NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE division of Friday week which we gave in a considerable part of our edition last week, was not absolutely correct. The real majority for Mr. Gladstone against Lord Stanley's amend- ment was 61-331 for Mr. Gladstone to 270 for Lord Stanley. From this division Lord Cranborne absented himself. On occasion of the second division, which was taken on the direct question of going into Committee, aye or no, Mr. Gladstone had nominally only a majority of 56, the division showing,—Ayes, 328 ; Noes, 272. The real majority, however, would have been 60, but for the accident that Mr. Trail and Mr. Miller accidentally voted with the Noes, instead of the Ayes. It must have been a mortifying circumstance to Mr. Traill, who, it seems, was so ill as to need his friend's support, and was led by him into the wrong lobby. To make a great sacrifice of personal convenience in order to be present at a party division, and then swell the votes of your oppo- nent, is certainly a mortifying incident of human life. Sir Roundell Palmer was the only eminent Liberal who absented himself from both divisions. The Liberals who voted against Mr. Glad- stone were few and obscure.
