In the division of Thursday night, Mr. Newdegate was the
only Conservative voting for Lord Harlington, though a few others appear (like Sir A. Gordon) to have abstained from voting altogether. Of the Liberals who voted for the Govern- ment, there were nineteen, if at least the eight Irish Home-rulers who so voted are to be accounted Liberals. The other Liberals were Mr. C. W. Fitzwilliam (Melton),—who is, however, rather a Liberal-Conservative than a Liberal,—Mr. Foster (Bridgeuorth), Mr. H. A. Herbert (Kerry County), the Marquis of Lorne (Argyle- shire), Sir M. de Rothschild (Aylesbury), Mr. Samuda (Tower Hamlets), Mr. C. R. M. Talbot (Glamorganshire), Mr. Walter (Berkshire), Sir E. W. Watkin (Hythe), Mr. A. M. Watkin (Great Grimsby), and Mr. Yeaman (Dundee). But a certain number of Liberals must have absented themselves, and not a few without pairing. Mr. Roebuck, of course, voted for the Government ; but few Tories indeed are so bitterly anti-Liberal as he.
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