The division on Mr. Newdegate's motion as to the in-
spection of convents shows a curious number of votes given by Liberals in its favour,—for instance, Mr. Dodson's (the Chairman of Committees), Captain Grosvenor's, Mr. Holms's, —of course Mr. Kinnaird's,—Sir John Lubbock's, Professor Playfair's, Sir D. Wedderburn's, Mr. Hanbury Tracy's, .and others. Perhaps they may be classified as the Evangelical -anti-Romanists, the Scotch anti-Itomanists, the scientific anti- Romanies, and the Philistine anti-Romanists. Mr. Newdegate limself is the type of the last, Sir John Lubbock and Dr. Lyon Playfair of the scientific class, Dr. Lyon Playfair and Sir D. Wedderburn of the Scotch class, and Mr. Kinnaird and perhaps Mr. Charley of the Evangelical class. Certainly the Roman Catholics do manage to excite considerable dread ; even the philo- sophers invoke the law to come to the aid of science, lest per- -chance the commonalty, with unpurged vision, should fall into the Enchantress's power.
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