Durham election creates more interest than seems due to it.
The Liberal party chuckle because Ministers have been defeated in a Tory stronghold, and because Mr. COBDEN'S vicegerent in the Anti-Corn-law League, Mr. Joins BRIGHT, has triumphed. The Conservatives are in a rage because the Marquis of LONDONDERRY was passive during the election—as every Peer ought to be, and is presumed to be in law. The Morning Herald goes so far as to say that Lord LONDONDERRY, "this vain, impetuous, and ungo- vernable Peer," "has long been a scandal and a reproach to the Conservative party" ; imputing to him even a hostile activity ! What it all means, those who are out of the secret may guess. Per- haps it is only that Lord LONDONDERRY, like many on his side, does not know what to do. Meanwhile, Ministers have lost a vote, and the journals of their party put the best gloss they can on the defeat.
