New-York tribune., 1867-03-29
TILE GENERAL ELEcrOY N IrlLY

| The detailed accounts of the Italian elections
which we have received by the last arrivals
! from Europe are much more favorable to the
Ministerial party than the brief Cable dispatches
had led us to anticipate. OF the members
| known to be elected at the date Of our latest
advices, ia belonged to the Ministerial party,
and only 20 to the Radical Left " (the party
of action. A similar proportion in the re-
maindcr of the elections would secure to the
Ministry an overwhelming majority. At all
events, it seems to be certain that the OppO-
sition has met with a signal defeat.
The elections were, in some respects, Of more
than ordinary interest Never before had the
participation of the voters been so general
At the former elections the indifference of the
people was so great, and the abstentions from
voting so numerous, as to furnish 20 the cham
pions of absolutism a plausible argument for
denying the fitness of the people for parlia-
mentary institutions. This year the number of
voters was almost everywhere larger than in
former years, and although nearly all the
clerical organs exhOrted their partisans to alb
stain from voting, in many colleges or con-
stitucncies, more than two-thirdS OF the
qualified voters appeared. The Left hoped
for favorable influence upon the elections
from the excrtions made in their behalf by
Garibaldi. The hero of CaprCra had not only
subscribed to the programme of the Opposi-
ton, but he had made an clcctioncering tour
through several provinces to plead at the bar
of public opinion for the principles of his party.
The enthusiasm with which the people received
him seems not to have been inferior to that
which greeted him in former years; but
the response at the balot-box did not come
~up to his and his party's expectations
He had been set up aS candidate III some
eight different places and was elected at three ;
but his defeats were more marked than his
successes. He carried the day in one of the
colleges" of Naples, but only by 0j against
50 votes given to Detullo, an unknown adver-
sary. At Andrea an obscure district, he like
wise beat an opponent who was but little
known. But in Florence. where he ran against
Ricasoli, he only received o. votes against 063
given to the Prime Minister; in Milan only
IA against 7sG given to Tenca; in Bologna
only SO against 4SS given to Pepoli. Guerazzi,
one of the leaders of the Rerubcan move
ment in 1S49, lost his seat in Lcghom, his
native city, and Mazzini was defeated in four
different places.
The facts which we have aiduccd seem to
prove that the Ministry will have Il working
majority in the new Parliament. But the fate
of the late Free Church and Ecclesiastical Prop.
erty bill ought to be n warning to Ricasoli to
proceed in the regulation of the Church affairs
and other important questions with the utmost
caution. He has once been deserted by his own
party, and if no ventures too much in the way
of concessions to the Church, he may be left
| by biS marty again. The present verdict in nis
favor we construe as an opinion of the people
that the solution of all tho great pending ques-
tions shall be aimed at through pe9cef9i legisla-