The Dublin correspondent of today's Morning Chronicle announces a change
in the prospects of the Antrim election- " The Orange party, who back Mr. Alexander, have succeeded in forcing Mr. M‘Donnell, the Peel-Wellington candidate, to retire from the contest. Mr. M'Dounell's address, adopting the moderate policy of the Duke of Wel- lington and Sir Robert Peel,' has sealed his fate. Yesterday a communication reached Belfast, announcing that the Marquis of Hertford, the largest pro- prietor in the county, had withdrawn his support from Mr. II'Donnell ; upon which that gentleman forthwith resigned his pretensions. Mr. Alexander will now have a walk over. The High Sheriff, Mr. Conway Dobbs, has fixed Wed- nesday the 14th instant for the election. The facts I have stated, must, I think, try the fortitude of Sir Robert Peel. After all, the author of the Tory pamphlet, Peel or Stanley—Who Shall Lead ns ?' was not far wrong in his representations of the present state of the party."
The dangerous illness of Sir Ronald Ferguson has this week excited some stir among the electors of Nottingham, who seem anxious to find a successor for the Parliamentary seat which the expected death of the gallant General will vacate. The Whigs, it seems, as their custom is, have applied to the Ministerial Secretary ; and the votes of the inde- pendent constituency of this town are to be transferred, through the agency of a few self-constituted directors of public opinion, to a Mr. Fox, a son, we believe, of the late Lord Holland, who holds office in the Ordnance department. Nottingltant Journal.
We understand that, in the event of a general election, David Bell, Esq., of Craigmore, will oppose Mr. Colquhoun of Killermont, in the Kilmarnock district of Burghs.—Glasgow Chronicle.
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