Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-09-09
his establishment, therefore, would be regulated


more in accordance with his lower salary.
The salaries to the Consuls are regulated by this
bill with reference to the importance of the posi-
tons respectively, and also in some degree by the
previous income from fees We annex the COM
pensation of all the principal ports where the sala
ries are $4,000 and upwards, and in parenthesis
the amount of income from fees, agreeably to the
official returns for 1853, SO far as received
Great britain and her possessions: London salary
$1,000. fees $4,752;) Liverpool $500, (S6,594;)
Glasgow $4,000 ($4.S9l;) Belfast $1,000, ($l,9s5;)
Dundee So ooO S2, l84 j Hong Kong $4,000, S2 953
Calcutta $50, O00 2 29l J Halifax $1,000 ($93s y Mel
bourne $1,000 Nassau $4,000, ($1,7S8;) Kingston,
Jamaica, So 900, Isl ,53S.)
France: Paris $4,000, (s5,2lOD Havre $4,000,
(S6566;) Marseiles $4,000, (S1,6S6) bordeaux
S2, 900, ($2,2o4)
Spain: Havana Sc, ooo (ss 1894 y Matanzas So, ooo
($2,7l2;) Trinidad de Cuba So 0O0 ($4,2l1 including
three agencies.)
Russia st. Petersburgh So, 900, ($3S5.)
Holland: Rotterdam ~ 900, CS769) w.
Belgium: Antwerp $4,000, ($2,617)
Germany: Trieste $2,oOO Frankfort on the Maine
So 900, ($402)
Hanseatic Cities: Bremen $4,000, (ss,2l5;) Ham
burg So, 900, ($1, 1917
1~ag- Smyrna $4,000, (sGa2;l Beyrout $4,000
Alexandria 81, 500.
Bar5ary States: Tunis, Tangiers, and TripoH each
SIS, 900.
| Mezco Vera Cruz Sc, 900; Acapulco So, 900.
Broza: Rio de Janeiro $4,000, ($12,22a;) Perambu-
co So, 600, ($977.)
/ Chai: Valparaiso S., 900, ($3. 295.)
| Central america: San Juan del Sur So, 900.
| Ns0 Grenada: Panama $4,000, ($2 2S9 y Aspinwall
So, 600, ($1,175)
argentine Republic: Buenos Ayres So 000 ($1.507.)
Hayi City Of ST. Domingo 2,O00 ($369.) .
China: Canton $4,000 Isl ,l4s;) Shanghai So, 600,
($1,1os;) Annoy $780, (S5aOD Fouchow $4,000;
| Nngpo So, 900.
sandspieA Islands: Honolulu ST., ooo (s4sss;) Lahina
So, 0O0 ($20s4 y Hilo $4,000, (s54s.)
| Navigator's Islands Apia So, 600, ($176.l
Society Islands: Tahiti 3d. 900, (S892.)
Ftges Islands: Lanthala So 900, (S227.)
! Newcastle, Hull, AK La Chapelle, Cadiz, Malaga,
Ponce, porto Rco Lisben Funchal Elsineur, Leipsc,
Basle Zurich, Geneva Genoa Leghorn Naples, Paler-
mo, Port Prince Cape Haytien San Juan del Norte
Laguayra, Talcahuana (Chii and Odessa are all fixed
at $1,000; and the others of minor Importance, and
where the consus allowed to engage in business from
$500 to 81 600
We think in the above there are some undue dis.
tinctions made as regards the amount of salaries
between different places, and can no good reason
for the difference between London and Paris, MOI
why such high salaries should be allotted to Liver
pool, Havana, and Rio de Janeiro. The American
commercial interests at those ports, it is true,
large, but not sufficiently so as to require such a
great increase of salary over other important
cia points, SUCH for instance, Havre The present
salary of the ConsulGeneral to Egypt, which is now
$4,000, appears also to be unnecessarily reduced to
$500, particularly as that officer is charged with
all the diplomatic relations at that port All these
however, are comparatively small defects in the bill
which, if on further investigation it should be deem
ed advisable to do SO, can be corrected when il
comes up in Congress on its merits; and we merely
refer to them as subjects for consideration, the OBJ
jects and general basis Of the bill meeting our cor
dial appreciation; and we sincerely hope that it o
some similar one may promptly receive the sane
ton Of the National Legislature