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?- .rvi jf.-r . <>* 1 1 ?c^rr:v?^ and in \v!iicfi tlio Executive has no share., The ri? xt measure, proposed us the first and most immediate remedy for the forlorn condition to which the nation liaci been reduced, was the establishment of a National Bank. That was one ot the conditions on which the Whig party had come into power. What did Congress do / it passed an act establishing a National Bank. Ami what did the Executive do ! i ic vetoed tt. What next did Congress do ? It passed a second act to meet and to rentedv the President's objection against the first, and that under (he universal impression of a formal pledge, (such as any honest1 man in the like circumstances would ; have considered himselfas having g:ven :) and how was this received \ it was ve- ; toed also. Ilere was "veto and ditto." Now the Administration of a Government has for its first object the welfare of the PeopleJ; and it was the honest, the conscientious conviction of a majority m j the two Houses of Congress, Hint the i hank hill was one of the most important nnd most vital measures that could h>- ' devised for the relief of the People. Wii! j my colleague. (.Mr. Cashing.) or will the would lestore llie prosper.?y oi i .o conn frv ; but what was the rejection of it ? Mere negative action at be.-l: the r Tusnl to the Legislature of the power to maKc an experiment which ha J twice been made before, during a period of twenty years, and with the most entire and per- i feet success. The action of the Executive was preventive merely : it did, at t: c utmost, but ward oh* an evil : it did no positive good : it left the country under' all its difficulties and embarrassments. j Wasthata thing for which this countiy j ought to feel grateful ? Or was the fail- j lire of the ailernpt a thing for which ! Congress is responsible ? No. The re-] snonsihililv, for good or for evil, rests entirely on the head of the Executive. Now, when we go into that fen;ful hat- I tie before the People of which (he gen- ' Ileinan from Kentucky seems to have j such an alarming anticipation, when the President has his part to defend and we; ours, what can he say, and what can we, j as to w ho is responsible ? Common sense ! gives a prompt rely. Wc acted : he for- j bade action. Did he propose any substi- ; tute for the bill ? Yes, be did : and when j his own substitute was brought to him, ; written down, to the very letter, as dicta- ; ted by himself, he vetoed again. That is I the state of the fact: of which more than one member now on this floor has proof still more full and explicit than is in my j own possession. In reference (o this second bill, it will recur to the mciiorvof every individual that the views a id opinions of the Executive were indulged to an extent such as never before war conceded by a Legislature to an Executive since our Govern.' ment had an existence?even to the changing of the name to he given to the ! institution proposed : it was to ho called | a " Fiscality," a " Fiscal Corpora'ion," i an 44 Exchequer of Issue," any tiling bu' | the odious and terrific name of Bank. I Ilut all was in vain. And now ! ask who i is rcponsible for this ! 1 will add no more on that point. And what came next ? Retrenchment. This enters into the general operation of ,T i (ho lwo nooses; ami in regaru k> u i may be permitted to say tbat the spirit of letrenchni-lit has perha{s in so no inufanccs been overacted. Many think so. We have had from a gentleman from Yir. ginia (Mr. SrMMKits) a minute report on lfie expenditures of ihis House, cutting them down to the low est point; abridging numbers of trifling conveniences which had alwnvs heretofore been extended to them, and going down to matters the most minute. Wo had some three or four select committees on retrenchment before. The tiling has been carried Ihiough effectively, unci a report from the gentleman from Aibemwrle (Mr. Gilxer) remains, in part, yet to be acted on. Then canic reductions in the estimates for the army and navy ; these arc not yet consummated, though they have, in a great degree, been accomplished. And here give me leave to say, that w hen gentlemen are serious in their intentions to reduce the expenses of this Go c nrucnt, it is the army and the navy on which (hey must lay their hand. There wc retrench by millions ; here, hy picayunes. We never shall retrench e?F:ctual. lv lid we doll in the appropriations for the army and uavv. The