From the National Mtelligencer.
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 The bill for the Apportionmcnt of Re presentatives among the several States according to the Fifth Census, having passed both branches of Congress, re- }qulfes only the assent of the President of the United States 10 become law. II IS in the shape in which 1t passed the House of Representatives, the friends oftbe Senate's amendment not being able to hold on to it against the large majority, in the other House by which 1t was disagreed to. In this case, the great States have been too much for the small. IL tmay be remarked by the way, that there never perhaps has beer any measure before Congress, a com parison of the division upon which in each House shows so plainly the i'm portance of the organization of the Sen- ate as one of the three branches of the Legislature. That body has failed to protect the rights of the small States in this eases it is true; but it struggled for them: and they would have been saved, if the majority in the popular body had not been of such an oyerwhel- ming power, as to leave no hope of suc- cessiuily combating it, in the action of this subject. ltisin prevention, the req der will perceive, that the power of the Senate lies. 1.-the question had been to take away right from the small States, instead ofto confer one, the Sen ate majority would have stood firm to- yether. and saved the rioht.