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New Zealander, Volume 10, Issue 885, 7 October 1854, Page 2 (Supplement)

The Aebkaska Bill.—Scenes in Congress.— The Nebraska Bill, now before the American House of Representatives, leads to the most violent altercations in that Assembly. In a sitting which lasted from noon on Thursday, 11 th May, to 20 minutes to 12 on Friday night, such a violent dispute arose that it is stated that but for tbe Sergeant-at-arms, a fight would instantly have ensued, and probably would have become general. The Washington correspondent of the Tribune states that several members now wear arma in the house. In the sitting on the 15th a quarrel arose between Mr. Hunt and Mr. Craige, and it was expected that a hostile meeting would take place, but when the packet left they had not been able to settle who was the person first insulted. According to the correspondent of the Tribune, one of the deputy Speakers (for the Speaker cannot retain the chair during a thirty-six hour's sitting) has begun to limit those who address the house to half the usuai time, and to " exact from them a promise to make no motion for adjournment as a consideration for his giving them thefloor." On the 15th a resolution was agreed to, by 114 against 59, that the debate be closed the following Saturday at noon. A letter from Naples states that on the 14th instant M. J. Delius, of Bremen, having ascended Mount Vesuvius with a party of his countrymen, went too near the edge of the crater and the ground giving way under him, he fell into the abyss. Captain Lewis Jones, who so dashingly led in with the Sampson steam irigate, at the bombardment of Odessa, has been nominated to a Companionship of the Bath, as a recognition of his exploit..