The Sun.
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SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUG UST 7, lB5O.

and costs for maps and plans of my extensive coal-
&id at the ad libitum discretion of the paid inspector,
who will like no better business than placing-the trade
in absolute confusion. Employing, as we coal•owners
all do, for our people's safety, our own interest, the pre-
servation of life, and the wealth of our concerns, the
ablest and most scientific viewers and practical men in
the trade, nothing but absolute compulsion and force
will induce me to surrender the property I preside over
unto others.—l remain, Sir, yours, &c.
VANE LONDONDERRY.
Seaham Harbour, Aug. 5, 1850.

REDUCTIONS OF OFFICIAL
SALARIES.

REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE.
The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the
salaries and emoluments of offices held during the plea-
sure of the Crown by Members of either House of Par-
liament, voted in the annual estimates; and also into the
salaries and emoluments of judicial offices in the superior
courts of law aod equity in the United Kingdom; and
int > the retiring pensions allotted to the judges; and
also into the expense of diplomatic establishments
charged on the Consolidated Fund, have considered the
maqers referred to them, and agreed to the following
report:—
In fulfilling the important duty entrusted to them,
your Committee, in the first instance, directed their at-
tention to the salaries attached to those offices held dur-
ing the pleasure of the Crown, which are usually filled
by Mernlaers of either House of Parliament, and are
voted in the annual estimates.
Your Committee first selected those offices which,
from the nature of the duties attached to them, have
always been considered of the greatest impedance in
a Government, namely, those of First Lord of the
Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
three Secretaries of State, and the Fir>t Lord
of the Admiralty. For these offices it is requisite
to secure the services of men who combine the highest
talents with the greatest experience in public affairs;'
and, considering the rank and importance of the offices,
and the labours and responsibilities incurred by those
who hold them, your Committee are of opinion that the
salary of these offices were settled in 1831 at the lowest
amount which is consistent with the requirements of the
public service.

fore them that the most unecessary delays and deten-
tions prevail in the offices of Masters in Chancery,
which might be easily and immediately re-
moved, so as to reduce largely the amount of business,
and claims on the time of the Master. Such reforms,
besides conducing to economy, would facilitate the course
of justice, and give the greatest relief to suitors in the
courts of equity.
The Committee further recommend to the serious at-
tention of the Government the enormous expense of legal
proceedings on behalf of the public. The vigilant super-
visiun of the Board of Treasury over this branch of pub-
lic expenditure in all the departments seems essentially
neeesslry.

Your Committee recommend that all fees on appoint
ment to office be abolished.

SCOTLAND.
The Committee recommend the following scale ol
salaries for the Judges of the superior courts in Scot.
land :

The Lord President of the Court of Session ... £4,300
Lord Justice Clerk and President of Second Di-
vision of the Court of Session ... 4,000
Lords of Session, Justiciary, and Exchequer,
each ... 3.000
They do not recommend auy alteration in the offices
of Lord Advocate arid Solicitor• General.
It has bean given in evidence to your Committee tha,
the busi❑ess transacted in the various courts of Scotland
is of a very unequal amount ; and they have every rea-
son to believe that the number of Judges is larger than
the population and business of that part of the United
Kingdom require, and might be diminished. It has, in-
deed, been stated that measures are in contemplation,
whereby the present inequality may be in some degree
rectified; but your Committee would press on the at-
tention of the Government, that when any vacancy may
°war, thi subject may be well considered, and that the
opinion of this Committee with regard to the number of
Judges should be attended to.

