colored one together, and hoisted them in that state. The national guard is being raised.

The Prussian state Gazette of December 4th, says the news of the Polish insurrection caused the greatest consternation.

"As far as we yet know, the plot was recently prepared, and then carried into effect by a number of young Poles, who are educated in a military school, and consequently have a military organization. The insurgents hastened to the palace and murdered the Russian centinels. At the same time they called the citizens to arms, the arsenal was stormed, and all hastened to combat the Russian and some Polish troops, at whose head the grand duke Constantine retired fighting. The grand duke is said to have incurred the greates! personal danger.

the emperor may be less peaceable than the archduke The Poles have laid the foundation stone of their re gained power, and will, in all probability, succeed in raising the superstructure.

The character of the provisional government formed, may be gathered from the following proclamation.

From the Prussian State Gazette, Dec. 7. The following (account from Warsaw Journals) is the proclamation of the council of administration respecting the admission of new members.

In the name of his majesty the emperor, king of Poland, Nicholas 1. Considering the urgency of the case, the council of administration has invited the following persons to join in the exercise of its functions:

The prince senator and Woy wode Adam Czartoriski, the senator Woywode Michael Radzivill, the senster Castellan Michael Kochanowski, the senator Castellan count Louis Patz, the secretary to the senate, Julas Niemcewiez, and general Joseph Chlopieki. Done at Warsaw, Nov. 30, 1830.

(Signed) The president minister of state. COUNT VAN SOBOLEWSKI. The minister of finance,

PRINCE LUBECKI.

For the secretary of state,

TYMOSKL

The military students were between five and six hundred. They spread themselves through the city, calling upon the inhabitants to arm themselves. They were joined by the multitude and proceeded to the barracks of the infantry and arsenal, and seized upon the arms by which the populace were supplied. Several of the regi ments joined the citizens. The archduke Constantine, on the point of being surrounded in his palace, retreated towards Praga with a guard, two Russian regiments and a regiment of Polish cavalry, who followed him from a sense of honor. Forty-one colonels and majors were killed in endeavoring to keep the troops in obedience. Two aids of the duke are also said to have been slain. from the German papers contain facts too scanty to form The general opinion is that the desertion of the Polish any decided opinion concerning the actual extent or army will become general. The military chest, and the probable result of the movements in Poland. The Couhouse of the pay-master general, had been plundered. rier of the same date says, that authentic accounts from The French tri-color cockade was first adopted, it was Warsaw of the 4th Deo, announce that a new provisional however soon substituted by that of the Polish cockade. government had been formed in that city, upon princi A corps of national guards was organized. Many distin-ples more hostile to Russia than those originally avowed. guished general officers had been killed. The citizens, it is also stated that the most active measures were taken much to their credit, were arresting those who plunder- at Warsaw to repel attack. ed the magazines, &c. The Russian families residing in Poland, have been placed under the protection of the

national honor.

Prior to the retreat of the duke Constantine, he issued a proclamation forbidding the Russian troops to interfere in the insurrection further, leaving the Poles to reunite themselves! But at the same time be cautions the Poles to beware of the precipice upon which they stand, and exhorts them to return to order and tranquility. A provisional government had been formed, and the executive committee of the council of administration were engaged on the night of the 1st December, with the following objects:

1. With issuing an order for the opening of the barriers for all persons leaving Warsaw. They are allowed to go to the provinces without passports, first giving notice to the police.

2. With measures for the safety of the mails, both coming and going.

3. With the safety of all the money in the several public coffers.

4. With measures for the regular supply of provisions for the troops in and near Warsaw.

5. With similar measures for the regular supply of provisions for the inhabitants of the city.

6. With the organization of a committee to maintain tranquility in the suburb of Praga.

7. With new appointments for several offices. 8. With the project for the organization of a general board of public safety in the whole kingdom, and with other subjects of a similar nature.

The journals contain the decree of the council appointing general Chlopicki commander in chief of all the forces of the kingdom.

