Excerpt from Correspondence and Other Papers Relating to the Proposed Interoceanic Ship Canal: Being a Reprint of an Executive Document of the Special Session of March 4, 1857, and of Document No. 194 of the Forty-Seventh Congress, First Session The Secretary of State, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate of the 7 th instant, requesting the President, if in his opinion not incompatible with the public interest, to communicate to that body, in executive session, copies of the correspondence and docu ments connected with the treaty concluded at London, between the United States and Great Britain, on the 7th [17th] day of October, 1856, and communicated to the Senate with 1118 message of the loth of December, has the honor to lay before the President the accompanying papers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.