The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-07 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSZ OF LORDS.—FamAT, JULT 6.
1 The house met a 1 o'clock.
• PRIVATE BUSING.
Mb Root end West Junction Railway (diversion of
• amid t Newport Railway ; Carmarthen and Cardigan
Bellway ; Bo'ness and Tynemouth Railway.; Tamar,
Initial, and Callington Railw ; and North Brtish (Tay-
IMAM) Railway Bills were recta monad time.
The Solway Junction Railway (capital), and the Great
Yennowth Man, Port, aad Rivers =a were read a third
*Me and pared.
The house adjourned till Monday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY, JOLT 6.
The house met at five o'clock, when the conservatives
• kiitthe first time took their mats on the ministerial side of
theo bass Mr. Gladstone was much cheered on taking
. bis seat on the front opposition bench, and Mr. Brand also
ressived • hearty welcome.
EXECUTION OF MR. GORDON.
lir. J. S. KILL presented • petition from the widow of
George William Gordon. The petition recited the unhappy
series of events with whieh the world was only too well
bovisinteclL (Hear.) How the ate petitioner's husband, G.
W. Gordon, was arrested beyond the jurisdiction of martial
law was carried within that jurisdiction, was them illegally
tied by ooprtmartial, aid on evidence declared by her
Majesty's commissioners to be wholly insufficient was
sentenoed to death and executed. The petition recited
lbws cirecimatenoes and added that in conserve:es of
these and other illegal sots of the authorities petitioner
herself had bees reduced to destitution. The prayer of the
petition was for justice generally, and that the me-
mory of her late husband, who had illegally suffered the
death of a traitor and a felon, be vindicated, and his sen-
tence and execution declared to be illegal.
BREECH-LOADERS.
Colonel KNOX gave notice for Monday, July 16, to ask
the Secretary of State for War whether it was true that by
s saving of 1,5001. in the mat of machinery now in course
et construction, only half the number of Enfield rifles
meld be altered into breech-loaders per week ; also whe-
ther there was time to remedy this error.
Sir C. RUSSELL gave notice for the same date to
ask the Secretary for War whether it was true that in the
small arms factory at Enfield the existing machinery was
capable only of converting 40,000 &fields annually into
breech-loaders, and whether it was intended to invite
tenders from the gun-making trade for immediate maven
aka. Also, whether the improved Boxer ammunition was
being manufactured with all possible despatch. (Hear.)
THE NEW WRITS.
On the motion of Colonel TAILOR new writs were
ordered to be issued for Buckinghamshire, Mr. Disraeli
having been appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer ; for
Cambridge University, Mr. Walpole having become Home
Seeretmy ; for King's Lynn, on Lord Stanley's appointment
as Foreign Secretary; for Huntingdon, General Peel having
accepted the appointment of Minister for War ; for
ifinniford, Lord Cranborne having become Secretary
for India ; for Droitwicb, to re-elect Sir J. pakmgon ,First
Lard of the Admiralty ; for Devon, Sir Stafford orthoote
having accepted the offioe of President of the Board of
Trade ; for Oxford University, to re-elect Mr. Osthorne
Hardy, now Chief Commissioner of Poor-laws • for North
Northamptonshire, Lord Burghley having been appointed
Treasurer of the Household ; for Cambridge County, Lord
Royston having accepted the post of Comptroller of the
Household ; for Tyrone County, in the room of Lord C.
Hamilton, who has been appointed Vice-Chamberlain ; for
TyroueCounty, in th e room of the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry,
appointed Vice-President of the Committee of Education;
for North Leicestershire, in the room of Lord J. Mennen,
become First Commissioner of Works ; for Rutland, Mr.
Neel having been appointed • Lord of the
Treasury ; for Stamford, in the room of Sir
J. D. Hay, a Lord of the Admiralty ; for Belfast,
In the room of Sir H. Cairns, appointed Attorney-General ;
for Guildford, Mr. Bovill having accepted the appoint-
ment of Solicitor-General ; for Durham, in the room of
Hr. J. R. Mowbray, Appointed Judge Advocate ; for
Rridperater, in the room of Mr. Patton, who has been
appointed Lord Advocate of Scotland ; for Antrim county,
ira the room of Admiral Seymour, appointed a Lord of the
Admiralty ; for Cockermouth, in the room of Lord Nara,
who baa accepted office as Chief Secretary for Ireland.
THE INDIAN ARMY.
Mr. D. SEYMOUR gave notioe for Monday week, to ask
whether steps were being taken to supply the Indian army
with breech-loading rifles.
THANKS NAVIGATION BILL
Mr. M. GIBSON moved the committee on this bill.
Mr. AYRTON objected that the printed bill had only
been distributed that afternoon.
Mr. M. GIBSON said though the bill bad been some
time before the house, there was no doubt that amend-
ments bad been introduced by the select committee, and
lie should propose therefore to postpone the order till
Monday next.
The committee was accordingly postponed till Monday.
PIER AND HARBOUR ORDERS CONFIRMATION
BILL.
This bill was considered as amended, and ordered for
third reading.
REVISING BARRISTERS' QUALIFICATIONS BILL.
On the motion of Sir R. PAIJIZR, this bill was read a
second time.