The division-list of the Home-rulers contains ten British votes. Mr.
Bant(Morpeth), Mr. Cowen and Mr. Hamond (Newcastle-on- Tyne), Mr. John Kynaston Cross (Bolton), Sir Charles Dilke
(Chelsea), Mr. Eyton (Flint District), Mr. Gourley (Sunderland), Sir Wilfrid Lawson (Carlisle), Mr. Xdward Jenkins (D undee), and Mr. Serjeant Simon (Dewsbury). Most of these gentlemen, no
• doubt have a considerable number,of Irish constituents, while Sir Charles One is probably influenced by theoretie views of political and Sir Wilfrid Lawson, perhaps; by respect for the Irish tesfyispqrs, who help him with the Permissive Bill. The total Honie%eille vote was sixty-one, or including tellers, sixty-three. The number of Irish Members, therefore, who voted for Home- rule was fifty-three, a bare majority (of one) of the Irish Members, and many of these are Home-rulers only in the mildest and most innocent sense of the term. The majcniV was 458, or including tellers, 460. Mr. Butt's plan, even as regards Ireland alone, and still more as regards Ireland and Great Britain, is but the plan of a disjunctive conjunction, after all.
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