Literary Cadet And Rhode Island Statesman

From the National Journal of Saturday.

The Senate did not sit yesterday. Nothing of public interest was transacted in the House of Representatives yesterday. A joint resolution authorizing the use of one of the Committee rooms, by the Columbian Institute, was read a third time and passed. The general appropriation bill, for the support of Government for the first quarter of the year 1829, was read a third time and passed.

A resolution was introduced by Mr. J. C. Wright relative to an inquiry into the price of paper for the public printing, which was opposed by Mr. Wickliffe, who moved to lay it on the table. On this motion, Mr. Wright demanded the Ayes and Noes; but before the call was acted upon, the hour having expired, the question remained undecided. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the reports made by the Committee of Claims, on the subject of repayment for a horse. A motion was made by Mr. Wickliffe to strike out so much of the report as was unfavorable to the petitioner, and to insert instructions to the Committee to report a specific remuneration in each case, which amendment was carried in Committee, and concurred in by the House. The House then adjourned till Monday.

Mr. Cambreleng yesterday presented a petition from three or four thousand mechanics of the City of New York, praying for a duty of 10 per cent. upon Auction sales. The petitions which have now been presented from the City of New-York alone, upon this subject, embrace the alleged signatures of about 22,000 persons. We are somewhat astonished on looking at this swollen and imposing list of names that at the recent election in that City, when a ticket expressly called "Anti Auction" was presented to the people for support, it should have received that of scarcely a third of the number of citizens whose names appear upon these various petitions.