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THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That a QUARTERLY GE EitAL COURT of the said Company will be held at their House in Leadenh all-street, on VT , ' DNESD AY, the 17th December nest, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. EAST INDIA HOUSE THE 10TH DECEMBER, 1856. THE COURT of DIRECTORS cf the EAST INDIA COMP ANY DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That a Proprietor of East India Stock (J. Jones, Esq.) has given notice of his intention, at the Quarterly General Coart of the said Company. appointed to he held at their House in Leadenhall-street, oa WEDNESDAX, the 17th Instant, to gihmit a motion relative to the Constitution of the Home Government of India, with special reference to the Coard of Control. . That another Proprietor (\I. Lewin. Esq.) has given notice of his intention, at the said Quarterly ieneral Court, to submit a motion relatiy to the Annexation of Onde. J ISLES C. 711ELTILL. Secretary. ONE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD.- The above Reward will be paid to any Person who will ean•e to ne sent to No. 55, Moorgate-street, a PARCEL, tied with String and Sealed, addressed "C. E. Mangle., Passenger, south- Western Railway," which was left in a Hansom Cab on Friday Evening last. about Five o'Clock, at the Waterloo Station FIFTY POUNDS will be paid to any one who will give such In formation as will lead to a Recovery of the above Parcel. 55, Moorgate-street, 16th December, 1856. MON T BLANC Is OPEN. ARA yLL ROOMS. -LA (TRENT'S CASIN( ), Great Windmill-street, St. James's —The above elegan Rooms are now open every evening , or the winter season, with Laurent's celebrated Orchestra. Principal, Cornet-a-piston, M. Rotticourt. The Proprietor begs to it,form the public that th,s fashionable place of resort ha been entirely redecorated during the rgeess. Doors open at half-past eight, commence at nine. kdmis • ion hoe Shilling. 11) R. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 4, Coventry-street, Leicester-square.—Open (for Gentlemen 'ely) from lip till 10, containing upwlrds of one thousand models .Pd preparations, illnst:ating every part of the human frame in 'ealth and disease, the race of men, &c. Lecture• delivered at 12, 4, and half-past 7, by Dr. G. AEXTOIf, F.R.G.S. ; and a new and 4 101 y-interesting series of Lectures is now in course of delivery S W Dr. KAHN. at'a'•gnatter put 8 p.m. precisely. tdmission. nue Elhilling. Catalogues containing Lectures as delivered by Dr. Khan (gratis). GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS RETURN TICKETS issued on WEDNESDAY, Dec. 24th, and !atermediate days, will be avrilahle until MONDAY, the 29th, in • elusive. On the Bristol and Exeter and South Devon line tickets are not available on Sundays. The trains on Christmas-day will run as on Sundayip with the addi tion of Down Day Mail from Paddingtoo to Bristorat 10 a.m., and the Up Day Mail from Bristol to Padlington at 11 a.m., which will rim as on week days, wi h the exception et th. Branch Trains be tween West Drayton and Uxbridge ; Maidenhead and Wycombe ; Reading and Basingstoke; Chippenham. Salisbury, and Yeovil; Gloucester and Hereford; and over the south Wales Line. THE KENTISH TOWN ESTATE . -VOTES for MIDDLE s EX. Th e CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. the 22d January, 1157, at the Offices, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, the Kentish-town Estate, in the York-road, will he allotted. On the 15th January, 1857, a PUBLIC MEETING will be held at Eight O'clock p.m., at the Commissioner's Rooms', Kentish-town. On THURSD Y, the 18th inst., at the Fourth Annual Meeting at Exeter Rall, at Three o'clock—Viscount Ranelagh in the chair—"ne Hun dred Numbers will be dray, n to be added to the Register of Rights of Choice, and Fifty Shares will be placed on the Seniority List.—For Shares apply to CHARLES LEWIS GRITNEISEY, Secretary. ENGINEERS' and AGE UNITED ASSURANCE SOCIETIES. Capital, 100,0001 Head Office, 345. Strand (opposite Waterloo-bridge). Policies issued Free of Stamp Duty to the Assured. F our-fifths of the Profits divided amongst the A ssured. P olicyholders having pPlei two Annual Premiums participate pro- P o rtlonately in all divisions of the Profits. No Entrance Fee for .ft,dmittance. Medical Referees paid by the Society. Assignments of Policies registered Free of Charge. The last Bonus declared to the 31st December, 1854, averaged ove 4 0 per cent. on the total premiums received. W. F. DOBSON. Chairman. GERARD HAY ROtiERTSOY, Secretary. ESTABLISH ED 1837. 13RITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COM PANY. Empowered by Special Act of Parliament, 4 Viet., cap 9, and BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION, Empowered by Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. Princes-street, Bank, London. l ixtox-GEsrsam. ALEXANDEn, Blackheath-park, Chairman. Number of Policies issued, upwards of 11,000. Annual Income from Premi ams (exclusive of Interest on Invest hients) upwards of 84,0001. Rates of Premium reduced. to the lowest possible sccle compatible With security, and computr in such variety of ways as to suit the Cir cumstances, and convenience of every class of Policy-holders. E. R. FOSTER, Resident Director. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. OYSTERS, BARRELLED.—The BURNHAM RIVER NATIVE OYSTERS are the best in the world—six years old—four hours from the beds To be bad only at .t. SWEET ING'S FISH. and OYSTF R ESTABLISHMENT, 159, Cheapside. J. S. always has the largest supply of the best Fish in season, at the lowest marlat price. In ordering Fish tt will be desirable to state for how malty persons it is required, and whether for v , sitors or domestic uss. A post-oillee order or reference will have prompt • mention. Superior Oyster Rooms. 1 ..., ° - - LOVERS of . FlSH.—Fifth S eason .— We e Ginnine YARMOUTH BLOATERS Th ese highly .. tried deli cac i es f orwarded to all parts , on receipt of the amount, "der. in penny postage st am p s , or Post-offlce order :- 10f) prime 11)0 especially selected Bs. 4d. Package included. 50 ditto As . Bend full and plain directions, county, and nearest station. Ad ""e33, THOMAS LETTES, Jun., Fish Curer, Brett Yarmouth. I MPORTANT TO EVERY MAN WHO KEEPS A HORSE, COW, SHEEP, OR PIG. INIORLETS FOOD FOR CATTLE. THE CHEAPEST AND BEST EVER YET INTRODUCED ! ~11 ) 1 C1 Cas es containing 448 Packages—each Package One Feed, - 1 )41 ` e cost of Three Half-pence each, equal to 565. per case. Carriage to any luilway station. None are genuine without my signature— JOSEPH THORLEY, the Inventor, 115, High-street, Hull. post-oltich Orders must be made payable as above. It. HOWARD, burgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet. ' ` ,l A. „, street, has introduced an entirely new description of A RTI /rL 'TEETH ,flxed without snrings, wires, or ligatures. They so feetly resemble the nataral teeth as not to be distinguished from e Original by the closest observer; they will never change colour or Ac. aY, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before used. 18 thod does . not require the extraction of root, or any ainful () Aerati on , and will support and preserv e teeth that s are loose, p and is etl arznteed to restore articulati on an d mastication. Decayed teeth theeMe frorldered m souenn dtill and useful in mastication.—.s2, Fleet-street. At t five. CANCER HOSPITAL, London. and West Brompton.—Secretary's Office,Piccadilly.—This Instpoor 11 011 has has been established exclusively for the treatment of the leted with cancerous diseases. Out-door patients to a t tend at 167, voe vadiily, on Tuesdays, at 2 o'clock. In-door patients ar e a d m i tted h l_he Brompton Esta'lishment, for one month, a n d f or a longer 7r 1 041 if recommended by the edical officers. The number of per the under treatment as in or out-door patients have averaged for Le last three years about 400 cases each 3 ear. Since the foun4ation t his Hospital in 1851, 1,799 poor persons, sufferi ng under every ,'• 111 of this dreadful malady, have received the benefits of this tiwkrity, A Weekly Board manage its affairs, and every inforrna tt_conneeted with the Institution may be obtained . on application ti t he Secretary. Contributions to enable the Committee to centinue gr eatwork of benevolence are urgently solicited , and may be Dftid 1 4 „ Lc. William Loxham Farrar, E-q., the Treasurer, 66, Lincoln's ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand; and at the Secretary's ' t ea. 167, Piccadilly. By order. W. J. COCKERILL, Secretary. OYA.L FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. Patron—The QUEEN.—Founded 1828. % T l l ls sick poor ar admitted e aon their own application alone; no re tnenthLtion is required. Of t Zing the past month the following number received the benefits ap p , Charity, either as out or in-deor patients, on their personal nation:— Week ending 7th November ..... • 2,154 Ditto 14th November 2,043 Ditto 21st November 1,972 Ditto 28th November 2,309 29th and 30th November. Total in November .... • • 8747 et 'Which 2,775 were new cases, the remainder (s , till under treat illent) having been admitted previously. The clergy of all denominations have unlimited access to the -Patients. ti He avy expenses are inevitably i ncurre d i n a ff or di ng suc h exten• ve relief. The Committee, therefore, earnestly entreat the aid of 'te Public. , The management of the Hospital is in the hands of 30 Governors, ...'" e arY elected from the general list of subscribers, at the Annual ,leneral Meeting in January. A Board is held every Thurscley, et 4 o'clo ck Owen, Chairman), to conduct' the business, 'When arty s ubscriber may attend, if so disposed, the Board being at All times desirous of receiving suggestions or giving explanation. The Hospital i s not endowed, but is wholly dependent on volun tary contributions and legacies, which are received by the Treasurer, John MasDrummonterrnan, Esq., m‘p . Nicholas-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts a.; d an c 0 ..; Berrie s an d C o.; R ansom and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Cod. .; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Glyn and Co. ; veranda'rtarcl and Co ; Denison and Co. ; Williams. Deacon, and Co.' 0 , Gurney, a . nd Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Ber bers -street ; M.aste'eman and Co.; and at the Hospital. Clothing for the destitute patients will be thankfully received. By order, J. B. OWEN, M.A..Chairman. N EW D IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE Patent OF MEDICINE. LOffice Seal of Great Britain. Diplome d'Ecole de Pharmacie aacmacien de Paris. Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna d, • katESENIAR No. 1,2, and 3, prepared in the form of a lozenge, ~ ressld of taste or smell, and can be carried in th e waistcoat pocket. in Dtin cases, divided into separate doses, as administered b ' l4 eau, Lallemand, Roux, Ricord, &c., &c. y TRIESEMAR No. 1 is a Remedy for RE to TAXATION, ,PERMATORRHCEA, and all tee distressing nse quennes arising f rom early abuse, indiscriminate excesses, or too ,Z 1 residence in hot climates. It has restored bodily and sexual i;L e ngth and vigour to thousands of 'ebilitated individuals who are ~;;' in the enjoyment of health and the Functions of Manhood ; and Itiltever may be the cause for DISQUALIFICATIONS fbr MAR —4 E, they are effectually subdued by this Wonderful Discovery. TRIESEMAR No. 11., erect nally, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely .I.. a dicates all traces of Gonorrhcea, both in its mild and aggravated Gleets, Strictures, Irritation of the Bladder, Non-retention of Falfis of the Loins and Kidneys, and those disorders which 111 3 ('Lvi and Cubebs have so long been thought an antidote for, to the h Si the health of a vast portion of the population. tom th TRIESEMAR great Continental Remedy for Syphilis and Secondary Symp --• It also constitutes a certain cure for Scurvy, Scrofula, and all tihmneous Eruptions, removing and expelling in its course all corrup -I°4 and impurities from the vital stream, as altogether to eradicate te ta ll ru3 of disease, and expel it with the insensible perspiration tl e llgh the medium of the pores of the skin and urine, and is a lb, v Vatting remedy for that class of disorder s which unfortunately tl on 'nglish Physician treats with Mercury, to the inevitable destruc th, of the patient's constitution, and w hi c h all t h e sars aparilla 1:1 ta l!lerld cannot restore. i e l. ,; c is, or four cases In one for 335„ which saves 11 s., and In Si, retwhereby there is a saving of 11. 12s. To be had wholesale and p r z In London, of Derby and Gordon, 140, Leadenball-street; n..."ltt, 229, Strand; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; Sanger, 150, -410 rd 'stree. ve rb - MAN FRAILTY ; a P opu l ar M e di ca l price Is., post free, beautifully illustrated with 100 engravings, Ceg. co ntaining the opinions of Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux, Iticc , :d, who It gives copious instructions for . the perfect restoration of those lita,: ir e Prevented by impediments Irom entenng into the married 4 ,. 0 ` , also showing the dreadtul results from early abuse, gonorrtana, tvL, s YPhilis, and the beuedts arising' from the chemical tests and „rination of the spermatoza, by the author's newly-constructed t4. °B coPe. with powerful lenses.—Piper and Co. 2f4 aterllo3ter -444 from all agents for the sale of"Triesetnar.! N O . 20,122.) PUBLICATIONS. Now ready, in 1 vol., with 1,5:10 Engravings of Arms, SIR BERNARD BURKE'S PEERAGE and BARON. , T At.E fl , r 1857, New Edition, corrected throughout from the personal communications of the Nobility, &c. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. MR. JEAFFRESON'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the libraries, in 3 vols., ISABEL ; the Young Wife and the Old Love; By J. C. JEAFFItIe.SON, Author of " Rise." &c. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. On the first of January will be publish,d the Fit st Volume of a Cheap and Un form Edition of the WORKS OF MR. THOMAS CARLYLE, Handsomely printed in crown Bvo , price Gs. cloth. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: a History, Will be the first Work issued, and will be complete In 2 vo's. London: Chapman and Hall, 193, riccadidy. With a Frontispiece, cloth, gilt edges, 4s. 6d., THE CHRISTMAS TREE and other TALES Adapted from the i;erman. Fy FANNY KEMBLE, London : John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. FRASER'S MAGAZINE for JANUARY, 1 , 457, will contain the Commencement of a New Work, by G. J. WRY TE MI LVlLLE,entitled,TllE INTERPIIETEII, a Tale of the War. Already published by the same author, KATE COVENTRY. Second Edition, 7s. 6d DIGBY GRAND. Two vols. 18s. GENERAL BOUNCE. Two vols. 15s. London: John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. COMPLETION OF TODD AND BOWMAN'S P .I I . SIOLOGY. This day, the Second Section of Part IV., 10s., and the Secand Volume, 255., Pll YS I OLO GICA L ANATOMY and PHYSIOLOGY of MAN. With numerou4 Original Illustra- By R. B TODD, M.D., F.R.F., and W. BOWMAN, F.R.S., of King's Coll go, London. Also, the Third Part, an First S ction of Part IV., is. each, and e First Volume, cloth, 15 , ., London : John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. MIRTH FOR THE MILLION. Now publishing, Is. ~d ., cloth, gilt edges, with f or ty-f our p l ates, PHILOSOPHY and MIRTH UNITED b y PEN and PENCIL, Original Charades, Enigns, and Puzzles for Winter evenings. Lo.lclon Houlston and Stoneman Just published, LINTON'S SCENERY of GREECE and its ISLANDS. 50 sheet plate., with a Tour and Map. Price, decoy 4t0., 2 guineas; royal 4t0., India, 4 guineas. " A more captivating book has rarely passed into our hands."-- Art Journal. " A standard work of s'ngular interest and beauty."—lllustrated London News. " a volume as remarkable as it is original and beautiful."—Morn. ing Herald. See also Atbenreum, Literary Gazette, Examiner, Leader, Builder, Daily News, Globe, &c., &c. Longman and Co., Paternoster-row. LIVING CELEE'RITIES : a Series of PHOTCGRAPHIC PORTRAITS, by MAtar. and POLYBLANK. The December number contains, ROFESSOR GRAHAM, M.A., F.R S., with Memoir. Maul! and Polyblank, 55, Gracechurch-street ; and all book and printsellers. The Third Edition. Just rublished, price 55., by post, free, 58. 6d N TRUE 41 FALSE SPERMATo ft. tc.El4 E 4, with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the tteai Stifferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. Translated from Elie German of Dr. I'ICKFORD. "Dr. Plcatord 9 known to English readers by his frequent practi contrtlin'iloni. to German medical literature. This is the first me, lic informs Ls, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi ...i reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall letect any titer equally flagrant evil which it may be in his p.iwer to cor cct."—London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of Quiet Symp a thi sers, ' And ' Medical Friends, are mcrcileFsly exposed; and If this hook could find its way into the hands of those who stiffer from the corn iiaint of which it treati, we are satisfied thet many hundreds would e saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of ass importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— nuch money --This volume is well qualified to put an end to the mpirical system of treating Spermatorrheea, and to place the treat sent upon a wore rational and o)y:inimical basis it is, therefore, likely to do much good."—Medical Circular. k , ondon, A. !iahlere, 51”. tfecent-streir. PURSUANT to an Ord er o f th e Hi g h C ourt o f Chancery, made in a cause, "Wheeler again ,t Tootell," the creditors of HENRY BE LWARD R Y, late of Hill, trect, Iterkeley square, and of Ed onton, in the county of Middlesei Esquire, Senior Master of the Court of Common Pleas. who die In or about the month of March, 1856, are, by their solicitors, on or before the 22d day of December, 1856, to come in and prove their debts at the Cham bers of the Vice Chancellor Kindersley, at :f o. 3, Itone-buildings, Lincoln's-inn, itliesex ; or, in default thereof, they will be peremp torily excluded from the benefit of the said Order. Wednesday, the 7th day of January. 1857, at One o'clock in the afternoon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudi cating upon the Cleims. Dated this 14th day of November, 1856. CHAS PUGH, Chief Clerk. L. WYNNE, plaintiff's solicitor, 46,Lincoln's-inn-fields. ALT and Co.'s EAST INDIA PALE and L 3 BURTON ALES. BREWERT—B UItTON-ON-TICEN T. 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INV pa E rti Dividend and Progressive BRITISH MINES.-Full Edition of BRITISH MINES Mines will be found in the Fourth S cu r la M rs of the S mo i s n t important price 3s. 6d ; by post 4s. H. MURCHISON . , Esq., F.G.cs." F.S.S" pr U l ARTERLY REVIEW of CONSIDERED AS AN INVESTMENT , recen tl y p ublished b y J. Mr. MURCHISON also publishes a Q at the end of each quarter, the dividends paid, & BRITISH MINING, giving the position andprs e opects of the Mines The Review for the quarter ending 30th Sept. last contains a Map of the Ba sse tt di s t r i ct, pr i ce I s . " The h oo k w ill b e f oun d ex t rem ely valuable."—Observer. " A valu a bl e lit t l e b oo k . "—Gl o b e " A valuable guide to investors."—llerapath. " A usef u l lit tle volume, " —Morning H era ld . " Pre " Of gre a t value to capitalists. " —Sunderland T i mes. better arti and es safer instructor than Mr Murchison."—Leeds Times. (Miring information on mining investments will find no "One of the most valuable mining publications which ha% come under our notice, and contains more information than any other on the subject of which it treats." - Derby Telegraph. " To thosewho wish to invest capital in British Mines, this work is of the first importance."—Welshman. "This werkaoables the capitalist to invest on sound principles; it is, in truth, an excellent guide "—Plymouth Journal. Copies of the above publications can be obtained at Mr. Murchison's offices, 117, Bishopsgate-street Within, London ; and reliable infor mation and advice will be given at any time to those who may re quire it. DEPLORABLE PIT et MID T,—TWO MEN BURIED A LIVE. a r p i d e a n y e e d v e a n t in G g r a a n sm a o c o c r ide C n :lli o e f r t near Chesterfield, b e longing to Mess r s. B arnes , b y which most appalling na- Y tuOren p ßradley and Cutts, lost their liv es . A f w e o minus, named weeks back th e proprietors of the colliery commenced sink v in , s a new shaft about nine yards in diameter, to the black s hale coal, which lies upwards of two hundred yards from th e surface,and the work had been carried down about 10 yards through a strongly soft kind of clay measure which requiredtimber ing for some yards from the top of the shaft, in order to sustain the severe lateral pressure of the surrounding earth. Ben'eath this timber framing two or three yards of brick lini n g was completed, and the unfortunate men had Junk an otherlength ready forthe bricklayers, who were just prepar ing to descend the shaft to commence their work, when the timber framing gave way with a tremendous crash, and the ground for a considerable distance around the shaft month collapsed into the chasm, completely burying the poor fellows to the depth of 4or 51 ard s below. The timber work partially prevented the fallen materials from entirely covering one of whom (Cutts) got behind the pump tubing, through which he sould be distinctly heard imploring for help for more than Nor after the accident had occurred, tailing the men at the top for God's sake to rescue him, as the water was fast ga i n i ng upon him, and he should be drowned. A. candle was lowered into the tube, and ho was asked if ho could see it, when he was heard to reply that he could not. The chasm kept still enlarging from more materials falling, and the catastrophelthreatened-to engulph those engaged in attempting to render assistance in the same ruin, and they were compelled to desist from further efforts. The pump gearing was broken, and thus the engine for raising the water from the shaft was rendered useless. His cries for assistance became fainter and fainter as the water rose, and it is supposed that at length he was drowned, after remain ing upwards of two hours in a state of the most dreadful suspense it is possible to conceive. Bradley was also heard to moan for a few minutes as he lay beneath the superincumbent timbers and debris, by which he was speedily crushed to death. As soon as the alarm was given, crowds rushed to the spot, only to render the danger still more imminent, as they flocked round the scene of de struction. On Saturday strong balks of timber were placed over the sunken ground with a view to insure greater safety from further casualty whilst removing the fallen earth from the shaft. It is supposed that the deceased men cannot be reached for several days to come. [ADVERTISEME NT4 — FroIIoway's Ointment and Pills invaluable and certain for the Cure of Scurvy.