General Chlopicki was suddenly taken ill yesterday, which caused general consternation. It is, however, reported that he was better in the evening. Yesterday evening that general received official news that the garrison of the fortress of Modlin, after a letter of the grand duke Constantine had been communicated to it by his late aid-de-camp, count Zamoyski, had surrendered without resistance. The particulars of the capitulation are not known.

The archduke Constantine was in retreat to the emplre; and, in a proclamation, he commits all the national and public property, and persons, to the honor of the Poles. A large army, however, is on the frontiers, and I

The Times of the 18th Dec. states that their extracts

The London Court Journal says that the news from Poland has not produced any marked change in the tone or bearing of the ministers of the three powers, relative to the affairs of Belgium.

At the beginning of 1829, the kingdom of Poland contained 4,088,209 souls, exclusive of the army. The increase since 1825 had been 383,983. The Jewish por tion of the inhabitants had almost universally located in distinct quarters, they amounted to 384,263. The extent of property insured at the Warsaw assurance office was 420,000,000 guldens, or £33,250,000 stg. in value. Warsaw contains a population of 136,554, independently of a garrison of about 15,000 men-of this population 30,146 are Jews.

"The oppression, says Bell's Weekly Messenger, which the Russians practised in Poland can scarcely be believed. No man in any station of life was permitted to marry or to dispose of his inheritance; without a license from the governinent.-Most persons possessed of any influence were compelled to live in solitude upon their own estates, and not permitted to pass even the frontiers of one province to another, without a passport obtained by the most degrading supplications. Thus, whilst the Russians were travelling in every quarter of Europe, a Polish traveller was scarcely so much as seen. Poland was imprisoned, as it were, within her own frontiers, and kept for the gloomy pleasure of Russia, who exhausted every species of tyranny and exaction upon the people."

FRANCE.

Mr. Benjamin Constant died at his residence in Paris, on the 8th of December. The French papers of the 13th are filled with details of the funeral honors paid to the deceased, which took place on the 12th. The funeral was solemnized with great splendor.

The trial of the French ex-ministers commenced at Paris on the 15th Dec. before the court of peers. The prisoners, with the exception of Peyronnet, were pale and wan.

Marshal Soult had offered a project of a law to increase the army to 500,000 men, to be raised by a conscription, the duration of service to be five years.

With regard to the trial of the ministers, the Gazette de France says-"How can those who have annihilated the charter of 1814, try and condemn men of their order who only violated that charter? If it were criminal to infringe, what was it to abolish?"

ITALY.

Pope Pius VIII. died in November. The prince, says the Herald, was raised to the holy see in 1829, was a man of mild manners and unassuming good sense. The possession of the latter he proved in a high degree, by the instant and cordial acknowledgment which he made of the change of government in France, almost the last act of his reign.

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

The bill to extend the time for completing the fifth census was also considered, and ordered to be engross ed for a third reading.

On motion of Mr. Foot, the senate again resolved its self into a high court of impeachment.

Mr. Wirt, with permission, explained a remark which he was understood to have made towards the conclusion of his argument in favor of the respondent. Mr. Buchanan then rose, and addressed the court in Disturbances and burnings continued in England. a very able and eloquent argument in support of the im Barns, stables, and stacks of grain and hay, were de-peachment. He declared, that the usurpation of an atte stroyed in various parts of the country. Reading, Es-thority not legally possessed by a judge, or the manifest sex, Layton, Lamsay, Clarton, Kirby, Tunbridge, El- abuse of a power really given, was a misbehavior in ton and Bixford were the theatres of conflagration, and the sense of the constitution, for which he should be the destruction of machinery. Nearly every tradesman dismissed from office. He contended, that the conduct in Suffolk had been sworn in as a special constable. of judge Peck, in the case of Mr. Lawless, was in exConflagrations had also taken place in Cheshire, Hert-press violation of the constitution and laws of the land; fordshire, Suffolk and Warrington. Three hundred that the circumstances of that case were amply suffi persons had been already imprisoned in West Chester cient to shew a criminal intention on his part in the jail, and a special commission to try them had been summary punishment of Mr. Lawless; that, in order to opened on the 18th of December. The freeholders of prove the criminality of his intention, it was not neces Middlesex had held a meeting, and adopted resolutions sary to demonstrate an actually malicious action, or a calling for triennial parliaments, the vote by ballot, and lurking revenge; that the infliction upon Mr. Lawless other reforms. Sir Francis Burdett, who was opposed of a summary and cruel punishment, for having written to some of the resolutions, spoke amidst hisses and an article decorous in its language, was itself sufficient cheers. Mr. Hume was received with great cheering. to prove the badness of the motive; that the consequen⚫ A committee has been appointed in the house of com- ces of the judge's actions were indicative of his inten mons to report what reductions of salaries could be tions; that our courts had no right to punish, as for con made. tempts, in a summary mode, libels, even in pending causes; and that, if he succeeded, as he believed he should, in establishing these positions, he should consi der that he had a right to demand the judgment of the court against the respondent. The honorable manager continued to address the court for three hours and a quarter; and finding that he could not conclude his ar gument at this sitting, the court adjourned till to-mor row.

