§ On the motion of the Lord Chancellor, the standing orders were suspended, and the Presbyterian Marriages Bill was read a second time and committed.
§ On the question that the bill be read a third time,
Lord Campbellexpressed a doubt whether the measure ought not to be rendered more extensive, so as to include Quakers and Jews. Many marriages in the colonies were made under the same circumstances as those which had taken place in Ireland, and those might be included. He was far from saying that those marriages were invalid, and he thought that it would be long before their Lordships so decided; but if they were invalid in Ireland they were invalid also in the East and West Indies.
§ Bill' read a third time and passed.