I transmit a copy of a letter of the 8th of April last from the minister of the United States in China, and of the decree and regulation which accompanied it, for such revision thereof as Congress may deem expedient, pursuant to the sixth section of the act approved 11th August, 1848.

I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, in answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 24th ultimo, requesting information relative to the seizure in the Valley of Sitana, in Peru, by authorities of Chile of a sum of money belonging to citizens of the United States.

It is deemed advisable by the Department that our diplomatic relations with the States of Central America should be placed on a higher and more efficient footing.

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 30th ultimo, requesting information in regard to the establishment of a new British colony in Central America, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents by which it was accompanied.

A willingness to meet us in some arrangement of this kind is understood to exist on the part of Great Britain, with a desire on her part to include in one comprehensive settlement as well this subject as the commercial intercourse between the United States and the British Provinces.

I transmit the copy of the notes of Mr. Luis de la Rosa and Mr. J. M. Gonzales de la Vega, which it requests.

Great was my surprise to observe this morning in one of the public journals a statement of what purports to be a proposition, jointly signed by Her Britannic Majesty's minister here and the Secretary of State, for the adjustment of certain claims to territory between Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and the Mosquito Indians.

In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 15th ultimo, requesting information respecting the seizure and confiscation of the bark Georgiana, of Maine, and brig Susan Loud, of Massachusetts, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents which accompanied it.

Our country is at peace with all the world.

Correspondence with the United States minister at Constantinople respecting the liberation of Kossuth and his companions.

In view of the magnitude and importance of our national concerns, actual and prospective, in China, I submit to the consideration of Congress the expediency of providing for the preservation and cultivation of the subsisting relations of amity between the United States and the Chinese Government.

I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of State, accompanied by a copy of a letter from Mr. Raymond, secretary of legation and charge d'affaires ad interim of the Republic of Texas, in answer to the Senate's resolution of the 16th December last.

All nations are interested in enforcing an observance of those principles.

I communicate to you an extract of a dispatch from Mr. Hall to the Secretary of State, which has been received by me since my message of the 3d instant, containing the pleasing intelligence that the indemnity assumed to be paid by the Republic of Venezuela in the case of the brig Morris has been satisfactorily arranged.

With equal, if not greater, propriety might the United States demand of other governments to surrender their numerous and valuable acquisitions.

there is a prospect of opening a negotiation on the subject of the northwestern boundary of the United States immediately after the arrival at Washington of the newly appointed British minister, now daily expected;

I have to state that the information called for by the House has been already from time to time transmitted to Congress, with the exception of such correspondence as has been held within the last few months between the Department of State and our minister at London;

To the House of Representatives: I transmit the accompanying letter* from the Secretary of State, and copy of a correspondence between that officer and the minister from Portugal near this Government, to which I invite the attention of Congress.