The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-12-10
The Foreign News.
Our agent IN Boston sent the following to us last

OuT agent III DOstcu stut VIC ioAoWihB W uS iuSt
evening by telegraph -
The packet schooner Boston from Halifax, N s, 18th
instant, noon, has arrived The Canads:" rom ~.
hours eince.
The Canada a new steamship, and was ex-
pected TO make short passage. She has probably
encountered severe weather.
Congressional Repor,ing-Sew Mode OF Conn
munica alton between Congress and the p ub-
lie.
The present session of Congress promises to be
once Of great interest. Many singular develop
mfnS.will be made in advance of the advent OF the
neyps administration and the intrgues and ma
n5sySs 6f rival cliques aud factions on the floors
ofaa Desnss vi Thrush great deal of piquant
and sTee able matter for the entertainment Of dis
ntfseHts d philosophers. The public will therefore
LOOK with considerable interest to the debates in
both branches OF the, national legislature and we
have accordingly made arrangements for the pu5-
lcatiop,d full, Ffe5like, and independent reports
ofGuugress during the present session. We have
Organized corps of the most talented and ex-
perienced Congressional reporters to be found
in tkescauusrys and paced at their head DR..
Holls an, who Was for many years connected
with the pNe,r afmf Hcnua as a reporter, and
offibFd, Dung the last session, as stepographer
tothc Senate of the limited States From these
affsngsaents we will be enabled TO supply our
readers with more correct, prompt and g. naprs.r
hehsive reports OF The debates in Congress; than
can be furnished by any other Journal, IN the
country. 7'5 l'.e't .,tu'ai7.o .lfE bssbni ;sdi
This enterprise Is of greater Importance i Than
some persons might a! first imagine. Within the
last,wo ye ara. the United States OF America have
nations, We now occupy ope of the most pro,
Mriienf POSITIONS amongst eygycat powers of the
.affh' Not long since, American affIrs occupied
buta Lon don ne wss,a perv and
our jhsntnions and people swete only ma AZ the
snbect of affected eneer the part ofo British
jvsrhalIsts and rrWewers. Now, column atter. coz
iamnot thel leading European ewspaPers rs devoted
to the foreign and domestic policy Of the United
States-7our political contests utour rssourcesrour
pfYgressouf evident destiny dle gre at republic
ogp0denl trbfs while the revieysrs, and political
seosfemissss and~ statesrnenI Of Great Britain and
the Contpent of EuEope,l profoundly ptersstedlin
'age subject wfnchshas thus become iHested wash
rrahscehdehts Importance, seem To- he ihfehfiy
anRg td in the ostudy Of olr social aud political
sSstsmo fr this new state plI Affairs Congress
Itself has grown into greatly augmented; impori
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c0-exisRstye with the prog rsssNf 10 pper rishtsand
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of sWFlyinga an appropriate vehicle of communica-
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