HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE ES.

 MONDAY, June 14, lS4l.

 The question before the House the motion to reconsider the vote by which the House had adopted the resolution appointing committee to report rules for the government of the House, and adopting, until such report be made the rules and orders except the Fist of the last House.

 Mir. Williams, of North Carolina, proposed to offer resolution relating to the daily hour of meeting

 Mr. Wise, who was entitled to the floor, said he would yield it. if the resolution could be adopted with out debate With that understanding, he would give way but,

 Debate being likely to arise--

 Mir. Wise said, the best way to dispose of busi ness was to proceed in regular order, and that he would endeavor tonhct on the House more mat ter than was absolutely necessary full understand ing and fair discussion of the question. He pitulaed his argument previous occasion, and defined the two classes relations of slavery to be:

 1st. The domestic institution of slavery, which the framers of the Constitution ofthe United States found in existence, organized in different forms.

 2d. The Federal relation of the institution of sa- very which the fIamers of the Constitution did not find, but created.

 He took these distinctions to show, under the stitutona history, what relation the Federal gover- ment may and may not touch and, after illustrating his views, went on to trace the operations of the Abolitlonsts to endanger these relations, State and Federal

 Mr. w. next examined the composition of several of the most important standing committees of the House, in connection with the subject of Abolition. The committee of Claims composed of majoii- ty of members tISm the non-sayehoting States, of which Mir. Giddings, of Ohio, was the chairman. Mir. Wise asked him if the committee would allow claim for a slave killed in the Florida warl

 Mir. Giddings said that they would exactly follow the precedent in such cases.

 Mir. Wise. The precedent is, never to allow. Ii ,,aE hua ist non-commttal. There the Post Office mittee, too, six out of nine from non-slaveholding States at the head of which the gentleman from Massachusetts, Mir. Briggs] who thinks that Con- gress has the power to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia The committee the Judiciary was composed of a majority from non-slavehoding States five out of nine. There more important com mttee still--that on Foreign Relations-seven out of nine, from the non-slayeholding States. Mir. w. asked the charman Mr. Cushngl whether he would recognise the independence of iiayti. He did not know the sentiments of his friend, but presumed he would go with MT. Adams to recognise our black sis ter Republic. The gentleman silent-sience gives consent.

 Mir. Gushing arose. lis friend from Virginia compelled him to say, that

 The Speaker here interposed, and sad that if eve " mans individual opinion be asked, there would be no end to the debate.

 Mir. Wise did not intend to do mschefby ask ing the question. If the independence of fiaytl 10 be recognised, he would have no objection the gen. tleman from Massachusetts being sent Minister to that country, but he would not like see Quashi Pompey sent here. However, it matter of taste.

 Mir. w. read from history, to show how the nha- bitants of the Eastern States, in former days, treated the negroes. They even ensaved the aborignes ef the soil and sold them to the West Indies And it was now for Massachusetts and Rhode Island to per- form of penance before God for wrongs done to Guinea and the Indians.

 MrW. referred 10 the of some of his friends who voted for the exclusion of the 2lst rule, that the memorials of the aboitonists might be received thinking that such procedure would alay excite ment He said that petitions on that subject had heen received for more than forty years, and that James Madison, the father of the Constitution, once made report upon the subject, but the agitation did not cease, was shown subsequently, in the case of the instruction in Northampton, Sc. No, said Mr. w. the evil never be remedied, as my colleagues suppose, by receiving the petitions it would have been done before this. have heard of the curing of bite of mad dog, by applying the hair the dog to the wound but never before heard of curing agitation by agitation. Mir. Wise then cited great number of cases from the journal, to show that the abolition members in the House were not, and never had been, content with the reception of petitions. Resolutions had on various occasions, been ofered admitting the right of receptions but yet motions lay such petitions the table after their reception, had been invariably opposed. Thus it appeared that the gentleman from Massachusetts and others, notwithstanding all their professions showed by their actions that they want ed something more than the right of petition, After referring at some length to the circumstan ces under which resolutions in relation to abotion- ism had been brought in from time to time and voted down, Mr. W. said: "And thus with all these facts before us, told there are not six abotionsts in the House.

 The House was still in session when our paper went to press, at SD. m

 SENATE, June llth MCLEOD case

 Mr. Benton commenced his speech by warning gentlemen of the danger of taking sides against our country in controversy with foreign power. He denied that the act for which Mcleod was in custo- dy was an act of war number of Englishmen in Canada of their own voluntary act without the know ledge of the colonial authorities, had banded toge ther. crossed the Niagara, attacked an unarmed sel and sleeping who were within the jurisdic- ton of one of the sovereign States of this Union. That It was mere simple act of robbery, and murder, and did not come within the pale of the law of nations, but subject to the municipal laws of the State in which the act perperated He de- nounced the instructions of Mr. Crittenden as illegal and disgraceul to the country; illegal he had right to command him to go into State sovereignty and oppose the course of her municipal law; and disgraceful, they given in the face of threat from foreign power. He admitted the ability of the letter of Mir. Fox: the instructions to Mr. Critten- den were the answer; the letter was an argument ''for Buncombe," to justify and goze over by brave words the instructions, and in proof of this, he said that Mir. Fox had taken the least notice of it. He conclured with powerful appeal to the admi- nstraton to devote the of the nation the public defences, instead of squanderng them in schemes of distribution, and the investments in the stock of National Bank.