in the opinion of the numerous members of the Conven-
tion at once stamped him as a statesman whose services
would one day be called for by the nation. Mr. Bates
is, probably, over 55 years of age
William A. Graham, Secretary of the Navy, is a
native of North Carolina; may be set down at fifty
years of age or under, and represented that State in the
Unite] States' Senate two years, viz., from 1841 to 1843.
In August, 1844, he was selected Governor of the State,
for which office he was re-elected in 1846, retiring at the
expiration of his second term, in January, 1849. His
administration as Governor was popular, and he is con-
sidered in North Carolina as one of the most talented of
the Whig leaders in tbat State.
John J. Crittenden, of -Kentucky, the Attorney-
General, is well known to the people of the United
States as a statesman who has been long in public) life.
He is now, we should think, about sixty years old, and
entered Congress as a member of the Senate in 1847,
serving them but two years, with Isham Talbot for his
colleague. From 1819 to 1835 he continued in the
practice of his procession, as one of the first lawyers of
Kentucky, residing principally at Frankfort, and occa-
sionally representing his county in the State Legislature.
In 1835 he was again elected to the United States'
Senate, and continued to serve in that body until
March, 1841, when ho was appointed Attornes-
General by President Harrison. On the out-
break of the Whigs with John Tyler, in September,
1841, Mr. Crittenden resigned, with the other members
of the Cabinet, except Mr. Webster, and retired to pri-
vate life, from which, however, he was soon called by
the Legislature, to again take his seat in the United
States Senate in 1842. He was also elected Senator for
another term of six years, from March, 1843; but in
1848, having received the Whig nomination for Gover-
nor of Kentucky, he retired from the Senate, and was
elected by a large majority to the executive office be
now holds, the term expiring in September, 1852. In
consequence of the understanding that Mr. Clay was not
to be a candidate for President at the election for 1848,
Mr. Crittenden, with other leading Whigs of Kentucky
and other states, became early committed to the sup-
port of General Taylor, and took measures to effect the
nomination of the latter at the Whig National Conven-
tion. Mr. Clay having subsequently changed his mind,
and concluding to be a candidate before the Convention,
a bitter feud ensued betweett Mr. Clay and Mr. Critten-
den and his friends; but Mr. Clay did not refuse to vote
for Mr. Crittenden as Governor, nor did the Governor
interpose his influence to prevent the election of Mr.
Clay to the United States Senate. Still we have never
heard that the feelings of coldness and jealousy of Mr.
Clay towards Mr. Crittenden have ever been removed
since their rupture in 1848. But the Whig party gene-
rally throughout the union consider Mr. Crittenden as
one of their strongest and most talented men, whose
ability and skill as a statesman, and prudence as a
counsellor, have often been proved. Had not his duties
to Kentucky forbidden him to accept, he would, doubt-
less, have formed one of General Taylor's Cabinet, as he
was his most confidential friend and adviser.

Nathan K. Hall, of New York, is the new Postmaster-
General. His age is about 43, and he was formerly the
law partner of Mr. Fillmore, who, of course, knows him
well, and doubtless is confident of his capacity to per-
form the onerous duties of Postmaster-General accept-
ably, and that he will be a good man to keep his eye
upon the Seward clique. Mr. Hall was, several years
since, recorder of the city of Buffalo, and represented
that Congressional district in the 30th Congress-1847
to 1849. It may be remarked, by the way, that Buffalo
is peculiarly honoured at this time, having from her
citizens the President of the United States, a member of
his Cabinet, the Minister to New Granada (Dr. Foote),
and several other of the public officers appointed by the
general Government.
The formation of this Cabinet causes three vacancies
in the Senate, viz., the seats of Mr. Webster, of Massa-
chusetts; Mr. Pearce, of Maryland; Mr. Corwin, of
Ohio.

The Governors of States have the power of appoint-
ing-Senators until the Legislatures meet. The Execu-
tives of Massachusetts and Ohio, being Whigs, will fill
the vacancies from their own party, of course. The
Governor of Maryland is a Democrat, and thus the
Whigs lose a Senator from this session.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF TUESDAY.
DOWNING-STREET, AUG. 6, 1850.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint George Van
Buren, Esq., to be her Majesty's Solicitor-General for
the Island of Tobago.
Her Mejesty has also been pleased to appoint Edwin
Donald Baynes, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary and
Clerk of the Crown for the Island of Montserrat.
CROWN-OFFICE, Atm. 3.

MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PAR-

LIAMENT.

County of Mayo—George Gore Ouseley Higgins,
Esq., in the room of Robert Dillon Browne, Esq., de-
ceased.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.

William Ridler, contractor for public works, Cow-
.ersley, Yorkshire.
BANKRUPTS.

Charles Newton, dealer and chapman, Donyland•mills
(not DODDyfield), Essex, to surrender, Aug. 10, at eleven,
and Sept. 9, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Pennell, official assignee, Basinghall-street; APCload and
Stenning, London-street, Fenchurch-street.
John Griffiths, linendraper, Strand, Aug. 19 and Sept.
13. at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan,
official assignee, Birchin-lane, Cornhill; Depree, Law-
rence•lane, Cheapsido.
John Page, butcher, Sidmouth, /Devonshire, Aug. 15
and Sept. 18, at one, at the Exeter District Court.
Elernaman, official assignee, Exeter; Daw, Exeter.
John Veale Rowe, builder, Bodrnin, Cornwall, Aug. 15
and Sept. 18, at one, at the Exeter District Court.
Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Collins and Son, Bod-
min; Stogdon, Exeter.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghsll•street.

J. Amos and C. Sutherland, St. Helen's-place, City,
merchants, Aug. 27, at eleven—H. Waddington, Bridge-
street, Blackfriars, merchant, Aug. 27, at one—G. Dou-
glas, Brunswick-place, Old Kent-road, linendraper, Aug.
27, at twelve—C. O'Neil, Golden-square, picture-dealer,
Aug. 26, at one—J. De Levante, Wood-street, City,
shirtmaker, Aug. 27, at half-past eleven—J. T. Earl,
Lewisham, Kent, plumber, Aug. 29, at half-past eleven.

