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to services already rendered, or to old and
legitimate influences. What imprudence
would it not be to submit once more that nm.
healthy system to France scarcely cured of
official candidates. Taere are men
much attached to Conservative principles with.
out being hostile to the Republic who seem
to fear that ScrWtiH de IiGe gives; birth to
Assemblies animated by too ardent or too
progressive a spirit. Such, however, has not
been till to-day the character of the Assem-.
blies elected by this way of voting, and. when
attention is drawn to the subject it will be
seen that this must be so! This manner of
election is necessarily preceded by numerous
deliberations of men obliged to meet to coma
to an understanding, to @ Rulate the chances
of defeat or success. From the deliberations
of men met together extreme resolutions rarely
result, especially when these resolutions have
to be made acceptable to a country full of
good sense, loving order, and the enemy of
every kind of excess. Again, the elections.
by the very nature Of things, but especially
on the morrow Of long civil troubles, are the,
occasion for keen struggles. How often do
not these contests take a violent and agores-
slve turn when only two men are pitted against
one another, and when the electoral battle.
waged with unrestrained license, rallies round
them their partiSans like two hostile armies.
and when political passions or lower interests
successfully irritate and excite. In the cleo.
ton, with Scrutin de ltae the struggle is less
personal ideas more than men are opposed to
one another. The thousand passions which
engage local rlyalries are not brought out to
the same degree and the battle, won or lost.
leaves behind it less bitter feeling, less sharp
recollections and hatreds. 1t shares, but does
not divide, the country. . The most seri.
Gus objection brOugh! against the Scrutiu de
hStc is that 1t gives rise to elections. 80 II is
said, in the dark. The elector should know
the candidate. No doubt; but what do peo.
pie mean by knowing : Is it his physical
appearancei Is it the politician ? What the
elector ought to know with regard to the man
who asks his ~suffrages are his opinions. his
tendencies, his general ideas, his character
all, in short, which relates to his mission. and
may throw a light on the way in which it will
be carried out. What enlightens the elector
is reputation, public report, meetings held
everywhere or declarations made and exblana.
tons exchanged throwing a light on the cleo.
tion and spreading to the farthest limits of the
department. MN. JozOn and ROLAND had
prepared an excellent Scrmtin de liste, combine
ing FIVE names. In Committee, M. Delsol
proposed a scrutjn with six names. The
Committee adopted a Scr@tin with nine names. as
modifying at least the present state of things,
since six departments only would be subdiyided.
To change as little as possible was the rule 4.
to which the Committee, as 10 other cases.
remained faithful. Clause ID. Every depart.
ment elects as many Deputies as it contains
patches Of 10000 inhabitants. Without ID
being possible for any department to besre-l
duoed to q number of Deputies inferior to the
number of ACCOMPLISHMENTS in it, every frac-
ton above 35. 900 inhabitants counts as 70, 900.
The election to be held by Scrutin de Liste.
Every department electing less than 10 Depu-
ties forms one circumscription. The law estab-
fishes in departments electing more than ten
Deputies the electoral circumscriptions."
GERMANY.
BERLIN. July 80.
Field-Marsbal Won Manteuffel has returned,
here from Varzin, where he has. been for
several days on a visit to Prince Bismarck. a.
Referring to the news from Vienna that DR..
Forester, the Prince Bishop of Breslau, is.
mediating between the Roman Curia and the
Prussian Government, and that the Papal Nun.
clio, Monsignor Jacobini, is carrying ON an
exchange of views with the German Embassy
in Vienna, the National Gazette of today says
it considers it advisable to refrain from ex-
pressing any opinion upon the intelligence
until further details are received with regard
to the questions to which. the mediation and
the exchange of views relate.
BERLIN, July 81.
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