estimates for these alone are this year over twenty millions of dollars; and yet we hear genllmnen talking here about reducing the whole expenditures of thi? Government to twenty-two millions I liuwure they go gentleman who tolil us oil he formuaoie and terrible battle we shall have to fight before the People, (.Mr. M irshal!,) will thevsav that this was one of t.'ie measures calculated to prostrate Che country ? Xo. sir, they will not say that. 1 recollect ( tho latter gentleman and myself both vo- j ted uguiusi Lie lust ot Lie two bank biiK i on the express ground that it had been too much accommodated to the prejudices, 1 I may say to the passion, of the iXecu- j head; that ton great a sacrifice had . been made to suit it to the will of the ; Chief Magistrate, who was to sign it. On that ground the gentleman, as well as myself, both spoke and voted against the i mo. That, at least, was my motive, and : I then understood and still presume that ! his was the same. Our votes certainly agreed, and it was my impression that we j concurred in our ground of objection to the bill. in the first bill for a bank wo gave to l r? the institution we attempted (o establish an honest name; a name which belonged ! to the thing which we intended to create. ; We called it a bank, and the attempt to j establish it was the ret of Con -;v-s. i There may be, and undoubtedly is, a di- j versity of opinion in the House on the j question whether such an institution I ing (odd it ? Iiv the culling olfofafcwl pages?by savings in quills an I pens? by patting members on allowance of let- I tor paper ? by cutting down the allowance i of a deputy door-keeper, 01 tbe waiter who I builds our tires and furnishes our water? or Willi holding from our Reporters paper J on which to report our daily proceedings < j How much shall we relieve the country' by matters such as these ? Hut when you come to the navy and to the army, there * ->r, I \-,mi should you do no \ W I ?.? I V4' . _ more than carry <?nl what you have corn moiiced in these things, there will tie a considerable reduction efleote I. Perhaps fh- two Houses cf Congress have not done enough in this matter ; but there is still time to complete their action. Hot 1 believe that the spirit of retrenchment and reform?a sincere and honest spirit i mean?does animate a large portion of both parties in this House, and I rejoice to say it; and I must also admit that this is one of the subjects on which gentlemen of the Democratic party have more merit to plead than tiiosc of the opposite side?more, at least, than I can pretend to, (if I aril to be considered as of the opposite party.) The progress was begun by them, uhdol have been but an C*. ' humble follower; and so long as I shall have the honor of a seat here, so help mo (?od I will he their follower, in every att mint, especially. to reduce the military force of the country m time of peace, whether in army or navv. (though I ad* > v ~ mit that I did not support the atte.nptc I reduction of the n.vy.) Now, what lias been the comparative action of the Incentive in this matter < f retrenchment? it has been the increase of belli navy and army. The heads o! the War and Navy Departments have rc commended appropriations to the amount of twenty millions of dollars?proposing at the same time additions in both Departinents, which must have cost at lei^t lifteen millions more. When this subject if retrenchment is orofessed l>v the Kxe < cutive, what have wo from that quarter Words, words, and recommendations t?. increase both army and navy. Here, ti.cn, is the contrast between th two opposite parties?the Executive aw. tlie LegDhvurc?ulionretohe inar.-diali f*d ia this (oim.dahie a.iJ terrilia war m* fore the Poo; 1as far as this m titer o.'r uenciunera s concerned. Ami hen 1 t again render duo acknowledgment to the honest portion of O the Democracy in this House for tho lead they have taken and the aid tlioy have a [forded us in all our elfurts on this subject. Next came llm Appoitionment bill; and in that, too, I must do justice to the Democratic party. In all as parts, that bill was extremely against mv will. I thought the number adopted a most improper an J unjust one, and one which went in its effects directly against the popular principle of cur Government, and of this House in particular; but there was one redeeming feature in the bi'l so ex cedent as to cover a multitude of sins, and that was the single district principle. That feature of