The marquis of Chandos had presented a memorial from the West India holders of property, praying to be protected in their slaves and other possessions. The funeral of the late lord mayor of London, took place on the 13th December.

The colonial trade bill was discussed in the house of commons on the 13th December.

Great gloom prevailed at the stock exchange, London, on the 18th December. It was rumored in London on January 29. The vice president presented a memothis day, at 2 o'clock, P. M. that an order had been rial from certain mechanics, workers in iron, of Philareceived from France, for 250,000 stand of arms-doubt-delphia city and county, praying a reduction of duty on ful.

AUSTRIA.

The London Atlas of the 19th of December, contains the following account of an insurrectionary movement at Milan.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.They contain a curious dramatic-political scene, which is said to have been acted at Milan. A conspiracy, on a grand scale, was organised in that city against the Austrian authorities. The conspirators were assembled in the pit of the theatre, and there, at a certain signal, the insurrection was to have broken out. The bell rung, the curtain rose, and discovered the stage crowded with Austrian soldiers; their muskets pointed to the pit. Every door was similarly beset, and the astonished revolutionists were arrested to a man in the very scene of the conspiracy, and conducted to the fortress of Speilberg.

TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS-24 SESSION.
SENATE.

January 28. Mr. Noble presented the memorial of the legislature of Indiana, praying a grant of land to each county in that state for the erection of an asylum for paupers also two resolutions of the same legislature praying further extension of relief to the purchasers of public lands; the aid of congress for the improvement of the road from Madison to Indianapolis, and another for the extinguishment of Indian titles to lands in that

imported iron-also a memorial from certain citizens of New Jersey, praying an allowance of drawback on iron used in ship building.

Mr. Dickerson moved the reference of this paper to the committee on manufactures.

Mr. Hayne moved its reference to the committee on

commerce.

These motions gave rise to a desultory discussion as to the best disposition to make of the memorial, in which Mr. Hayne, Mr. Dickerson, Mr. Benton, Mr. Wood bury, Mr. King, Mr. Foot, Mr. Silsbee, Mr. Knight, and Mr. Webster participated.

Finally, at the suggestion of Mr. Webster, the me morial was laid on the table, to give the senators time to consider the question of reference submitted to them.

Mr. Hendricks, from the committee on roads and canals, reported, without amendment, the bill for improv ing the mail road from Louisville and St. Louis. He stated, at the same time, that a majority of the committee were opposed to it.

On motion of Mr. Foot, the senate again resolved it. self into a court of impeachment.

Mr. Buchanan concluded his argument in support of the impeachment. He took the further position, that the publication of Mr. Lawless, under the signature of "A Citizen," could not, in a trial upon an indictment for libel, be established to be libellous, according to the constitution and laws of the land-that the paper was, on its face perfectly harmless in itself-and that, so far as it went, it was not an unfair representation of the opi nion of judge Peck. The honorable manager critically The bill to grant a portion of public land for the erec-and legally analyzed the nine last specifications in the tion of the necessary public buildings at the seat of go-publication, to establish these points. He then proceedvernment of Arkansas, was 'read a second time and re-ed to sum up and descant upon the testimony produced ferred.

state.

