A curious resolution has been submitted to the Senate of
the United States. Mr. Saulsbury (Dem., Del.) submitted the fol- lowing :—Resolved, " That the Chaplain of the Senate be respectfully requested hereafter to pray and supplicate Almighty 'God in our behalf, and not to lecture Him, informing Him, under pretence of prayer, his, said Chaplain's, opinion in reference to His duty as the Almighty, and that the said Chaplain be further requested, as aforesaid, not under the form of prayer to lecture ,the Senate in relation to questions before the body." Mr. Sauls- bury speaks with feeling, and must have smarted under similar petitions in private when he had not the support of party spirit in making headway against them. Indeed, the Nonconformists of this country must have often felt stirred in their hearts to hand in similar resolutions to their trustees or chapelwardens after ex- periencing that didactic form of abstract controversy which is called, we believe, the " long prayer."
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