The Express.
London, England, 1852-05-19 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TuzsDAT, MAT 18.
The home met at five o'clock. Lord RILISDAYn tat
Bpeakir.
PETITIONS PRESENTED.
Currnout kintIIANCIIIISILMINT.—By Lord CRAN-
WORTH, from a place. ace \seed ; sad Lord RUM&
DALE hem Dorking, is favour of oopybold itufranehise-
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MAtiroatu.—By tho Earl of WINCHILSEA from
Durham. Northampton, sad several other plates; and the
lAA of RODEN from small glees% agaiest the renewal of
the gnat to Mayttooth.
Nvniennizt.—By the Hal of RODEN from la the
aunty of Tyrone, preying fur the imposition of aitemmies.
COMMON LAW PROCEDURE BILL.
Lord CAMPBELL brought up the meet of the select
miessaittos en this bill ; and stated that it would be ma-
Mitred by a sommittos of the whole beam ea Friday neat.
THE WAR WITH ATA.
Ths Earl of ELLENBOROUGH seeing the 'obit earl,
the Pint Lord of the Treasury, With place,'woeld take that
ispportasity of repeating • question which he had put to
Mat a fortnight ago, with respect to the prodeet of
=Lrelative to the war with Ave. He hoped, by the
ich had jest arrived, that his right his. friend at the
heed of the Board of Control had received despatches, sad
that his sable kited opposite would be ebbs to state whether
be was prepared to answer the questions which he had
=red at ley the paws for whisk he bed moved on a
oestellie on the table of the home. He wilted Mee
he ask hie noble hived sinther geestioa connected with
the Wit with Asa. Some tidied= had been east upon the
evaders of °mend Godwin. an officer appointed to the
cliff command of the expedition. It hail been imputed to
him that is consequence of his appointment some delay
bad taken place in the sailing of the expedition. He knew
that statement, however, to be destitute of foundation.
Ho had hard that tie•eral °Weis had, on the 18th of
Petite:try, received orders, by expr.sii, to go to Calcutta.
Ho was thou at Mullins. In that country a gentleman
mead not hastily travel, but he arrived at Meerut on the
Bird February, sad he then travelled foe tea seecessivis
days sad eights, 'Myles et Calcatta on the Sad of Mush,
sad having made the journey of 1,000 miles in tea days,
seder diaculties essied by bad roads and the beet of the
elimate. Arriving ea the '- .nd of March, it oar sot until
the 11th of that mcath that the wing its regiment re-
quired to joie the expedition mind at Calcutta. It was
not until a suberquent period that the 42nd Regi-
ment arrived there; nor was it, indeed, until the
13th of Mora that the troops were ready to
mil. It was, therefore, perfectly impossible that
the appointment of General Godons meld have de-
lived the expedition. (Hear, bear.) As far as be had been
able to ascertain from any Woman*, which be had re-
seined the subject, the appointment of that *Meer was
aa extremely proper one. He was practically acquainted
with the country ; he had obtained distinction there, and
VII mots likely to carry on the wee with sums' than say
ether penes who could have been appoiated to the cow
mead. He thsnght it, &mem • very hard thing that an
a▪ ter_ „ menial; hiscueing to
best it his ability, sad
Omit la the asousaed of en expedition employed as • must
mamas service, should, at the very commineerneat of that '
service, have his character maligned, and that he should
be repremated r • man unit to command. (Hier, hear)
Notwithstanding his conviction and knowledge that so
delay did arise trims the appointment of that view, he ger-
Minty should be glad to receive from his noble friend aa
astarance that eo deity's the tidily/ of the expedition to
Ara had arisea is oonsequenos of the appointment of Geis.
(lode's.

The Earl of DERBY, who spoke in an indistinct 111•11100/
anon the table, was tiodentood to eay that kis noble friend I
know more of the details of straits in India than any per- 1
eons in this eountry, eseeptiag those to whom despatches
were addressed on the subject. Despatches had been re-
ceived at Die India Rouse yesterday, sad altlacmgh he bad
not KOS thews, he had asoertabiest that the Goversor-Ch-
moral made no complaint of delay in the despatch of the
forme, and that le attached ao blame to General Godwia,
for the team of his despatch was very wont, is favour of
that Aker. With regard to the other quatioa_t although
the government bad not actually heard that the Xing of Ave
bed reflood any reparation, amid had not sent any answer to
the menage which hat been forwarded to him, there was
Is. much remora to fear that hostilities had commenced.
The despatches would be laid on the table in the sours* of
a few days.

ZXI'ULSION OP MISSIONARIES FROM lIUN-

GARY.

In answer to a question from the Marquis of BILBADLL-
ZAN r,
The Earl of DIALRESBURY mid that the Austrian
tharges against the missionaries, foe having broken the
Austrian law, had reached him °sly four days ago ; mad ha
should forward a eoaater•statameat by that night's mail to
Vistula.