the bill was introduced by a leading gentleman of the Democratic party from South Carolina, (Mr. [Campbem,.] and I admit that without ins eiilctual aid, ami that of some of his friends and associate*, it could not have been carried. Too biii is in fact a supplement to the Constitution, and contains what should have been, and what virtually now is, in the Constitution itself. For what says the Constitution? That tiie People ot tiie United Slates shall be so divided in representation that there shall he one Representative lor such a number: not that there shall he four Representatives for four times that number. That is not one from every mass of the given number ; and it is not in trie Constitution. Kvds unexpectedly great are liable to result from adopting and acting on such a. construction : that one .State should he roj resented by the district system and one oy tuo general ticket system, is a state of tilings not to be tolerated for any length of time. Tnis bill renders the rule and principle of representation uniform and universal, and carries tiie popular principle of the Government ; n t f 1111 nrrwtural etloc.L Now on this subject what has the Ivxccuiivc done ? Ho lias approved the bill, and annexed a bane to the antidote which is calculated, if not intended, to destroy it. And what do wo already see brew, ing ? The majority sec many who opposed the bill Iroaj party toolings, or because, their States having adopted the general ticket system,^they felt the strength which suc.U an arrangement "ave ~ . C iierin t'nc national councils, defending j the course of the i.xocutivc in accomp[ allying the biii with his reasons, and pUcmg both 011 tile together, which was, in , fact, a veto under Ike mask of an approval. Then came the tariif, and this completed the system of measures proposed by the Whig party in the two Houses. This : was the "measure hy which it was intended to make the revenue of the country i - . . i:..;.' equal IG lis expenditure. >v uu imnme pains and labor, and 111 liic face of the 1 most determined opposition, this measure ins been carried twice through both branches of the Legislature, and the Ex. I ecu live, for reasons no doubt satisfactory to himself, has v? toed both the bills. \V nut cIsj has he done ! I say?your Judiciary Cornmittco say ? evcrv lawyer who has spoken says? even a very distinguished lawyer from Charleston, (who, nevertheless, dclended the Executive in the case, taking special care, however, to disclaim aii concurrence i with him in opinion,) even he savs?lb it ; the icvi'uue canm.t legally he collected. it is in truth the l>et:t-sii case of ship-moni CV a case in which the President has as. sumcd to raise toxemic iVoin the People | without vv .una nt of law. And not only this : but, in ia;-!i:g a revenue without 1 iw, lias undertakon to fix regulations by j winch l!i<* value of irooJs shall be aseor- I t.lined, although the law exprcs.-dy do- ' clures that these regulations sb ill ho'made : by Coiwru.ss. 'i'hat ha has done. And now will he stand before the People / We are toid that this is a question of law, jand must be settled by tiie United States Supreme Court, or by juries ol the country. It will bo juries who are to decide j whether the President shall thus lew j - % ; hundreds of thousands, av, millions of dollars, on the People without authority j of la w. If their defence against such an exaction is to depend solely and exclusively upon the Supreme Court, I shall feel a lit le ' hesitation as to tiie course that tribunal 1 'I U , Mi IV* taKO ; I in i wen rciiicuiisui mui ??m n t}??: questi;*n on ship money was tried in! i Kngland against John ilampdcn, who 1 I had refused to pay it, the judge?.1 British judge?decided that the power to j levy it was in the King, and a line of U'd (.),() 01) was laid upon Hampden, for ? I winch lie was imprisoned. 