I submit to the Senate whether it will advise and consent that the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized, under my direction, to reinvest the above-mentioned sum of $58,100 in stocks of the United States under the same trust. FRANKLIN PIERCE. WASHINGTON, _March 21, 1853_. _To the Senate of the United States_: In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 18th of January last, calling for further correspondence touching the revolution in France of December, 1851, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents by which it was accompanied. FRANKLIN PIERCE. EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, _March 25, 1853_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I nominate Mrs. Mary Berard to be deputy postmaster at "West Point," N.Y., the commissions for said office having exceeded $1,000 for the year ending the 30th June, 1852. Mrs. B. has held said office since the 12th of May, 1848, under an appointment of the Post-Office Department. FRANKLIN PIERCE. EXECUTIVE ORDERS. EXECUTIVE OFFICE, _March 23, 1853_. Believing that the public interests involved in the erection of the wings of the United States Capitol will be promoted by the exercise of a general supervision and control of the whole work by a skillful and competent officer of the Corps of Engineers or of the Topographical Corps, and as the officers of those corps are more immediately amenable to the Secretary of War, I hereby direct that the jurisdiction heretofore exercised over the said work by the Department of the Interior be transferred to the War Department, and request that the Secretary of War will designate to the President a suitable officer to take charge of the same. FRANKLIN PIERCE. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. WASHINGTON, _April 20, 1853_. The President has, with deep sorrow, received information that the Vice-President of the United States, William R. King, died on the 18th instant at his residence in Alabama. In testimony of respect for eminent station, exalted character, and, higher and above all station, for a career of public service and devotion to this Union which for duration and usefulness is almost without a parallel in the history of the Republic, the labors of the various Departments will be suspended. The Secretaries of War and Navy will issue orders that appropriate military and naval honors be rendered to the memory of one to whom such a tribute will not be formal, but heartfelt from a people the deceased has so faithfully served. The public offices will be closed to-morrow and badges of mourning be placed on the Executive Mansion and all the Executive Departments at Washington. FRANKLIN PIERCE. GENERAL ORDERS, No. II. WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, _Washington, April 20, 1853_. I. The following order announces to the Army the death of William Rufus King, late Vice-President of the United States: WAR DEPARTMENT, _Washington, April 20, 1853_.