Tie result of the election to the two vacant French seats in the French Municipal Council is very gratitying, not only because it shows two of the oldest and most respected French residents in Shanghai resuming an active interest in public but also because it shows the ty of the de to renew the most friendly relations with our cosmopolitan mitnicipality. The ex-President of the French Municipal Council, who was an unsuccessful candidate on Wednesday, appears to have been so much put out by the rejection of the Tramway scheme at the Ratepayers' meeting here in October last, that his organ, the Echo de Chine, has been instructed since that time to be as anti-English as possible, and this the majority of the French electors have resented. With the extension of the French Settlement,
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