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The division showed 146 for the second reading and 205

for Lord Cairns's amendment,—majority against the Bill, 59. The only Bishop who voted against the Bill was the Bishop of Glou- cester and Bristol. Both the Archbishops and the ten Bishops of Winchester, Durham, Oxford, Bath and Wells, Carlisle, Chichester, Ely, Exeter, Manchester, and St. Asaph voted in its favour,—a striking evidence of the growth in breadth of eccle- siastical feeling. Thirteen Bishops abstained. Lord Tennyson also voted for the Bill, and five Conservative Peers voted with the Government. The Tories were much depressed by the dwindling of their majority. It was the largest division since the abolition of proxies.