Wearing the Beard.--_Dr. Marcy_, 130 Wiseman, Dr., Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster (Illustrated.) 143 Wild Sports in Algeria.--_By Jules Gerard_, 121 Wolf Chase, The.--_By C. Whitehead_, 86 [Illustration: _C.B. Haddock_] THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE of Literature, Art, and Science. Vol. II. NEW YORK, DECEMBER 1, 1850. No. I. OUR DIPLOMATIC SERVANTS. CHARLES B. HADDOCK, CHARGE D'AFFAIRES FOR PORTUGAL. [With a Portrait, Engraved by J. Andrews.] Old notions of diplomacy are obsolete. The plain, straightforward, and masterly manner in which Daniel Webster and Lord Ashburton managed the difficult affairs which a few years ago threatened war between this country and England have taught mankind a useful lesson on this subject. We perceive that the London _Times_ has been engaged in a controversy whether there should be diplomatists or no diplomatists, whether, in fact, the profession should survive; arguing from this case conducted by our illustrious Secretary and Lord Ashburton, that negotiation in foreign countries is plain sailing for great men, and that common agents would do the necessary business on ordinary occasions. We are not prepared to accept the doctrine of the _Times_, though ready enough to admit that it is to be preferred to the employment of such persons as many whom we have sent abroad in the last twenty years--many who now in various capacities represent the United States in foreign countries. Upon this question however we do not propose now to enter. It is one which may be deferred still a long time--until the means of intercommunication shall be greater than steam and electricity have yet made them, or until the evils of unworthy representation shall have driven people to the possible dangers of an abandonment of the system without such a reason. We design in this and future numbers of the _International_ simply to give a few brief personal sketches of the most honorably distinguished of the diplomatic servants of the United States now abroad, and we commence with the newly-appointed _Charge d'Affaires_ to Lisbon.