From France and Great Britain.

The post roads are divided into 1644 distinct mail routes.
The annual expense for transporting the mail is $926,305.

The annual amount of compensation to 7,003 post masters, including the contingent expenses of their offices, is $481,685

There is a progressive increase in the number of post offices, amounting, at this time, to the establishment of 500 new post offices in a year.

There are forwarded to the General Post Office, 330,000 dead letters in one year.

There are 35,000 accounts settled at the General Post Office in a year.

Nothing is paid out of the Treasury for the support of the Post Office establishment. All its expenses are defrayed from its own resources; and, besides the net revenue which it yields, it furnishes to all the other departments of the government, the means of transmitting communications to every part of the Union, free of expense.

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It is the policy of the Government to apply the revenue of this Department principally to the extension of its operations, and the improvement of the facilities which it affords, both to the correspondent and to the traveller.

INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGN NATIONS.

Ministers, Consuls, &c. of Foreign Powers, resident in the United

Marquis de Fougeres, Consul.................................................Charleston, S. C.

M. Hersant, attached to the office of the Consul General.

From Great Britain.

Charles Richard Vaughn, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister

Plenipotentiary,....... ................

Washington, D. C:

From Great Britain, Russia, and Spain.

Charles Bankhead, esq. Sec'y of Legation,... Washington, D.C.
W. G: Ousley, esq.
Attached to the
Legation,

Percy W. Doyle, esq.

....................

.Boston, Mass. Newport, R. I. New-London, Ct. ..New-York, N. Y.

......... ....
....

....Baltimore, Md.

A. St. John Baker, esq. Consul General, ......................
Donald M'Intosh, esq. Consul,....................................Portsmouth, N. H.
George Manners, esq Consul,
John B. Gilpin, esq. Cousul,..............
James Steward, esq. Consul,.....
James Buchannan, esq. Consul,.....
Gilbert Robertson, esq. Consul,.............................................. Philadelphia, Pa.
John Crawford, esq. Consul,.
Charles J. Peshall, esq. Consul,.................................. Wilmington, N. C.
William Gray, esq. Consul,....
....Norfolk, Va.
Henry Newman, esq. Consul,.................................................... Charleston, S. C.
Anthony N. L. Molyneux, esq. Consul,........Savannah, Ga.
George Salkeld, esq. Consul,..
New-Orleans, La.
James Baker, esq. Consul,.................................. Pensacola, Flor. & Alab.
James C. Buchannan, Vice Consul,....................... ......New York.

From Russia.

Baron Krudner, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary....... .....Washington, D. C. Baron Maltitz, First Secretary of Legation, acting Charge d'Affaires,..... ......................... Washington, D. C. Prince Lieven, Second Secretary of Legation,..............do............................ Mr. Wallenstein, attached to the Legation,.......do.......... Theodore Ivanoff, Consul General,......... .. Philadelphia, Fa.

Philadelphia, Pa.

Don Hiliaro de Rivasy Salmon, Sec. of Legation,..do....
Don Migvel Tacon, Attached to the Legation,..,..do..........................
Don Francisco Heruandez de Nogues, Consul,......do..

Don Raymundo Chacon, Consul,.

Don Francisco Stoughton, Consul,....
Don Juan Bautiste Bernbeau, Consul,.

Boston, Mass.

.....New-York, ....Baltimore, Md.

From Portugal, Austria, Prussia, Humburgh, Frankford, &c.

Don Pablo Chacon, Cousul,....
Don Antonio Argote Villabobus, Consul,

From Portugal.

Chevalier Joachim Barroza Pereira,

Consul General,.............................
Philip Marett, Vice Consul,.
Chevalier J.C. de Figaniered Morsa,
John Vaughan, Vice Consul,...
John S. M'Kim, Vice Consul,.
Christopher Neale, Vice Consul,
Walter de Lacy, Vice Consul,..
John P. Calhorda, Vice Consul,
Rene Godard, Vice Consul,.
Elias Reed, Vice Consul,.

Norfolk, Va. ......New Orleans, La.

...

...................... Wilmington, N. C.

..Charleston, S. C.

........

....Savannah, Ga.

Henry Hutton, Vice Cónsul,.. Lou. Gulph of Mexico & N. Or.

From Austria.

Baron de Lederer, Consul,....N. York, N. Jer. Pu. Md. & Va.

Vincent Nolt, Consul,............ .......New Orleans, La.
Frederic Christian Graf, Vice Consul,...........Baltimore, Md.
Anthony C. Cazenove, Vice Consul,.......... Alexandria, D. C.
Jacob Wulff, Vice Consul,......
......
John W. Schmidt, Vice Consul,••••••

From Frankford.

A. Halbach, Consul,.......

From Denmark.

..Charleston, S. C.

....

,

• • •• •• • New-York.

..Philadelphia, Pa.

Steen Bille, Charge d'Affaires and Consul General, ad interim, until the return of P. Pederson, esq...... .... Philadelphia, Pa.

William Ritchie, Vice Consul,......

E. E. Petersen, Vice Consul,.,..

...Boston, Mass. New-York.

From Denmark, Wirtemberg, Saxony, Sweden and Norway, &c.

.Baltimore, Md.

From Wirtemberg.

Christian Mayer, esq. Consul General,.................

Frederick Augustus Mensch, Consul,.. ..........New York. Robert Ralston, jr. Consul,.. ........................................ Philadelphia, Pa. R. H. Douglass, Consul..........

From Sweden and Norway.

.Baltimore, Md.

Baron Stackleberg, Charge d'Affaires,..............Washington, D. C.

Chevalier S. Lorich, Consul General,..

.Boston, Mass.

From Sicily, Rome, Sardinia, Mexico, and Colombia.

A. O. Hammond, Vice Consul,
N. Edward Fowle, Consul General,.
William Read, Vice Consul,...

Charleston, S. C.

.Philadelphia, Pa.
.Philadelphia, Pa.

D. Mariano Cubi y Soler, Vice Consul,.........Baltimore, Md. Do. for His Higuess, the Pope, Baltimore, Md. William D'Azet, Vice Consul,. ....Norfolk, Va. Henry Perret, Vice Consul,....................... ........New Orleans, La.. Do. do. of Pope Leo, 12th, New Orleans, La.

From Rome.

Charles Picot, Vice Consul,..... .....................................Philadelphia, Pa. Samuel Wright, Vice Consul,..................

From Sardinia.

...Savannah, Ga.

Don Pablo Obregon, Minister Plenipotentiary, Washington, D.C.
Don Ignacio Montoya, Secretary of Legation...................do............................
Don Sebastin Mercado, second Sec. of Legation,...do............................
Don Isidro Delgado, Consul,..
Boston, Mass.
Don Ventura Obregon, Consul,.....
..............................................................New York,
Dou Jose Tolon, Consul,.......
...Philadelphia, Pa.
Luke Tiernan, esq. Consul,...................................................
......Baltimore, Md.
Richard W. Cogdell, esq. Consul,............Charleston, S. C.
Don Francisco Pizarro Martiney, Consul,....New Orleans, La.

From Colombia.

A. Velez, Charge d'Affaires and Consul Gen'l Philadelphia, Pa. Juan Antonio Rauseo,...

Juan de la Cruz Dominguez,
Francisco Davila,..............................

Officers of
Legation,

do.......