In the decisive division, 255 Liberals and 74 Parnellites voted
for Mr. Jesse Collings, while 18 Liberals voted against him, and 55 were absent, several, no doubt, from causes not in any way political Only 10 Conservatives were absent. Both of the Liberals who voted against Mr. Jesse Collings and of those who stayed away, some were men of considerable importance. Lord Hartington, Mr. Goschen, Sir Henry James (who has steadily thrown his weight into the scale of the Moderate party), Admiral Egerton, and Lord Ebrington, are men of no ordinary influence ; while of the absentees, Sir Thomas Acland and Mr. Acland, Mr. Brand, Mr. Bright, Lord E. Cavendish, Mr. Fry, Sir Julian Goldsmid, Mr. Leatham, Lord Lymington, Mr. T. T. Paget, Mr. Craig Seller, and Mr. C. P. Villiers are amongst the pillars of the thorough-going Liberals. Again, no doubt many voted for Mr. Jesse Collings's amendment who, far from voting for a Home rule proposal, would certainly have voted against it.
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