A taneer namber of mombere voted on the Second Reading of the Home Bale measure than in any previous division in the House of Commons. The number la within 18 of the whole House including the Speaker. It looks very much as if there had boon a Call of the Hoase, when all members who can attend are obliged to be in their places, a8 on even the most important divisions there have been more absentees from preventable causes and pairing than was the case on Monday night. As the Speaker does not vote, the number of members who can take part in divisions is 669 of whom there are Liber:
Conservatives Home Rulers As all the Home Rulers who wore able to be present no doubt voted with the Gov he Conservatives ill, over ninety menibers returned as Liberals must have followed Lord Hartington and Mr, Chamberlain, As very few members wore returned to ment by English or Scottish constituencies who announced their readiness to support a measure approaching Home Rule, the division shows bow rapidly public opinion at home must have grown in its favour, This is no doubt greatly due to the public seeing that when the principle had been proposed by a minister of the that will be lasting la possible, Crown, noother settlement of Irish affairs Con-the closeness of the division, we highly probable that the Premier possible.
Eogland, Scotland and Ireland will no doubt be intense, and as no progress can be made legislation utu Irish affairs are settled, a seems not only the most likely course to be taken, but almost inevitable, All parties should now be prepared for a general election, as we should think that very few could have expected the Irish measures to pass through Parliae mout this session, and recent telegrams have told us that the Government would be beaten.
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