The official list of the Division last night exhibits some
crossing, but not to the extent anticipated. There were confident expectations that some individuals of the Conservative Opposition would vote with Minis- ters ; and accordingly we see Sir Thomas Acland, Mr. Deedes, Lord Dalkeitb, and other Conservatives whose opinions are not strongly pro- nounced. But the Opposition carried off Sir Edward Dering; Mr. Lucas, Mr. Duffy, and other Irish Members of that stamp, ranged themselves under Mr. Disraeli. Sir Edward Lytton was at his post on the same side ; Mr. John-Macgregor and Sir Stafford Northcote were recruits.
Manchester appears divided. Mr. Milner Gibson voted with Minis- ters ; Mr. W. J. Fox, who belonged to the Anti-Corn-law party but not under its new phase, and Mr. Miall, were on the same side. Mr. Glad- stone, Sir William Ieathoote, and Sir James Graham, were in the ma- jority. Mr. Layard, Mr. Lindsay, and Mr. Lowe, are all three there. So are Mr. Henry Drummond and Lord Harry Vane. The absences are noticeable. On the Liberal side, we do not find the names of Bright or Cobden. On the Tory side, there is no Marquis of Granby, no Lord John Manners, no Sir John Walsh.
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