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Mr. Gray has brought in a Bill, in lieu of

that of the Government, but we may safely assume that it has no chance at all of being carried this Session. It proposes to make the rent directly chargeable with the tithe, and to give the County-Courts power to adjudicate in the matter. Sir William Harcourt promised his aid to Mr. Gray, if the Government should not proceed with their Bill ; but in spite of the promise, there is no probability at all that Sir William Harcourt has any power in the matter. No Opposition was ever more completely disunited. Mr. Gladstone, Sir William Harcourt, Mr. Labouchere, and Mr. Parnell, not to reckon Mr. Storey, all appear to be pillars of different sections of the Opposition.