The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-24 00:00:00

PRIV %IT SIN DK

T}.•• !.11owies private hills I.lra read a Beetled time :
Western Karl..., l('apdal). the Shrew ahmy mai
Wel•hp,..l Radway, the Walhoey Improvement, the Med-
ford, awl Leeds Railway. the lisanalairg4 Bridge
to fleet Retford, ke., Roads, mid the Prestos Market.. ke.
MARRIAGE LAW AME‘DMENT (IRELAND) RILL
The U►KU INt'F'.l.l.4• movie( the messed
reed* of this bill, oloersed that various attempts
had lees made to rspesl the law. He himself,
when a likelllshier .4 tb.• 11i.... of irissmasosa, Iniowihs
le two tilts for that pwp•we, whi• were sent up
to their lordships, but they slid nut pars thr.ugh
their l,oll.l.iiw' house. Ile did :0..4 blame their
bailee.'. Ire throwing nut those hills, beiause
at t►at time there wen• ass means of ga•rdleg against clan.
drum marria.ma in 'retool. L•.rd io.t had
ant here peril, and a searrLam eoukl tern takes p4.c~ n
Irekvel •t stir place, at any and without auy n•Rke.
Its Lord I.vielhuro:a sot pollee was re•luued to he glees,
361.1 s eartifieate of the melds., one ttereswas, aro•l mews
were thus provided of celebrating a legal marriage
• cath.lie mid a prote.tant Thee hill did riot salt their
4onl•htpt to ,to what limner b 11e Fried. It did nut
allow a marriage hetweeirs Rousso mtbolie sad a protestant,
relehtated hv • Knm•n iwtholie peiait, ha vain!. at all
event• ; Inn it only rteognmed thole merriers when the
prelinothirtes required by the hill hail hen eheerved. They
must he eelelrsted at a place Lowed for sea► marriage.,
mad lemmas the hours of right is the mawaiwand two is
the oilseeds. Ile trusted that their hips would
am.. with him tbettbis diernitelal law .hoold be abolished,
awl that t►ey would therefore give a se:oud reading to the

1,.,rd M0NTF.3,61.1,, concurred .n the wroond retailing of
the hill, and congratulated the house that they were now
appmeiching a time when the last fragment of the penal
male •4612.5 t [lonian ettholics yo.tild he wept away, It had
leen rlwesented that the bill interfered with the religious
part of the'lueetinn, hut it did no midi thing. The restraint
that wa. put in the hill had WI: whatever, directly air
indir,tly, on the religious It wages neemeary for
the Loinan catholic, ay for the pri.iestant, to throw dilßrul.
tee to the way of clandestine na,rimeir. It was damply that
a fortnight's notice should he given lefure the marriage
ceremony was performed.

Th., Earl of DERRY .664 he did not wish to offer any
objection to the bill, but he thoo,it there was se isms-
rietency between the find and so e:.-I,l4mni. The first
dawn• reputed that the marrinree rhonld he celebrated
between the hours of eight and two, but them war no such
condition in the mooed clause.
The tJ)RI) CHANCELLOR LA the hoer war omitted
in the second claimer lent any .o rhocld dispute the mar.
riage 'fn years afterwards on the ground that when ft wee
celebrated the clock had struck two.

The Kul of ST. t ;ERMAN°, ...id Sir Michael Lodilkea
act ham* repealed the peail lowa against celehrating a
moraine betty, en a Roman catholic an 1 *protestant, when
Lord Lyiplliunit's act was introduced objections were
taken by the Roman catholic, to some of its twovisinits,
and words were Mittelma n! to obviate those objections which
lad the erect of reviving the penal act of George 11., con-
trary to the intention of parliament and contrary to the in.
tontion of the governmest of the day.
The Marquis of CLANRICAR DE conlielly supported the
bill and. as an illimindion of its mscereity, be stated thab
some time. ago • ease same to Lee knowledge iu which a
yowl:: non was nearly being de: rived of hie property in
colviopirore of being required to prove that his mother was
a Roman catholic at the time o! r rummage, and be would
have been so hut fur the accidental discovery of a witness,
an old man, who was able to testify to the fact.
'rue bill was thee reed a second time.
CONVICTS IN BERMUDA.

Th... Niko of NEWCASTLE, :n reply to Lord Cimarron.
stated the measures which had hero taken to Investigate the
truth of charges made by the chaplain of the Bermuda hulk
against the disciplioe and pre-mt. management of the eon.
meta connote' there. The ri,entiv sopoluted governor had
received instructions to make a ttororgh investigation into
the convict system pursued at liemiuda, and at the same
time her Majesty's government contemplated the possibility
elftninistunt the number of cmvn is at Bermuda, with
the view of ultimately aholistrog that tolusy alto other.
Their lordships adjourned ut tweotylvo minutes past
Ms o'clock.

HOUSE OF 0011/1018.—TV LYDA; APRIL 23.
'The Srme= took the chair IA 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BU.tJN
The Holyhead Raid BiII wee read a second time.
THAMES EMBANKMENT BILL.

Or the motion foe the second reading of this bill,
Lorld. MANNERS mid that. although he did not intend
to oppose the second readies of this bill, he begged to say
Le maenad to himself the right of opposing it on a future
occasion. if It should turn out that die commission which
her Majeety's government had appointed should recommend
by their report • scheme different from that proposed by
dill private hilL Ile had now several times mimed ha
voice, at ter in vain, against this system of piecemeal
legislation on this subject. They would find railwsys
runeiug under their feet, and ponsible over their heels : and
after vonle rears parliament would be blamed for in inat-
tention, to tits general question.
Mr. eIiWPER seal he objected to this Lill on principle,
which purported to allow • railway (-Amway to take pre.
solemn of what th.y all hoped would be • peat public
thoroughfare. Ile deo objected to it cocaine this company
proposed to bike a largo sum of public money in order to
effect their operations. (Hear, hear.) He was within that
the bill abooM be considered the counansiou and com-
pared with the other schemes; Litt Le could not :wee to
Ira luring rend • ineond time to.day. He Legged to move,
by way of airaissdatasit, that the bill be read a second time
that day Misch/.
r. MURRAY said he had charge of the hill, mad had
no ohJseties to its bang postponed fora fortnight.
The amendment was agreed to.