, 1879-01-26

AGI1kEUs
PARIS, Jan. 25.-Gens. Bourbakt, Bataille,
Renson, and DeCartique, commanding respect
iyety the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and
Twelfth Army Corps, have been placed on the
retired list.
COMMENTS OF THE MoSARCH1cAL PRESS ON
THE SWEEPING REPUBLICAN ELECTION TRI-
UMPuS.
Sp<efak to LoHdon Times:
PARIS, Jan. 9.-The success Of n. Camparon
at the third ballot In Haute-Garounc, and the
reelection of N. Des1nazc for Martinique, swell
the Republican returns to 6G, as compared with
16 Rcactjonarics, and the Senate, allowing for
Two vacant seats on the Right, and reckoning
NJ. WALTON and Admiral Fourchon rs Conserya-
tiyes, is now composed Of IT Republicans and
y4ded INTO 60 Lcgitimists, IS Orlcanists, and 2G
Eo2apart1sts. Thus the Bonapartists, the
most numerous section Of the Opposition in the
Chamber Of Deputies elec:ed by universal suf
frage direct, are the least numerous section in
the Senate elected by universal suffrage indirect.
The opposition papers comment on the cleo
tions in every variety Of tone,-from equaDimitv
to despair. The Orieanists are the least pes
smst~ The Noniteur is satisfied that if ever
the Republican Government alarmed Conserva-
tive interests, the Right, through secession
from the Left, would recover their majority;
for MANI Of the latter have served former Gov
ernments, and are Republicans from reason
more than from fanatcism. It advises the
AUuaGEf0i4feS u TEpdlF Z QcSEIfEu uGlEat ny
advocating wise reforms,-as, for instance, re-
Garding wills, pensions, etc. 1t points out,
moreover, the overwhelming defeat of the Bona
partists. The So eli hopes to find co-operators
even among the Left in the defense Of the
permanent interests of society, remarks that
the Radicals have not won a very large
share OF the victory, and holds 1t to
be the interest Of the Republicans that the Sen
ate should be barrier against e1cesses and
passions. The Constitutional regards the cleo
ians he defiant rf Rud md a
that the electors are more Conservative than
the so-callcd Conservatives. The Bonapartists
affect to take their defeat very calmly. The
O.ure disciaims surprise or wrath, it having ex-
pec1cd nothing good from suffrage devised by
the Orleansts for the exeencies of narrow and
precarous policy. They thereby ga7e the Re-
public two edged sword, which now an un-
princpled Government could turn against their
adyersarics. It ascribes the result to threats
and caloler1ss UNSURPASSED since Louis
the defeat of Marshal Canrobert by
a veterinary surgeon. The Pays remarks
and the Republicans, though not like
children as regards Innocence, have also
inclined to follow the Chamber in the revol11-
tionary path, and expects, as dtsinterested,
amused spectators, to witness conflicts between
the Two bodies. The Legitimist Onion points
out that the country has again displayed its de-
hberate hostility to the Empire, whose origin
aud concessions disable it from struggling
against the revolution, and its urges the Royal
lists to withstand and protest against the in
pending violations Of liberty. The Gazette dc
France also notices with complaccncy the de-
feat Of the Bonapartists with their own weapon
the suffrage-audit it predicts ruin, disquletude,,
and revolutionary trouble, leading I'D TO the re-
storation of the Monarchy. The Clerical Cniuers
advocates the judicial defense of tho]icschools.
and priests, and an organized
and uncompromisiug resistance until the not
,7jstsnr day nf Instruction. The HQnde, the
Papai Nuncio's organ, admits that many of the
Republican Senators are Moderates, and thinks
it possible they will hot be SO timorous and ab-
icct as the Conservatives. The FTaneais, the.
Due de Brogiie's paper, declares that it e1.
pccted the defeat. comments On The tendency OIL
French movements to go on to the end, asks
what the eud will be in this case, and predicts
for Radicalism fall as rapid As Its rise, but,
perhaps involving grieyous losses for liberty or
national Independence. It augurs attacks on