I think it my duty to inform you that I am daily expecting the definitive answer of the British Government to a proposition which has been submitted to it by this, upon the subject of the colonial trade.

Should this branch of the negotiation committed to our minister be successful, the present interdict would, nevertheless, be necessarily continued until the next session of Congress, as the President has in no event authority to remove it.

To the House of Representatives.GENTLEMEN: I transmit herewith, for the use of the House, the report of a survey made in compliance with the act of the 2d of March, 1829.

GENTLEMEN: I herewith transmit to Congress the report of the engineer employed to survey the bar at the mouth of Sag Harbor, to ascertain the best method of preventing the harbor being filled up with sand, and the cost of the same, authorized by the act of the 2d of March, 1829.

I have the honor, in compliance with a resolution of your House of the 10th ultimo, to transmit the inclosed documents.

At present it appears there is no law existing for the punishment of persons guilty of interrupting the public surveyors when engaged in the performance of the trusts confided to them.

The inclosed documents will present to Congress the necessity of some legislative provision by which to prevent the offenses to which they refer.

The inclosed documents furnish all the information of the steps that have been taken and plans procured for the erection of a radiating marine railway for the repair of sloops of war at the navy-yard at Pensacola.

I suggest, therefore, for your consideration the propriety of adopting some provision, with adequate penalties, to meet the case.

The Indians have requested that their propositions should be submitted to the Senate.

In settling the terms of such an agreement I am disposed to exercise the utmost liberality, and to concur in any which are consistent with the Constitution and not incompatible with the interests of the United States and their duties to the Indians.

The amount of money which may be secured to be paid should, in my judgment, be viewed as of minor importance.

I flatter myself that it will not meet the disapprobation of the Senate.

I am fully aware that in thus resorting to the early practice of the Government, by asking the previous advice of the Senate in the discharge of this portion of my duties, I am departing from a long and for many years an unbroken usage in similar cases.

These measures are the voluntary acts of the Indians themselves.

Finding from the inclosed letter from the Secretary of the Treasury that James C. Dickson, lately nominated to be receiver of public moneys at Mount Salus, Miss., is a defaulter, I beg leave to withdraw his nomination, and to nominate in his place Hiram G. Rennels.

I transmit herewith a report from the Department of War of the survey made of Sandy Bay, Massachusetts, in conformity to the act of 2d March, 1829.

In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 20th instant, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of War.