—Wm. Turner, a factory operative at Bailton, was severely afflicted with an i nveterate scurvy, or skin diseas e,which seemed impossible t o cure, as he tried various remedies without effect. However, be was at last induced to try Holloway's Ointment and Pills, and by the use of these invaluable medicines h e has been' completely cured, and not the least appearanc e o f the disease rema i ns o d any , part of his body, Hi s h ealth, also, is greatly improv ed." Sold by all medicine vendors throughout the woad, at Professor Holloway's Eitablisbrnent, 244, Strand, London, and 88, Maiden-lane, New York ; by A. Stamp, Constantinople A. Geidici, Smyrna; and E. Muir, Malta. tions. LONDON, Tt. ESDA EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1856. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. [A summary of the follovk ing appeared in our impreP. sion of yesterday.] Fellow-citizens of the Senate, and of the House of Re presentatives,—The Constitution requires that the Presi dent shall, from time to time, not only recommend to the consideration of Congress such measures as be may judge necessary and expedient, but also that he shall give infor mation to them of the State of the Union. To do this duty fully involves exposition of all matters in the actual condition of the country, domestic or foreign, which essen tially concern the general welfare. While performing his constitutional duty in this respect, the President does not speak merely to express personal convictions, but as the Executive Minister of the Government, enabled by his position, and called upon by his official obligations, to scan with an impartial eye the interests of the whole, and of every part of the United States. Of the condition of the domestic interests of the Union, its agriculture, mines, manufactures, navigation, and com merce, it is necess try only to say that the internal pros perity of the country, its continuous and steady advance ment in wealth and population, and private as well as public well-being, attest the wis.lom of our institutions, and the predominant spirit of intelligence and patriotism which, notwithstanding occasional irregularities of opinion or action resulting from popular freedom, has distinguished and characterised the people of America. In the brief interval between the termination of the last .ntl the commencement of the present session of Congress the public mind has been occupied with the care of select ing, for another constitutional term, the President and Vice-President of the United States. The determination of the persons, who are of right, or cont;ngently, to preside over the administration of the Go vernment is, under our system, committed to the States and the people. We appeal to them, by their voice pronounced in the forms of law, to call whomsoever they will to the high post of Chief Magistrate. And thus it is that as the senators represent the respective States of the Union, and the members of the House of Re presentatives the several constituencies of each State, so , the President represents the aggregate population of the United States. Their election of him is the explicit and I solemn act of the sole sovereign authority of the Union. It is impossible to misapprehend the great principles which, by their recent political action, the people of the United States have sanctioned and announced. They have asserted the constitutional quality of each and all of the States of the Union as States; they have affirmed the constitutional equality of each and all of the citizens of the United States as citizens, whatever their religion, whatever their birth, or their residence; they have maintained the inviolability of the constitutional rights of the different sections of the Union; and they have proclaimed their devoted attachment to the Union and to the Constitution, as objects of interest superior to all subjects of local or sectional controversy, as the safe guard of the rights of all, as the spirit and the essence of the liberty, peace, and greatness of the Republic. In doing this they have at the same time emphatically condemned the idea of organising in these United States mere geographical parties ; of marshalling in hostile array toward each other the different parts of the country, north or south, east or west. Schemes of this nature, fraught with incalculable mis chief, and which the considerate sense of the people has rejected, could have had countenance in no part of the country had they not been disguised by suggestions plau sible i❑ appearance, acting upon an excited state of the public mind, induced by causes temporary in their cha racter, and, it is to be hoped, transient in their influence. THE SLAVERY AND KANSAS AGITATION. Perfect liberty of association for political objects and the widest scope of discussion are the received and ordinary conditions of government in our country. Our institutions, framed in the spirit of confidence in the intelligence and in tegrity of the people, do not forbid citizens, either indivi dually or associated together, to attack by writing, speech, or other methods shortof physical force, the constitutionand the very existence of the Union. Under the shelter of this great liberty, and protected by the laws and usages of the Government they assail, associations have been formed, in some of the States, of individuals, who, pretending to seek only to prevent the spread of the institution of slavery into the present or future inchoate States of the Union, are really inflamed with desire to change the domestic in stitutions of existing States. To accomplish their objects they dedicate themselves to the odious task of depreciating the Government organisa- tion which stands in their way, and of calumniating with indiscriminate invective, not only the citizens of particular, States, with whose laws they find fault, but all others of their fellow-citizens throughout the country who do not participate with them in their assaults upon the constitution framed and adopted by our fathers, and claiming for the pri vileges it has secured, and the blessings it has conferred, the steady support and grateful reverence of their children. They seek an object which they well know to be a revolu tionary one. They are perfectly aware that the change in the relative condition of the white and black races in the slaveholding States, which they would promote, is be yond their lawful authority ; that to them it is• a foreign object; that it cannot be effected by any peaceful instils mentality of theirs ; that for them, and the States of which they are citizens, the only path to its accomplishment is through burning cities, and ravaged fields, and slaughtered populations, and all there is most terrible in foreign, com plicated with civil and servile war ; and that the first step in the attempt is the forcible dist uption of a country em bracing in its broad bosom a degree of liberty, and an amount of individual and public prosperity to which there is no parallel in history, and substituting in its place hostile governments, driven at once and inevitably into mutual de vastation and fratricidal carnage, transforming the now peaceful and felicitous brotherhood into a vast permanent camp of armed men like the rival monarchies of Europe and Asia. Well knowing that such, and such only, are the means and the consequences of their plans and purposes, they endeavour to prepare the people of the United States for civil war by tieing everything in their power to deprive the constitution and the laws of moral authority, and to undermine the fabric of the Union by appeals to passion and sectional prejudice, by indoctrinating its people with reci procal hatred, and by educating them to stand face to face as enemies, rather than shoulder to shoulder as friends. It is by the agency of such unwarrantable interference, foreign and domestic, that the minds of many, otherwise good citizens, have been so inflamed into the passionate condemnation of the domestic institutions of the Southern States, as at length to pass insensibly to almost equally passionate hostility towards their fellow-citizens of those States, and thus finally to fall into temporary fellowship with the avowed and active enemies of the constitution. Ardently attached to liberty in the abstract, they do not • have stop to consider practically how thereolbajnetcttshtahteyevweonulit attain can be accomplished, nor to if the evil were as great as they deem it, they r b e y me th dy eir t v o io a le p ti p c l e y, tion which is one of the most difficult of all the pro anadndu n th aa a n t a t i i t t u c t a i n a aa b l e aocntliyan.aggAravganteensdo blems of social institution, political economy, and states manship, they treat with unreasoning intemperance of thought and l anguage . E x t remes b ege t extremes. Violent attack f r o m th e N or th fi n d s it s i nev i ta bl e consequ ence in the growth o f a sp i r it o f angry d e fi ance at th e S ou th. Thus in the progress of events we had reached that consummation, which the voice of the people has now so pointedly rebuked, of the attempt of a portion of the States, by a sectional organisation and movement, to usurp the control of the Government of the United States. I