In the division list, it is noticeable that the Home-rule
party were nearly equally divided. At least 14 of the genuine Home- rnlers voted with the Government, not liking the appearance of siding against the Irish Land Act; while 16 Irreconcilables (or rather 18, including the tellers) voted with the Conservatives and 15 Irish Conservatives as well. Mr. Marriott, the nomin- ally Liberal M.P. for Brighton, whose letter deprecating the course of the Government on this question, no less than on the closure of debate by a majority, appeared in Tuesday morning's papers, nevertheless gave his vote with the majority. Probably, he did not relish the notion of being the only Liberal to join the Land Leaguers. His letter and his vote may be said to have cancelled each other,—like equal and opposite vibrating waves of sound,—if, indeed, Mr. Marriott's letter could be said to vibrate at all, where the Liberal party seems to present him with no political medium in which its vibration could make itself felt.
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