The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-11 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS EVENING.)

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.
THE SPIRIT DUTIES.

The Earl of EGLINTON presented a petition from
the distillers in Scotland Keying their lordships to recon-
sider the determination arrived at last session of increasing
the duties on spirits.
THE MARRIAGE LAW. _ _

Lord GAGE. presented three petitions in favour of legs-
sing the marriage with a deceased wife's sister.
THIRD READINGS.
_ _

The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway, Metropolitan Rail•
way (Extension to Finsbury-circus), Northampton Water,
Wigan Gas Meter and Fitting Company, West Cornwall
Railway; Hammersmith, Paddington, and City Junction
Railway.

CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL.
This bill was read a first time.
QUEENSLA.ND GOVERNMENT BILL.
This bill, on the motion of the Duke of NEWCASTLE,
was read a third time and pissed.
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
Lord REDESDALE moved that no private bill
brought from the House of Commons shall be read a second
time after Tuesday, the 9th day df July. That no bill
confirming any provisional order of the Board
of Health, or authorising any inclosure of land
under special report of the Inclosure Commissioners
for England and Wales, or for confirming any scheme of
the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales, shall
be read a second time after the 9th day of July, and that
when a bill shall, pass this house with amendments,
these orders shall not • apply to any new bill sent
up from the House of Commons which the Chairman
of Committees shall report to the house is substantially the
same as the bill amended. The noble lord said he had not
brought forward the subject with respect to public bills,
because there was a committee sitting on the subject.
Earl GRANVILLE said he had not the slightest objec-
tion to the proposition with respect to private business.
The noble lord had exercised a wise discretion with respect
to public bills, as there was a committee appointed to con-
sider the subject.
The motion was agreed to.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(THIS EVENING.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a third time :—Belfast and
County Down Railway ; Gainsburgh Bridge to East Ret-
ford, &c. Roads ; Great Western Railway (Capital) ; Kil-
rush and Kilkee Railway and Poulnasherry Reclamation ;
Morayshire Railway ; Portadown, Dungannon, and
Omagh Junction Railway ; Preston Markets, &c. ; Shrews-
bury and Welchpool Railway; Wallasey Improvement;
Wrexham and Minera Railway.
The following bills were considered and ordered for
third reading :—Clifton and Durdham Downs (Bristol) ;
Garston and Liverpool Railway ; Inverness and Aberdeen
Junction Railway ; Inverness and Aberdeen Junction
and Inverness and Nairn Railway Companies Amalgama-
tion ; Marlborough Railway.
The Forest of Dean Central Railway Bill was read a
second time. _ _

On the motion of Mr. C. FORSTER, the following
motions were agreed to :—That the order that the Kilkenny
Market Bill be read the third time, be read, and discharged,
and that the bill be re•committed to the former committee;
also, that the minutes of the evidence taken before the com-
mittee on the Westminster Improvements Bill (1859), be
referred to the committee on the Westminster Improve-
ments Bill. .

Mr. BLACKBURN moved that it be an instruction to
the committee on group (C) of private bills, that they have
power to consolidate into one bill the Kinston-upon-Hull
Docks (Capital) Bill, and the Kingston-upon-Hull Docks
(New Works) Bill.—Agreed to.
Sir E. GROGAN moved to nominate the select commit-
tee on the Borough of Dublin Bill—Sir Edward Grogan,
Mr. Vance, Mr. George, Col. Dunne, Mr. Wm. Ormsby
Gore, Mr. Longfield, Mr. Torrens, Sir Wm. Verner, Mr.
Bond, and Lord Arthur Edwin Hill, and five members to
be added by the committee of selection.—Agreed to.