The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-07 00:00:00

DIPLOMATIC SALARIES.

The Committee have given much patient considera-
tion to the subject of our diplomatic expenditure, and
have entertained a variety of opinion upon it; they
have, however, decided to recommend a complete re►i-
sion of the present system of our diplomatic establish-
ments, and with that view they came to the following
resolutions :--

1. That it be recommended to the Government of
France and Turkey to convert the embassies now main-
tained between those countries and England into mis-
sions, and that our diplomatic establishment at Paris
and Constantinople be put on the footing of first-class
missions.

2. That it be recommended to the serious attention of
the Government that a single mission in some central
point in Germany may be substituted for the several
missions now existing at Hanover, Dresden, Stutgard,
Munich, and,Franktort, without detriment to the public
service.

3. That it be recommended to the Government to
make arrangemenks for uniting the, mission at Florence
with one of the Italian'missions: •

4. That no diplomatic salaries should exceed 5,0001.
.per annum, exclusive of an allowance for a residence.
5. That it be recommended to the Government to re•
vise the salaries of the whole diplomatic service, regard
being had to the maximum suggested by the Committee,
and to the relative importance of the various missions,
and that in certain cases a union of missions might take
place, or a consul or consular agent be substituted fur a
mission, whereby considerable saving might be effected
without injury to the public service.
The diplomatic pension list has engaged the attention
of the Committee, and they have been led to remark how
large a proportion the aggregate amount of pensions
bears to the sum paid for actual service. There are cir-
cumstances connected with the diplomatic service which
render it difficult to enforce all the regulations applicable
to other pensions; but, looking to the main object for
which all pensions are granted, they recommend that,
strict regard being had to existing interests, regulations
be made for the granting of future pensions, in respect
of the age and circumstances of the parties claiming
them, so far as is practicable, in accordance with the
sixth and eleventh sections of the Act 4th and sth Wil-
liam IV., c. 24, which regulates civil pensions.
The Committee, being anxious to report in the present
session, have not had time to prosecute the inquiry into
the consular establishments, and they recommend that
an investigation into this branch should be instituted in
the course of next session of Parliament.—July 25, 1850.

THE NEW CABINET AT WASH-

INGTON.
(From the New York Herald.)
We give below the names of the members of the new
Cabinet; they were sent in by President Fillmore on
Saturday last, and confirmed by the Senate in Executive
Session:—

THE CABINET.
State—Daniel Webster, Massachusetts.
Treasury—Thomas Corwin, Ohio.
Interior—James A. Pearce, Maryland.
Navy—William A. Graham. North Carolina.
War—Edward Bates. Missouri.
Attorney-General—J... 7". Crittenden, Kentucky.
Postmaster-General—Nathan K. Hall, New York.

The-Womination of each member of the same having
been confirmed by the Senate, a brief notice of the dis-
tinguished individuals composing it, from such materials
as are now at our hands, will doubtless be acceptable to
our readers. _ _ _

