Resolution tendering the congratulations of the Americans to the French people. Resolution authorizing the presentation to the government of France of a series of the standard weights and measures of the United States, and for other pur poses. Resolution authorizing the proper accounting officers of the Treasury to make a just and fair settlement of the claims of the Cherokee nation of Indians, according to the principles established by the treaty of August, 1846. Resolution for the speedy payment of the three months' extra pay to the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates who have served in the late war with Mexico, allowed by the act of July 19, 1848. Resolution authorizing the erection, on the public grounds in the city of Washington, of a monument to George Washington. is able and meresting, anu work. In a short time it will be a reservoir of various contributions to the history, constitutional jurisprudence, and commercial and social progress of our country, which will be indispensable in every library. I heartily wish you success in an undertaking as arduous as it is important. Very respectfully, &c., J. C. SPENCER. I unite most cordially with Hon. J. C. Spencer in recommending the work to the patronage of July 27, 1848. HON. J. STRYKER-Sir,-Having received and examined the first number of the American Quar- Boston, July 12, 1848. CHARLES G. LORING, "We have read with the liveliest satisfaction the two numbers which have successively appeared From Professor Henry, of the Smithsonian Institute. Before the publication of the American Quarterly Register, Judge Stryker explained to me the plan and the object of the work, and I then expressed a very favorable opinion of its importance as supplying a deficiency constantly felt. I have since seen the first number of the journal, and am confirmed in the opinion previously expressed, of its being a work of great value to the public. Washington, June, 1848. JOSEPH HENRY. Letter from Hon. Horace Binney. There have been so many favorable attestations of the character of the American Quarterly Re. A condensed historical summary of public transactions at home and abroad during the current HORACE BINNEY. The following are Extracts from some of the numerous notices of the Work by the Press. "We have given the title in full of a new, and what we are convinced from examination, to be a The number before us contains throm |