JOHN BROWN and HUMPHREY MARSHALL, from Kentucky. ALEXANDER MARTIN and TIMOTHY BLOODWORTH, from North Carolina. WILLIAM BLOUNT, from Tennessee. JACOB READ, from South Carolina. JAMES GUNN and JOSIAH TATTNALL, from Georgia. Mr. BINGHAM administered the oath of office to the VICE PRESIDENT, who took the chair, and the credentials of the following members were read. Of Mr. FOSTER, Mr. GOODHUE, Mr. HILLHOUSE, Mr. HOWARD, Mr. LATIMER, Mr. MASON, Mr. ROSS, and Mr. TICHENOR. And the oath of office being severally administered to them by the VICE PRESIDENT, they took their seats in the Senate. The VICE PRESIDENT then addressed the Senate as follows: _Gentlemen of the Senate_: Entering on the duties of the office to which I am called, I feel it incumbent on me to apologize to this honorable House for the insufficient manner in which I fear they may be discharged. At an earlier period of my life, and through some considerable portion of it, I have been a member of Legislative bodies, and not altogether inattentive to the forms of their proceedings; but much time has elapsed since that; other duties have occupied my mind, and, in a great degree, it has lost its familiarity with this subject. I fear that the House will have but too frequent occasion to perceive the truth of this acknowledgment. If a diligent attention, however, will enable me to fulfil the functions now assigned me, I may promise that diligence and attention shall be sedulously employed. For one portion of my duty, I shall engage with more confidence, because it will depend on my will and not my capacity. The rules which are to govern the proceedings of this House, so far as they shall depend on me for their application, shall be applied with the most rigorous and inflexible impartiality, regarding neither persons, their views, nor principles, and seeing only the abstract proposition subject to my decision. If, in forming that decision, I concur with some and differ from others, as must of necessity happen, I shall rely on the liberality and candor of those from whom I differ, to believe, that I do it on pure motives.