The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-07 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TVZSDAT, Utica 6.
The Loan CWANCILLOI took his seat sa the woolseek at
Ewe 'Meek.
AMBULANCE AND TRANSPORT SYSTEM.
Me Earl of LUCAN is mortice for Friday neat, to mall
tM attention of the bowie to the state of oar mahatma
sad transport system is the Rest.
THE CAVALRY CHARGE AT BALARLAVA.
The seam sable BAAL again roes to read SON further
sorrespondesce respecting the aafertaitato cavalry
icacharge
at Bidetlava, from which it appeared that his appltion
for a coart-startial had bees refused by the Csamaaderia-

ehfaL
JIPORT OF MUNITIONS OF WAR TO RUSSIA.
Lord Banns's' motion for returns eonsteeted with the
exportation of lead. and other articles, contraband of war,
pre rise to explanations on the sobjoet of the blockade of
Lordporu, sad a Motow by Earl °maxilla that
John Remelt bed received SMIIIn%ITSIices from WProw-
else government that. at far as that tossup was itonsisrsed,
the law of esutralay would be sore satisfactorily °stria
oat than before.

The rentalader of the sitting wee ooneytod P disease n,
anighteted by the Bishop of Itanton. rotative to Boons
ontholic proneeekots.
Their Ilrdabipe adjourned at eight o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONIL—TIJOIDAY, MARCH 8.
The house met shortly before four o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Leanshire, and Yorkshire and Blackburn Railway
Bill was read • wood time.
PUBLIC BUSINESS.
RE-ELECTION Of MEMBERS OF THE GOVERN-
MENT.
Sir C. Wood, Mr. V. Smith, and Sir 0. Committal' Lewis
took their seats for Militia, Northampton, sad New Radnor
respectively an being
NEW re-electe
WRIT .d after accepting gem
Mr. HATTER moved that a new writ do issue for the
abeam of a burgess for the borough of Portesseutb, V the
lo om of Viaeount Mooch, who Wass his eludes bea as
looted the office of one of the Lords of the Treeing.
Agreed to.
RETURNS.
Sir B. HALL moved for an address for rehire from
the vestry or other authority or authorities under
whose jurisdiction the pairing, cleansing, aad light-
lag are carried out in each parish and extra-parochial
piece within the city of Westminster and the several
rotary bona due of Marylebone, Finsbury, Tower
=s, Sathwark, and Greenwich, and the parishes
of Lewisham, Elibus, Lee, Kidbrook, and each of
the parishes end pates not being a parish in the city
of Ludes or the liberties thereof, the city of Westminster,
ar the parliamentary boroughs mentioned in schedule (A.)
to the act 15 and 16 Via. e. 85, and all other parishes and
ppllaa'es, if any. except as before excepted, included in the
Leaden weekly tables of mortality ; setting forth, whether
smy and which of the aforesaid parishes, or pert of my such
posh, is managed under the act 67 Geo. 111. e. 90 (re-
'sluice streets of metropolis), or the act 3 and 4 Will.lY.,
e. 90 (for lighting arid watching); the rateable ulooof each
such parish, ete. ; the total amount of money raised for the
purposes of paving, cleansing, and lighting, under the
authority of any neutral or local act, during the year ending
the 25th day of March, 18.53 ; the total ezpenditure during
the year ending the 26th day of March, 1843, aa shown by
returns made to the Secretary of State for the Home De-
portment; the names of ell officers employed as clerks, ear-
?von, collectors, street-keepers, or otherwise, with the
amount of salary, fees, poundage, perquisites, value of
house rent, and other haunts received or enjoyed by each of
each (dicers; the length of roads and streets, in yards,
within the jurisdiction of each such authority ; the amount
of debt owing at date of last return by each such aatheeity;
the number of public lamps, and the number of public
pumps, within oath suck district.
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4.* NOTICES OF MOTIONS.
COMMISSIONS IN THE ARMY.
Mr. WISE—A return of the names of all applicants for
commissions in the army for the last live years, their places
of residence, the dates of the applications, by whom such
applications were made, and the dates of commissions
granted.
METROPOLITAN BRIDGES.
Mr. OLIVEIRA gave notice that, on Monday next, he
world ask the First Commissioner of Works whether it was
the intention of her Majesty's government to take any steps
during the present session of parliament in reference to the
reprt of the select committee of last session upon metro-
politan bridges.
COLLEGE OF SANDHURST.
Colonel NORTH. gave notice of • motion for a (*amines
upon the subject of the Royal Military College at Sand-
hurst, for Tuesday, the 20th inst.
THE COFFEE SUPPLIED
HOSPITALS IN T 0 1 THEEEAST. TROOPS AND
H
Colonel NORTH asked upon what days the telluric,
ships laden with roasted soiree for the Crimea sailed from
England—Sydney Hall. steam transport ; Adelaide, steam
transport; rod Lady Eglinton, steam transport?
