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The majority for Government was; nevertheless, 121 ;—for Government, 347,

for Lord Harlington, 226. If, as something in one of the speeches on Thursday night suggested, the Govern-. ment had suspended temporarily five of the Ten Commandmenth, and Lord Harlington had offered a resolution of temperate and guarded protest against such a course, it is pretty certain that the result would have been the same. The House of Commons is at the feet of Lord Beaconsfield.