00. Length of routes 2,000 miles from
New-York to Aspinwall _direct_; 2,000 miles from New-York to
New-Orleans _via_ Havana; and 1,200 miles from Havana to
Aspinwall; making in all, 5,200 miles.

5. The Astoria, San Francisco, and Panama Line, performing
twenty-four round trips per annum, at an annual compensation of
$348,250. Length of route, 4,200 miles.

6. The Charleston, Savannah, Key West, and Havana Line, performing
twenty-four round trips per annum, at an annual compensation of
$60,000. Length of route, 669 miles.

7. The New-Orleans and Vera Cruz Line, performing twenty-four
round trips per annum, at $1,210.93 the round trip. Length of
route, 900 miles.

The contracts on these lines expire as follows, namely:

New-York and Liverpool (Collins) Line, 27th April, 1860.
New-York and Bremen Line, 1st June, 1858.
New-York and Havre Line, 1st June, 1858.
New-York, New-Orleans, and Aspinwall Line, 1st Oct., 1859.
Astoria and Panama Line, 1st Oct., 1858.
Charleston and Havana Line, 30th June, 1859.
New-Orleans and Vera Cruz Line, 30th June, 1858.

I am very respectfully your obedient servant,

HORATIO KING.

To DR. THOMAS RAINEY.

PAPER H.

THE FRENCH, ENGLISH, AND AMERICAN NAVIES.

The following list is kindly furnished me by Hon. Wm. A. Harris, of
Washington. The French list is taken from the "_Tableau General des
Batiments a Voiles et a Vapeur composant les Flottes de la Marine
Imperiale Francaise_."

SAILING VESSELS.

SHIPS OF 120 GUNS.--Ocean, Friedland, Ville de Paris, Valmy.

SHIPS OF 100 GUNS.--Hercule, Temmasses, Tage Turenne.

SHIPS OF 90 GUNS.--Jena, Suffren, Bayard, Breslau, Hector,
Achille, Eole, Santi-Petri, Tilsitt, Sceptic, Castiglione.

SHIPS OF 86 GUNS.--Diademe, Neptune, Jupiter.

SHIPS OF 82 GUNS.--Marengo, Trident, Ville de Marsailles, Alger,
Triton, Duperre, Genereux, Latour d'Auvergne, Saint-Louis.

FRIGATES OF 60 GUNS.--Iphigenie, Independante, Didon, Uranie,
Belle-Poulle, Surveillante, Andromaque, Forte, Minerve, Melpomene,
Perseverante, Renomme, Vengeance, Etrepienante, Victoire,
Semiramis, Guerrierre, Pallas, Semillante.

FRIGATES OF 52 GUNS.--Alceste, Calypso, Sirene, Atlante,
Andromede, Nereide, Zenobie, Sybi