A hundred and two Commoners voted on Tuesday for relieving
all future Lords Spiritual from the duty of attending in the House of Lords, and amongst the 102 there were one or two names of old Whigs,—like Mr. Hastings Russell, Mr. Ellis, and Mr. Kinnaird. Mr. Gladstone carried with him only 158 votes, and of course a great many of these were Conservative. We have discussed the question at issue elsewhere, and argued that Mr. Gladstone was quite right in maintaining that if the House of Lords is to be attacked, the Bishops are not the most assailable point of attack ; indeed that it is hardly so plausible to remove the Bishops front the House of Lords as to remove the House of Lords from the Bishops ; but it is worth noting how very Radical in temper the new House of Commons is, and not the less worth noting that it is not particularly logical.
