Lords Sitting of 15 March 1842

Preamble
MINUTES.] BILLS. Public.—1a. Newgate Gaol (Dublin); West-India Clergy.
Private.—1a. Fierville's Naturalization; Midland Counties Railway; Manchester Infirmary; London and Greenwich Railway (No. 1); Brandling Junction Railway.
Reported.—Bunsen's Naturalization.
Received the Royal Assent.—Duchy of Cornwall; Van Diemen's Land.
PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Lord Campbell, from Monaghan, for Repealing the Law of Patronage.—By Earl Fitz william, Earl Fortescue, Earl of Radnor, and other noble Lords, from Bath, Stockport, St. Mawes, Arbroath, Kirkaldy, Lanark, Glasgow, Barnstaple, Kilmarnock, and other places, for a Repeal or Alteration of the Corn-laws. —By Lord Fitzgerald, from Millers in Galway, against the Importation of Foreign Flour.—By the Marquess of Londonderry, from Belfast, Clough, Killerichy, New-Ionards, Killelagh, and a great many other places in the North of Ireland, for the Presbyterian and Dissenters Marriages Bill.—By a noble Lord, from Chelsea, and Knightsbridge, for the Redemption of the Tolls on the Bridges.—By a noble Lord, from the Minister and Elders of Smithsborough, for the Abolition of the Law of Patronage.

MARRIAGES (IRELAND).
The Lord Chancellorstated, in reference to the report which he presented yesterday from the committee on the Marriage Law of Ireland, that he had that morning received game resolutions passed by the General Assembly of the Presbyterians of Ireland, held at Belfast, and communicated to him by the moderator. Two of those resolutions referred to the case which had been tried at Carrickfergus, and the first was to the following effect:—
"Resolved, that under the unhappy circumstances of this case, we are anxious that Parliament should abstain from legislation until a decision has been obtained by solemn appeal to the House of Lords, which may determine what the marriage law of Ireland really is."
The second resolution expressed their satisfaction at the appointment of a select committee by the House of Lords, and the reference of the Irish Marriage Bill to that committee. These resolutions were an additional proof of the expediency of the recommendation of the committee to postpone the bill for the present.
Lord Broughamsaid, he entirely concurred in what had fallen from his noble and learned Friend.
Subject at an end.
Adjourned.