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dnu House q Representatives.

 0nyour assembling to perform the high trusts which the people of the United States have contided to you, Of legislatlng for their common welfare, 1t gives me pleasure to congratulate you npon the happy condition of our beloved country. By the favor off Divine Providence, health IS again restored to US: peace reigns within our bordefsl abundance crowns the labor of our fields commerce and domestic industry flourish and increase: and individual happiness rewards the private virtue and enterprise of our citizens.

 Our condition abroad is no less honorable thanitisprosperousathome. Seekingnothing that is not right, ana determined to submit to nothing that is wrong, but desiring hon est friendships and liberal intercourse with all nations, the United States have gained throughout the world, the confidence and respect which are due to a policy so just, and so congenial to the character of the American people, and to the spirit of their institutions.

 In bringing to your notice the particular state of our foreign affairs. it affords mo high qualification to inform you that they are in condition which promises the con tinuance of friendship with all nations. With Great Britain the interesting ques- ton of our Northeastern boundary, remains still undecided. A negotiation, however, upon that subject, has been renewed since the close of the last Congress, and propo- sition has been submitted to the British Government witk the view of establishing, in conformity with the resolution ofthe Sen ate, the line designatedby thetreaty of l7s3. Though no definitiye answer has been re- ceiyed, 1t may be daily looked for, and en- tertain hope that the overture may ulti- mately lead to satisfactory adjustment of this important matter.

 | l have the satisfaction to inform you that negotiation which, by desire of the House ago, with the British Government, for the erection of Lighthouses on the Bahamas, has been successful. Those works, when completed, together with those which the l United States have constructed on the western side of tbe Gulf of Florida, will contribute essentially to the safety of nsy:- gation in that sea. This joint participation in establishments, interesting to humanity and beneficial to commerce, IS worthy of two enlightened nations, and indicates feel ings which cannot fail to have happy in- huence upon their political. relations. It IS gratifying to the friends of both, to perceive that the intercourse between the two people IS becoming daily more extensive, and that sentiments of mutual good will have grown up. beftting their common origin, justifying the hope that, by wise counscls on each side, not only unsettled questions may be satisfactorily terminated, but new causes of misunderstanding prevented.

 Notwithstanding that 1 continue to re- ceive the most amicable assurances from the Government of France, and that in all other respects the most friendly relations exist between the United States and that Government, 1t IS to be regretted that the l stipulations of the convention ceneladed ea 1 the 4th of July, 1881, remain, n some iif1- portant parts, unfnlflled.

 By the second article of that convention, 1 it was stipulated that the sum payable to the United States, should be paid at Paris, in six annual instalmcnts, into the hands of such person or persons as should be author ] ized by the Government of the United States to receive It; and by the same aItl- Gle, cIle the first instanmeat was payable on the second day of February, 1853. By the act of Congress of the 18th July, ls32y it was made the duty of the Secretary Of the Treasury, to cause the several install ments. with the interest thereon, 10 be re- ceiyed from the French Government, and transferred f0 the United States, Tn such a manner as he may deem best; and by the same act of Congress, the stpulatlons on the part of the United States, in the con yention, were, in all respects, fulfilled Not doubting that treaty thus made and ratified by the two Governments. and faith