of Events.

An effort was made by Air J. Kenna way to pass as an ·amendment, the continued maintenance of public hospitals, but it was defeated on division, when there voted:-

For the Amendment Against

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· · Majority for Mr. Stansfeld ••• il4 The next day Mr. Stansfeld asked for leave to bring

in his Bill for total repeal, but it was opposed. . . In the evening a meeting of the Ladies' National Association was held in the banqnettin~ room, St. James's Hall. Mr. Stansfeld, who presided, m congratulating the meeting upon the success of his. motion, . remarked he was proud to say that they had arrived at a time, in the new House of Commons, when there had been no man who had desired or ventured to record his vote against the absolute repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts. Those Acts were so near death now that there was no chance of their being revivified, but they would have to be repealed. He was of opinion that it would be the right thing and a politic thing for the Government to undertake the passing of the Repeal Bill, but the opinion was that there would be more obstruction to a Government Bill than to a measure of the private character which was contemplated. He regretted that he had been obstructed in asking leave to bring in his Repeal ~ill; but he intended t.o .take an early opportunity of again asking leave to introduce it. The meeting . expressed, by resolution, its deep .and heartfelt thankfulness that the present House of Commons had unanimously approved Mr. Stansfeld's resolution for the absolute repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts, and the hope that his Repeal Bill would