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Show I FOREIGN. ! French Politics. Paris, 31. The .Vontteur says notwithstanding not-withstanding the defeat of Bullet aud Dufaure there is no probability that the ministry will change before the chambers meet. M. Buffet is expected ex-pected to be a candidate for the chamber of deputies at Miercourt, and M. Dufaure at Morenos. All the republican journals are confident that their party has a majority in the senate, and believe this ensures a consolidation con-solidation of the republic. The leaders lead-ers of the left consider tho revision of the constitution in a monarchial and I especially in a Bonapartist sense henceforth impossible. Conservative papers admit that half of the senate is republican. Lordier, Bonapartist organ, concedes a majority of several members to tho republicans. The Journal des Jjefiats Bays a moderate and conciliatory republic is sure. An important majority in the senate protests pro-tests against the validity of the elections elec-tions which have been entered in about ten departments. None of the objections appear serious. London, 31. -The Paris correspondent correspond-ent of the Times telegraphs that the monarchists who Jiave sincerely rallied ral-lied to the support of the republican constitution and republicans, excluding exclud-ing radicals, represent from ISO to 200 votes in tho seente. An analysis of the senate, including life members, shows from 155 to 160 avowed republicans, repub-licans, 65 to 70 supporters of the present pre-sent government, 30 to 34 partisans of limited or absolute monarchists, and 35 to 40 imperialists. In reference to the conflicting statements state-ments relative to the standing of the senate by French papers, the figures are artfully grouped in accordance with party feeling. Two great facts, however, are prominent the allegiance allegi-ance of the majority willing to dissolve dis-solve the republican assembly and the discomfiture of the Bonapartists. |