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The House, with tellers and Speaker, numbered 555, and there

were 34 pairs, which accounts for 68 more votes, or for 623 in all. Only 19 votes remain unaccounted for, some of them being the votes of Members who were ill, like Mr. Bright, or absent from the country, and of these it is said that many more are Liberals than Conservatives. Mr. Goschen is the only Liberal who voted against the Bill, unless Sir John Ennis has still any claim to the name of a Liberal. The Government have never had so great a majority. We suspect that Mr. Gladstone's striking speech on Thursday week on the question of Obstruction had a good deal to do with the unanimity and vigilance of the Liberal party.