confidently believe that the great body of those who inconsiderately took this fatal step are sincerely attached to the constitution and the - Union. They would, upon deli beration, shrink with unaffected horror from any conscious act of disunion or civil war. But they have entered into a path, which leads no .vhere, unless it be to civil war and disunion, and which has no other possible outlet. They have proceeded thus far in that direction in consequence of the successive stages of their progress having consisted of a series of secondary issues, each of which professed to be confined within constitutional and peaceful limits, but which attempted indirectly what few men were willing to do directly; that is, to act aggro: sively against the consti tutional rights of nearly one-half of the 31 States. In the long series of acts of indirect aggression, the first was the strenuous agitation, by citizens of the Northern States, in Congress and out of it, of the question of eman cipation in the Southern States. The second step in this path of evil consisted of acts of the people of the Northern States, and in several instances of their Governments, aimed to facilitate the escape of per sons held to service in the Southern States, and to prevent their extradition when reclaimed according to law and in virtue of express provisions of the constitution. To pro mote this object, legislative enactments and other means were adopted to take away or defeat rights which the constitution solemnly guaranteed. In order to nullify the then existing act of Congress concerning the extradition of fugitives from service, laws were enacted in many States for bidding their officers, under the severest penalties, to partici pate in the execution of any act of Congress whatever.' In this way that system of harmonious co-operation between the authorities of the United States and of the several States, for the maintenance of their common institutions, which existed in the early years of the Republic, was de stroyed; conflicts ofjurisdiction came to be frequent.; and Congress found itself compelled, for the support of the constitution, and the vindication of its power, to auth or i se the appointment of new officers charged with the execu. tion of its acts, as if they and the officers of the States were the Ministers respectively of foreign Governments in I . a state of mutual hostility, rather than follow magistrates of a common country, peacefully subsisting under the pro tection of a well-constitutioned union. Thus, here also aggression was followed by reaction ; and the attacks upon the constitution at this point did but serve to raise up new barriers for its defence and security. The third stage of this unhappy controversy was in connec tion with the organisation of territorial governments, and the admission of new States into the Union. When it was proposed to admit the State of Maine, by separation of ter ritory from that of Massachusetts, and the State of Missouri formed of a portion of tiro territory ceded by France to the United States, representatives in Congress objected to the admission of the latter, unless with conditions suited to particular views of public policy. The imposition of such a condition was successfully resisted. But, at the same time, the question was presented of imposing restrictions upon the residue of the territory ceded by France. That question was for the time disposed of by the adoption of a geographical line of limitation. In this connection it should not be forgotten that France, of her own accord, resolved, for considerations of the most far-sighted sagacity, to ce 'l3 Louisiana to the United States, and that accession was accepted by the United States ; the latter expressly engaged that "the inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incor porated in the Union of the United States, and ad mitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal Constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities of citizens of the United states ; in the meantime they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess"—that is to say, while it remains in a territorial condition, its inhabitants are maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, with a right_ thtit to pass into the condition of States on a footing of perfect equality with the original States. The enactment which established the restrictive geogra phical line was acquiesced in rather than approved by the States of the Union. It stood on the statute book, how ever, for a number of years ; and the people of the reaper• tile States acquiesced in the re-enactment of the principle As applied to the State of Texas ; and it was proposed to acquiesce in its further application to the territory ac quired by the United States from Mexico. But this pro position was successfully resisted by the representatives from the Northern States, who, regardless of the statute line, insisted upon applying restriction to the new territory generally, whether lying north or south of it—thereby re pealing it as a legislative compromise, and, on the part of the North, persistently violating the compact, if compact there was. Thereupon this enactment ceased to have binding virtue in any sense, whether as respects the North or the South ; and so in effect it was treated on the 'occasion of the ad mission of the States of California, and the organisation of the territories of New Mexico, Utah, and Washington. Such was the state of this question when the time arrived for the organisation of the territories of Kansas and Ne braska. In the progress of constitutional inquiry and re flection, it had now at length come to be seen clearly that Congress does not possess constitutional power to impose rastrictions of this character upon. any present or future State of the Union. In a long series of decisions, on the fullest argument, and after the most deliberate considera- tion, the Supreme Court of the United States had finally determined this point in every form under which the ques tion could arise, whether as affecting public •r private rights—in questions of the public domain, of religion, of navigation, and of servitude. The several States of the Union aro, by force t of the con btitntion, coequal in domestic legislative power. Congress cannot change a law of domestic relation in the State of Maine; no more can it in the State of Missouri. Any statute which proposes to do this is a mere nullity ; it takes away no right, it confers none. If it remains en the statute book unrepealed, it remains there only as a monument of error, and a beacon of warning to the legislator and the statesman. To repeal it will be only to remove imperfection from the statutes, without affecting, either in the sense of permission or of prohibition, the action of the States or of their citizens. Still, when the nominal restriction of this nature, already a dead letter in law, was, in terms, repealed by the last Congress, in a clause of the act organising the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, that repeal was made the occa sion of a wide-spread and dangerous agitation. It was alleged that the original enactment being a com pact of perpetual moral obligation, its repeal constituted an odious breach of faith. An Act of Congress, while it remains unrepealed, more especially if it be constitutionally valid in the judgment of those functionaries whose duty it is to pronounce on that point, is undoubtedly binding on the conscience of each good citizen of the Republic. But in what sense can it be asserted that the enactment in question was invested with perpetuity and entitled to the respect of a solemn com pact ? No distinct contending powers of the Government, no separate sections of the Union, treating as such, en tered into treaty stipulations on the subject. It was a mere clause of an Act of Congress, and, like any other con troverted matter of legislation, received its final shape, and was passed by compromise of the conflicting opinions or sentiments of the members of Congress. But if it ha d authority over men's consciences, to whom did this autho rity attach ? Not to those of the North, who had repeat edly refused to confirm it by extension, and who had zea lously striven to establish other and incompatible regula tions upon the subject. And if, as it thus appears, the sup posed compact had no obligatory force as to the North, of course it could not have had any as to the South, for all such compacts must be mutual and of reciprocal obligation. It has not nnfrequently happened that law-givers, with undue estimation of the value of the law they give, or in the view of imparting to it peculiar strength, make it per petual in terms ; but they cannot thus bind the conscience, the judgment, and the will of those who may succeed them invested with similar responsibilities, and clothed with equal authority. More careful investigation may prove the law to be unsound in principle. Experience may showi to be imperfect in detal and impracticable in execution. And then both reason and right combine, not merely to justify, but to require its repeal. The constitution, supreme as it is over all the depart ments of the Government, legislative, executive, and judi cial, is open to amendment by its ♦ery terms; and Congress or the States may, in their discretion, propose amendment to it, solemn compact though it in truth is between the sovereign States of the Union. In the present instance, a political enactment, which had ceased to have legal power or authority of any kind, was repealed. The position assumed that Congress had no moral right to enact each repeal, was strange enough, and singularly in view of the fact that the argument came from those who openly re fused obedience to existing laws of the land, having the same popular designation and quality as compromise acts —nay, more, who unequivocally disregarded and con demned the most positive and obligatory injunctions of the constitution itself, and sought by every means within their reach, to deprive a pdrtion of their fellow-citizens of the equal enjoyment of those rights and privileges gua- ranteed alike to all by the fundamental compact of our Union. This argument against the repeal of the, statute line in question, was accompanied by another of congenial charac ter, and equally with the former destitute of foundation in rcison and truth. it was imputed that the measure origi nated in the conception of extending the limits of slave• labour beyond those recently assigned to it, and that such was its natural as well as intended effect; and these base less assumptions were made, in the northern States, the ground of unceasing assault upon constitutional right. The repeal in terms of a statute which was already obso lete, and also null for unconstitutionality, could