co, under care of a special agent, was
adopted.

In the Senate, February 5th, the Committee on Foreign Relations, of
which Mr. Foote is chairman, reported a resolution that in all future
treaties by the United States, provisions should be made for settling
difficulties by arbitration, before resorting to war. The Judiciary
Committee also reported in favor of Messrs. Winthrop and Ewing (senators
appointed by the governors of Massachusetts and Ohio to fill vacancies)
holding their seats till their regularly-elected successors appear to
claim their places. Mr. Winthrop, however, on Friday, February 7th,
presented the credentials of his successor, Mr. Rantoul, (who had not
yet arrived,) and vacated his seat. The credentials of Mr. Bright, as
senator from Indiana for the ensuing term, were presented on the
twenty-eighth of January.

A bill for the relief of Mrs. Charlotte Lynch, mother of Miss Anne C.
Lynch, the poetess, passed the House by a majority of 11. It had
previously passed the Senate. Mrs. Lynch is the only surviving child of
Colonel Ebenezer Gray, of the Connecticut line, who served in the army
of the Revolution. The bill provides five years' full pay, as an
equivalent for the losses sustained by him through the substitution of
the commutation certificates issued in 1783.

The American Minister at Rio Janeiro has transmitted some important
information to the Government in regard to the Brazilian traffic in
slaves under the American flag. A considerable portion of the infamous
trade, by which from forty to fifty thousand negroes are annually
imported into Brazil, is carried on in American-built vessels, under the
protection of our flag. It has been found impossible to enforce the
Brazilian statutes on the subject, the authorities charged with their
execution, almost without exception, conniving at the traffic. In spite
of the exertions of the American Minister, our flag is still used as a
protection, and its influence is given to the support of the
slave-dealer. The communications of the American Minister have been
referred by the Senate to the Committee on Commerce. Mr. Clay spoke at
some length in favor of adopting more efficient measures to prevent
American vessels and seamen from engaging in the slave-trade.

The project of establishing a line of steamers between several American
ports and the coast of Africa, Gibraltar, and England,--familiarly known
as the "Ebony Line,"--has been strongly recommended to C