The Thames Tunnel bill was read a second time, and was ordered to be committed.—Mr. Lee obtained leave to bring in a bill to supply cities and market towns in Ireland with water.—The secretary at war presented an estimate of the expences of volunteer and yeomanry corps, which he gave notice, would be referred to the committee of Supply on Friday next; in which committee Mr. Pitt also gave notice, that he would move the army extraordinaries.—Mr. J .Fitzgerald called the attention of the house to an extraordinary construction (the arrest of judge Johnson) which had been put upon the act made for the purpose of arresting felons and traitors in any other part of the united Kingdom. He was proceeding to comment with severity on this construction,when the Speaker informed him it was not regular to enter fully into observations of this nature, but that he should simply give notice measure he intended to 508 bring forward. The attorney general said that it was still his intention to move for an amendment of the law alluded to; but he did not think right to do so, while discussions were pending in the Irish courts of law on the true construction of it with respect to that country.—Sir Andrew S. Hamond, pursuant to notice, moved, "that there be laid before the house a copy of the letter of the navy board to the admiralty, dated the 5th of April 1805, together with a copy of the:memorial inclosed, relating to the answer of the navy board to the first report of the commissioners of naval enquiry." Sir Charles Pole did not mean to object to the motion, but to say, that he hoped, by the papers it would appear that the navy board had recovered the money said to have been lost in that report. Two years had already elapsed since the report had been made. Sir A. S. Hamond replied, that no time had been lost by the navy board. They had put the matter into the hands of the law officers of the crown. The papers were then ordered; and were immediately after presented by Mr. Dickinson, and ordered to lie on the table arid to be printed —A petition of the proprietors of the Croydon canal, was presented to the house, and read; noticing the bill for supplying the inhabitants of Camberwell, and parts of St. Mary's, Lambeth, and several other parishes and places in Surry and Kent, with water; and setting forth, that, by an act of the 41st of his majesty, the petitioners were invested with full powers for supplying the towns of Croydon, Streatham, &c. with water from the said canal, and that the powers proposed to be obtained by the said bill will materially injure the rights and interests of the petitioners under the said act; and therefore praying, &c. Ordered, that the said petition-be referred to the committee to whom the said bill is committed; &c.