have no influence to obstruct or to promote the propagation of con flicting views of political or social institution. When the act organising the territories of Kansas and Nebraska was passed, the inherent effect upon that portion of the public domain thus opened to legal settlement was to admit set tlers from all the States of the Union alike, each with his convictions of public policy and private interest, there to found in their discretion, subject to such limitations as the constitution and acts of Congress might prescribe, new States, hereafter to be admitted into the Union. It was a free field, open alike to all, whether the statute lino of assumed restriction were repealed or not. That re peal did not open to free competition of the diverse opi nions and domestic institutions a field, which, without such repeal, would have been closed against them ; it found that field of competition already opened, in fact and ia law. All the repeal did was to relieve the statute-book of an objectionable enactment, unconstitutional in effect, and injurious in terms to a large portion of the States. Is it the fact that in all the unsettled regions of the United States, if emigration be left free to act in this re spect for itself, without legal prohibition on either side, slave labour will spontaneously go everywhere in prefer ence to free labour ? Is it the fact, that the peculiar do mestic institutions of the Southern States possess relatively so much of vigour, that wheresoever an avenue is freely open to all the world they will penetrate to the exclusion of those of the Northern States ? Is it the fact that the former enjoy, compared with the latter, such irresistible superior vitality, independent of soil, and all other acci dental circumstances, as to be able to produce the supposed result, in spite of the assumed moral and natural obstacles to its accomplishment, and of the more numerous popula tion of the Northern States? The argument of those who advocate the enactment of new laws of restriction, and condemn tue repeal of old ones, in effect aver their particular views of government have no self-extending or self-sustaining powers of their own, and will go nowhere unless forced by act of Congress. And if Congress do but pause for a moment in the policy of stern coercion—if it venture to try the experiment of leav ing men to judge for themselves what institutions will best suit them—if it be not strained up to per, , etual legislative exertion on this point—if Congress proceeded thus to act in the very spirit of liberty, it is at once charged with aim ing to extend slave labour into all the new territories of I the United States. _ Of course these imputations on the intentions of Con gress in this respect, conceived as they were in prejudice, and disseminated in passion, are utterly destitute of any justification of the nature of things, and contrary to all the fundamental doctrines and principles of civil liberty and i M-government. While, therefore, in general, the people of the Northern States have never, at any time, arrogated for the feudal government the power to interfere directly with the do mestic condition of persons in the Southern States, but, on the contrary, have disavowed all such intention and have shrunk from conspicuous affiliation with those few who pursue their fanatical objects avowedly t:irough the contemplated means of revolutionary change of the go vernment, and with acceptance of the necessary conse quences —a civil and servile war—yet many citizens have suffered the_nselv,s to be drawn into one evanescent politi cal issue of agitation after another, appertaining to the same set of opinions, and which subsided as rapidly as they arose when it came to be seen, as uniformly it did, that they were incompatible with the compacts of the constitu tion and the existence of the Union. Thus, when the acts of some of the States to nullify the existing extradition law imposed upon Congress the duty of passing a new one, the country was invited by agitators to enter into party organisation for its repeal ; but that agita tion speedily ceased by reason of the impracticability of its object. So, when the statute rest iction upon the institu tiocs a new States, by a geographical line, had been re. p laled, the country was urged to demand its restoration, and that project died almost with its birth. Then fol lowed the cry of alarm from the North against imputed Southern encroachments, which cry sprang in reality from the spirit of revolutionary attack on the domestic institu tions of the South, and after a troubled existence of a few months has been rebuked by the voice of a patriotic people. Of this last agitation one lamentable feature was, that it was carried on at the immediate expense of the peace and happiness of the people of the territory of Kansas. That was made the battle-field, not so much of opposing factions or interests within itself, as of the conflicting pas sions of the whole people of the United States. Revolu tionary disorder itf Itsristis had its origin in-Prejaataa, iuterve n ti o n, deliberately arranged by certain teembers of that Congress whiel enacted the law for the organisation of the territory. And when propagandist colonisation of Kansas had thus been undertaken in one section of the Union, for the systematic promotion of its peculiar views of policy, there ensued, as a matter of course, a counter act on with opposite views in other sections of the Union. In consequence of these and other incidents many acts of disorder, it is undeniable, have been perpetrated in Kansas, to the occasional interruption, rather than the permanent suspension, of regular ,overnment. Aggressive and most reprehensible incursions into the territory were undertaken, both in the North and the South, and entered it on its northern border by way of lowa, as well as on its eastern by way of Missouri; and there has existed within it a state of insurrection against the constituted authori ties, not without countenance from inconsiderate persons in each of the great sections of the Union. But the diffi culties in that territory have been extravagantly exagge rated for purposes of political agitation elsewhere. The number and gravity of the acts of violence have been magnified partly by statements entirely untrue, and partly by reiterated accounts of the same rumours or facts. Thus the territory has been seemingly filled with extreme vio lence, when the whole amount of such acts have not been greater than what occasionally passes before us i❑ single cities to the regret of all good citizens, but without being re garded as of general or permanent political consequence. Imputed irregularities in the elections had in Kansas, like occasional irregularities of the same description in the States, were beyond the sphere of action of the Executive. But incidents of actual violence or of organised obstruction of law, pertinaciously rune wed from time to time, have been met as tkey occurred, by such means as were available and as the circumstances required ; and nothing of this charac ter now remains to affect the general peace of the Union. The attempt of a part of the inhabitants of the territory to erect a revolutionary government, though sedulously en couraged and supplied with pecuniary aid from active agents of disorder in wine of the States, has completely fa led. Bodies of armed men, foreign to the territory, have been prevented from entering or compelled to leave it. Preda tory bands, engaged in acts of rapine, under cover of the existing political disturbances, have been arrested or dis persed. And every well-disposed personti now enabled once more to devote himself in peace to the pursuits of prosperous industry, for the prosecution of which he un dertook to participate in the settlement of the country. It affords me unmingled satisfaction thus to announce the peaceful condition of things in Kansas, especially consider ing the means to which it was necessary to have recourse for tho attainment of the end, viz., the employment of a part of the military force of the United States. The withdrawal of that force from its proper duty of defending the country against foreign foes or the savages of the frontier to employ it for the suppreasion of domestic insurrection is, when the exigency occurs, a matter of the most earnest solicitude. Oa this occasion of imperative necessity it has been done with the best results, and my satisfaction in the attainment of such results by such means is greatly enhanced by the con sideration that through the wisdom and energy of the pre sent Executive of Kansas, and the prudence, firmness, and vigilance of the military officers on duty there, tranquillity has been restored without a drop of blood having been shed in its accomplishment by the forces of the United States. The restoration of comparative tranquillity in that terri tory furnishes the means of observing calmly, and appre ciating at their just value, the events which have occurred there, and the discussions of which the Government of the territory has been the subiect. We perceive that controversy concerning its future do mestic institutions was inevitable; that no human pru dence, no form of legislation, no wisdom on the part of Congress, could have prevented this. It is idle to suppose that the particular provisions of their organic law were the cause of agitation. Those provisions were but the occasion, or the pretext, of an agitation which was inherent in the nature of things. Congress legislated upon the subject in such terms as were most consonant with the principle of popular sovereignty which underlies our Government, It could not have legislated otherwise without doing violence to another great principle of our institutions, the imprescriptible right of equality of the several States. We perceive, also, that sectional interests and party pas sions have been the great impediment to the salutary opera tions of the organic principles adopted, and the chief cause of the successive disturbances in Kansas. The assumption that, because in the organisation of territories of Nebraska and Kansas, Congress abstained from imposing restraints upon them to which certain other territories had been sub ject, therefore disorders occurred in the latter territory, is emphatically contradicted by the fact that none have oc curred in the former. Those disorders were not the con sequence in Kansas of the freedom of selt-government conceded to that territory by Congress, but of unjust in terference on the part of persons not inhabitants of the ter ritory. Such interference, wherever it has exhibited itself, by acts of insurrectionary character, or of obstruction to processes of law, has been repelled or suppressed, by rql the means which the constitution and the laws place in the hands of