New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-05
THE FRENCH ELECTIONS.

The press dispatches winch we publish TINS
morning indicate a gratifying triumph of the
Republicans in France. There is an evident
discrepancy in the numbers given, which must
be left for future dispatches to correct. The
vacancies filed, which were at first reported
as 112 and then increased to ia, have suddenly
developed to 140, of which the Republicans are
given 120 We leave these evidently erroneous
figures as they are, and allowing the Legiti-
miSts the districts claimed for them, and the
BOnapartists their u, there still remains for
the Republicans, according to the original re-
ports, the splendid result of 90 out OF 112.
The character of the men elected is equally
encouraging. In at least three-fOurths of the
Republican districts, the moderate candidates.
the partisans of law and order, have been
successful and will come to the Assembly
pledged to the support of the present Repub-
lican government Gambetta, it is true, has
enough of personal popularity, after all his
eccentricites, to secure his election from three
different circumscrptions 1t is probable that
when he has made his choice, more trustwOr-
thy men may take the places he ADAM
dOns. 1t is certainly a matter for con-
graduation that there still exists in Paris,
after all It's madness and its Affections,
enough of public virtue and of solid Judgment
TO choose as lawgivers men of such personal
elevation and purity of character as those
whose names appear in the list we publish to-
day. WOlOwski, the distinguished economist
Andre LOuvet who was one of the most ire
prOachable members of that unhappy Ministry
of Mr.. Emile Olivier; PreSsens6, the pillar of
Protestant liberalism among the middle classes,
and Laboulaye the incOrruptible and philO
sophical thinker, who, though he suffered
terribly in popular estimation in accepting the
Empires offer of evolution and progress in
good faith, has never lost the full esteem and
confidence of the judiciOus friends of freedom.
Although many good men have been elected
in this supplementary contest, the especial sub
iect of congTatulatiOn is the men who have
been defeated. The Legitimists, encouraged
by their first unexpected successes, imagined
they were going to have everything their own
way, with the assistance of the priests and
the terrOrS of the Commune. His Highness
the Comte de ChambOrd issued his paternal
address 10 France, Offering TO take her under
lis wing in spite of her grieyOus Otfenses,
and, ike true Bourbon, unnecessarily
loading himself with the charge and
defense of the Papal temporalities.
The bait was so gross and evident that even
the country gentlemen appear TO have treated
it shyly. The five dukes all i'll a row." whose
apparition in the Assembly so frightened the
Radicals of Paris and justified the Commune
in the eyes of Mr.. Harrison, will receive no
very considerable accessi0ns from the elections
of Sunday. The success of so many of them
last Winter is now proved TO be, as we then
thought it, a surprise The profound discOur-
agement and distress of the country gave TO
the great families of the rural districts po-
litical influence in accordance with their social
position, which they had long ceased to exer-
else With the revival of the normal state of
political life and activity, they have lost this
mOmentqry importance.
The rout of the BOnapartists is still more
significant and encouraging. No pains have
i,een spared by the hungry paItisans of the
Court of Cbiselhurst to carry these vacant
seats as a protest against the d6cheance, and
an expression of the unaItered attachment OF
FRANCE tgYayI tbe cx-Empctor, for whom 30