LATE OMISSIONS.
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Salaries of Foreign .Nlnisters.-Wc have lately seen in several papers, and of both political parties, paragraphs sim liar to the following, which we extract from the Southern Patriot:

 "No individual who has any sense of personal dignity, will choose to fall in the rear of the Ministers of the third and fourth rate powers of Europe, at such Court as that of St. James. It is carrying tie theory of f Republican simplicity to a parsimonious as we'll as pernicious excess, to level the incomes of our Ministers abroad to the general standard of allowance for our other functionaries. The scale of cxpendi- lures at home is no test for any class of official personages but those whose ha- bits and associations, in community with the customs of their country, do not call for liberal expenses. What is usual ;n foreign countries among persons of the same official rank, should be the stand ard to which the allowance ought to be adjusted, within, of course, certain lim- its. While no one who contends for an adequate income for our Ministers a. broad, would propose Prince Esterhazy, for that standard, yet, not to fall behind "a Representative of one of the Spanish Amcricanrepublics, or third rate pow CT in Europe, could not be deemed ex- travagant or pernicious. We cannot twist the usages of courts, to suit our exclusive Republican theory. There Is proper pride in every well hammered and liberally educated gentleman. such as ue may select to represent US in for-