The following petitions were presented and referred: . . .

By Mr. VAN BUREN, of Peter Harmony, J. Balestier & Co. and William Russel, severally, to be allowed to export Spanish playing cards, with benefit of drawback; of John A. Willinck, to be allowed the drawback on a quantity of sugar imported by him to Antwerp: of William H. Bassett, for damages sustained by the nonperformance of a contract made with him by the Navy Agent at Norfolk; and of Abraham Ogden and others, praying compensation for a vessel seized in 1812, at Laguayra.