Mr. RAYMOND. The portrait, to which reference is made in the letter which has just been read, reached me a week or 2 since, and I caused it to be placed in The SPEAKER’s room for the examination of members of this House. Those who have examined it will have seen that while the class of art to which it belongs is not perhaps the highest among the fine arts, it has nevertheless a great many recommendations, chief among which, as the artist himself states, is its iinperishable nature. It is a style of art which is one of the oldest in Europe, and has contributed by its character to the preservation of the great master pieces of early ages, which otherwise would have gone to decay. Some of the principal buildings of Italy, and notably among them SanMarco of Venice, and StPeters ofRome, are ornamented with works of art in mosaic, some in recious stones and others in enamel. They have endured for 100s of years, and are still as bright and fresh as when 1st executed. I trust that this House and this Congress will deem it proper to accept this giIft from this foreign artist, presented as a tribute on his behalf and that of those associated with him to the greatness of our deceased President, asa mark of their respect for the great country over which he presided). Some writer I do not now recollect whohas remarked, in reference to criticism upon literary works, that the verdict of a foreign nation may well be regarded as essentially the verdict of posterity. I am sure that that remark, to a certain extent, may be applied to the verdict of foreign nations upon the political character of the great men of any day; and in this respect we may well congratulate ourselves upon the unanimous approbation and applause which have greeted the career of the deceased President, whose loss we so recently were called upon to deplore. Perhaps more than any other prominent American who ever lived, except, perhaps, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln was the embodiment and representative of whatever is peculiar in the American character and in American culture; and more than any American, with possibly the same exception, his character and his career have commanded the admiration and applause of foreign nations. From all arts of Europe from the workingmen of England, from the workin men of the great manufac turing cities of France have come to us in various forms tributes to his character and tributes to the great work which he performed for this his native land, and the only land which his eyes had ever seen. And now, sir. there comes to us from the ancient city of Veniccatribute in the form ofawork of art, to which, Iam sure, we shall accord a similar welcome. Something, perhaps, of respect and sympathy may be due to the city from which t iis work comes' a city whose vicissitudes, political and civil, have been among the most remarkable in the history of the world; a city rightly styled by one of England’s greatest poets the “eldest child of liberty” that “Once did hold the gorgeousEast in fee nd was the safeguardof the West;" a city which has ossed through all the perils and changes to which“free institutions are always subject, and which will stand as a monument of political "icissitude and uncertainty through all time to come; a city which is now passing through some of the most remarkable fortunes ever connected with the history of any people having been the 1st great representative in Europe of republican liberty; then handed over by the 1st Napoleon to the domination of Austria; and now received from Austria by the 3rd Napoleon, to be handed back again, as we may hope and trust, to the dominion of liberty. A present of this sort from such a city to this country, as a token of remembrance for Abraham Lincoln, may well be received by us with special expressions of appreciation and regard. Sir, I offer this resolution, which I trust will be adopted unanimously: Resolved by the HoRep the senate concurring That Congressaccepts the portrait of Abraham lincoln, presented by Signor ‘alnuti. of the city of Vcnicc. with thanks to the donor. and that the portrait be placed for safe custody in the Library of Congress. The resolution was unanimously agreed to. COURTS OF WASHINGTON TERRITORY. The House resumed the consideration of business on The SPEAKER’s tableN the 1st business being Senate amendments to the bill (H.R.No. 438) entitled “An act in relation to the courts of Washington Territory.” The amendments of the Senate were read, as follows: 7 On page 1. line 5, strike out "the" after “the " and insert in lieu thercof“eacli.” “Iiil tsp, same line strike out "judges" and insert JOlngtlrsame page.in line 7.strike out “ the" after “in” andinsert “ is. Amend the title by inserting. afterthe word “relation.” the words“ to the appointmentof clerks for.”