The resolution of Mr. Clayton relative to the post office department was considered and adopted.

The bills to authorise the president to build three additional schooners for the naval service; to amend the act for encouraging the cultivation of the vine and the olive; were severally read a third time and passed. The bill to amend the several acts respecting copy rights was considered, and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.

in the case before the court of impeachment, in order to show the arbitrary and cruel conduct of judge Peek; and, in a peroration, marked by its ardent eloquence, he declared, that if this man escaped, the declaration of a distinguished politician of this country, that the power of impeachment was but the scare-crow of the constitu tion, would be fully verified; that when this trial com menced, he recoiled with horror from the idea of limit

The secretary of the senate under the direction of the vice president, read the article of impeachment exhibited by the house of representatives agamst James II. Peck, judge of the district court of the United States for the district of Missouri.

The vice president rose and said

ing, and rendering precarious and dependent, the tenure of the judicial office, but that the acquittal of the respondent would reconcile him to that evil, as one less than a hopeless and remediless submission to judicial usurpation and tyranny, at least so far as respected the interior courts-God forbid that the limitation should ever be extended to the supreme court! Mercy to the respon- Senators: You have heard the article of impeachment dent would be cruelty to the American people. In the read: you have heard the evidence and the arguments name, therefore, of the people of the United States, for and against the respondent: when your names are whose liberties he had violated-in the name of the judi- called, you will rise from your seats, and distinetly prociary, whose character he had injured and tarnished-henounce whether he is guilty or not guilty, as charged by respectfully asked of this honorable court the conviction the house of representatives. of the respondent.

The argument being concluded on both sides, on motion of Mr. Webster, the court then resolved to meet

again at 12 o'clock on Monday morning next, in order to proceed farther in the consideration of this impeach ment. Adjourned.

The vice president then, in an audible voice, put the following question to each of the senators in alphabetcal order, commencing with

Peck, judge of the district court of the United States Mr. Senator Barnard: What say you! Is James II. for the district of Missouri, guilty or not guilty of the high misdemeanor charged in the article of impeachJanuary 31. A message was received from the pre-ment exhibited against him by the house of representasident of the United States.

tives.

Mr. Sanford presented a memorial from the cham- Each senator rose from his seat, as this question was ber of commerce of New York, praying for the erection propounded to him, and answered as follows: of a custom house in that city, GUILTY-Messrs. Barnard, Brown, Clayton, Dickerson, Ded Mr. Barnard presented memorials from the mer-ley, Ellis, Forsyth, Hayne, Iredell, Kane, King, Livingston, Mcchants of Philadelphia, and from the citizens of Dela-Kinley, Poindexter, Robbins, Sanford, Smith, of Md. Smith, of S. C. Troup, Tyler, Woodbury-21. ware county, for the improvement of the navigation of Back creek-also twenty-three memorials from Chester county, Pa. for the repeal of the Indian bill.

Mr. Robinson presented memorials from the legislature of Illinois, praying for a survey of the public lands at the lead mines, and for an appropriation to aid the state in erecting a hospital for the reception of disabled

seamen.

Mr. Smith, of Maryland, presented the memorial of the legislature of Maryland, praying an appropriation for the improvement of the harbor of Annapolis.

On motion of Mr. Kane, the hon. Mr. Robinson, a member of the senate from Illinois, not having heard the testimony in the case of the impeachment of judge Peck, was excused from voting on the subject.

Mr. Benton, on his own motion, was also excused. Mr. Burnet submitted the following resolution: Resolved, That the committee on commerce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making an appropriation for the purpose of erecting a light-house at Port Clinton, on lake Erie, in the state of Ohio.

On motion of Mr. Smith, of Maryland, the secretary of the senate was directed to procure one thousand copies of the report of the bank of the United States, lately made to the house of representatives, for the use of the senate.

