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 WEDNESDAY, December I6. HIr. Calhoun and Mir. Preston from South Carolina, appeared and took their seats.

 STANDING COMMITTEES. The Chair announced the business first in order, being the election of Standing Com mittees, the Senate proceeded to the election by ballot.

 MT. Clay was ected chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations.

 Mir. Webster chairman on Finances. MT. Davis chairman on Commerce. Mr. Knight chairman on Manufactures. Mr. Brown chairman on Agriculture. Mr. Benton chairman on Military Affairs. MT. southard chairman on Naval Affairs. AIr. Ewing chairman on Public Lands. Mr. Black on Private Land Claims. Mr. White chairman on Indian Affairs. Mir. Naudain chairman on Claims. Mir. Clayton chairman on the Judiciary. Mir. Grundy chairman on the Post Office and Post Roads.

 MT. Hendricks chairman on Roads and Canals.

 aIr. Tomlinson chairman on Tensions. Mir. Tyler chairman on the District of Columbia.

 MT. Moore chairman on Revolutionary Claims.

 MT. McKean chairman on the Contingent Expenses of the Senate.

 Mir. Shepley chairman on Engrossed Bills. The Senate proceeded to ballot for the re- maining members of the several committees, when the following were elected.

 Foreign Reintions.---Messrs King oI Georgia, Tallmadge. Mangum, Porter. Flaance.-Messrs Cuthbert, Wright, Man. gum, and Tyler.

 Commerce.-alessrs Goldsborough, Tom Iinson, McKean, and Linn.

 .Hanufactures.-M Ruggles, Morris, Prentiss, and Hendricks.

 Mir Clay, at this stage moved that the Senate adjourn, and

 The Senate adjourned.

 HOUSE or kE REPRESENTATIVES,.

 "WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER Is.

 MT. Thompson, of South Carolina, and Nr. Rply, of Louisiana, appeared, were qualified, and took their seats. Roderick Dorsey, elected Sergeant-at- Arms of the House of Representatives, pre- sented himself and was qualified. Sundry petitions and memorials were pre- scented. 1 The Speaker presented letter from Isaac E. Crary, transmitting his credentials, as 1 Representative in Congress from the State 0 Michigan. Mir. Bcardsley said the gentleman couIi 