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Northern Congress. In the Federal Senate on the 27th inst., the resolution to give immediate attention to all war communications of the President, and limiting debate to five minutes, was taken up, and after a warm discussion laid over. The special order, the case of Mr. Bright, was taken up, and Mr. Latham of California, addressed the Senate at length against his expulsion. He urged that the public opinion of to-day is not the public opinion that existed March 1st, 1861, when the letter was written by Mr. Bright, introducing T. B. Lincoln to Jefferson Davis, President of the Southern Confederacy. He examined the state of affairs here at the time of the writing of the letter, and asked would the Senate have expelled the gentleman from Indiana had the letter been found on Lincoln's person before he left the city? Such he held would not have been the case. as on the 2d of March they listened to Wigfall's speech, and subsequently, on the 8th March, a resolution offered