15 JANUARY 1921, Page 2

The French Senatorial elections on Sunday last went in f

,vour of the moderate parties. The Socialists, put up nine candidates, but only one was elected. The Conservatives were equally unsuccessful, even in Brittany. The Senate, we may remind our readers, renews a third of its membership every three years, and each of the 300 Senators sits for nine years. The elections are indirect. In each department there is an electoral college, composed of the deputies, the departmental council, the arrondisement or district councils, and one or more delegates from the council of every commune or parish. The system has worked well for nearly half a century and has given France a representative Second Chamber which is moderate in its views but in no sense reactionary.