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Show Anotner Coramittee. Wc understand a committee of two called upon Mr. Lyon, the assistant Librarian, in his oflico yesterday, and demanded, by virtue of the seventh section of the Poland Bill, to examine all the hooks in the library, and to take them away ibr the purpose of copying them. Mr. Lyon, whose suavity is never ! nonplussed by any untowardact, replied, re-plied, that the gentlemen might examine ex-amine the books in his presence, but owing, we presume, to some informality informal-ity in the demand, ho could not allow them to tako away the library; neither did be feci compelled lo furnish them copies of the Patent Office Itcports, U.S. Statutes at Large, ani other valuable documents in his office. This refusal on his part would seem to call for tho issuance of an alternative mandamus. |