The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1886-09-17 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

HOUSE OF COMMONS. -TUESDAY.  Sir J. Gorst, in reply to Mr. Machin, said that her Majesty's Government desired to see the railway system of India developed as rapidly as &social prudence woad permit. They recognised the low price of railway plant as an element which tended to hasten the construction of those railways which had been declared to be of urgent public utility. The capital expenditure of the current year would amount to more than ten orore of rup, es, rather more than half of which would be expended directly by the State, and the rest by Companies under the guarantee of the State. The Secretary of State desired him to state that he was quite alive to the necessity of developing the resources of the country through the exten,ion of the railway system without delay. The Chancellor of the Exchequer told Mr. Lafone that, as hitherto the introduction of a Bill to relieve the Polio, of thetr electoral disabilities had been left in the hands of private members, he was not aware of any intention on the part of the Government to depart from that practice. The noble Lord returned a similar answer to an inquiry as to introducing a measure conferring the Parliamentary franchise on women. He added, with regard to the latter subject, that it was more than probable that great difference of opinion prevailed among the Government ; and that, t..erefore, it was not possible for them to take it up. Sir J. Ferguson stated, in reply to Sir H. Tyler, that the Government had no official information to justify them in saying that the Emperor or Government of Russia had compelled Prince Alexander of Battenberg to abdicate the Throne of Bulgaria. The Prince had been seized and carried out of the country by an act of mutiny and treachery on the part of a portion of his army, but returned to Bulgaria, and thereafter abdicated or res-ons whioh he stated in a public document. He (Sir J. Fergusson) could not undertake at any definite date to lay before the House the communications that had paused on the subject, and he bad already submitted to the House that, in the opinion of the Government, no good purpose but probably the revere would be served thereby. The Constitutional forms proper to the occasion were being followed by the Regency, and all the different. Parties in Bulgaria appeared determined to co-operate for the maintenance of peace. The right hon. Baronet also informed Mr. Round that the English fishing smacks recently detained at Havre had been released with their crews. The C mptroller or the Royal Household (L rd Arthur Hill) having brought up her Mijesty's reply to the Addre, s in answer to the Speech from the Throne opening the Session, the House again went into Committee of Supply, and on the Vote for the office of the Chief Secretary for Ireland, M. Tuite brought under notice the case of the men who ars undergoing penal servilnde as secossories to the Barbavilla murder, and who, lie declared, were the victims of a conspiracy bet ween the police and suborned witnesses. They Lai now been imprisoned three years, and he demanded tha a thorough inquiry should be instita el, and that if the men were found to be innocent, as he held them to be, that they should be released and the perjured witnesses prosecuted. A protracted discussion followed, in the course of which tho Attorney-General for Ireland reminded the House that the subject had on several occasions bean debeded, and thst it had been Lionsieerod by three cut receive Lord Lieutenants anti three Lord Chancellors of Ireland all of whom agreed that the* were no circumstances to the reopening of the case. The verdict ht I been obtained in the ordinary Constitutional w iy, and by the ordinary meats for bringing home ;unit to 'milieus so used of crime. If, however, aLy fresh repr, seutatiou ol facts were made to e lead Lieutenant, it should receive conaderatio Titi e, die satisfied wit a this answer, then i ormaLy moved th I reduction of thu Vote, sad the eloussion continued. It was not until a quarter to tenth e o'clock that a division was taken, when the motion to reduce the vote watt rejeoted by 178 to 73. Tl.st vote was eventually agreed to.  An Italian gun has exploded at Genoa, engin? the de ith of one man and wounding elertn others.  Ili the Sobranje at Sofia EL motion tc send a telegram or 'hanks to the Czar for Ms ; rarer d proteotim of Bulgaria was withdrawn b, muse a hostile demonstrakina tiireatened by HAI Deputies.