PARLIAMENTARY NOTES AND GOSSIP.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 24, 28 July 1881, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES AND GOSSIP.

-¦¦ ¦ ¦? As will be seen from the concluding part of our Parliamentary summary, it has been definitely arranged that thei long-looked division on the no-confidence motion is to be taken during the present sitting. The arrangement has been a mutual one, and it is understood that every member of the House has agreed to it. The position then is this: — The debate will bo resumed this afternoon, after the customary routino business is finished, 'and no matter how late the sitting, it will not break up until the division is taken, and tho Govornmont party has either lost or won tho battle. It ia difficult to arrive nt any accurate idea as to what hour the "great event" of tho session will take place. Some members do not expect a division before 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning,' while bthora feel certain it will take place in the afternoon. The probability is that midnight will bo about tho time when a victory will be aohieved on one side and a defeat sustained on the other, if, as one Opposition moinber put it to-day, " both parties are not defeated.'/ He was strongly impressed with the idea that if his party lost tho Government would Buffer a still greater defeat by having to tako back their bills. Tho Government party aro certain of a good majority— s or 6 at least — while the Opposition party are equally certain of being in & minority of four. They make no secret of this and probably that will be about the figure. It cannot bo ascertained how many members intend to speak. ,