the Executive. In these parts of the United States, where, by reason of the inflamed state of the public mind, false rumours and misrepresentations have the greatest currency, it has been assumed that it was the duty of the Executive not only to suppress insurrectionary movements in Kansas, but also to see to the regularity of local elections. It needs little argu ment to show that the President has no such power. All government in the United St des rests substantially upon popular election. The freedom of elections is liable to be impaired by the intrusion of unlawful votes, or the exclu sion of unlawful ones, by improper influences, by violence, or by fraud. But the people of the United States are the all-sufficient guardians of their own rights, and to suppose that they will not remedy in due season any such incidents of civil freedom, is to suppose them to have ceased to be capable of self-government. The President of the United States has not power to in terpose in elections, to see to their freedom, to canvass their votes, or to pass an opini on u p on th e i r l ega lity i n the terri tories any more than in the States. If he had such power therovernment might be republican in form, but it would be a monarchy in fact ; and if he had undertaken to exer• ju stly subject it in the case of Kans as , h e wou ld h ave been subject to the charge of usurpation and of violation of the dearest rights of the people of the United States. Unwise laws, equally with itregula.ities at elections, are, in periods of great excitement, tke occasional incidents of even the freest and best political institutions. But all ex perience demonstrates that in a country like ours, where the right of self-constitution exists in the completest form, the attempt to remedy unwise legislation by resort to re volution is totally out of place, inasmuch as existing legal institutions afford more prompt and efficacious means for the redress of wrong. I confidently trust that now, when the peaceful condition of Kansas affords opportunity for calm reflection and wise legislation, either the Legislative Assembly of the territory, or Congi egg, will see that no act shall remain on its statute book violative of the provisions of the constitution, or sub versive of the great objects for which that was ordained and established, and will take all the necessary steps to assure to its inhabitants the enjoyment, without obstruction or abridgment, of all the constitutional rights, privileges, and immunities of citizens of the United States, as con templated by the organic law of the territory. Full information in relation to recent events in this ter ritory will be found in the documents communicated here with from the Departments of State and War. FINANCE. I refer you to the report of the Secretary of the Treasury for particular information concerning the financial condi tion of the Government, and the various branches of the public service connected with the Treasury Department. During the last fiscal year the receipts from customs were for the first time, more than 64,000,000 dole., and all sources, 73,916,141 doll. ; which, with the balance on hand up to the let of July, 1855, made the total resources of the year amount to 92,85u,117 &As. The expenditures, in cluding 3,000,000 dollars in execution of the treat? with Mexico, and excluding sums paid on account of the p.oblie debt, amounted to 60,172,401 dole.; and, including the lat ter, to 72,911,798 dole., the payment on this account hiv ing amounted to 12,776,390 dol. On the 4th of March, 1853, the amount of the public debt was 69,129,937 dole. There was a subsequent in crease of 2,750,000 dole. for the debt of Texas—making a total of 71,879.9,37 dels. Of this sum 45,525,319 dollars, including premium, has been discharged, reducing the debt to 30,737,129 dohs., all of which might be paid within a year without embarrassing the public service; but being not yet due, and only redeemable at the option of the holder, cannot be pressed to payment by the Government• On examining the expenditure of the last five years, it will be seen that the average, deducting payments on ac count of the public debt and $lO,OO ',OW paid by treaty to Mexico, has been but about $18,000,000. It is believed that, under an economical administration of the Govern ment, the average expenditure for the ensuing five years will not exceed that sum, unless extraordinary occasion for its increase should occur. The acts grant ing bounty lands will soon have been executed, while the extension of ow . frontier settlements will cause a continued demand for land,4 and augmented receipts, probably, from tl IA source. Theta considerations will justify a reduction of the revenue from customs so as not to exceed 148,t)00,000 or $50,000,000. I think the exigency for such reduction is imperative, and again urge it upon the consideration of Congress. The amount of reduction, as well as f he manner of effect ing it, are questions of great and goner: d interest ; it beiu essential to industrial enterprise and g. sneral prosperity, as well as the dictate of obvious justice, that the burden of taxation be made to rest as equally a s possible upon all elasses and all sections and interests o f the country. Ihave heretofore recommended toy (our consideration the [ PUICI, 4D. STAMPED E.• revision of the revenue laws, prepared under the direction of the Secretary to the Treasury, and also legislation upon come special questions affecting the business of that depart ment, more especially the enactment of a law t o punish the abstraction of official books or papers from the files of the Government, and requiring all such books and papers, and all other public property, to be turned over by the out-going officer to his successor : of a law requiring disbursing officers to deposit all public moneys in the vaults of the Treasury, or iu other legal depositori es , where the same are conve niently accessible; and a l aw to extend existing penal pro visions to all persons who may become possessed of public mo ley, by deposit or otherwise, who shall refuse or neglect, on due demand, to pay the same into the T, easury. I invite your attention anew to each of these objects. THE ARMY AND NAVY. The army during the past year has been so constantly employed agains hostile Indians in various quarters that it can soarcely be said, with propriety of language, to have been a pe: ce establishment. Its duties hare been satisfac torily performed, and we have reason to expect, as a re t.ult of the year's operations, greater security to the fron tier inhabitants than has been hitherto enjoyed. Extensive combinations among the hostile Indians of the territories of Washington and Oregon at one time threatened the de vastation of the newly-formed settlements of that remote pat of the country. From recent information, we are permitted to hope that the energetic and successful opera tions conducted these will prevent such combinations in future, awl secure to those territories an opportunity to make steady progress in the development of their agricul tural and mineral resources. Legislation has been recommended by me on previous occasions to cure defects in the existing organisation, and to increase the efficiency of the army, and further observa tion has but served to confirm me in the views then ex pressed, and to enforce on my mind the conviction that such measure's are not only proper, but necessary. I have in addition to invite the attention of Congress to a change of policy in the distribution of troops, and to the :..P.raessig of providing a more rapitlincrease of the militory armament. For details of these and other subject* re lating to the army, I refer to the report of the Secretary of War. The condition of the navy is not merely satisfactory, but exhibits the most gratifying evidences of itioreased vigour. As it is comparatively small, it is more important that it should be as complete as possible in all the elements of strength; that it should be efficient in the character of its officers, in the zeal and discipline of its men, in the re liability of its ordnance, and in the capacity of its ships. In all these vas ions qualities the navy has made great pro gress within the last few years. The execution of the law of Congress of February 28, 1855, " to promote the efficacy of the navy," has been attended to by the most advanta geous results. The law for promoting discipline among the men is found convenient and salutary. Tho system of granting an honourable discharge to faith ful seamen on the expiration of the period of their enlist ment, and permitting them to re-enlist after a leave of ab sence of a few months. without cessation of pay, is highly beneficial iu its influence. The apprentice system recently adopted is evidently destined to incorporate into the ser vice a large number of our countrymen hitherto so difficult to procure. Several hundred American boys are new on a three years' cruise in. our national vessels, and will return well trained seamen. In the Ordnance Department there is a decided and gratifying indication of progress creditable to it and to the country. The suggestions of the Secretar, of toe Navy, in regard to further improvement in that branch of the service, I commend to your favourable action. The new frigatas ordered by Congress are now afloat, and two of thent in active service. They are superior models of naval architecture, and, with their formidable battery, add largely to public strength and security. I concur in the views expressed by the Secretary of the Department in favour of a still further increase of our naval force. PUBLIC LANDS. The report of the Secretary of the Interior presents facts and views in relation to internal affairs over which the supervision of his department extends, of much interest and importance. _ _ _ The aggregate sales of the public lands,, during the last fiscal year, amount to 9,227,878 acres ; fur which has beau received the sum of 8,821,414 dols. During the same pe nod there have been located with military scrip and land warrants, and for other purposes, 30,100,230 acres; thus making a total aggregate of 39,328,10 i acres. On the 30th September last surveys had been made of 16,873,690 acres, a large proportion of which is ready for market. The suggestions in this report in regard to the complica tion and progressive expansion of the business of the differ ent bureaux of the Department ; to the pension system; to the colonisation of Indian tribes, and the recommendations in relation to various improvements in the district of Co lumbia are especially commended to your consideration. THE POST-OFFICE. t ) The report of the Postmaster-General presents fully the condition of that department of the Government. Its ex penditures for the last fiscal year were 10,478,868 