Henry W. Ogden. 3. NAVAL ASYLUM. Governor, 4. NAVAL SCHOOL. Superintendent, 5. OFFICERS OF THE NAVY. IF. A. Parker. Captains.-67. E. R. McCall. Isaac McKeever. J. P. Zantzinger. Wm. D. Salter. Ch. S. McCauley. T. M. Newell. E. A. F. Lavellette. T. T. Webb. John Percival. John H. Aulick. W. V. Taylor. Bladen Dulany. S. H. Stringham. Isaac Mayo. William Mervine. Thomas Crabbe. Thomas Paine. James Armstrong. Commanders.-97. Wm. M. Armstrong. Thomas R. Gedney. Philadelphia. Annapolis, Md. Joseph Smoot. Samuel F. Du Pont. Levin M. Powell. NOTE. One ration per day only is allowed to all officers when attached to vessels for sea service, since the passage of the law of the 3d of March, 1835, regulating the pay of the navy. Teachers receive two rations per day, at 20 cents each. 7. VESSELS OF WAR OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY. -August, 1848. [The names of officers marked thus (*) have the rank of Commanders; thus (†), Lieutenants; the rest are Captains. ] THE Marine Corps has the organization of a brigade, and numbers now 58 commissioned officers, and 1,295 non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates; in all, 1,353 men. The pay and allowances of the officers of the marine corps are the same as those of officers of the same grades in the infantry of the army, except the adjutant and inspector, who have the same pay and allowances as the paymaster of the marines. The marine corps is subject to the laws and regulations of the navy, except when detached for service with the army by the order of the President of the United States. The head-quarters of the corps are at Washington.t Staff of the Marine Corps. Col. Archibald Henderson. Lieut.-Col. Samuel Miller. Major Thomas A. Linton. Major James Edelin. * Paixhan. Major William Dulany. §Parke G. Howle, Adj. and Ins. ↑ According to the provisions of the act of March 2, 1847, the marine corps, at the close of the war, was reduced as above. The selection of the officers to be dropped was made by a board of staff officers of the corps, Aug. 14, 1848, and approved by the President, Aug. 17, 1848. ! Brigadier-General by brevet. § With the rank of Major. || With the rank of Captain. VI. INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGN NATIONS. AUGUST 4TH, 1848. THE pay of Ministers Plenipotentiary is $9,000 per annum, as salary, besides $9,000 for outfit. The pay of Chargés d'Affaires is $4,500 per annum ; of Secretaries of Legation, $2,000 ; of Ministers Resident, $ 6,000. The United States are represented by Ministers Plenipotentiary at the courts of Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Mexico, and Brazil; and by Chargés d'Affaires at the courts of most of the other foreign countries with which this country is much connected by commercial inter course. 1. MINISTERS AND DIPLOMATIC AGENTS OF THE UNITED STATES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. John P. Brown, Dragoman to the Legation. Salary, $2,500. * Mr. Donelson has been appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Federal Government of Germany. † $1,000 additional, for performing judicial duties. |