The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1843-01-13 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

AMBASSADORS.—A. man who receives £ll,OOO a year to show hospitality and exhibit state, ought to do both ; but there is another and a much more important point for the nation to consider. Why should £ll,OOO a year be given to any ambassador at Vienna, or at any other court of the earth? Or what is the actual result but to furnish, in nine instances out of ten, a splendid sinecure to some man of powerful interest, without any, or but slight, reference to his faculties? Or is there any necessity for endowing an embassy with an enormous income of this order, to provide dinners and balls, and a central spot for the crowd of loungers who visit their residences, or to do actual mischief by alluring these absentees from their own country ? We see no possible reason why the whole ambassadorial establishment might not be cut down to salaries of £1,500 a year. Thus, men of business would be employed instead of the relatives of our cabinets. Dinnergiving would not be an essential of diplomacy; the ambassador's house would not be a centre for all the ramblers and triflers who preferred a silly and a lavish life abroad to doing their duty at home; and a sum of much more than £lOO,OOO a year would be saved to the country. Jonathan acts the only rational part on the subject. He gives his ambassador a sum on which a private gentleman can live—no more. He has not the slightest sense of giving superb feasts, furnishing huge palaces, supplying all the rambling Jonathans with balls and suppers, or astonishing John Bull by the tinsel of his appointments. Yet he is at least as well served as others. His man is a man of business; his embassy is no showy sinecure; his ambassador is no showy sinecurist. The office is an understood step to distinction at home, and the man who exhibits ability here is sure of eminence on his return. We have not found that the American diplomacy is consigned to mean hands, or inefficient, or despised in any country.— Blackwood's Magazine.  MILITARY Ei:ECUTION:—TWO young Spaniards, members of one of the first families in Madrid, were recently executed at Montevideo for murder. The motive to the murder was of the most trivial character, but the atrocious circumstances which attended its commission put it altogether out of the power of the judge to interfere with the course of the law. It appeared that in the course of a political discussion Francisco Jaramile Etchenique and Fernando Fernandez, the two culprits, had taken great offence- at the remarks of Nicolas Garcia, who had been most strenuous in combating their opinions. The accordingly waylaid him, and when he came out of the house they, without the slightest further provocation, attacked and murdered him. They then proceeded to cut off his head, and bury his mutilated body in a neighbouring field. After the prisoners had been tried, convicted, and condemned to suffer death for their diabolical crime, great efforts were made by their friends to obtain a commutation of the sentence, but in vain, and when the day was fixed for the execution it was stated that some of their countrymen had resolved to prevent their lives from being taken, even by force of arms. A strong body of troops was accordingly ordered out—but no such attempt was made. When the mournful procession reached the market-place, Jaramile begged an orange and a cigar, which were both given to him, and he nodded coolly to those of his friends whom he recognized in the crowd. On their arrival at the scaffold, Fernandez was so weak that he could scarcely stand, even with support. Jaramile was, however, much more firm. He would not listen to the priests, and held up his head with an air of assumed indifference, while he played with the partly smoked but now extinguished cigar. While on the scaffold- be once called out to the Spaniards present to rescue him. They were then fastened each to a low bench by the negroes in attendance ; but they, for some time, obstinately refused to allow their eyes to be bandaged. At length, all being ready, they received two successive discharges of musketry of five or six pieces each, and died after much struggling, showing remarkable tenacity to life. The execution was a frightful butchery, and an evidence of the necessity of some more certain and speedy mode of taking the lives of offenders against the laws.