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amounted to $14,732,927, and raw material for 

 manufactures, that is to say, articles indispensable to 

 feed and employ the operatives of Great Britain. 

 The British returns give the annual production at 

 £247,000,000, and the exports to the United 

 States £9,564,902. 



The Government of the United States. — 

 Congress sits at Washington. The Senate is conv 

 posed of two members from each State, elected by 

 the Legislature for the term of six years. Their 

 terms are so arranged that one-third expires every 

 two years. There being thirty-one States, the num- 

 ber of Senators is now sixty-two. Tho Vice- 

 President is President of the Senate. Wm. R. King, 

 of Alabama, has been elected President of the 

 Senate, in consequence of Mr. Fillmore being exalted 

 to the Presidency by the death of General Taylor. 

 The House of Representatives consists of 231 mem- 

 bers, chosen from the several States, in the ratio of 

 1 to 70,680 persons. Their compensation is $8 per 

 day, and that of the Speaker $16 per day, during 

 the session, and $8 for every twenty miles travel in 

 going and returning. The pay of the Senators is the 

 same as that of the members of the House of Repre- 



