The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-20 00:00:00

THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.

The house having resolved SIKH into a committee for the
consideration of the Queen's message upon the subject of
the marriage of the Prince of Wales,
Lord PALMERSTON said—l rise, sir, to propose to the
committee a resolution for the purpose of providing, in the
words of the message from bar Majesty, an establishment
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for the Prince and Princess of Weiss sniteble to the rank
and dignity of that station. (Hear, hear.) And in doing
so I would remind the committee of that of which they are
all ware, that we have the 'tappings at liehig under a
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constitutional monarchy, and theModpis of this eeuntry not
may are, perhaps, more than at an miner peeled, sensible
by positive experience of the which that form
of government confers, but they ham also an opportunity of
appreciating its value by contrasting it with event, which
an passing in other parte of the world. ((heers.) We
see in the East some of the evils which are incident
to arbitrary sway. We willow is the West the wide-
spread misery cad desolation which are sometime, created
by democratic and republican institutions. (Loud cheers.)
We enjoy • happy medium between those two extremes.
Our institutions not only confer Marines and tranquillity
upon the people of these realms, but amble them to enjoy
the most perfect freedom of thought, of speech, of
writing, and of printing, and above all uncontrolled either
by the dictates of despotic authority or by the Lynch law
of an ungovernable mob. (Cheers.) I Mast that the people
of this nation will long oontinue to enjoy those sdvantages,
and that their hearts will be dirertrd towards the Almighty
dispenser of events with thankfulness—revs:mita' thank-
fulness for the lot which has thus been 'Reigned them,
and lam persuaded that their bosoms will be full of the
most affectionate attachment towards that sovereign and
family under whose mild and beneficent sway, humanly
speaking, those blaming, have been administered. (Hear,
hear.) There are occasions in human affairs in which
events which are matters of joy and rejoicing produce
pleasure that begins end ends with the occasion oat of which
it arises. But there are other occasions when joyful events
link and amines* the present with the future—whey the
happiness which mankind enjoys at the moment is also an
earnest and • security for future happiness. Such an occa-
sion I, the present, when the heir apparent of the crown is
going to contract • marriage which will not only, I
trust, be productive of domestic happisem for the
family io which it is to be celebrated, but will
hold oat to this country • prospect of • lam line of succecd-
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will, I trust imitate the virtues of the atoetafres• which they
may spring, and will comirilate as mush es the present
lamay does to the hagiszr melba,. and)diml of the
country over which (Hear, beer. The people
of this country have ways Mee disposed readily to give
whatever may be Thereesery to maintain that due dignity
which is esceatisl for the 'monarchical Institutions of the
country, and I am persusded that upon the present occasion
the proposal which it will be my day to make will be
acceded to with pleasure and readiness by this house, and
will be moctiooedby the people of this country. Incomidering
that which it may be fitting upon the present occasion to
grant to the crown for the establishment of the Prime and
Princes" of Wales, it is right to look back • little to see
what bas been dope upon similar occasioes is time. goo* by.
Now, if gentlemen will look at the speech of Mr. Pitt,
when, in 1795. he proposed an establishment for the then
Prises and Prince.' of Wales, they will see that he stated
that the Prior of Wales in 1746, and the Prices of Wales
et an earlier period, in 1716, had each of them • net
income of 100,0001. • year, is the one cam in addition to
the revenues of the Ducky of Cornwall. It is not clear
from the words made use of whether in both casestbatincome
wasinaddition to tbereveaus al the Duohyof Cornwell, but I
rather infer that it was. Everybody is aware what • great
change has taken place in the value of mosey mime either of
these remote periods, and how little the same
nominal amount in the present day represents the
command of things which that amount gave either
in 1745 or in 1715. Coming doers to • toter period,
is 1716, when Mr. Pitt proposed, and the house cemented,
to an establishment for the then Prime and Princess of
Wales, the arrangement was not a ample one, because it
was complicated with an arrangement fo- the payment of
the large debts at that time due by his royal highness ; bat
the total amount of allowance which was granted, including
that portion which was set aside for the liquidation of debt,
was 138,0001. a-year, placed partly upon the Civil List and
partly upon the Consolidated Fund. And although for •
certain number of years the appropriation of a large patios
• of that amount reduced the available income of the then
: Prince of Wales to something, I believe, between 80,0001.
and 70,0001., yet I apprehend that about the year 1806.
thole debts having been liquidated, the Prime of Waks of
I that day then entered into the receipt of the 138,0001. It is
I not the intention of her Xajeirty's government nor the de.
are of her Majesty that the present application to pasta-
smut should be founded ups ol what was proposed for the
then Prince of Wake. (Hair, hear.) His Royal Highness
. the Prince of Wales is in the enjoyment of the revenues of
the Duchy of Cornwall, and to the honour of bar Majesty
and the late Prime Consort be it said, that whereas in
i former reigns it was understood, and was the practice, that
during the minority of the Prince of Wales the revenues of
! the Duchy of Cornwall were added to the available income
of the crown, in the present reign those revenues have been
carefully and studiously set apart to accumulate for the
. beciefit of the Prince when he came to be of age. Those
accumulations, or • very considerable part of them.
' have been invested in the purchase of land, of
as estate which has been bought in the county of
Norfolk. the purchase money of which was, I believe,
220,0001., upon a nominal rental of 7,0001. • year, but
I which probably with those usual deductions to which
, estates are subject—(laughter)—and which many boo.
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ream will well uoderstasd, may not produce more than
0001. of available income. A part must be set aside for
outfit of his royal highness, who will probably want
more their he did at college of them things which are mom
eery t• form as establishment, and part also will be required
for the purpose of building opal' the Norfolk estate a man-
sion more mutable than the prompt one to the dignity and
*Woo of the Prince of Wales. Hakim them deduo•
time, the details of which I will not trout& the
I"ww with going into, the actual probable Memo*
from the Duchy of Cornwall, together with the fa-
same arising from these lamemests and the mmaieleg
ozostakticna, maybe takes In round members at 60,0001. •
year. We think that • sum al 100,0001. • year would not
he disproportimate to those e peones which naturally 101 l
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propose to the home to (met 40,0001. a year upon the ma-
&shaded fund for the estabilehmest of the Priam sad
Prisms, of Wales. Ofemewed ohms. BM those whom I
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