In the Country.
B. Jefferies, Worcester, boatbuilder, Sept. 26, at twelve,
at the Court, Birmingham.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
11. Chattam, Goole, innkeeper, 9d., on any day on or
after Aug. 7, notween eleven and two, at the office of
Mr. Young, Leeds.
H. Hardy, Bradford, grocer, 11d., on any day on or
after Aug. 7, between eleven and two, at the office of
Mr. Young, Leeds.
G. Wilson, Wakefield, grocer, 9s. 6d., on any day on
or after Aug. 7, between eleven and two, at the office of
Mr. Young, Leeds.
T. Don, Swinton Iron-works, Yorkshire, is. 10d., on
any Thursday, between eleven and two, at the office of
Mr. Freeman, Leeds.
Q. Dick and J. Dick, Finsbury-square, merchants, 4d.,
on 'Thursday next and following Thursday, betwee❑
eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Basinghall.
street. _ _

Q. Dick, Finsbury-square, merchant, 6s. 2d., on
Thursday next and following Thursday, between eleven
and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Basinghall-
street.

NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
• At the Court, Basinghall•street.
J. Thompson, King-street, Camden-town, draper,
Aug. 28 at one—W. Carmalt, Romsey, Hampshire,
baker and confectioner, Aug. 28, at twelva—J. Robin-
son, High Holborn, bookseller, Aug. 21, at eleven—J.
Belbin, Beaumont-street, Marylebone, coachmaker, Aug.
28, at half•past twelve.
CERTIFICATES GRANTED.

J. C. Morris, Curtain-road, Shoreditch, cabinet maker
—S. H. Leah, jun., Romford, auctioneer, a certificate
of the third class—W. Varnam, Ibstock, Leicestershire,
draper, a certificate of the first class—T. Marsden,
Manchester, wharfinger, a certificate, after two years
from Aug. 3—D. M. Evans, Wrexham, Denbighshire,
draper, a certificate of the first class, after twenty•one
days from Aug. 2. _ _

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. Cleaver, and J. Wright, Nottingham, lace manu-
facturers—R. Billingham and P. G. Marinack, Margate,
chemists and druggists—T. Pilkington and W. Wood,
Elton, cotton spinners—J. Ratcliffe and W. Mayer,
Derby, silk throwsters—J. Lockwood and J. P. Knight,
South wark, hop and seed merchants—D. W . Hertz and H.
Baines, Huddersfield—D. Kennedy, A. C Macgregor,
and G. C. Bruce, Canton, China, merchants and agents
(so far as regards A. C. Macgregor)—R. Bruce, H.
Stothard, J. Stothard, E. Slaughter, and G. Fuller,
Bristol, locomotive engine manufacturers (so far as re-
gards R. Bruce)—C. Willis and A. E. Jay, St. James-
street, woollen-drapers—W. G. Holmer and B. Wil-
loughby, South place, Finsbury, factors—T. L. Pem-
berton and T. E. Coalett, Sekley, coal masters—E.
Jackson and J. Stork, Lancaster, seed merchants—J.
Alderslade, G. Suellgrove, and J. Snellgrove, Newport,
plumbers—J. Craske and G. G. Warner, Norwich, up-
holsterers—T. Garner and G. A. Garner, Suff ,lk, dealers
in game—W. Howse and W. E. Gorringe, Tichborne-
street, St. James's, chemists and druggists.
INSOLVEN r PETITIONERS.
George Graham, Maryport, Cumberland, innkeeper.
Thomas Weedon, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire,

cattle dealer,
James Croxon,,Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, baker.
Edwin-Harding, Gloucester, painter.
Richard Griffiths, Wern, Shropshire, innkeeper.
Juseph Beech, Waliall; Staffordshire, bricklayer.

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NEW TELEGELPHIC DICTIONARY.—A French
paper, the Presse, gives some account of experiments made
at the house of M. de Girardin, with a new telegraphic dic-
tionary, the invention of M. Gonon. Dispatches, in French
English, Portuguese, Russian, and Latin, including proper
names of men and places, and also figures, were transmitted
and translated, says this account, with a rapidity and fidelity
alike marvellous, by an officer who knew nothing of any
one of the languages used except his own. Dots. commas,
accents, and breaks, were all in their places. This diction-
ary of M. Gonon is applicable alike to electric and to aerial
telegraphy, to transmissions by night and
day, to maxi-
time and to military telegraphing.