Of what may be called the thorough Liberals, only Mr.
Den- -man, Mr. Chambers, Mr. Watkin Williams, and Mr. Fawcett voted against the Government. The chief Nonconformists Members (including Mr. Miall, Mr. Dixon, and Mr. Illingworth) voted with Government, and none of them against it. It is worth remark that the majority was exactly equal to the number -of official votes given. Twenty-seven members of the Government voted for themselves, and if their votes had been excluded, the divi- sion would have been a tie. A good many Liberals stayed away, in- -eluding, for example, Mr. W. Fowler (Cambridge), Mr. Auberon Herbert (Nottingham), Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice (Caine), Mr. Vernon Harcourt (Oxford), and Mr. J. D. Lewis (Devonport). Con the whole, considering the relative numbers of the parties, the censure of the Commons must be said to have been far more ‘strongly pronounced than even that of the House of Lords.
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