1 have not, I ! . confess, the most entire confidence as to : wh it the result may be. Tiie (Jourt may 'possibly consider heie, as the Court considered in England, that it is a ! case where stern necessary supersedes all law. But, if I ain not mis- j taken, it is a question which will be set-1 | tied by theju.ies of the country. I am j willing to wait the issue. But, i ask, on whom will rest the re- j sponsibility ? Not on Congress?Con gross had provided for the case; but j no, the Kxecutivc would not consent j to wait for one short month. Who, then, I again ask, is responsible ? And now as to (he distribution of the land fund. That is the last point 1 shall 1 refer to ; for I except, for the present, all J reference to the subject ot our foreign 1 affairs, because no issue has, as yci, uwi made between Congress and the Lxeculive on tisat subject. l>jt as to the' lands. On what princi- j pie have the two Houses determined that j the proceeds of the sales of the domain shall !)e distributed among the Slates to; e i ib!e tliein to pay their honest debts ? j O.j t!io principle that they are the prop- j I crty of the nation ; it at tiiey are the in- J r heriiuncc of the i>a i >n ; and trial, after J ; t )e revolutionary debt has bcc.i paid, they l ! ought justly to b; distr.lmtoJ to tite peo- ! j pie of the n; turn, to enable them to im- ' ! prove the country an I make the desert1 i 1 i blossom as the rose. Tuat was the ob- i 1 . . , i joct original y in view ; and in reliance j upon it liic Stitcs, mostly, have cnnirac J ted debts to the amount of one hundred and ninety-five millions of dollars. 1 have here a list showing that result, O 1 I but will not consume the little time alloti ed me by reading it now. Some portions : of lilts debt have, peril tps, been contracj ted for objects of question ildo propriety, | j csp rcially where it has been for banks j but ' | the grout mass of this indebtedn OSS lias ' ; been incurred for improving the fuee of the country, and the improvements made l -- ? 1.1..I ...ilnn t/i fkn /MllVfint' ftF / ' H in II III II a lllll tmim HIV vkihvx .r, ' the U i c 1 S:;iics lo ten times what they cO't. Why, what is tiic time it | now takes to go from this city to j i Charleston ? ami what to I> ?slon ? We j . in*, c reiiuecci a distance of a thousand ' miles to a ride of four days, flow long ' would the same space have consumed 1 in passing over it before tiic.se works of j internal improvement were projected and ' accomplished ? ! i>at my waning hour, which I sec is ; fast elapsing, obliges me to omit- many j things i could here desire to say. Ail I now as to tin: question of rosponsi. i hiii.y ; the comparative responsibility of { Congress ami of the Executive. A gentleman got up lu re and throat ! en nl us as if wc wore to he honed under in nintains, while the Ivxeoutive was rai- j sod higher than the stars! Now tins Congress had nt best hut a short time to j live ; on the third of .March next it dies : ;it that day they every man here will he politically dead, save the comparatively J we wiio shall he re-elected. What are we to lose? Our seats in this House? It is; vorv possible, I know, that I shall lose ; mine ; f??r you have declared that of the ; * * * " M I _ . * I I iioiegauoii .tjassaciiuseus nut iiijvv un t tins iloor two shall l>e screwed out. ! (V laugh.) Yes, two must go; and I j may be one of them. Besides, hovvm iny of llie.distinguished membeff of this House, 1 and on both sides, have already signified I their intention to resign ? There is the j ' gentleman from South Carolina, a very; ! distinguished member of the Democra- ! j tie party, and here is the chair- j { man of the Committee of Ways and 1 Means?both have voluntarily receded and yielded their places to successors. \ Arc you going to appal these gentlemen j ; with threats of responsibility and a tro- j inendous reckoning before the J'onplu j . \o ; they will go home and he received with open arms by their own constcuciiis ; j whatever may he the fate of those who , seek a re-election. In the succession of | one Congress to another every nody ; J knows that, as a general average, not ! i more Ilian one halt'the members survive : : I at least haifot them are always left poll. j j tically dead. In the next Congress, then, at nnv j rate, an:l according to the usual course of, things, not over one half, possibly not i | more than a third, of those now occupying i i these seats will be found here. Where,! | then, will be this tremendous respoi sibiii- ; | ly of dead men I Men are often dropped j ' at elections for very trivial oflences. j j Where then is the responsibility which is 1 to pile up over us Pclum upon Ossu } Fossil) y it in.iy gi\e certain gentlemen j vast gratification to see the coining ? lee. j tions result in bringing into tins House jail abundant liar vest o! good Democrats; ; let ii come. I say beartilv, let it coiue. i Will there be any greater harmony, I . j think you. between the While House and j ! that Democratic majority than there is j 1 IT. / II I between that satno vvinie Mouse una mo " N I * i