement that has taken
place since the Coup d'Etat. We can well believe
The conv.quences may be momentous. At first
Vie Emperor was aft aid that a sufficirnt number of
electors might not record their votes. Such absten-
tion would have been an awkward protest on the
r ait of Frenchmen, to the effect that they regarded
the electoral institutions of the Empire as mere
empty forms. Tat fear has disappeared, but a
worse one has come in its place. There can no
longer, be any doubt that a very large number of
electors will tender their votes ; but it seems
equally certain that no inconsiderable portion of
these votes will be tendered for opposition or inde-
pendent candidates. This is an unequivocal de-
claration ou the part of Frenchmen that they
desire the electoral element in the existing consti-
tution of Government to be a reality. Die Impe-
rial theory is that the elec ive Legislature of the
existing Constituion is preferable to the old, be-
•etuse it checks the personal rivalry of Statesmen by
making the tenure of office no longer dependent
upon a Parliamentary majority. The various
political parties which have started or nomi-
nated candidates, and those of their leaders
who have consented to hexane candidates, have
determined ipso facto ther discontent with this
theory of the character and functions of an elective
Legislature. They have proclaimed tit-dr attach-
ment to " Parliamentary Government" in the
sense in which the term is understood in the
United States, in Great Britain, in Belgium and
Piedmont. They have told France and the world
that they regard " Parliamentary Government" as
one of the principles which was established in
1789 ; and that if they are to acquiesce in a Napo-
leon dynasty it must be on the condition that their
Sovereign is to allow them the [privilege of Free
, Parliaments.

This, then, is the question now at issue between
the French Government and the independent Li-
b' ra's of France. In the Constitution octroyee by
the Emperor, there is a recognised Corps Legis-
latif, which, according to the letter of the law, is
assumed to be elective. The Emperor wishes his
obedient subjects to elect no person a member of
the Corps Legislatif who will presume to have a
mind of h's own in opposition to Government.
This is no exaggeration ; the exclusion of all the
old members who have evinced any tendency to in-
dependent action from the Government list of can-
didates is conclusive on this head. On the other
hand, a large proportion of the most intelligent
and respectable members of the French society are
determined to assert their right to elect members
of the Corps Legislatif, who will speak the senti-
ments and opinions of the general public, whether
Government be pleased with them or not. A very
short time will show whether they will be per-
mitted to do so. At present all the chances appear
to he the other way. At filet, plausible but vague
professions were made by Government, about re-
spect for the freedom of election, accompanied
however by qualifications which went far to neutralise
them. In proportion, however, as the movement
in favour of independent or opposition candidates
has grown in strength the liberal professions of
Government have waxed fainter, and their acts of
repression bolder and more unequivocal. The dis-
placement of several Mayors for refusing to support
Government Candidates ; and, above all, the third.
warning to the Siecic, are expressions of a despotic
will that cannot be mistaken. We can easily under-
stand, though we cannot sympathise with, this
panic-stricken policy of the Imperial Government.
No doubt the presence of intelligent, independent
members in the Corps Legislatif might at times be
distasteful, nay even embarrassing to it. But the
Emperor ought to reflect that if it is likely to be
disagreeable to him to witness any assertion of free
thought and action in his nominally elective Legis-
lature, it will assuredly be dangerous to resort to
repressive measures to prevent it. France has already
declared in favour of the reality of Parliamentary
Governmentprepared to enter the lists
against
an ealnis hest, °persevering agitation to obtain
it by strictly legal means ? Is he prepared to con-
vert all those high intellects and pure characters of
France, who have hitherto only stood aloof from
him, into active opponents ?
The electoral movement in France—the canvass,
if it can so be called—has already shown more than
the rooted attachment entertained by all good
Frenchmen for Parliamentary Government. It has
shown the utter futility of the pretexts under which
a servile Corps Legislatif—a Legislature in name,
but a mere office to register Government edicts in
reality—has been defended. It hasbeen alleged that
in the old Chambers the rivalry of individual
Statesmen was indulged in to the obstruction .of
public business. Rivalry of Statesmen there could
scarcely be in a Corps Legislatif constructed in de.
cordance with "Ideos Napoleoniennes ;" for the very
few individuals in the old one upon whom such a
designation could be conferred will be eliminated
from the new if Government is allowed to have its
way. But among the things which occupied the
benches of the late Corps
Legislatif,
and
their brother serviles in other departments
of the Government seruice, the initiatory move-
ments of the Elections have alreay pro-
voked rivalry enough and to spare. Prefects are
setting up their candidates in opposition to the can-
didates of the Minister of the Interior. There is as
much party spirit under the Imperial system as
tuhnedreerwtash e undershort4 thed Monarchy of of the Chatter, or
ence is that under the Constitutional Monarchy-
and the Republic, upon broad
public, parties were based
principles of government, whereas under the Em-
pire they are based upon mieerable personal rival-
ries at Court or in the minor offices of the Admin-
istration. The essential hollowness of the "pater-
nal system" of govern Frenchmen.
is becoming daily more
Frenchmen. The " pater-
obvious to all thinking
nal Government" undertook to keep food cheap in
Paris, and has made it unprecedentedly dear.
The "paternal Government" boasted that it could
work without the alloy of party spirit, whereas its
moving principle is obviously that meanest of all
party-spirits which. is known by the name of Court
in
Faction. —Datly News.

CRlCSET.—CAmbridgestiire v. Surrey, with five players
on each aide.—This match was brought to a conclusion
at a quarter past five yesterday in favour of .Surrey by
36 runs. The following is the score :—Surrey, let in.
nings, 109 ; 2d innings, 81. Cambridgeshire, Ist in,
nings, 74 ; 2(1 innings, 80.