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
the public.
MILLARD FILLMORE.

July 27, 1848.

HON. J. STRYKER-Sir,-Having received and examined the first number of the American Quar-
terly Register and Magazine edited by you, we have pleasure in expressing our satisfaction with the
plan, arrangement, and execution. It will be a highly valuable acquisition to the means of useful
and agreeable intelligence throughout the country.
With much respect,

Boston, July 12, 1848.

CHARLES G. LORING,
JOSIAH QUINCY, JR.

"We have read with the liveliest satisfaction the two numbers which have successively appeared
of The American Quarterly Register and Magazine, conducted by the Hon. James Stryker. The plan
of the work supplies a desideratum in the scientific, political and social history of the age-it em-
braces most of those topics which every one of common intelligence desires, and few can be igno-
rant of without disadvantage and discredit. In the execution of the general design, Judge Stryker
has furnished with marked ability and judgment, much valuable information, in the most condensed
and agreeable form. The original and selected articles are all characterized by good taste and
sound intelligence, by the vigor, impartiality and candor of the conductor. We cordially commend
it to the reading public of our country, as a work of eminent and enduring merit."
Philadelphia, Sept. 25, 1848.
J. K. KANE,
J. R. TYSON.

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.
cerely.
gister and Magazine, that the editor cannot stand in need of mine: but I give it willingly and sin-
As a work for future reference, as well as for present instruction and refreshment, its plan
candor, research and taste which are applied in all its parts.
is excellent, and the two sections which have already appeared, give adequate proof of the ability,

A condensed historical summary of public transactions at home and abroad during the current
year, with special reference to the occurrences of most moment in the legislation and domestic rela-
tions of our own country, authenticated by select public documents, and by statistical tables exhibiting
our commerce, manufactures, agriculture, population and resources, must become in time a treasury
of valuable facts, which, unless exhibited and preserved in this connection, will hardly be recalled
and put together again by any degree of labor. I regard this as the most important feature of your
plan. But for the purpose of refreshment to the desultory reader, the miscellaneous department
promises, and in your supervision of it, appears to me to afford all that can be required. I hope for
blished.
the sake of the public, as well as for your own, that the work may be liberally encouraged and esta-
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

HORACE BINNEY.
The work is also recommended by Professor Tucker, Dr. Mütter, Dr. R. M. Patterson, Hon. John
M. Scott, and other distinguished gentlemen of Philadelphia.

The following are Extracts from some of the numerous notices of the Work by the Press.
"No body of historic materials has ever proved more useful in its day than the famous 'Aunual
Register, founded by Edmund Burke, and subsequently conducted by Sir Walter Scott, a great repo-
sitory of all important facts of the times, as they arose, and of such public documents as were either
necessary for their elucidation, or offered of themselves useful information of the progress of things
throughout the world. Such a continuous publication for this continent had become an urgent want;
it."-National Intelligencer.
and the work of Judge Stryker, so far as we can judge from the first number, seems about to supply

"We have given the title in full of a new, and what we are convinced from examination, to be a
very excellent and valuable periodical. Undertaken as this highly commendable enterprise has
been by so able a writer and compiler as Judge Stryker, we have no doubt he will amply succeed
in the plan he has marked out in his preface."-New York Express.

The number before us contains throm