The members of the Cabinet are requested, as a further testimony of respect for the deceased, to wear the usual badges of mourning for thirty days.

This report is accompanied by a copy of the orders of the Navy Department to Commodore McCauley, requested by the resolution of the Senate of the 9th instant.

I transmit a report from the Department of State and the documents by which it was accompanied

This publication can not be considered otherwise than as a breach of official duty by some officer of the Government or a gross violation of the confidence necessary always to be reposed in the representatives of other nations.

In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 18th instant, I transmit a copy of the correspondence with John P. Gaines, governor of the Territory of Oregon, relative to the seat of government of said Territory.

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.

The Government of the United States is emphatically a government of written laws.

I call upon every officer of this Government, civil or military, to use all efforts in his power to arrest for trial and punishment every such offender against the laws of the country.

I did not consider the irregularities into which the surveyor-general had fallen as of sufficient magnitude to induce his dismissal from office at the time that the papers reached me

The special mission authorized by Congress for this purpose has fully succeeded in the accomplishment so far of the great objects for which it was appointed.

I feel it to be my duty to communicate, for your consideration, the rejected treaty.

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

For the Executive to assume such a power would be to assume a power of the most dangerous character.

I have to inform the House that the Executive did not deem it his duty to interfere with the naval and military forces of the United States

I transmit herewith copies of the report and papers* referred to in a resolution of the Senate of the 20th of February last.

To the House of Representatives:I transmit herewith a report

I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of War, prepared in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 26th ultimo.

In compliance with your resolution of the 26th ultimo, I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of the Navy.