NOT GUILTY-Messrs. Barton, Bell, Burnet, Chase. Foot, Feelinghuysen, Grundy, Hendricks, Holmes, Johnston, Knight, Marks, Naudain, Noble, Ruggles, Seymour, Silsbee, Sprague, Taze well, Webster, White, Willey--22.

Mr. Bibb, Mr. Chambers, and Mr. Rowan were ah

sent.

The vice president again rose, and obscrved— Senators: Twenty-one senators having voted that the respondent is guilty, and twenty-two that he is not guil ty; and two-thirds of the senate not having voted for his conviction, it becomes the duty of the chair to pronounce, that James H. Peck, the judge of the district court of the United States for the district of Missouri, stands acquitted of the charge exhibited against him by the house of representatives.

The vice presulent then directed the marshal to adjourn the court of impeachment; and it was accordingly adjourned sine die.

consideration of executive business, and sat with closed On motion of Mr. White, the senate proceeded to the

doors about an hour.

Adjourned till to-morrow morning.

February 1. A message was received from the president.

The vice president communicated a report from the secretary of the navy, on the subject of application for pensions, which have been refused or suspended in consequence of the insufficiency of the testimony; and recommending the claims of those who were lost in the ship Epervier. It was referred to the committee on na

The bill making appropriations for the continuation of the Cumberland road, through Ohio, Indiana, and Ellinois, was taken up on a second reading, and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading. [Passed next day.] The bill to repeal the duties on certain imported arti-val affairs. eles was read a second time.

Mr. Smith, of Maryland, moved to amend the bill by adding a repeal of the duties on tolu, or Venitian red, and to lay it, with the amendments, on the table, with a notice that, if possible, he would call it up on Wednesday next.

Mr. Dickerson said, that he should move to refer the bill to the committee on manufactures.

It was then laid on the table.

On motion of Mr. Foot, the senate again resolved itself into a high court of impeachment.

The house of representatives, with their managers, and the counsel for the respondent, having come into Court,

Mr. Tazewell moved the following resolution: Resolved, That this court will now pronounce judgment upon James H. Peck, judge of the district court of the United States for the district of Missouri.

Mr. Noble presented two joint memorials of the general assembly of Indiana, relative to an appropriation from congress towards improving the navigation of the Wabash river, and for establishing a mail route from the Ohio Falls to Indianapolis; also a joint resolution from the same legislature relative to a grant of a portion of the public lands in that state, for the making of a road from Fort Gaines to the Horse Shoe Bend: They were severally referred to the appropriate committees.

Several petitions and memorials of a private character were presented.

Mr. McKinley submitted a resolution designating Thursday next, as the day on which to elect a printer to

the senate.

Mr. Woodbury, from the committee on commerce, to whom was referred the resolution adopted on the 6th ultimo, on the allowance for draft on articles subject to duty by weight, reported against any change being necessary for the present, and the committee were dis

Mr. Tazewell observed, that if there were one member of the court unprepared for a decision on this im-charged from its consideration. peachment at this time, or preferred any other mode of proceeding to pronounce judgment, he would cheerfully withdraw the resolution.

No objection having been made, the resolution was unanimously adopted.

The names of the senators were then called over by the secretary.

ported, without amendment, the bill making an appro Mr. Woodbury, also from the same committee, rethe Monongahela and Allegany rivers; and the bill refapriation towards the improvement of the navigation of tive to vessels employed in the whale fishery.

Mr. Benton gave notice that to-morrow, he would in troduce a joint resolution relative to renewing the char

ter of the bank of the United States, in order to obtain | the sense of congress on the subject.

The following resolution submitted yesterday by Mr. Johnston, was then taken up for consideration:

Resolved, That the secretary of the senate be directed to proeure fifty copies of the debates of the state conventions on the adoption of the federal constitution in 1787, one copy of which to be delivered to each member of the senate.

Mr. Johnston made a few remarks on the value and general utility of the work,

Mr. King, before the question was put, wished to know if the price was fixed at which the work was to be

taken.

