NOTES UPON THE FRENCH QUESTION In fhe HnnSe of RenreSenkniipeS.
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The House of Representatives sat. on Mon- day night (NIarch ad) till midnight, having commenced it's sitting at 10 o'clock in the morning. Tho whole time was occupied in artuons debate 0n the question of our For. | eign Relations, in which number of Mem. bers engaged. We have only time and means. 1 at this moment. to make the following state.

 ment of the results of the whole prOcredings. The first question taken was upon motion made by Mr. Camhreleng to discharge the Committee of the Whole On the state of the Union from the further consideration of the whole subject, in order to bring it directly nn' der the action of the House: on which the Yeas were l04, the Nays eg.

 The subject being tfus before the House, the question rpcurred on the following Rrso. lutions, moved 0n the 27th February, by Mir. J. 0. Adams. yia:

 Rssctved, That the rights of ciiixens ofhe U. States to indemnity from the Government or France, :iipu: lated hv the treaty. concluded Nt ParR, on tho 4th 0 July, 1881, ought a no event to he sacrificed, nnnn doHe, or impaired hy my consent or acqaesceHce o the Government ot the U. States.

 2. Rssoiued, That. a t Be- iw tlhe cpiHion "f the President of the U. States compatible with the hon. and in,eres, ofhe U States. during the interval "n- a,ions heiwesn the U. States and France. he be rec uuesleh 60 tO do.

 B. Resolved Tha, no legislative of hostile cNNrncet Or tonueNcv toWNtuN tue eteucu hutiOUs l necessary expedeM at this time.

 NIr. Archer moved to amend these Resolu- tions by striking out the hole of the ResO- lutions. after the word Resolved" and in- sorting in lieu thereof the following:

 Thas in the iusi expectation iha, the Government oi Fsamse will have made, will make, provision ioV carryag ia,o full etec, the Treaty with that Govern menl of the 4h of Jaly 1881, sipalaag inemaiiy Ur claims of our citizens, which this Nation is bound io require; therefore this House deems n~xpedient to adope any measure in relation to that subject. Mr. Waimongh, at this stage of the rro- ceedings, moved to lay the whole subject on the table; which motion was negat'.ed. by Yeas and Nays: Yeas 4s, Nays ie7. The question was then takenon agreeing to the amendment moved by Mir. Archer las be- foral and decided hy n Yeas. t4S Nays. Mr. Adams then modified his first ResoIu- tian s0 as to read as f6llOws:

 Rssaipsa That, ia the. opinion af this House, the Treaty wih Fraacs SC the lh Of July 1851, should bc mninlaiRed, and iis exeeaaian insisted upnn. Mir. Jones, 0f Georgia. n,"vrd to amend the Resolution "f Mr. Adams, as thus modi-

 aed, which was Regaiived.

 F Me. Robertson then moved to amend the