In compliance with, a resolution of the Senate of the 23d instant, requesting the President "to communicate to the Senate, if not incompatible with the public interest, such information as he may have concerning the present condition and prospects of a proposed plan for connecting by submarine wires the magnetic telegraph lines on this continent and Europe," I transmit the accompanying report from the Secretary of State. FRANKLIN PIERCE. WASHINGTON, _January 6, 1857_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers,[66] in answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 2d instant. FRANKLIN PIERCE. [Footnote 66: Relating to the refusal of the minister to the United States from the Netherlands to testify before the criminal court of the District of Columbia.] WASHINGTON, _January 12, 1857_. _To the Senate of the United States_: In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 4th August, 1856, and 9th January instant, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, together with the documents[67] therein referred to. FRANKLIN PIERCE. [Footnote 67: Relating to the claims of certain American citizens for losses consequent upon their expulsion by Venezuelan authorities from one of the Aves Islands, while collecting guano.] WASHINGTON, _January 12, 1857_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I again transmit to the Senate, for its advice and consent with a view to ratification, the convention between the United States and His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, for the mutual delivery of criminals fugitives from justice in certain cases, and for other purposes, which was concluded at The Hague on the 29th day of May, 1856. FRANKLIN PIERCE. WASHINGTON, _January 12, 1857_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers,[68] in answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 7th instant. FRANKLIN PIERCE. [Footnote 68: Correspondence and documents connected with the treaty concluded at London between the United States and Great Britain October 17, 1856, relative to Central America.] WASHINGTON, _January 12, 1857_. The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 22d ultimo, in relation to information with regard to expenditures and liabilities for persons called into the service of the United States in the Territory of Kansas, I transmit the accompanying report of the Secretary of War. FRANKLIN PIERCE. WASHINGTON, _January 13, 1857_. _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 the Republic of Peru relative to the rights of neutrals at sea, signed at Lima by the plenipotentiaries of the parties on the 22d of July last. FRANKLIN PIERCE. WASHINGTON, _January 16, 1857_.