doh; ; and its gross receipts 7,628,801 dole—making an excess of expenditure over receipts of 2,787,046 dole. The deficiency of this Department is thus, 741,000 doll greater than for the year ending June 30, 1853. Of this deficiency, 330,000 dole. is to be attributed to the additional compen sation allowed Postmasters by the act of Congress of J une 22, 1854. The mail facilities in every part of the country have been very much increased in that period, and the large addition of railroad service, amounting to 7,808 miles, has added largely to the cost of transportation. The considerable augmentation of the income of the Post Office Department under the reduced rates of postage, and its increased expenditures must, for the present, make it dependent to some extent upon the Treasury for sup port. The recommendations of the Postmaster-General in relation to the abolition of the franking privilege, and his views on the establishment of mail steam-ship lines, peserve the consideration of Congress. I also call the special at tention of Congress to the statement of the Postmaster- General respecting the sums now paid for the transporta tion of mails to the Panama Railway Company, and com mend to their early and favourable consideration the sug gestions of that officer in relation to new contracts for mail transportation upon that route, and also upon the Tehuan tepec and Nicaragua routes. FOREIGN AFFAIRS. The United States continue in the enjoyment of amic able relations with all foreign Powers. When my last annual Message was transmitted to Con gress, two subjects of controversy, one relating to the en listment of soldiers in this country for foreign service, and the other to Central America, threatened to disturb the good understanding between the United States and Great Britain. Of the progress and termination of the former question you were informed at the time ; and the other is now in the way of satisfactory adjustment. The object of the convention between the United States and Great Britain of the 19th of April, 1850, was to secure, for the benefit of all nations, the neutrality and the com mon use of any transit way, or interoceanic communica tion across the Isthmus of Panama which might be opened within the limits of Central America. Tho pretension subsequently asserted by Great Britain to dominion or control over territories in or near two of the routes, those of Nicaragua anti Honduras, were deemed by the United States not merely incompatible with the main object of the treaty, but opposed even to its express stipulations. Occasion controversy on this point has been removed by an additional treaty, which our Minister at London has concluded, and which will be immediately submitted to the Senate for its consideration. Should the proposed supplemental arrangement be concurred in by all the par ties to be affected by it, the objects contemplated by the original convention will have been fully attained. The treaty between the United States and Great Britain, of the sth June, 1851, which went into effective operatiou in 18 5, put an end to causes of iiritatiou between the two countries, by securing to the United States the right of fishery on the coast of the British North American pro vinces, with advantages equal to those enjoyed by British subjects. Beside the signal benefits of this treaty to a largo class of our citizens engaged in a pursuit connected to , no inconsiderable degree with our national prosperity and strength, it has had a favourable effect upon other inte rests, in the provision it made for reciprocal freedom of trade between the United States and the British provinces in America. The exports of domestic articles to those provinces during the last year amounted to more than 22 millions of dollars, exceeding those of the preceding year by nearly seven mil lions of dollars ; and the imports therefrom, during the sane period, amounted to more than 22 millions —an in crease of six millions upon those of the previous year. The improved condition of this branch of our commerce is ;vainly attributable to the above -mentioned treaty. Pe s ovision was made in the first article of that tr w eat i y cb fo t r b a e commioion to designate the m ouths of rivers to b common l'ight of fishery on the coast of the United States and the Brit.'sh provinces was to extend. This . comm t ission has been etnplo.,ved apart of two seasons, buwit t h w ou ss much progress in accomplishing the object for which tween the commissio:ters, not oniZ insti tuted, in consequeeTe of a serious dasiffetroentcbeeopfroepciinseiopnoinet as to where the rivers term:.fiate, many instancesisa what constitutes a river. Th ese difficalties,. ho w ever, y but provided for by t h e be overcome by resort to ti:e umpirage treaty. ace tradethe commence- The h m e e n ß c a e l - - e T u h t e o e f efforts perseveringlyts Administration p t r o o s r e e e l n ie ted ve o ai u tic from tltiteeenxdaecdtiwonitobfsSuoccuensds-Ducietsbbeyr GoDeev,emirinkehbatvsebna‘o,te yet been a also sought to obtain a like relief to their col umerce, and Denmark was thus induced to propose an a rrafieernent to all the European Powers interested in the en bject ; and the manner in which her proposition was received war ranting her to believe that a satisfactory arrangement with them could soon be concluded, she made a st."ong ap peal to this Government for temporary suspension of de. finite action on its part, in consideration of the emb tv.rass ment which might result to her European negotiation's by an immediate adjustment of the question \With the Un ittd States. This c b t e e been a accededft:r the l to, t b u p .o o f n theune last,on dt a ion ma uthnatihlti ts hheeal request uemtha has collected J ollesd June next, from vessels and ca t does ,be longing to our merchants, are to be considered L a s s paid undar protest and subject to fut ure a dj ustment. Thei'e :i5 reason to believe that an arrangement between Der t mt‘le - - and the maritime Powers of Europe on the subject will Oa south concluded, and that the pending negotiations with the Uniteo, States may then be resumed and terminated in a satisfactory manner. With Spain no new difficulties have arisen, nor has much progrePA . b•cen made in th e a dj ustment of pending ones. N(v,•oti atiuns entered i n t o f or the purpose o f relieving our C. minercial intercourse with the Island of Cuba of some of its burdens, and providing for the more spee d y settl meat of local di sputes growing out of that intercourse, have t not yet been attended with any results. M m A m ß en i . commencement of the LAW.botb is G on after ov the co late war in Europe n mr , ail. ernment submitted to the c onsideration of all .20m.ine nation s two principles for the securit y of neutral Jaerce ; one that the neutral flag should cover enemies' g °cH -la, except articles contraband of war; and the other, that neutral property (~s, on board merchant vessels of belli ,, tents should be exempt from condemnation, with the ' eY.reption of contraband articles. These were not presented as new rules of international law, having been generally claimed by neutrals, though not always admitted by belligerents. One of the parties to the war—Russia —as well as several neutral Powers, promptly acceded to these propositions ; and the two other principal belligerents—Great Britain and France—having 1.,' consented to observe them for the present occasion, a fa- i e o o n p e p o o n it a u i n n i i t n y g s t e h e e m t e 1 °top principles presented cip l i f c o h r otbhtai i4l-ri-T..—, d a v :g c u e la r n a r e a b r t i al recognition of them both in Europe and AmeiibiLd l il k").1. - .APER Bnt Great Britain and France, in common with in the States of Europe, while forbearing to reject, . • affirmatively act upon the overttirea of the United While the question was in this position, the rep fives of Russia, France, Great Britain, Austria, ---. .. -.:-..-r,r rei ~,. - - • - t , t - . 14, a,,,,.....- n ' ' ,7 .4 ',.,, i.54i ik - :5. - '',-••• -- - 7 , Sardinia, and Turkey, assembled at Paris, took i iot. .;',."40-. V e . sideration the subject of maritime rights, and put rt.kla Wit_. ~,,4iz' ' vernment had submitted, nearly two years before, to consideration of the maritime Powers, an d adding therete—Z 11 S • the following propositions :—" Privateering is remains a b ol islied effective—that, abolished," had to already "Blockades, in imnaoirndtaerint:d by be binding, must besuffi cient o f which h ioh really and4 preventoepo proposedaccess tothebycotahset oufotihteedensetmatyes," and to th e d ec l ara ti on th us com p ose d o f f our po i nts, two ' this G overnment h as b een i nv it e d t o acce d e b y all the Powers re p resente d at P ar i s, excep t G rea t B r i ta i n and Turkey. To the last of the two additional propositions—that in relation to the blockades —there can certainly be no objec tion. It is merely the definition of what shall constitute the effectual investment of a blockaded place, a definition for which this Government. has always contended, claim ing indemnity for losses where a practical violation of the rule thus defined has been injurious to our commerce, As to the remaining article of the declaration of the Confer ence of Paris, " That privateering is and remains abo lished," I certainly cannot ascribe to the Powers repre sented in the Conference of Paris any but liberal and phi lanthropic views in the attempt to change the unquestion able rule of maritime law in regard to ye ivateering. Their proposition was, doubtless, intended to imply ap proval of the principle that private property upon the ocean, although it might belong to the citizens of a belli gerent State, should be exempted from capture • and had that proposition been II 0 framed as to give full effect to the principle, it would have received my ready assent on behalf of the United States. But the trie,stira proposed is inade quate to that purpose. It is true that if adopted private property upon the ocean would be withdrawn from one mode of plunder, but left exposed meanwhile to another mode, which could bo used with increased effectiveness. The aggressive capacity of great naval Powers would be thereby augmented, while the defensive ability of others would be reduced. Though the surrender of the means of prosecuting hosti lities by privateers , employing as proposed by the Confer once of Paris, it is mutual in terms, yet in practical effect it would be the relinquis • • hment of a right of little value to one class of States, but of essential importance to another and far larger class. It ought not to have been anticipated that a measure so inadequate to the accomplishment of the proposed object, and so unequal in its operation,. would re. Calve the assent of all maritime powers...l4 l ' l "e PmP l ara would be still l e ft t o th e d e p re d a tions of tlwpublic UM cruisers. I have expressed a readiness on the part of this Govern ment to accede to all the principles contained in the decla ration of the Conference at Paris, provided that relating to the abandonment of privateering can be so amended as to effect the object for which, as is presumed, it was intended, the immunity of private property on the ocean from hos tile capture. To effect this object, it is proposed to add to the declara tion that "privateering is and remains abolished," the following amendment :—" And that the private property of subjects and citizens of a belligerent on the high seas shall be exempt from seizure by the public armed vessels of the other belligerent, except it be contraband." This amend ment has been presented not only to the Powers which have asked our assent to the declaration to abolish privateering, but to all other maritime States. Thus far it has not been rejected by any, and is favourably entertained by all which have made any communication in reply. Several of the Governments, regarding with favour the proposition of the United States, have delayed definite action upon it only for the purpose of consulting others, parties to the Conference of Paris, I have the satisfaction of stating, however, that the Emperor of Russia has en tirely and explicitly approved of that modification, and will c-.