The elections for the Councils-General in France have scarcely altered
the composition of those bodies, and in all but seven departments the same presidents were reappointed. This Is the more noteworthy, because these Councils-General will have to help the Communal representatives to elect the senators. A majority of the Councils are still more or less Conservative, but it is noted that in several departments the Conservatives joined the Republicans, rather than Bonapartists should get in. The opening speeches were of little importance, the rule which forbids the Councils to discuss politics being readily obeyed. In fact, there appears to be for the moment a decided decrease of partisan heat throughout France, perhaps owing to the natural heat, which, in the South especially, has been terrible, but has revived all the hopes of the vine-growers. M. Gambetta is shortly to deliver an important address, but it is postponed until he has decided whether it had better be delivered in Paris or the provinces.
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