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WAsHINGTeN, July 27. In Senate, the bill to regulate tue rates of postage was taken up. The.vo ordering its engrossment having been re-considered, the section relative to the postage on letters was stricken out, and the bill with the Ye- malnlng provisions, viz, subiecting way newspapers to letter postage, leaving the simple newspaper postage only on those sent from the office of the publisher of size less than l,45O square inches; imposing ad- dltional postage for every five square inches. prohibiting railroads. steamboats, and pri- Vate expresses from carrying letters and parcels, &c.-vas passed.

 The Navy Appropriation Bill was taken up and the Senate receded from it's amend ments concerning the item for the pay of omcers and seamea, from $2, ,335, ,OOO to S2- SOOOOO (Ayes 20, Noes l3) and increasing the appropriation for the Navy Yard at Pensacola from $35,OOO to 100000; and concurred in the amendment of the House in- creasing the items for carrying into effect the acts for the suppression of the Slave Trade, including the support of re-captured Africans, from $7,365 to $1O543. A com mlttee ot conference was appointed on the remaining amendments and the bill was sent to the House. "~'

 The Revenue Bill was again taken mn anc advocated in speech of an honr and half by MT. Simmons, who went into 9 masteriy defence of the protection policy. announcing his intention to vote for the hili on thls ground (although it did not afford alI the protection he could desiree and as measure Of revenue, whatever it might meet Tn another quarter.