The Division List on the Reform question, the result of
which we gave last week, is curious, from the way in which members crossed over, but it does not tell the tale some of our contem- poraries appear to fancy. The numbers were 310 to 288, besides 24 pairs and 4 tellers, making the total vote 626,—a very heavy one. Only .5 Conservatives were " absent," to 19 Liberals ; 6 Con- ser7atives voted against Government,—Mr. A. H. Baring, Lord Cranborne, Mr. R. Earle, Sir W. Heathcote, Mr. A. J. B. Hope, and Mr. Hubbard,—and 43 Liberals with them. Of these latter 20 were Adullamites, or avowed Conservative-Liberals ; one, Mr. Dalglish, is a Scotch Radical who considers his own' borough exclusively; one, Mr. Bass, says he wants household suffrage ; one, Mr. Roebuck, is what sportsmen calla " rogue elephant;' and the rest are county members, or men of highly cautious and con- ,
servative temper. The notion that the extreme Liberals voted against their party is erroneous, though one or two of them stayed away. There seems some doubt about one name, the iaclay Gazette saying Lord F. Cavendish stayed away, while the Times says he voted, like his brothers, with Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Lowe voted for the amendment, the first step in the needful peace- making between him and the party to which he naturally belongs.
