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Panama. A second steamer on this line has been 

 brought into use, but has not been finished so as to 

 undergo inspection and be received. The contract on 

 this line, as on that to Liverpool, provides for five 

 steamships. 



The Secretary recommends the appointment of two 

 rear-admirals, in order that the oflScers of the Ameri- 

 can navy may rank with the naval officers of the 

 other maritime powers. 



The peace question is making great progress in 

 America ; some of the leading men of the country 

 are advocating it. At the public meeting held in the 

 month of May last, in Boston, for the purpose of 

 selecting delegates to represent the State of Massa- 

 chusetts, his excellency Governor Briggs presided, 

 and delivered an effective and eloquent speech ; and 

 I attended a peace meeting in the city of Roxbury 

 with Elihu Burritt, where General Dearborn took the 

 chair, and made a noble speech, denouncing all war. 

 Elihu Burritt is now in Hamburgh, still absorbed with 

 his one idea, his big thought, Universal Peace and 

 Brotherhood. The next peace congress is to be held 

 in the city-world of London, during the great 

 *• Exhibition of all Nations." The American Govern- 

 ment have decided to freight the " Pennsylvania," 



