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Mr. Childers also made a very interesting calculation designed to

show us what the vote of the House of Lords on the Fran- chise question would have been, had it been limited to eminences, —and amongst eminences he calculated eminences of all kinds, literary, political, and practical. He held that of the 351 Peers who voted, 162 could plead some sort of eminence, while 189 could plead none. Now, of the 162 who were eminent, 84 voted for the Bill, and only 78 against it. Of the 189 who were not eminent, 127 voted against the Bill, and only 62 for it. In other words, the eminences would have carried the Bill, while the obscurities really rejected it.