Several private memorials were presented.

Mr. Ellis reported a bill authorising the appointment of a survey or in Louisiana.

Mr. Woodbury reported a bill making Blakely in Alabama a port of entry.

Mr. Grundy submitted the following resolution, observing that a serious difference of opinion existed in the committee on the subject embraced in it, and that he should assign his reasons in its favor to-morrow:

Resolved, That the select committee, appointed on the fifteenth day of December last, to inquire into the condition of the post office department, are not authorised to call before them the persons who have been dismissed from office, for the purpose of ascertaining the reasons or causes of their removal.

The resolution to proceed to the election of a printer to the senate to-morrow, was taken up; and, on motion of Mr. Marks, it was amended so as to postpone the election until Tuesday next, at 12 o'clock, and adopted. Mr. Benton submitted the following joint resolution, and supported it in a speech of two hours and a half, in which he justified himself for bringing it forward at this time, and earnestly urged his objections to the renewal of the charter of the bank:

Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, That the charter of the bank of the United States ought not to be renewed.

United States, so that the judges of the supreme court and of the inferior courts shall hold their respective offices for a term of years, Mr. Whittlesey demanded the question of consideration, and

Mr. Vance called for the yeas and nays on the question.

They were ordered by the house, and being taken, stood as follows:

YEAS-Messrs. Alexander, Allen, Alston, Angel, Baylor, Bell,
James Blair, John Blair, Boon, Cambreleng, Carson, Chandler,
Chilton, Claiborne, Conner, Crocheron, Warren R. Davis, Desha,
De Witt, Earli. Findlay, Foster, Fry, Gordon, Hall, Halsey, Har
vey, Haynes, Hinds, Thomas Irwin, Jarvis, Cave Johnson, Per-
kins King, Adam King. Lamar, Lea, Leavitt, Lecompte, Lewis,
Lumpkin, McCreery, McCoy, Miller, Nuckolls, Pettis, Potter,
Richardson, Roane, Scott, Shields, Stande fer, Sterigere, Wiley
Thompson, John Thomson, Tucker, Wayne, Weeks, Wickliffe,
Yancy-61.
NAYS-Messrs. Anderson, Archer, Armstrong, Arnold, Noyes
Barber, John S. Barbour, Barnwell, Barringer, Bartley, Beekman,
Bouldin, Broadhead, Brown, Burges, Butman, Cahoon, Clay, Con-
dict, Cooper, Coulter, Cowles, Craig, Crane, Crawford, Crockett,
Creighton, Crowninshield, Davenport, John Davis, Deberry, Den-
ny, Doddridge, Dorsey, Draper, Drayton, Duncan, Dwight, Eager,
Ellsworth, George Evans, Joshua Evans, Edward Everett, Horace
Everett, Finch, Forward, Gilmore, Gorham, Green, Grennell,
Hemphill, Hodges, Holland, Hoffman, Howard, Hughes, Hunt,
Huntington, Ihrie, Ingersoll, Johns, Kendall, Kennon, Kincaid,
Leiper, Lent, Loyall, Mallary, Martindale, Martin, Thomas Max-
well, Lewis Maxwell, McDuffie, MeIntire, Mitchell, Monell, Muh
lenburg, Norton, Patton, Pearce, Pierson, Polk, Ramsay, Reed,
Rose, Russel, Sanford, Wm. B. Shepard, Aug. H. Shepperd, Sill,
Smith, Speight, Ambrose Spencer, Richard Spencer, Stanberry,
HR. Storrs, W. L. Storrs, Streng, Sutherland, Swann, Swift,
Taylor, Test, Trezvaut, Vance, Varnum, Verplanck, Vinton,
Washington, Whittlesey, Camp. P. White, E. D. White, Wilde,
Williams, Wilson, Wingate, Young-115.

So the house refused to consider the resolution.
On motion of Mr. Thompson, of Georgia, it was
Resolved, That the committee on revolutionary claims be in-
structed to inquire into the expediency of authorising by law a
re-issue of the bounty land warrant, numbered 1625, issued to
Jacob Bosworth, on the 7th June, 1830, which the said Jacob Bos.
worth alleges is lost.

