§ Order for Committee read.
§ MR. AYRTONsaid, he wished to know if the Government objected to this Bill, because if they did he would fix the Committee for some other day.
THE SOLICITOR GENERALsaid, he referred to the Acts intended to be repealed. The Government had no objection to the repeal of the first three Acts, so far as they related to newspapers. But with regard to the 6 and 7 Will. IV., and the 2 and 3 Vict., which required the registration of the proprietors of newspapers at Somerset House, the Government thought those Acts ought not to be repealed.
§ MR. AYRTONsaid, that under these circumstances he should postpone the Committee till the 6th of April.
§ Committee deferred till Wednesday, 6th April.