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The cross-voting was rather curious. Lord Hartington did not vote

at all. Lord Salisbury's son and son-in-law,—namely„ Lord Cranborne (Conservative) and Lord Wolmer (Liberal Unionist),—both of them voted for Mr. Gladstone, as also did the Chairman of Committees, Mr. Courtney. On the other hand, several Liberal Unionists voted with the Government, —for example, Lord Lymington, Mr. T. W. Russell, Sir H. Havelock-Allan, and others. Only three genuine Tories, beside Lord Cranborne, voted for Mr. Gladstone, and these. were Mr. A. W. Hall, Captain Edwards-Heathcote, and Mr. De Lisle. About sixty Irish Nationalists supported Mr. Gladstone, and none of them, of course, voted with the

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