u it \ here? The indication* I do not point t!iat way at present. How ' will it l>o with tiiat Democracy who now voto with intn unJ his friends here merely tor the sake of opposing the Whigs, but j who are not willing to lake the occupant of thai House to themselves? W ill they find greater harmony between him and | themselves, be they ever so democratic I Ami h t the majority bo what it will in numbers, will limy ail, like my colleague over the way, (Mr. Gushing ) take the f oath of unconditional allegiance to John' Tyler? Xo sir, no. Mr. Tyler will feel | that responsibility of which trie "ontleman ' 1 C* speaks pressing hard upon him when we ' are in the predicament o{ those wiio enjoy the benefit of the ancient ad.me, tit:1 k t-ttf oi l /i.ikimii } i urn ?:l rvi? I ' { .'i'fcj flH t l/u/^i ; Sill (It'll though wernny he, and Congrossionallv j dead, we shall, I suppose, still possess tlie j rights of American citizens?that, is so far as the Captain will allow us. [ A | laugh j We shall not, I imagine, suffer a total denial of the right of speech : we shall, I presume, be still allowed to write and to j ulge, ay, of him and his Adminis- t (ration. Hut perhaps my colleague (.Mr. Gushing) was not quite right in his vaticinations?possibly it may not be with the next Congress that all those halcyon days are to come in which ho beholds I with so prophetic an eve?perhaps it may ' be with a Congress that is to follow that | one. [ V laugh.] Very possibly the Democrats may find as many vetoes in ! their way as we have had cast across ours : and take my word for it, Mr. Tyler will find that thev will never combine with him i n I hut which lies at the bottom of all this?I mean the election of a President of the United States per sc. [Roars of laughter.] lie will very likely go on in creasing in their favor till the end of his ! term?and then ve shall see what I we shall see. [Renewed merriment.] Among the charges preferred against this Congress is this, that vvc engaged here j in nothing but President-making, it is! said (hat there stands our man in tiio j West, and that we Whigs arc doing noth ! ing else all dav long but making him | O n President. Well, if it is so, I ask, have the j Democrats been doing nothing at the same business ??or have they quite a- i greed as to their man yet ? As to t!?is m liter of making of Presidents, it seem- J to ma that the condition of the Whigmust he far the best : they have hut one man to make him out of: while the gentium m on the oilier side?I believe (hey have not told us yet how many thev have got. .More than one. I know, for I have seen it in print. [Loud laughter ] But if the Whigs have been at work i President-making, who provoked them to it ? It was known to many here, within twenty.four hours after the convocation of the extra session, that the determination that ho would lie President per sc \v,\< distinctly formed, and every action of h:.from that time to this has been conformed to such a determination. But I perceive my hour is just expiring, and I have not yet come to an examination of the reasons here given by the President for his veto of this last ni'l : and I cannot examine them, as, co.ning from such a sourse as this paper does, and eo.lt lining a multitude of them, I wish to *' ffntrrpp of official TCS I iii. <1 ill ?? llll u? j vj? ^ pect. I will, (hereto c, while I yet hold the floor, conclude hv inning that it be referred to a select committee, .w t i instructions to report upon it to tills 11 rise, j I should prefer that I ho committee lie rather a large one. I should like, if the House please, a committee of thirteen, according to the number of the good old! p ... r original States of this Union. 1 should, I according to (he present number of Slates, pioposc twentv six, did 1 not fear that such a number would make too cumbrous a committee and be productive ofi delay in presenting their report. I will, j thercfoio, specify a committee to eon>ist | of thirteen members, with instructions to : report to this House. [When we put .Mr.-Adams'sspeech into the printer's hands, although we h id tin following corrections by the National In? leliigcncer, whose report we copied, \v.: j had not time to make the correction in the report; except merely suhstitutir g the name of Col. Campbell, when Mr. Pi/-'.