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A NATIONAL SHAME.-A New York paper says ssAt the Custom House sa e the 18th of January case of books, addressed to "les Etas Uns d Am1 iqus" was bid of ty friend of ours at mere triAe which examinstion, proved to be the present frtn the French Chamber of Deputies to our Government secured through the influence of Mir. Vittemare, ir Paris. about which much was sad at the time ir the newspapers.

 The collection consists of "Rscusil dss Hisforien. dss Gauis d de Ia Frenes," large and splennid work, in twenty volumes, comprising period of one hundred and two years from the royal press of France with illuminated title page. engravings, &c. also, the "Procss Ksrbsanr de Seaness de Ia Chambre de. Dpaes," m twenty three volumes. superbly hound session ls4s-budget ls44. together with few other books, all from the royal press, and not to be obtained but from the French government itself.

 gentleman of this city was in the Chamber oi Deputies when the law passed making this valuable present which has lain nine months in the public store and at last been sold foI storage, because there was no person to forward them to Wash ngton - The purchaser will sell il, we believe, al a moderate advance. For the honor of our country, and out of respect to lIe givers it should be immediately re- deemed and placed in the Congressional library"