Mr. WILSON 'replied that the Sydney Hall left the
Downs on the 20th December, the Adelaide sailed on the
29th December, sod the Lady Eglinton on the 4th January.
Colonel NORTH wished also to inquire whether the
Under Secretary for War was aware that green coffee was
served out In the hospital at Scutari on the 17th day of
February ?
Mr. PEEL bad no mesas at present of ascertaining what
might have taken place so late as 20th February at the
hospital at Scutari • but up to the middle of January, which
was the date to which amounts had been reeeived, there had
been no di 'Union of edits to the hospitals.
Col. NORTH—Can the hon. gentleman say whether or
not it is true that green coffee was served out to the troops
before Sebutopol so late u 12th February ?
Mr. PEEL slid that the question the hon. end gallant
member had put upon the paper referred to the hospital at
Scutari, and that he had answered. He bed not made in-
qieit7 as to the other point.
Col. NORTH thought as the vessels containing the round
coffee had sailed nearly two months ago the hon. gentleman
would have bun enabled to say whether it had yet been
served out to the troop.. He would, however, repeat the
question cn Thursday.
THE CRIMEAN MEDAL.
Mr. W. 0. STANLEY after referring to the gulogium
pronounced by the Duke of Newcastle when Secretary for
War upon the ganging of our troops at Alma and biker-
mean, as being equal to anythmg that had been displayed
in the Peninsula or at Waterloo, and the promise that a
medal would be distributed to those who were engaged in
those actions, inquired whether it was intended that the
Crimean medal should confer two years additional service,
or any peculiar advantages similar to thaw conferred by the
Waterloo medal in 1815
Lord PALMERSTON—In =ewer to the question which
my hoc. friend has put to me, I have to state that un-
doubtedly those action. were actions in which the brave
troops of this country displayed as much valour semis ever
evinced npcn any former occasion; bat although a medal
has been conferred on those who were engaged in them, it
is not intended to accompany it with the further privilege
of counting those actions as two year. service. The house
will be aware that there were battles fought in the Penin-
sula in the course of the last war in which the success
achieved by the British army was as great and complete as
that which wee gained at Alma or Inhuman, but in respect
to which, tholes*, no such privilege wee conferred.
Waterloo was sluvetber of a different character—that battle
put an end to a long way and decided the fate of E
it was therefore en rum stamped with a charlatan/16;
owe, and cannot form a precedent in cases such as those to
which the hon 'gentleman has referred.
THE RECALL OF LORD LUCAN.
Mr. HUTT, seeing by official correspondence, that
whoa the Duke of Newcastle found it necessary to recall
Lord Lima from the command of the British cavalry in the
Crimea, he was compelled to obtain the interposition of
Lord Harness for that purpose, begged to ask the First'
Lord of the Treasury whether, among the improvements in
the administration of the army, which he promised to the
house on his aocessiou to office, he proposed to empower the
Secretary for War to Aran sash changes without the inter-
volition of the Horse (furls ?
Load PALMERSTON answered that no change was in
traded to be made in the military subordiestioa of the
army. Tito Commando-In-Chief would soli be the autho-
rity whoa direction would either appoint or withdraw any
anion el his staff; but the sets of the Commander-in-Chief
would be necessarily submitted to the decision of the go-
verilneal in mitten of sufficient importance to require it,
and their decision would, in due course, be communicated
to him by the secretary-at-War.
REFORM OF THE CORPORATION OF LONDON.
Mr. LABOUCHERE wished to ask the Secretary for the
Home Department, whether he had turned his attention to
the report of the Corporation Commistioe, and if so, whether
he contemplated the introduction of any measure founded
theteon ore,' the present sesame ?
Sir G. GREY replied, that • bill bad been prepared,
founded on the report alluded to, but it was thought dear-
able before bringing it forward thtt the house should eon-
• sider and determine apes) the seeder* introduced by his
right hon. friend the Preeedent of the Board of Works, in
reference to the snealeipal regulations of the metropolis
generally. lie hoped, however, both bills would be pro-
ceeded with in the coune of the present session. (Hear.)
THREATENED KAFFIR WAR.
Mr. R. 0. LIDDELL enquired whether government bad
received any official information of disturbances having'
broken out in !Wads Kaffraria, threatening to involve us
In another Kaffir war ?
Sir G. GREY—Up to the date of the lad ileopalohoe
received from the °moreover the Cape of Geed Bars. se
actual hostilities bad taken place, bet it was true OW oef
siderable uneasiness and alum had prevailed upon the
eastern frontier is sonsequence of the attitude sensed by
the Kaffin, who, with the Fiera, had esslised
it wee 'spurned with ao my friendly latadow, altit
smuts wets, however, somewhat els ruswerhig &wow
tee. sad it d that the governor was Woo Asa to
pewee& to the headier, to wafer with the Kafir sod rage
Wok ben elf&
weett. ershowee sump hope. wen eatortahted
of oretkhorasy
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oded osataittee to take late onsideredem. s mom W the
ogpiatusat of Ikeda lams, Q.O , to the WIN of 800