The Division List shows that no fewer than twenty-five. Liberals
went over to the opposite party for the purpose of forcing on the Government a fresh restriction on liberty, which the Government thought more mischievous than useful. These. were Mr. Beaumont, Mr. Biddulph, Mr. F. Buxton, Mr. Corbett, Mr. Creyke, Mr. Dundas, Sir A. Fairbairn, Sir W. Ffolkes, Lord E. Fitzmaurice, both the Messrs. Fitzwilliam, Mr. Flower,. Mr. Foljarahe, Mr. Heneage, Mr. Lambton, Mr. Leigh, Mr.. Muntz, Mr. A. Peel, Mr. Peuder, Mr. Portman, Sir John Rams- dell, Mr. Roundell, Sir E. Watkin, and the two tellers,--Mr. W. C. Cartwright and Mr. George Russell. Of these, a fair number are half-and-half Liberals, like Sir John Ramsden, the two Fitzwilliams, and others. But there are one or two Liberals. in the list whose names we see with surprise and regret,. especially that of Mr. G. Russell, who made a vehement little speech against the proviso ; and that of Mr. Roundell, whom we should have thought too good a Constitutionalist to force on the Government an instrument of exceptional severity, which they earnestly desired to reject.
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