Mr. Drayton laid the following on the table. house with the several original reports or statements, or copies Resolved, That the secretary of war be directed to furnish this thereof, received by him, or transmitted to the major general, relating to a resolution of the house, at its last session, directing the secretary of war to report "whether any reduction in the number of officers in the army of the United States can be made without injury to the public service," &c.

Mr. Ellsworth laid on the table the following: Resolved, That the secretary of war be directed to lay before Mr. Webster called for the yeas and nays on the question of Indians are paid, whether to the nation, or to the indivi this house the manner in which annuities due to the Cherokee nation to grant leave for the introduction of the above joint duals constituting the nation. resolution; and the vote was as follows:

YEAS-Messrs. Barnard, Benton, Bibb, Brown, Dickerson, Dudley, Forsyth, Grundy, Hayne, Iredell, King, McKinley, Poin. dexter, Sanford, Smith, of S. C. Tazewell, Troup, Tyler, White,

Woodbury-20.

NAYS-Messrs. Barton, Bell, Burnet, Chase, Clayton, Foot, Frelinghuysen, Hendricks, Holmes, Johnston, Knight, Livingston, Marks, Noble, Robbins, Robinson, Ruggles, Seymour, Silsbee, Smith, of Maryland, Sprague, Webster, Willey--23.

The senate adjourned until 12 o'clock to-morrow. February 3. No matter of immediate interest was acted upon, or determined, in the senate this day. Some time was spent in executive business, The journal shall, however, be preserved.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Friday, Jun. 28. Several reports or private claims

were made.

Mr. Hodges reported a bill regulating the compensation of the clerks in the post office department, which was twice read and reported.

The house then resumed, in committee of the whole, the bill "to amend the act to quiet the title of purcha sers of the public lands between the lines of Ludlow and Roberts, in the state of Ohio," Mr. Howard in the chair.

Some further conversation took place between Messrs. Trezvant, Wickliffe and Vinton, when the amendments proposed by the committee of private land claims were disagreed to, and the committee rose and reported the bill to the house.

The house concurred with the committee of the whole in rejecting the proposed amendments, and the bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.

The speaker laid before the house a letter from the secretary of the navy, transmitting the annual report of the commissioners of the navy pension fund, which was

ordered to lie on the table.

of Mr. Irvin, of Ohio, again resolved itself into a comThe hour of 12 having arrived, the house, on motion mittee of the whole, Mr. Martin in the chair, and pro Mr. Verplanck reported a bill making appropriations ceeded to the senate to attend, before the high court of for carrying on certain roads and works of internal im-impeachment, the trial of judge Peck. Having returned, and reported progress. provements.

from the secretary of war, in pursuance of a recent reThe speaker laid before the house a communication solution of congress, relative to the military academy; which was laid on the table.

Mr. Ellsworth reported the bill from the senate for the payment of the witnesses attending the trial of judge Peck with amendments, which was twice read and committed. It was subsequently taken up, the amendments agreed to, and the bill ordered to be read a third time the secretary of war, transmitting 250 copies of the army The speaker also laid before the house a letter from to-morrow. The amendments increased the appropria-register, which letter was laid on the table. tion from $12,000 to $13,500.

Mr. Polk made a report on the subject of the distribution of the public revenue.

Mr. Lecompte submitted the following: Resolved, That the committee on the judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of amending the constitution of the

The house then adjourned till 11 o'clock to-morrow. Saturday, Jan. 29. The bill to repeal the 25th seetion of the judiciary act, passed on the 4th September, 1789, coming up as the first business of the morning, the question being on the motion of Mr. Buchanan to post

Ayes. Messrs. Anderson, Butman, Evans, Holland, McIntire, in relation to the imprisonment and robbery of the crew of said Wingate

Ayes. Messrs. Noyes Barber, Ellsworth, Huntington, Ingersoll, induced him to offer the resolution, and explaining the W. L. Storrs, Young.