*nTi's! Un.nn nut for it hv mistake * " I ' of the reporter ] Mil. ADAMs's SP&KCIX 0* THE VETO. j Correction*.?Our report of this J speech, though admitted to be in general a very correct one, is susceptible of improvement iri one or two places, to which the Reporter's attention has been directed. Speaking of the bankrupt law, Mr. j A. is reported to have said : "It is the majority of Congress, and to a certain ex- | tent, a majority of both parlies in that I hodv, who carried through this important j measure." It should have been * a majority consisting of members from both . . o parties. / In reference to the President's Rank veto, .Mr. A. is re;-* rted to have said that it was a " refusal t?> tiie Legislature of the power to make an experiment which had J twice heen trade before during a period of i twenty years." It should have been' each time during a period of twenty! years." In alluding to the efforts of tho House ' of Representatives at retrenchment, the i reports of .Mr. Su>ir<i::Ks and of Mr. Gil- j MBit alone are noticed in the report. Mr. i A. made complimentary reference to the amendments proposed l?v Mr. Mkriwktii- j r.K, in regard to the navy, and by Mr. | C.wk Johnson and Mr. McKay on the reduction of the army ; as also to the re- ! trcwhmml bill introduced by Mr. Aft-: NOLD. Instead of saving that " gentlemen of the Democratic party have morn merit to j plead tiian those of the opposite side," j he said they had ki perhaps as much." In referring to the Apportionment hill til - language was ; * In all bit I v:ic of tL w w p uis (hat bill was extremely against rny will. I thought the s'anilard number, 70,080, a most improper and unjust one." And in speaking of the general ticket svstern, he said that evils "inexpressibly great (not unexpectedly great, as, by a tvpogrnphicnl error, it stands in the report) were liable to result from it." It was .Mr. Campbell, of South Carolina, and not .Mr. Pickkn's, whom be thanked for having moved the distiict clause in that hill. When citing authorities for tlie opinion that no law at present exists for the collection of duties. Mr. A -, is referring to a verv distinguished lawyer from Charles n _ ton, alluding to Mr. Mounts. In Hampden's case, it was " the twelve Judges of Lngland," and not a single ry ry * n ) Judge, who decided that the power to : levy ship-money resided in the King. Hampden was fined, hut history does not say imprisoned. Speaking of resignations, .Mr. A. a 11 ud - eil on the one side to that of .Mr. Pickens, and on the other to that of M r. I'lLLMORE, of both of whom he spoke in terms of high personal respect and regard. Lastly. Instead of saying, in refer ?/ o enccto .Mr. Tyler's looking to a second term, " It was known to many litre within twenty-four hours after the convocation of the extra session, that the determination that he would he President per sc was distinctly formed." It should read : There arc those here present to whom i; is known that within twenty-four hours after receiving the summons to the Seat of ! Government, in consequence of Gen. Harrison's death, the determination, dee. The interest with which the speech was listened to, and will everywhere be read, has induced us to be thus minute in correcting the -oport of it. llOJIR COLONIZING I.N ENGLAND. Now that all hopes of obtaining the necessaries of life by the ordinary ineth oils of industry, in Groat Britain, arc at; an end, the English people sire directing ' heir attention to home colonization* A large association Ins hem formed at Qit mnswood, Hants, and is in a most promising condition. A gentleman, who was hy no means inclined to the plan, ! has visted the Q leenswood Association, j ;n I in his report, fr?>m which we make the lolluwirig extracts, speaks, as will he i seen, very favorably of it. After dascrih- ; ing minutely the estates on which the j colony is fonnded, and wijieh is under a , system of culture superior even to the best managed farms in England, he sa\s. 14 I dined at the general table?the party were all on an equality-..to farm laborers it must he a gra'efiil return to tlie spirit of old English usages, to have a comfor- 1 table, orderly, and ahuiid int meal. Such in arrangement must speak in an inviting n i o language to many in these hard times of high prices, low wages, nothing to do, and distinction of caste or condition." * r?._ i.- -1" ?l... .1^.111 IwMicn tw> OpeiiKiiig ui IUU nii;ii.