As it is not deemed advisable that the instruction to Mr. R. M. Walsh, a copy of which is herewith transmitted, should be published at this time, I communicate it confidentially to the Senate in executive session.

To the Senate of the United States: I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a convention between the United States and Belgium for regulating the right of inheriting and acquiring property, signed in…

The instructions to the squadron of the United States called for by the resolution will be communicated on an early future occasion.

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

To the Senate of the United States: I transmit a report from the Secretary of State upon the subject of the relations between the United States and the Republics of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, in Central America

In answer to the resolution of the Senate dated the 20th ultimo, requesting information in regard to controversies between the consul of the United States at Acapulco and the Mexican authorities

I communicate to the Senate herewith, for its constitutional action thereon, nineteen treaties negotiated by commissioners on the part of the United States with various tribes of Indians in the Territory of Oregon.

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

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

In obedience to your resolution adopted in executive session June 11, 1852, I have the honor herewith to communicate a report from the Secretary of the Interior, containing the information called for by that resolution.

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

The nature and objects of the treaty are fully explained by the report of Mr. Harper, who negotiated it in behalf of the United States.

The consul having evidently acted with good intentions, the claim is submitted for the consideration of Congress.

I now transmit a report from the First Comptroller, with accompanying papers, from which it will be perceived that fifteen foreigners were connected with that expedition.

I herewith transmit, for the advice and consent of the Senate, a treaty recently negotiated with the Chickasaw Nation of Indians.

Any information which may be in the possession of the Executive on these subjects shall in due time be laid before the Senate, but it is apprehended that it would not comport with the public interests to communicate it under existing…

An occurrence of this kind can not but weaken the faith so desirable to be preserved between different governments and to injure the negotiations now pending, and it merits the severest reprobation.

I have caused immediate inquiry to be made into the origin of this highly improper publication, and shall omit no proper or legal means for bringing it to light.