James Barron,
Charles Stewart,
Jacob Jones,
Charles Morris,
L. Warrington,
James Biddle,
C. G. Ridgely,
John Downes,
Stephen Cassin,
A. S. Wadsworth,
George C. Read,
H. E. Ballard,
J. B. Nicolson,
Jesse Wilkinson,
T. Ap C. Jones,
William C. Bolton,
W. B. Shubrick,

Charles Gauntt,
William Ramsay,
Henry Henry,
Samuel W. Downing,
Henry W. Ogden,
Thomas A. Conover,
John C. Long,
John H. Graham,
James M. McIntosh,
Josiah Tattnall,
Hugh N. Page,
William Inman,
Stephen Champlin,
Joel Abbott,
Lewis E. Simonds,
John M. Dale,
Harrison H. Cocke,
William J. McCluney,
John B. Montgomery,
Horace B. Sawyer,
Cornel. K. Stribling,
Joshua R. Sands,
John J. Young,
Charles H. Bell,

Commanders.

Abraham Bigelow,
Frederick Varnum,
Joseph R. Jarvis,
Thomas W. Freelon,
Sam'l W. LeCompte,
Charles T. Platt,
Wm. M. Armstrong,
William F. Shields,
G. J. Pendergrast,
William C. Nicholson,
James B. Cooper,
Ed. W. Carpenter,
John L. Saunders,
Joseph B. Hull,
John Stone Paine,
Joseph Moorehead,
Thomas Petigru,
John S. Chauncey,
Irvine Shubrick,
John Kelly,
Edmund Byrne,
William H. Gardiner,
David G. Farragut,
Richard S. Pinckney,

96.

[Stephen B. Wilson,-
Edward C. Rutledge,
William S. Harris,
T. Aloysius Dornin,
Rob. B. Cunningham,
James Glynn,
Joseph Myers,
Thomas R. Gedney,
John Bubier,
Victor M. Randolph,
Jacob Crowninshield,
Frederick Engle,
John Rudd,
Robert Ritchie,
William W. McKean,
Franklin Buchanan,
Samuel Mercer,
Charles Lowndes,
L. M. Goldsborough,
George N. Hollins,
Duncan N. Ingraham,
John Marston,
Henry Bruce,
Henry A. Adams,

5. PAY OF THE NAVY, per annum.

William Mervine,
Thomas Crabb,
Thomas Paine,
James Armstrong,
Joseph Smoot,
Samuel L. Breese,
Benjamin Page,
John Gwinn,
Thomas W. Wyman,
Andrew Fitzhugh,
W. K. Latimer,
Hiram Paulding,
Uriah P. Levy,
Charles Boarman,
French Forrest,
Wm. Jamesson.

James D. Knight,
Joseph Mattison,
William S. Walker,
Alex. S. Mackenzie,
George F. Pearson,
James T. Gerry,
John S. Nicholas,
Samuel F. Du Pont,
William L. Hudson,
James P. Wilson,
George A. Magruder,
John Pope,
Levin M. Powell,
Charles Wilkes,
Elisha Peck,
Thomas J. Manning,
William Pearson,
William L. Howard,
William P. Piercy,
Richard A. Jones,
Thomas J. Leib,
Thomas O. Selfridge,
Henry Eagle,
Andrew K. Long.

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.

6. VESSELS OF WAR OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY.-July, 1846. [The names of officers marked thus have the rank of Commanders; thus † Lieutenants; the rest are Captains.

*Nominal armament.

The official list numbers 671 vessels, but names only 636. Number of vessels in the British navy, 636; mounting, when armed, 17,681 guns. Number of men and boys employed, 40,000.

Total number of vessels of all classes in the French navy, 346. Total number of guns, when all are armed, 8,928. Number of men and boys in the naval service, in 1845, 27,554

Number of vessels, besides sloops and brigs of war, 134; mounting 1,646 guns.

Naval Force of Mexico.†

The naval force of Mexico recently in commission consisted of 3 brigs, 2 steamers, and 18 smaller vessels; mounting in all 42 guns. Commercial tonnage unknown.

Comparative View of the Naval Forces of the Powers of Europe and America.

* Although the whole naval force of these nations has been placed in the column of " in commission," it is probable that a portion of it is in "ordinary," but it is not known what portion. These nations have a few war steamers, but the number is not known. 86 are men-of-war cutters and gun-boats.

† 323 of this number are gun-boats. ¶ Exclusive of the Caspian fleet.

**Exclusive of U. States revenue vessels, consisting of

No. of vessels. Tot. tonnage. No. of guns. Offi'rs & men.

*From the United Service Journal, for 1845.
From recent information by American officers.

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