THE CONFIDENCE VOTE.
The hundred-and-six Members who subscribed five guineas apiece to" wards Lord Palmerston's portrait, came well up to the Confidence-vote on Saturday motning. There were only four absent—Captain Tovrneeno; Mr. Anderson, Mr. Nicholas Power ht , and Mr. Loveden Pryse. One-rki dred ratified by their vote the compliments embodied in the presentatilin, address; two went off at a tangent; Sir Robert Inglis and Sir 'Henry Barron. Sir Robert, indeed, subscribed under considerable qualificatiQn; but so did Sir Thomas Acland, Sir Edward Buxton, and Mr. William Evans, and yet they voted with the portrait. Sir Henry Barron must have gene by mistake into the wrong lobby. Many of the aubenibets , joined Lord and Lady Palmerston, and "a brilliant circle of the nobilith": at the family mansion in Canton Gardens, on the evening of the vote,— fitting consummation of the labours and anxieties of the week. Of the members of the Government, and others who hold official and courtly dice, not one was absent ; forty-one voted confidence in themselves and their patrons—one said No! This is Mr. George Dodd, one of the Gentle- men of her Majesty's Privy Chamber ; who has a curious habit of voting oftener against Ministers than with them.
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