Of the Secretary of State, Daniel Webster, Massachu-
setts, his world-wide fame and reputation as a states-
man render it unnecessary to say much. He is well
known as a native of New Hampshire, born in 1782, and
consequently is now 68 years of age. Mr. Webster en-
tered Congress as a member of the House from his na-
tive state in 1813, and represented the state four
years; after which he removed to Boston. In 1823
he was chosen representative in Congress from that
district of Massachusetts, continuing in that capacity
four years. In 1827 he was transferred to the Senate of
the United States, and continued in that body fourteen
years—viz., until 1841, when he was appointed Secretary
of State by President Harrison. Mr. Crittenden, of
Kentucky, being also a member of that Cabinet, is again
a colleage of Mr. Webster in the new Cabinet. Atter
the quarrel of President Tyler with the Whig party in
1841, Mr. Webster refused to join his three colleagues
in the Harrison Cabinet in resigning, but continued in
Tyler's Cabinet until 1843, when he resigned. His most
important act while Secretary of State was the negotia-
tion with Lord Ashburton, on the part of Great Britain,
of the treaty of Washington, in August, 1842, by which
the long-controverted question of the north-eastern
boundary was settled. Notwithstanding the dissatisfac-
tion of some of the Whigs with his course in remaining
in the Tyler Cabinet, Mr. Webster was, in 1845, again
elected United States' Senator by the Legislature of
Massachusetts, in which position he has continued until
the present time--his term of service expiring in March
next. It will thus bo seen that Mr. Webster has served
in both Houses of Congress about 26 years—viz., eight
t.
The ee of Representatives, and eighteen
yearsye ars
i in n
thet h
Secretary eS ena
of the Treasury, Thomas Corwin, of
Ohio, is, we believe, about fifty years of age. Rising
from humble life, he became distinguished as a lawyer,
and was elected a representative to Congress from the
Warren district in 1831 ; he continued a member of
of
Corwin
the State
continued
governoriden t
the House until 1840, when he was chosen Governor of
Ohio in October of that year by a majority so large as
to settle all doubts that Harrison would receive the vote
Mr.th.
son
Shannon, his democratic predecessor, then succeeding
thbeutfolio twowin following
marosn, Wilson
him, in 1842. The Whigs having a majority in the
Legislature of Ohio • in 1845, elected Mr. Corwin United
States Senator to succeed Benjamin Tappan, Democrat.
His term as Senator therefore expres in March next.
Mr. Corwin has been long known in Congress as an
able debater and an advocate of the Whig measures of
policy. In Ohio he is considered the most able and elo-
quent stump orator in the state. His speeches in Con-,
gress, although showing traits of eloquence and talent of
a high order, have been considered as wanting in ar-
rangement and condensation of point and ideas. What
his peculiar talents as a financier may be remains to be
seen, but he has always been an advocate of the protec-
tive system as applied to a tariff on imports.
James A. Pearce, of Maryland, the Secretary of the
Interior, is also about 50 years of age. He is a native
of Kent county, in that state, and was elected a repre-
sentative in Congress in 1835, again in 1837 and 1841,
thus serving as a Member of the House six years. In
1843 he was transferred to the Senate of the United
States, and was re-elected at the expiration of his term
in 1849; consequently► his present term does not expire
until 1855. Mr. Pearce is a ready and eloquent de-
bater, and second to but few of the Whig Senators in
point of talent.
Edward Bates, of Missouri, the Secretary of War, is
a prominent member of the bar at St. Louis. lie is, we
believe, a native of Virginia, and during the Adminis-
tration of John Quincy Adams he was brought forward
by the Hon. David
Barton, then a colleague of Mr. Ben-
ton is the United States' §enate, and other friends of
Adams, as a candidate for representative in Congress
to succeed John Scott. There was much dissatisfaction
in Missouri at the time with Scott—who was a friend of
Mr. Clay—in consequence of his having given the
vote of Missouri to Mr. Adams, in the election of
President by the
House, in 1825; and thus the singu-
lar result occurred of electing a friend of Mr. Adams
to punish Mr. Scott for having voted for the former
as President, no Jackson or opposition candidate being
in the field. Mr. Bates, as a member of Congress, sup-
ported the Administration of Mr. Adams during the
two years he was in the House of Representatives; but
were in
as the Adams' partythe minority he had but
On quese
few opportunities of distinguishing himself.
tions of national policy. he was always found among the
advocates of internal improvement and the protective
• '
system. Retiring to private life in 1829, Mr. Bates has
continued to enjoy a high reputation in Missouri, but
his politica • • l friends having been ever slime in a minority
in that state, he bad been comparatively unknown to
the nation until the meeting of the Western Internal
Improvement Convention,
at Chicago, in July, 1847, of
which body Mr. Bates was chosen president. In a speech
which he delivered on taking the chair on that occasion
he exhibited talents of a high order, and a comprehen-
sive knowledge of the wants and capacities of the country,
particularly with regard to works of internal improve-
ment, which attracted much attention at the time, and

' in the opinio❑ of the numerous members of the Conven-
tion at once stamped him as a statesman whose services
would one day be called fur by the nation. Mr. Bates
is, probably, over 55 years of ri,Ye.
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 t J 1843.
Iu 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 that 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 profession, 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 he was appointed Attorney-
General by President Harrison. On the out-
break of the Whigs with John Tyler, in September,
1841, Mr. Critteade❑ re-ign( (I, 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, 1543; 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 he
now hold;, 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 between 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 bins to accept, he would, doubt-
less, have formed one of General Taylor's Cabinet, as ho
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. Ilall 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 ♦acancies
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 Majesty 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, AUG. 3.

MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PAR-

LIAMENT.

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

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.

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

Charles Newton, dealer and chapman, Donyland-mills
(not Donnyfield), Essex, to surrender, Aug. 10, at eleven,
and Sept. 9, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Pennell, official assignee, Basinghall-street; M'Cloud and
StenniLg, 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, Cornhiil; Depree, Law-
rence-lane, Cheapside.
John Page, butcher, Sidmouth, Devonshire, Aug. 15
and Sept. 18, at one, at the Exeter District Court.
Hernaman, official assignee, Exeter; Dew, Exeter.
John Veale Rowe, builder, Bodmin, Cornwall, Aug. 15
and Sept. 18, at ono, at the Exeter District Court.
llirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Collins and Son, Bad-
min; Stogdon, Exeter.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-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, l3runswick•placo, Old Kent-road, linendrapor, Aug.
27, at twelve—C. O'Neil, Golden-square, picture-dealer,
Aug. 26, at one—J. Do Levante, Wood-street, City,
shirtmaker, Aug. 27, at half-past eleven—J. T. Earl,
Lewisham, Kent, plumber, Aug. 29, at half-past eleven.