New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-27
FRANCE
RsSs Ous owa Correspondent.
.PAR,s, July 0, 1857.

closed last Monday, resulted 10 tne cnolce OF Tie
three Liberal Opposition candidates, Geu Cavalgnac
a.d Messrs. Darimon and Olivier. The number Of
voters was nearly 5000 greater than at the frat
trial OF this increase, 1900 were on the side of
the Liberals To keep up the sprits Of the voters
and add 10 their force, the Opposition has trusted
10 fair argument and the strength Of political CON-
vietioAs. Their newspapers, especially the tSo
mott important ones, the Prtsse and the Stecle,
have at no time throughout the canvass INDUCED in
any violence Of rhetoric. As for attacking the
Government or its candidates, even with courteous
criticism, neeG not say that weuld not have been
permitted. They kept Themselves within the limits
Of the law on the Press--hOw narrow those limits
are, above all for liberal journalism you knew.
On the other hand the three prominent Govern
nent papers, aided by Legitmist organ aud by
the Unrers, abounded in appeals to all sorts OF
prcjudces and in personal alta; ks against
the independent candidates, which frequently
surpassed not only the bounds of reason and good
taste, but of veracity. Under a regime that pre-
tends to be Of universal suffrage they represented
the voting for any other than the Imperial nominees
~ factiOus and revoutionary-a menace to religion,
order property and family. They revived the old
can't and attempted to revive the old bugaboO terror
about Socialism They COMPOUNDED the Opposition
and their principles of to-day with all the condemned
OF 1913, and even with the terrOriss Of p3. To do
justice to Government, it must be said that it was
much more moderate and, by 80 much, more sensi-
be than these, its Over-zealOus advocates The pr
waite circular of the Project of Police is brief and
CAIN more so than the one he posted at the street.
corners. Indeed, whatever may have been the
pressure exercised in the rural districts-where l
am afraid that the ignorance of the peasantry and
great wherever it was thought necessary to apply 1t
Il cannot discover that here under the surveillance
Of the greater and more jealous intelligence and pO
htcal activity of Paris the direct interference OF
Government was more efficient more legitmate
than it is at one OF your elections IN New-lOrk.
do not mention this as apology for the Tuileries
or the White House, but only by way of Just COM
parson and warning to New Yorkers-not to say
Americans generally-to be cautious how they fling
their stones this way against the glass of the Imperial
mansion.
spoke of private circular of the Project The
real work of the canvass done, in large part,
by printed circulars, election committees aud ind
yIdua canyassers.
The election passed off in perfect quiet An Amer
lean stranger in the city might have passed by
every place where the polls were opened without
observing Them No rowing, nor rowdying, nor stab.
bing, nor bowling, nor drinking
The Democratic Republicans have now five MEM
bers elect to the Legislative Body from Paris The
names of Cavaignac, GOudchaux and CarnOt, and
their political antccedents, well known your
side OF the water. Messrs Olivier and DdrimOn are
younger, though not altogether new men. The first,
lawyer, was sent, in lS4S, to Marseies, on mis-
sion to install the Republic. Although then very
young, and clothed with large discretionary powers,
more than belonged to Project in ordinary times,
he acquitted himself well of his difficult and delicate
duties, temperlng his youthful republican zeal with
sound Judgment and due consideration for the rights
Of Its faith
account of his political opinions NJ. Darmon is one
of the editors OF the Prose-, where he writes on po
htico economical themes. Iii his study Of political
economy, he aims at the discovery and explanation of
laws that govern the general prosperity the ObserV-
ance of which shall tend 10 fiji the workmans stOm-
ach as well as the merchants purse and the public
treasury. Consequently, according to the weakly
and the wicked, he is that least wel-deiined OF an
beings, a Socialist, consequently Communist ana
FCurierist (the two beng as hostile as Buddhist
and Mussulman, both of whom are religlOnlsrs, or
a High Churchman and Low Churchman, both OF
whom are Chrlstians) consequently an iniiael, red
republican and tue rest of t-a in logical sequence
In fact, he is grave, thoughtful man, with no
ready made theory for remodelng society over
night striving only 10 improve, not to re-nake, the
world.
Two newspapers, the assemble Rationale, Or
leanist fusion, and the EstateUe, Republican, have
been, the first suspended for two months the second
yyarned-the first for doubling whether the general
success in the country elections OF the Imperial
Nominees was proof absolute Of the cOuLtrys APP
proyal of the Government; the second for maintain
ING that the Paris elections more significant OF
the national opinion than those of the country. In
the country villages, the ele0Onpesters bore under
the name OF the favored nominee, the following no.
tice: "CANDIDAT lin large capitas) du GOuverne-
81 ment lin small type) DE rEMPEREUR' (in over
whelmlng capitals again). Granier Cassagnac,
prejudiced but well-mforined Witness speaking Of
the spirit OF the rural districts and small towns
he has observed its manifestation in ten depart
81 ments of the southwest" says: lit lsa GER
tain and ineontestabe fact, that the people, who
"are no stickers for form, would willingly be re-
s'heved Of the trouble Of attending the elections
* especially at the season when work presses.
90 Why they naively ask, should NOT the Empe-
90 ror, in whom we put all confidence, choose the
90 Deputies himself or, still better, when he has
ga capable and faithful Legislative Body why does
90 he not keep it permanently"
NJ Granier holds that the imperial instinct OF ig-
norant peasants is wiser than the free Intelligence of
Parsians. The theory is not new with him.
Nothing is so easy, as glance at the newspapers
or five minutes talk with the next two persons you
meet would convince you, to Overrate and under
rate the political value of of the recent partial
tory Of the Liberals Hardly anything is diff
cult than to foretel with reasonable probability its
results in the future Happily, your correspondent
having disposed Of his gilt OF prophecy some time
snce feels under no obligation 10 risk saying us 10
It's consequences, the truth Of which must depend
on very numerous qualifying circumstances--the
FIRST VI which lie the resolution Of the question: VIII
the elected Republicans take their oaths and their
seats 7 One great good is certain, meanwhile, that
the manner in which the Liberals have conducted the
canvass triumphed beyond their expectations and