The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-05-31
CONGRESS-.
The Senate did not sit on Saturday.

The SPEAKER laid before the House a letter
from the Hon. Robert c.. Winthrop, of Massa-
chusetts, resigning his seat as a member of that
body, in consequence of ill health. Also, let
ter from the Secretary of the Treasury, trans
hitting the information required by the resolu-
ton of the House of the 18th instant, respect
ing the payment made to James ID. Doty, Gov
ernor of Wisconsin, out Of the appropriation for
public buildings In that Territory and report
! from the Secretary of the Treasury, in reply to
a resolution calling for information relative to
the growth, consumption, rate Of duties, and
expectation of tobacco.
A resolution was offered, but its reception OBJ
jected TO, calling on the Secretary of the Navy
for information with regard to any orders he
may have issued since the first of the present
month, countermanding the order for launching
| vessels, etc.
Mr. CALHOUN asked leave to submit a resolu
ton. requiring the Secretary of the Navy to
state to the House the amount of money which
has passed through the hands of certain naval
officers within the last two years. Objection
being made, the resolution was not received.
Mr. KENNEDY, of Maryland, from the Com
mittee on Commerce, to which memorials had
been referred on the subject of reciprocity, ton
mage duties, ETC., made report, accompanied
by bills to establish reciprocity in the CONNER
cal relations of the United States in their in
tercourse with certain British colonial ports, to
alter the mode of admeasuring the tonnage of
ships and other vessels and joint resolution
requiring the President, at such times as he
shall deem advisable, to give the proper notice for
terminating such treaties with European pow
ers as have established the privilege of import
ing on equal terms, other articles than those
the produce of the countries in whose vessels
the importations are made.
The House then proceeded to the considera-
ton of private bills, and subsequently adjourned.
THE GRAIN MARKET IN ENGLAND.
The following extract of letter from an expert
enced and highly respectable house in Liverpool,
ceived per Acadia, gives more full information on
this subject than we have seen elsewhere.-Philad
U. S. Gazette
"Our Grain market has for time been in
dull and unsettled state owing to the intended change
much circumscrbed by the pressure Of the times de-
priving manufacturing population of the means Of
purchasing their usual quantity Of food the prices of
free Wheat, in consequence, experienced some de-
cline which, together with the low quality of the
Wheat brought to MARKET caused considerable de-
cline in the averages, and, instead OF fall as had
been confidently predicted corresponding advance
in the duties, until the duty Wheat under the old
law arrived at 27s 3D. per quarter. We also receiv-
ed large supply of Wheat from the Mediterranean,
and of Flour from the United States and from Cana
da increasing our stock of bonded Wheat in the
Kingdom to upwards of 900 quarters, and of
bonded Flour to upwards of 100000 barrels. Bond
ed Wheat and Flour, therefore, became objects of
less attention, and the prices of both declined 1t is
impossible to arrive at the extent of the stock of
Wheat held by farmers many are of opinion
that it is light, and that, notwithstanding our dmin
shed consumption, all the foreign supplies we are
likely to receive, which not expected to be large,
together with the Wheat and Flour in bond, will be
required before the next harvest.
This opinion which is however by means gene
rail- susains the market, and holders have shown more
frmness the prices of bonded wheat and flour have
again advanced TO where they at the commence
and rs Cd pc bushel of 70bs., and the latter at 27s
2ss Cd per Dbl As reducing the duties, it is GER
tanly improvement on the old one; but the prin-
cple of il is genera y objected TO, imbodyng the
sliding scale II is probable that the far ners heat
which will hereafter be offered for SALE will be of bet
quality and that the averages advancing the duty
| will again fall that holders of bonded wheat and
| -four will, probably not at release their stocks
but that they will meet the demand and pay duty on
such quantities they enabled to SELL There is
a prospect Of an improvement in the demand still
any material advance in the prices very doubtful.
There is quotation for Indian corn in bond, there