The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-26 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT•

HOUSE OF LORDS.—MormiT, Juzii 25.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at
5 o'clock.

NEW PEER.
The Earl of D"nrseess appeared at the table, and took
the oath and his mat.
PRIVATE RUMNESS.
The following bills were read a second time :—Somerset
and Dorset Railway ; Stourbridg'e Railway ; Lone":
Adderley Green, and Badmen Railwa; Pembroke and
Tenby Railway ; Chester and West. Cheshire Junction,
and North British Railway (Coatbridge, /cc.), Branches

Bills.
The following bills were read a third time and
passed :—Wantao and Great Western (Junction) Rail-
way ; Bodmin Roads; Uxbridge and Rickmansworth Rail-
way ; East and West Junction Railway (Capital) ; Mid-
dlesborough Extension and Improvement ; Thetford and
Watt= Railway ; Winehomb and Midland Railway ;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (New Linea) ;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lineolnshire (Liverpool Ex-
tension) ; Sheffield United Gas ;
ell Manchester and Stock-
port Railway ; Newport Pagn Railway ; Sheffield
Water ; Bristol and North Somerset Railway (Additional
Capital); }toylike Railway; Whitby, Radom., and Middlesbo-
rough Union Railway; Kilmarnock Water; Beddgelert
way; Brighton and Hove General Gas •, Liverpool Cenwtral
Railway Station; Wivenhoe and Brightlingsea Railay
East Gloucestershire Railway; and South
Kensington New Road; Thorpe and Great Clackton Railway
and Pier ; London and North Western and Cockermouth
and Workington Railway ; London and North Western
and Whitehaven Junction Railway Economic Telegraph
Co my ; and Cannock Chase and 'Wolverhampton Rail-
way Wits.
THE WAR ON THE CONTINENT.

Lord RAVENSWORTH asked whether the government
bad received any information respecting the report that
the Hanoverian army had been compelled to surrender to
the Prussians ; and also whether they had received any
information of an official character respecting the engage-
ment between the Italian and Austrian armies near the
Mincio?
Mal RUSSELL replied that no authentic or reliable
information had been received by the government on either
of the matters to whioh the noble lord referred.
THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS.
Earl RUSSELL said—My Lords,--On Tuesday last I
requested that the house should adjourn until this day,
as the government had thought it necessary to make a
communication to her Majesty. I havenow to state thatin
consequence of thevote arrived at by the House of Commons
OD the preceding night, and which her Majesty's ministers
considered equivalent to a vote of want of confidence on
the part of the House of Commons, her Majesty's ministers
tendered their resignation to her Majesty. I have re-
ceived an answer to that communication—that her Majesty
hesitated to accept the resignation of her ministers, and
that in the present state of affairs on the continent espe-
cially, her Majesty hoped they would not persist
in tendering their resignation. I have since had fur-
ther communication with her Majesty; but it is necessary
that there should be a personal sadism* of her Majesty,
and her Majesty has fixed half-past 12 or 1 o'clock to-mor-
row for that purpose. In that state of affairs I have to
ask your lordships to postpone public business until 6
o'clock to-morrow, when I shall be prepared to make a
statement to your lordships as to the conclusion at which
her Majesty has arrived.
The house then (quarter past 5 o'clock) adjourned until
to-morrow (this day) at 6 o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY, Julia 25.
The BPLAILIM took the chair at four o'clock.
At the meeting of the house it was full but not over-
crowded, u on many previous occasions during the present
exciting aad busy session. In the peers' gallery there
den, the Duke of Cleveland, Lord Overstone, Dud Lyre-
den, the Earl Beauchamp, Lord Egerton of Tattoo, and

othir peers.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Aberavon Local Board ; Belfast Central Railway (Belfast
Corporation) ; Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway ; Buck-
ley and Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway
Companies ; Bumtisland Harbour and Dock; Cale-
donian Railway (Edinburgh Station) ; East and
West Junction Railway (Diversion of Roads) ;
Great Southern and Western Railway; Merthyr,
Tredegar, and Abergavenny Railway ; Mid Kent and
South Eastern Railway Companies; Midland Railway
(Ashby and Nuneaton, kn.) ; Midland Railway (Branches,
Ac.) ; Mid Wales Railway ; Newport Railway ; Ogmore
Valley Railway (No. 1) ; Roach River Fishery ; Saint
Martin-in the-Fields Workhouse, kn., Rebuilding; Shrews-
bury and Potteries Junction Railway ; Swansea and
Clydach Railway ; Swansea Harbour Trust • Thames
River Purification; and the Vale of Llangollen, Llangollen
and Corwen, &c. Eailway, Companies Bills.

THE COAL SUPPLY COMMISSION.
Lord Proby, the Comptroller of the Household, ap-
peared at the bar with her Majesty's gracious answer to
the address of the house for a commission to inquire into
the coal supply of the United Kingdom, and which was to
the effect that her Majesty would appoint a commission
for that purpose at the earliest period.

NEW WRIT.
On the motion of Colonel TAYLOR, a new writ was
ordered to issue for the borough of Hertford, in the room
of Sir M. Farquhar, deceased.
THE SICK WARDS OF LONDON WORKHOUSES.
Mr. FAWCETT gave notice for this day to ask the
President of the Poor-law Board what were the inten-
tions of her Majesty 'a government with reference to the
present lamentable condition of the 'rick wards of London
workhouses. (Loud cries of " hear, hear.")
THE MINISTERIAL cnins.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUXR-11, noble
friend at the head of the government and nave obtained
her Majesty's permission to acquaint the house that in con-
sequence of the vote which was given on Monday Lst, and
in consequence of those anterior circumstances to which
we referred, we her Majesty's advisers tendered our resigna-
tions of the offices we hold, but her Majesty was
pleased to consider that it was not desirable for her to
accept those resignations without further °emigration.
(Loud ministerial cheers.) Her Majesty, in oonsequence,
made early arrangements for undertaking her journey to
London, inasmuch as she was of opinion that with a view
of dealing with a question of this nature it would be neces-
sary that personal communications should be held. (Hear,
hear.) Her Majesty at the time I speak is, I believe, on
her way to Windsor, and has been pleased to appoint that
my noble friend and myself should have an audience of
her Majesty to-morrow, at one o'clock. Under these cir-
cumstances, it will be my duty to ask the house to adjourn
until to-morrow evening, and with a view to the general
convenience, I think it will be desirable that we should,
with the permission of the house,name the hour six o'clock.
It is not our intention to proceed with any business
which would be likely to become matter of debate, but
there is a motion which it is desirable should be made. It
is a motion for a vote on account of the revenue of the
packet service. The object of that vote will be to enable
certain payments to be made which fall due at the close of
this month, and which are absolutely required from us by
the engagements under which we stand with the sanction
of the house, and which we think it would not be accord-
ing to the pleasure of the house or the usage of the public
service to delay. We shall proceed with that vote to-night,
but shall not take any other business.
THE PACKET VOTE.

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Mr. CHILDERS said ho found it was very inconvenient
to take even votes on account of which notice had not been
given. Ho should therefore give notice of the vote, and
propose it to-morrow (this evening).
The house ad ourned at twenty minutes to five o'clock.