The Electorate of France is in full ferment, as all
the elec- tions will be taken to-morrow week. Amongst the most note- worthy of the symptoms is this Democratic rescript addressed to M. Cl6mencean, who so nearly beat the Government on the question of the time of the elections :—" The Radical Com- mittee of the Eighteenth Arrondissement has just addressed the following characteristic intimation of its pleasure to 'Citizen Clemencean ' : Considering the menaces given utter- ance to against the Radical Party by M. Ferry, President of the Council : considering that the Citizen Clemenceau was sent to the Chamber by all the electors of the arrondissement, and that he may be affirmed to have fulfilled his manclat to the satisfaction of all : by virtue of the mandat imperatif, and in the interest of the Radical Democracy, we, the Committee, en- join the Citizen Cl6menceau to accept again the candidateship of the arrondissement.'" That has in it a flavour of the arbitrary twang of high-revolutionary times. There is no pre- tence in it of looking up to M. Clemencean. On the contrary, the Electorate look down upon him, as a faithful servant indeed, but one to whose utmost efforts they are fully entitled by the natural right of popular sovereignty.
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