The second ballotages in France were taken on Sunday, and
the total result was most favourable to the Republican Party. It has returned more than four-fifths of the whole Chamber of Deputies. Of the entire 557 Deputies, 43 only are Legitimists, and 47 Bonapartists, leaving 457 Republicans and 10 Colonial returns not received, but certain to be Republican. This is a majority solid enough to content even M. Gambetta, who, in Normandy on Sunday, said he was content with it. It is, too, tolerably homogeneous. Of the 457 Republicans, 168 are pure Left and 206 advanced Left, while the avowed Extremists are only 46 ; but it would be better to say that 300 are Gambettists, and 157 want to go beyond Gambetta. His following, it is con- sidered certain, will have a clear majority in the Chamber, though probably not in the Senate. It must not be forgotten, however, that M. Gambetta, as Minister, will sit in both Houses ; and that the Senate is not a House of Lords, but can be moved by argument.
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