Mr. Ord, Mr. Kcdgwin Hoskins, and Colonel Gore Langton, were
among the :Members prevented by serious indisposition from voting in favour of the third reading of the Irish Municipal Bill. Lord William Bentinck arrived in London from Paris on Sunday night, expressly to vote in favour of the bill.
There is no truth in is rumour which has been circulated that Mr. Robert Steuart intends to resign the representation of the Haddington District of Burghs.
Mr. Frederick Hawkes Hawkes Nottage requests the newspapers to contradict the report that Sir Gerard Noel is about to resign the repre- sentation of Rutlandshire in his behalf. Mr. Nonage says, however, that he is to receive a considerable sum of money, if he can obtain a seat in Parliament. We suppose that some person has said to him, " Nottage, when you get into Parliament, I'll give you a thousand pounds,"—supposing, of course, that it was most improbable that Not- tage ever would get into the House. !tie Richards has written a letter to the Times denying that he pro- fessed Radicalism at the Knaresborough election ; and he asks, with marvellous simplicity, whether, if be had been a Radical, Mr. T. Dun- combe's connexions would have opposed him ? Time answer is, that Mr. Duncombe's connexions are Tory, and they opposed Richards because they believed him to be a Radical.
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