There was a great public meeting at Manchester on Wednesday,
chiefly remarkable for two things. A report had been set in mo- tion, that John Bright and Thomas Milner Gibson have so offended their constituents by the course they have pursued on the Papal Aggression question, as to have lost all chance of redection. Well, the next day after the House rose, Messrs. Bright and Gibson met their constituents ; uncompromisingly reasserted the opinions they had expressed and acted upon in the }rouse of Commons ; and ob- tained a triumphant vote of approbation from a crowded assembly. Again Mr. Milner Gibson proclaimed, with the cordial assentrof the meeting, his utter disbelief that Lord Stanley or his piety could, in the event of their coming into office, restore the Corn- laws or return to commercial restriction. The meeting appears to have been held for the immediate purpose of counteracting election- eering movements commenced by parties unfriendly to the sitting Members ; but occasion was taken to enter a caveat against the acceptance of any inadequate measure of electoral reform at the hands of Lord John Russell. By the way, unless Mr. Bright has been misreported, he stated that the "Manchester School" has only three Members in Parliament—himself, Mr. Milner Gibson, and Mr. Cobden,
