, 1863-06-26
THE FRENCH ELECTION.
Incidents Connected U1th the Election
or Members of tho Corps Le:is1atIf-
Ee1ltlons Against the Hcturn OF
government Candidates.

| tt1om the Nav York Evening Post.1
The latest news from Paris indicates thsl
many petitions against the return of govern
ment candidates, on the ground Of Illegal acts
committed By Persigny's agents, Will occupy
the attention Of the new French Chamber, 4
defeated opposition candidate, II, Alfred Pa.
refra, makes public statement to the effect
that on the day Of the election the Mayor aud
guards spread the false report TINT he had
ing attacked the Hotel de V1lle Of Ofleans, at
the head Of 1our or five hundred rioters that
ne was then In prison; and that Orleans was
was tn state Of siege. An article Of the pre-
iectorlal Journal, lie Journal du Loi7st accred-
iting these talsehoods, Was publicly read aloud
in the streets. II. PereiEa proposes to prove
these facts to the Corps Legtslatif, aud de-
mand that the election Of the government can
didatc, the Duke Of Tarente, shall be declarea
! null and Toid.
Another dishonoznble expedieut of Perstc-
| ~ occurred in the case of NJ de Montaleln-
| bert who ras . candidate at st. Brieuc, in the
! department of tho Cotes tlu Nord. a. well "a
at Besancon, In the Doubs. The Bishop Of
st. B1ieuc revoked the privilege of printing
lor re diocese from the person in whose
merely because he had printed Il de Mouta-
!emoert's voting tickets; aud at the doors of
the voting places at Be6ancon police agents in
uniform were openly distributing voting tick
cts for the official candidates, and III several
%SA1AAuEa ~ &11 ahut ulsiI1Et anonymous
placards in manuscript were posted up on
the walls. One Of them was to this effect:
Electors: By voting for NJ; de Eontalem-
bert you vote for the ignorance OF your chill
drcn, for the old regina with al its abuses, for
war in Italy, tor salt at five sous the pound,
for cheese at thirty fancs the hundred and
finally, for the enemy Of the government.1
Nevertheleea, de Montalembert, and hfa
brother-in-lAw, N, de Mesode, had twenty
thousand votes.
Tn has Cf,,&h nk u.
lot Is to take place; no candidate out Of eeyen
Who appeared having received the requisite
number Of votes. Mr. Fuersult, editor OF the
Upi1ion Aafionatt, obtained the highest num-
ber, and next to him Was II. Cochin, author
f ofths Results @ Of sayery," and the 'Results
the Clerical and Legitimist SECTIONS Of tho
Faubonrg St. Germafn, n. Guerault BY tho
Democratic party oft eame district; and It
remains to be seen whether the former will
glye their second vste to the opposition can
dtdate rathcr than to the official contestaut.
In the departments there are ten or eleven
cases ofa similar kind, which will be decided
By = SECOND ballot; and among the official can
d1dates there are about twenty-five whose
elections are vitated for not having taken the
oatns previous to nomination, owing to the
fFe1scts having FORGOTTEN; or thinking 1t III
1fnot whose only recommendation was thair
official character,
In the department Of the Correze, the
Mayor, Count Maurice de- Saint Perdeu1. who
received orders In 1857 to make his people
vote for n de JouFenel, was this year In
struStedto prevent the election Of the same
candidate: but Persigry, fearing that the |
Mayor would not tnrn his coat with suflcient |
ceIerltY, sent 0ezaddrns to arrest him at three
O'Clock In the morning On the day before the |
election. He was informed that he was sus-
pended and must leave his assistant to pre- !
eide at the electoral bureau. 'Very well,"
said the count. But" added the gsrd,rn.e,
g am ordered not to lose sight Of You Until
the elections are over" The?eupon the sus-
pended Mayor resigned his Office in the fol-
lowing letter:
Monsieur 1e sous-prefet-I thank you for
ne honorable position yeu have carved ont
|or me By euspending me during this election.
By way Of showing my g1atitude, be rood
:nough to ask the project to accept nv fesig-
1ation: have the honor, etc.
:, nCoUSr MAURICE DE SAINT PAnDoUx.
Chateau de St Pardoux, June 2, 1897
ion as the only man in Fsancc who has OBJ
aimed the honors Of double return, writes rs
olluws in the Steele:
It Is idle to attempt to dctract from the in
'o1tance of the Paris elections by setting OF
eainst them the large government majority
q Tue provinces. Everybody knows thatlf the
ountTy electors had had the same resources
$ those Of Parts-if they had been free to meet
ogeiher and consult, and ii they had had infu-
nfia1 Journals for organs. tho result would |
are been very different. Why, who docs not
now the great prestige of authority In the
ountTy districts: VINO does not know that
! certain cfrcumscriptions the electors thinIy
uttered over length Of sometimes as much
lao Kilometres, can hold no communication
ith each other for any useful electoral pur-
ose? Who does not know the pressure Of
Fery Kind that Is exercised hpon them2