25 MAY 1872, Page 2

The course of events in America confirms all we said

last week of the Presidential election. The regular Republican party in State after State pronounces for General Grant, who will almost certainly be nominated by the Convention, which meets at Phila- delphia on 5th June. The party has no other man to run. Mr. Greeley, however, it is evident, is a formidable opponent, for the reason we assigned. The South wishes for him so strongly, that the Democratic party is afraid of a split if it names a candidate of its own. It has no popular man in its own ranks whose "war record" is clear ; if it names Mr. Adams, who, though a Repub- lican by party, is very conservative and favourable to State-rights, it will lose the whole Irish vote, the Irish being exasperated by his refusal to strain international law on behalf of Irish-Americans; and if it retires altogether, General Grant must win. The balance of probabilities, therefore, is that the contest will be fought out between the President and Mr. Greeley, with a very narrow victory for the former.