New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-06-25
PARIS, June 5, 1868.
The official return. Of the late ell,
From Our Own Correspondent


Prom Our Own Correspondent
PARIS, June 3, 1863.
The official returns Of the late elections in Paris
were published yesterday. A statistical comparison
between them and those Of 1857 il instructive. II "a
understood hess that by Paris l mean the DepaIE-
rasnt Of the Seine which includes suburban districts
eounting sons thousapds Of voters. The whole
puube Of inscribed electots Is 32C III tue number oi
actual voters 239525. Blank ballots and ballots OF
any other than pure white paper, or On which there
IL any marx or writing Other than Tho name Of the
candidate, are no. counted; bat uess amounted
altogether 70 az Insignificant fraction. The whole
number Of inscribed electors ia 1857 was $50 QG9 OF
when 2l2, 500 voted. That is .be absentiors thin
year were Sc $40 against l43 40 Fix years ago. L.
NAV sesm remarkable that tie number Of electors
sh0uid have du,ni shed Il Paris by 5000 during a
period within which its population has increased BY
some hundreds Of Thousands. The singular result is
due TO NJ Persiguy's vigorous cpheriDg, by tie
occult rnes of bic political arithmetic az the tine
the hsss We're forming soms months ago,
end even long before that tlGe. tOE hTsi
he re, bimtef this "sum" Paris in 1851.
having had ten deputies, how many shall 1t
be entitled 10 IN 1868, tho proportion u electors 70
aePuiies remaining fixed, the aggregate population
having increased BY more than 800 Co., and suffrage
being universal And he found that 1t would DO en-
htled 10 only nine depote.. by tie Application then
OF fnTtnef rules OF Te1uctlOn ana tuOtractlODtnat
H. by all SORTS Of obstacles ia the way Of the pre-
hmipary inScriptioD-a process that took place
nontLs ago, when the Excitement OF the elections
Wa not reused, when the Oppotiicn IVES utterly
without orgsnizstion-snd by nficing minatory
war1iugs and eommuHiqV<s upon such Journals IL
began 70 draw pubic attention TO tie maneuvcr, he
obtained the solution Of his second gun: As 90 many
IRE " ten, 90 arc several Hundred thousaId more 20
nine.
All the more notable, afer this, Ia the failure Of
his tbeorems In tho frat place. while, Ia 1857, the
abstentions were ten per cent more than now, and
The Opposition elected by scant malounes IN two
eases by yluraties ouly, four out OF ten now eight
of the nine Opposition have beeu chosen, mostly by
large maoities, and the ninth candidate has already
plurality which, there il hardly a doubt, viii be
largely increased st the adjourned trial next Sunday
week. To note few Instances; Emile Olivier
gained on second trial Blk years ago by pl1rality
over bis Government opponent Of 800; Last Monday
be had, over the ZANE opponent. majority OF more
shsn 5000. Gen, Cavaignae wac chosen on second
trial by plurality Of less than thousand, ana re.
fnsiD9 70 at was succeeded by Picard, who obtained
about tie same pIoporuonste success. Picard now
goes In With clean ns jorty Of over 10000. julie
Bmop In those days bad 1858, and now has IL, 10.
constituents. OF OIL the r0ccessf1l candidates, N
Theirs has the smallest majoTityi Of ali Of them he
IL the least Liberal; there is every reason to believe
tat had lie peT,Isteuty declined So 10 did until ne
sst moment bat one, sand, and lad Labouaye, the
yhoroo2h liberal remained the liberal list, whele
es ~ss already nominated, that We latter would
pave hlg much larger vote. MONSIEUR lhieTs