The Foreign Linen Draw. back bill was read a first time.—A message was brought from the lords stating, that they had agreed to the Export and Import Duty bill, and to the Excise Duty bill, without any amendment. Also that their lordships would proceed farther in the trial of lord Melville to-morrow.—The Speaker informed the house, that he had received a letter from lord Collingwood, dated on board the Queen, at sea, March 24, 1806, in answer to his letter communicating to his lordship, to lord Northesk, and the captains, officers, seamen and marines who served under them in the Battle of Trafalgar, the thanks of the house for their conduct on that occasion, in which his lordship expressed his due sense of the honour conferred on them by so signal a mark of the approbation of the house, and declared his confidence that when a fresh opportunity presented itself, the fleet under his command would continue to merit the approbation of their country.—On the motion of the lord advocate of Scotland, the house went into a committee to consider the act of the 26th Geo. 3. ch.47, settling the Salaries of the Judge of the Admiralty in Scotland, and of the Commissaries of Edinburgh. On the motion of the learned lord, resolutions were afterwards introduced in the committee granting an additional salary to the judge of the admiralty in Scotland, of 4001. per annum; and to each of the judges of the commissary court, of 1501. per annum. And, on the motion of Mr. W. Dundas, it was ordered that these, together with the former salaries, be net salaries without any deduction.—Sir J. Newport moved that the order for the 2d reading of the Dublin paving bill be discharged, stating, that it was the intention of the Irish government to bring in a bill for a similar purpose.—Mr. Alexander brought up the Report of the Committee of Ways and Means of yesterday, when the Resolution extending the duty on 1021 Pig Iron to the stock on hand was read and agreed to, and was ordered to form a provision in the Iron Duty bill.