2 FEBRUARY 1867, Page 3

Mr. Milner Gibson met his constituents at Ashton on Tuesday,

And his speech was reported to London by telegraph. It was not worth the expense. He said trade was flourishing, and praised the French Treaty ; said that the policy of a Ministry sometimes flourished when the Ministry itself was out of power, and believed Mr. Gladstone's Reform Bill did not go far enough. It was more of a middle-class than a workmen's measure. If the Tories brought iu a good Bill, so good that a part of their own followers seceded, one Cave of Adullam might be balanced against another, and the

faithful on both sides carry the measure through. Altogether Mr. Gibson was smooth, and frank, and unsatisfactory.