Haehingtcn, Janua,y 27.
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 In the Senate. yesterday, petitions were presented by Mcssrs RUGGLEs; GRuNpY and SANDFoRp; and resolutions were introduced by Messrs HENDRICKS and ROBINSON. The bill making an appropriation for compensat- ing the Marshal and witnesses attending the trial of Judge Peek, was ordered to be en- gressed for a third reading; and at subse- qucnt pCricd cf the day was read the third time and passed. The bill making appro- priations t the support of Revolutionary and invalid pens oncrs for the year 1881, was alss erdercd to q third reading. After transact ing portion of the usual kind of business, the Senate, at 12 o'clock resolved itself into a High Court cf Impeachment, for the trial ef Judge Peck; when MT MEREDITH con tinued his able argument in favor of the re- spcndcnt The court then, at half past 3 o'clpck, adjourned. MT MEREDITH will, it is presumed, finish the argument

 In the House of Representatives the rcso- ution of MT LETTER, calling upen the Post Master General to communicate the cause cfthc irregulality in the receipts of the mail, and to devise some means for preventing the recurrence of such delay in future, was taken np and adopted. MT DRAYToN submitted a resolution cn the subject Of the number of the field, staH and company officers, Of the U. States army; which was, in accordance with the rules of the House, laid upon the table for enc day. The SPEAKER presented to the House the following communications |: from the Secretary Of the Treasury in rela- ten to the cultivation of sugar, which was ordered to. be printed; from the Secretary of War, on the subject Of the increase of the corps cf Typographical Engineers, which was referred to the committee on military affairs; and from the same department in an swer to a resolution of the House, as to the ex- pediency cfrcducing the number of the officers of the army, which was similarly committed. The bill to establish a uniform rule forth com putation of the mileage allowance to mom- bers.of Congress, was read third time, and passed. After the House had acted upon various private bills, the joint resolution on the subject of compensation to members, was taken up and discussed till the close of the hour. The House then went into Commit tee ci the Whole, MT MARTIN in the Chair, and proceeded to. the Senate to attend the trial of Judge Peck. The Committee at 4 o'clock returned and reported progress, and the House adjourned till this day at l. o'clock.