The PRESIDENT protemporeThe Chair has received and been requested to present to the Senate the memorial of William A. Buckingham and divers other prominent citizens of orwich, in the State of Connecticut, nskin for an appropriation for the improvement o the river Thames; also, a communication from his Excellency the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and another from his Excellency the Governor of the State of NewHampshire, commending the subject to the favorable consideration of Congress. These papers are very brief, and the subject is one of great importance, not merely to the people in the locality; but to the adjacent States, and the Chair would therefore ask the permission of the Senate that these papers may be printed and reterred to the ComCommerce. If there be no objection that order will be entered. his so ordered. Mr. BROWN presented a memorial of the common council of the city of StLouis, the county court of StLouis county, and the Union Merchants Exchange, of the city of StLouis, praing that Congress will grant the necessary authority to the citizens of StLouis and to the citizens of the State of Illinois to construct and maintain a bridge over the Mississippi river at that point; which was referred to the ComPostOlliccs. Mr. WILLEY. I present the ctition of Mrs. Mary E. Twiford, setting forth that through her instrumentality and the accompanying papers seem to establish the factthe capture of or folk took place by her signaling our fleet, and that, in consequence of that manifestation ofher loyalty, her house with all she had was burned up. She offers her memorial setting forth these facts, with the accompanying papers proving the allegations in the inemoria to that effect, and asking for relief either for the property she lost in consequence of that act, or for compensation for the services rendered by her to the U.S. I move the reference of the pay ers to the ComClaims. lie motion was agreed to. Mr. LANE, of Kansas, presented a ctition of settlers on the absentee Shawnee and s of Kansas, praying that they may be allowed to purchase those lands at $1 25 peracre; which was referred to the ComIndAffrs. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.