Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1881 — Salaries of British Ministers. [ARTICLE]

Salaries of British Ministers.

Tire salary list of the British Government shows the relative rank assigned to Washington as a diplomatic station bv the European powers. The British Minister at Peris receives an annual salary of $50,000 ; at Vienna, $40,000 ; at Constantinople, $40,000; at St, Peters-

burg, $39,000; at Berlin, $35,000; at Pekin, $30,000; at Madrid even, $27,000; while at Washington Sir Edward Thornton is obliged to live on $25,000 and a very considerable number of allowances. In point of grade the Europeans rank. Washington practically with the missions to Brazil, to Japan, to the Hague and to Lisbon.