-???n nwn.,. , j says, 5;Tin; kitchen is a very largo apart- j meet, free from a!! interference by smell or otherwise with the lodging npparf- j mcnts fitted up with an excellent cooking | apparatus on a complete scale ami improved plan; with ovens, hot hearths, .boilers and every reouisito to supply heat j to the school department--, and hot via- j ter nifiit and day to tlie w. o!o of the j P> ? house, There are attache I to (he kitch- j en large pantries and three rooms. Aj rad vvav is under the floor tor passing j trays, Ase to and from the dining rooms, of wi.ich there are two, the one on the basement, for ordinary purposes, and the ' other immediately above, 0:1 the first floor, for particular occasions, and meetings an I parties of pleasure. Each' of these romns is forty fct by twenty. On eacli Hour, and separated by the stair-case from the dining rooms, arc two parlors or work rooms, mea-wring thirty by twenty feet cadi. O.'c-r these parlors and dining rooms are sixteen large j dormitories or sleeping nppartmcnts, for j single persons thirty feet by twenty each ; the beds s irrmuul the nppartincnt and are screened by partitions, leaving a clear space in the centre sixteen feet by t'l rteen, to wh cii tables and chairs are placed fur reading an I writing. R ic'.i b ?d 1 lcce.s is ,'l;tcd up with achest of drawers and chair*, and in the corner of the central space are a dressing tab'e and ;vashr ? O ing stand-, and a constant supply of hot and cold water and waste pipes from each basin, so that no bringing of water, or carrying away slop*, will occasion any I waste of time. There arc also in another the part of mansion convenient rooms lor , married people, and two lying-in rooms. The school room, with ollices for the teachers, the medical department, and { excellent hath*, are all in the most complete order. "The play grounds for children arc laid out with greattastc, as is also the arena for the athletic sports for the adult members of the community. The larir<; dinjne room i* henulifully onriclied with carve l mouldings and cmbellished with exquisite fresco paintings, and the iiydraulic apparatus is so constructed as to atf'ord the means of ventilation in J the summer season and an equal tempe- j r iture in the winter." Those societies arc rapidly increasing in (iroat Uritain. Presents are made them from all who arc desirous ?>f their .success, and the one we have been describing promises a remedy for many of the evils which the English people are laboring un Icr.?Morning Post. i n ^ J Tae Trevtv.?Wo have pleasure in stating I that the Ashburton Treaty is new on its way to Kngland in the Great Western which left New 1 Yor* on tie 11th in-t. f? is' lTied on' br ("jot. - 'V-Hc. e! fir. Hri'i h Army. LAWS OF Tin: UNITED STATES ^ rusted at the '2d Session of the 27th Congress. [BY AUTHORITY.] [Public?No. 39.] AN ACT making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives nf the United States of America in Cjnfcrcss assembled, That the following sums be appropriated, in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations, out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, viz.: No. 1. For piy of commission, warrant, and petty o.Ticcrs and seamen, two million three hundrel and thirty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That till otherwise ordered by Congress the olfiof the ri'ivv ah ill n it he in errand h?'w>r?n J ? ? ? ?- ? -V J MiV number in the respective grafles that were in the service on the first day of January, eighteen hun drcd and forty-two, nor shill there be any further appointment of midshipmen until the number in the service be reduced to the number that were in s;rvice on the fir^t day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-one, beyond which they shall not be increased uafil the further order of Congress. No. 2. For pay of superintendents, naval oon. stru Uors, and all the civil establishments at the several yards, seventy-eight thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. No. 3. For provisions, seven hundred and twen. ty thousand dollar?. No. 4. For medicines and surgical instruments, liospit d stores, and other expenses on account of the sick, thirty thousi n ! dollars. No. 5. For increase, repair, armament, and equipment of the navy, a id wear and tear of ve?. scls in commission, two million dollars. No. G. For ordu uice and ordnance stores on the Northern likts, fifty-nine thousand and ninety- ^ seven dollars. No. 7. For improvement and necessary repairs of the n ivy yard at Portsmouth, New liaiupohire, forty-seven thousand four hun Ircd and twenty.five dollars. No. 8. For improvement a^J necessary repair* ships of war; for