-operate in endeavouring to obtain the assent of other Powers, and that assurances of a similar purport have been received in relation to the disposition of the Emperor of the French. The present aspect of this important subject allows us to cherish the hope that a principle so humane in its character, so just and equal in its operations, so essential to the prosperity of commercial nations, and so consonant to the sentiments of this enlightened period of the world, will command the approbation of all maritime Pow era, and thus be incorporated into the code of international law. My views on the subject are more fully set forth in the reply of the Secretary of State, a copy of which is herewith transmitted, to the communications on the subject made to to this Government, especially to the communication of France. _ MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA. The Government of the United States has at all times rag ,rded with friendly interest the other States of America, formerly, like this country, European colonies, and now independent members of the great family of nations. But the unsettled condition of some of them, districted by fre quent revolutions, and thus incapable of regular and firm internal administration, has tended to embarrass occasion ally our public intercourse, by reason of wrongs which •ur citizens suffer at their hands, and which they are slow to redress. Unfortunately it is against the Republic of Mexico, with which it is our special desire to maintain a good under standing', that such complaints are most numerous; and although earnestly urged upon, its attention, they have not as yet received the consideration which this Government had a right to expect. While reparation for past injuries has been withheld others have been added. The political condition of that country, however, has been such as to de mand forbearance on the part of the United States. I shall continue my efforts to procure for the wrongs of our citizens that redress which is indispensable to the conti nued friendly association of the two republics. The peculiar condition of affairs of Nicaragua in the early part of the present year rendered it important that this Government should have diplomatic relations with that State. Through its territory has been opened one of the principal thoroughfares across the isthmus connecting North and South America, on whicha vast amount of pro perty was transported, and to which our citizens resorted in great numbers in passing between the Atlantic and Paci fic coasts of the United States. The protection of both re quired that the existing power in that State should be re garded as a responsible Government, and its Minister was accordingly received. But he remained here only a short time. Soon thereafter the political a ff a i rs of Ni went unfavourable change, and becam e involved Diplomatic representatives from much u under went uncertainty and confusion. from two contending parties have been recently no: l' W this Government; but, with the imperfect information possessed, it was not possible to decide which was the Government de facto ; and awaiting further developments I have refused to receive either. Questions of the most serious nature are pending be tween the United States and the Republic of New Gra nada. The Government of that Republic undertook, a year since, to impose tonnage on foreign vessels in her ports, but the purpose was resisted by this Government, as being contrary to existing treaty stipulation with the United States, and to rights conferred by charter upon the Panama Railroad Company, and was accordingly relinquished at that time, it being admitted that our vessels were entitled to be exempt from tonnage duty in the free ports of Panama and Aspinwall. But the purpose has been recently revived, on the part of New Granada, by the enactment of a law to subject vessels visiting her ports to the tonnage duty of 40 cents per ton ; and, although the law has not been put in force, yet the right to enforce it is still asserted, and may at any time be acted on by the Government of that Republic. The Congress of New Granada has also enacted a law, during the last year, which levies a tax of more then IS on every pound of mail matter transported across the isthmus. The sum thus required to ke paid on the mails of the United States would be neatly $2,000,000 annually, in addition to the large sum payable bycontract to the Panama Railroad Company. If the only objection to this exaction were the exorbitancy of its amount, it could not be sub. mitted to by the United States The imposition of it, however, would obviously contra vene our treaty with New Granada, and infringe the con tract of the Republic with the Panama Railroad Company, s c o .t e . xtra . The law for providing for this tax was, by its terms, to take effect on the let Sept. last, but the local authorities on the isthmus have been induced to suspend its execution, and to await further instructions on the subject from the Gevernment of the Republic. lam not yet advised of the ordinary in its character, and so clearly contorvfaar Panama thea t m o iva t I r ßuz e ie s atai t es i d : American measure shouldr o a speculation s dc eb rp a nd :ly te th e persisted in, 0 it will contract rights b e t he ofd duty t h y e occasion exists to invite your dete;roination ofctohmapt,G,seodvermn,m)steinyt.oflf renade. On the 1 graver import in our relations the inhabitants of Panama a S lwat t istl a tteh t br e aet s tgri tcrocone riotous Republicrot eeousxsiacsetseni assemblaged h . t i ; ve i 3o e g x fity e b c Nft u h t ess i tw o ti lo n lGf . committed a violent and outrageous attack on mises of the railroad , company, and the passengerssattnhhdeAo pt p hr r oe i r. l t e e , s i nvolvi n g , the and the destruction of a large amo p u ili n citizenspersons in of o t r he n u ea la r i t t n ecl e s s a ta m theiug rtoestuhltesrhaoilwrosedcompany at t ge h et e ofproperty deathmany of others,he several lo belong ing s for what occurred attaches that the perpetrators of the I caused full investigation ' families of citizens of satisfactorily that complete responsibility hotefo wrongst t h haet Government event to b e made, a o d f e , s. and ew Granada. I have therefore demanded of that Government in question should be punished ; th a t prov i sion should be made for the over it, requires States seriou te c lj oo n s t d eedrati with full indemnit f or th e prope r ty pillaged or destroyed. The prese t y . _ on. who were killed, far as regards the security of persons and property passing • • Recent incidents n condition of the Isthmus of Panama, in so tend to sh ow that the loca l au thorities canno t be relied on to maintain th e public peace of Panama, an d there is just in ground for apprehension that a portion of the inhabitants are meditat f ur th er outrages, with out adequate mea sures for the security and protection of persons or propert having been taken either by the State of Panama or by the gene ra l Government of Ne w Granada. treat several millions of dollars, citizens of the United Under the guarantees of con s t r ucted a railroad acr oss the isthmus, an d i't h as be come the main route be tween our Atlantic and Pacific pos- States have, by the out la y of sessions, over which m ultitudes of our citizens and a vast amount of property are constantly passing—to the security and protection of all which, and the continuance of the public advantages involved, it is impossible for tt.e Govern• ment of the United States to be indifferent. I have deemed the danger of the recurrence of scenes of lawless violence in this quarter so imminent as to make it my duty to station a part of our naval force in the bar. hours of Panama and Aspinwall, in order to ptoteet the persons and property of the citizens of the United States Granada, until,by in those ports, and to insure to them safe passage acrosa the isthmus. And it would, in my judgment, be unwise o , jewsiptohndtraanweotuhse actionnav al o f f o . r force the now Republic int ll those p s o e rt w s otherwise, some adequate arrangement shall have bee; ercoati of inter le for the protection and security of a bile negotiations have been instituted, by means them, sited communication so important at this time, not to the ux sited States only, but to all other maritime States fti;v. Europe and America. co:9mission, to obtain from New Gianada full indemnity fe'r injuries sustained by our citizens on the isthmus, and bat isfactory security for the g enera l interests of the United Sta tea. o b f ollit s he s oa peciat In aodressiug to you my last annual message, the occa sion seems to me at t app ropriateexpress nay congra• t u l a tions in view of the peace, greatness, and felicity which the United States n, ew possess and enjoy. To point you to the • state of the various departments of the Government, and . of all the great branches of the public service, civil and milit: kry, in order to speak of the intelli gence and the integrity which pervades the whole, would be to indicate but impede etly the administrative condition of the country and th.: beneficial effects of that on the general welfare. Nor would it suffice to say that the nation was actually at peace at hom e and abroad ; that its industrial interests are prosperous ; . that t louhe canvaes its husbandman of its mariners whitens every sea, and i ;he pgh of is