WASHINGTON, June 21, 163e
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 INSTRUCTIONS TO CONNECTICUT SENATORS.

 In the Senate today, Mir. Niles presented the resolutions of the Legislature of Connect icut, instructing their Senators, and request ing their Representatives in Congress to use their influence in preventing the passage of the Sub- Treasury Bill.

 Mir. Niles accompanied the presentation of this paper with some remarks on the in- consistency of these resolutions from Whig Legislature. MT. N. Gas usuaD indulged in series of comments derogatory to the pre- sent majority in the State, and the means by which that majority was obtained. He also read very long paper drawn up by himself, as an answer to the instructions of his I4e- gislature, the sum of which was, that he would not obey them.

 When Mir. Niles had finished, Mir. Critten- den rose and expressed his surprise that such a paper should be read in the Senate of the United States. He supposed that the object was to give it some character-some appear ance of having received the sanction of the Senate. He saw no other reason for reading it here-for consuming so much of the time of the body.

 Mr. Crittendea, who is known 60 your readers as one of the most pointed, epigram- matic and powerful speakers in Congress, then brought his inimitable faculty ofraillery and sarcasm to bear upon the instructed but refractory Senator, with great effect. He said he should be sorry to withhold any con- solation from the honorable Senator. His circumstances as an individual, and as a member of party, called for compassion {; and if he could derive any consolation from hurliEg reproaches at the heads of his con- stituents, it would be pity to deprive him of 1t. But hemust protest against any infer- ence that the Senate gives its sanction and approval to this crimination of a sovereign State.

 MT. c. did not know but the Senator's speech was intended as funeral oration on the right of instruction. Perhaps he felt under an obligation to close his policical life with renunciatiou of the principles he and his party have been so loudly proclaiming to the country, about the right of the consti- tuent body to express their will, and the duty of the representative to obey. Here we have the exhibition of Senator denounc- ing the proceeding of the Legislature of his State as "dishonorable"-c the expres- sion of their will against the odious Sub Treasury scheme, !" a prostitution of the right of instruction"- the Senator goes beyond the Legislature, and strikes, at the