taxes and assessment on public property; for assistance rendered to vessels in distress ; for incidental labor at navy yards not applicable to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel, and for candles and oil for the use of navy yards and shore stations, and for no other object or purpose whatever, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. No. 2). For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, three thousand dollars. No. 21. For the charter of steamers Splendid and Clarion, in September and October, eighteen hundred and forty-one, for the survey of Nantucket Shoal, four thousand three hundred and forty-five dollars and thirty-ninc cents. No. 22. For carrying into effect the acts for the suppression of the rlavc trade, including tlic " ! support of recaptured Africans, and their removal I to Africa, under authority of wi J acts, including o'i tno navy y trJ at Charlcstown, Massachusetts, twenty-ntie thousmd dollars. No. 3. For improvement nnJ necessity repairs of tin invyyir.l at Brooklyn, New York, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand one hundred dollars; Prjrlde l, That no part of this or any former appropriation to that object shall be .applied to the construction of a dry dock at Brooklyn, except i:i payment for materials previously con. tracted for and yet to be delivered, until a suitable place shall be selected in the harbor of New York, and a title to the 1 tad obtained, and a plan and est'in te of the cost made, under the direction of the Secret iry of the Navy, and approved by him and the lVesidi nt: And proriJrd, also. That the Secretary of tlic Navy may, in his desert tion, apply the sum of one hundred thousand dolla sof the amount hereby.appropriated, and any balance of former app'opri itioiis for the construction of a dry dock at Brooklyn, New York, to the ct nst ruction of a floitin-* dock at the same place; : nd if any [> art of this appropriation sliall be exp nded upon | the construction of a floating dock, as hereby au: thorized, the construction of the dry dock shall be ! suspended until the further order of Congress. No. 10. For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one thousand six hundred dollars. No. 11. For improvement and necessary repairs of the invy yard at Washington, District of Co. lumhia, fifteen thousand three hundred dollars. No. 1~. For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yarl at (losport, Virginia, fifty-six thousand eight-Iui idred dollarsNo. 13. For improvemcnt and necessary rvpairs of tlic navy yard near Pensacola, Florida, and lor a n ival constructor at said place, thirty-five thousand three hundred doll irs. No. 14. For nwmiry repairs of the hospital building and its dependencies at Charlestown, M issichusctts, t.ircc tliousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. No. 15. For finishing coppering the roof of the hospital building at Brooklyn, New York, fifteen huu IreJ dollars. No. 10. For necessary repairs of the hospital building and its dependencies at Norfolk, Virginia, thirteen thousuid seven hundred and fifty dollars. No. 17. For building an ice-house and privies at tiic bespit ti at IVnsacola, two thousand dollars. No. If*. For necessary repairs of the Fiiiladelphia naval asylum, one thousand three hundred dollars. No. ID. For defraying the expenses that may accru: for the following purposes, viz. For freight and transportation of materials ar.d stores of every i'des rription; for wharfage and daekage; storage ! and rent; travelling cxjK-ns.s of o ficers and trans' port iti n of seamen; house rtr.t to pursers, when duly authorised ; for funeralexp uses; for commis. ! sions, clerk hire, office rent, stationery, and fuel to ; navy agents; for premiums and incidental expenses ! of recruiting; for apprehending deserters; for compensation to judge advocates; for per diem allowance to persons attending courts martial and courts of inquiry, or otlrr services authorised by I nr; for printing and stationery of every descrip. tion, and for working the lithographic press; for books, maps, charts, mathematical and nautical instruments, chronometers, models, and drawings; for the purchase and repair of fire engines and machinery; for the repair of steam engines in navy yards; for tlie purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and for carts, timber wheels, and workmen's tools of every description ; for pistage of letters on public service; for pilotage and towing