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Mr. Milner Gibson has lost his scat, quite uncontested at

the last election, for Ashton-under-Lyne. The probable explanation is the passionate Protestant and anti-Irish feeling to which the notorious Mr. Murphy appealed so successfully at the time of the recent riots there. It is lamentable, but the Liberal party are resigned. How little Mr. Murphy knows that he has been the principal instrument—of weakening, indeed, the party for disestab- lishment by a vote which we can well spare, but also of strengthen- ing the Cabinet which mint take that disestablishment in hand, by making a vacancy for a stronger ma* Mr. Murphy and his riotous bigotry is indeed an ill-wind, but he has blown good to the last person lie would have wished to blow good to, the coining Liberal Premier.

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