Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1849-06-13
THE COST OF ROYALTY.


ling, nearly two millions Of dollars. Three hun
dred thousand dollars are for hor private use the re
mainder Is expended in the departments OF Lord
Chamberlain, Lord Steward, and Master Of the
Horse; in royal bounties. pensions, sc.
| The Queens Lord Chamberlain has salary OF
$l0,OOO-his business is to supervise the royal a
partmen,s, and arrange for physicians, chaPains.
musicians, furniture, &c. He never performs tho
duties ia person. lie has a vast number Of dgtu-
| faries in his department-such rs Master Of the
| Robes, at s., 500 year-eght Ladies Of the Bed
| Chamber, at 81, 500 each, whose only duty is to
visit and dine with her Majesty three fornights in
the year--eight Maids of Honor, and eight Bed
Chamber Women, at 81 500, whose duty is give
the Queen the "pleasure of their company" for a
lew weeks in the year-eight Lords in Waiting,
and eight Grooms in aiting, at $500 and 81 500
whose duty is to dine with the Queen three fort
nights in the year. Then, there sixteen Cen
tleinen Ushers, fourteen Grooms of the Chamber,
eight Sergeants-at arms, six Heralds, State Pages,
Pages OF the Back Stairs, Pages of the Presence,
Messengers. &C.. all ''high- blooded," and all re-
celve salaries as large any of our State Govern
ors There are also sirty chaplains, twenty physi-
cans, lao yeomen of the guard dressed in the COS
tune OF The l7th century, besides others "too nu
merous to mention" The annual expended
IN The Lord Chamberain's department being $780,
600.
Then there is the Lord High Stewart, always
of noble birth, who has salary of$l0,000. His
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vide for the culinary department, or in other words
do The marketing The duty of this office in al
ways done by another. The Lord High Steward
has under HIN an army of reasurers clerks, store
Keepers, ''yeomen of the pantry" bakers, confec-
TONERS, cooks, table deckers, portcrs SC. lie is
also Judge 10 administer justice among the Queens
servants. The total expenditure of the Lord Stew
ards department is 100000 annually.
Then comes the Master of the Horse, who has
charge OF the Queens horses and stables, at sala
yrfl : IN. III,
all with large salaries In this department is a
Master of the Buckhounds, with no duty to per
form, who receives $4,000 annually and Grand
Falconer, at $4,000, although her Majesty has not
single hawk The total expenditure Of this de-
partment, yearly is 1926 900, and the Office is held
by the Duke of Norfolk.
Besides the above list large sums are yearly ap-
propriated for The Royal Palaces castles, news,
parks, gardens, sc. The Royal Family also make
heavy drafts upon the public purse-Prince Albert,
as the Queens husband, whose principal labor is
in registering the additions to his family receives
yearly about $l5O,00O He also receives sac, 900
as Field Marshal, Colonel, Constable of Windsor
Castle, SC, all absolute sinecures. Adelaide the
Queen dowager, widow of William w., receives
100000 annually. The Duchess of Kent, tho
Queens mother, receives about $4,000. One
Queens uncle gets $685. 900, another 1000.
King Leopold receives $3.50 600, sc. The yearly
grants for the Royal accommodation and for royal
salaries and pensions, average So 100000.
Then there is the Queens plate at st. James
Palace worth two millions of pounds The crown
jewels $4,000 600 more. Then again the Queen
receives the immense resources from the crown
tates in all parts of the kingdom.
Such is partial exhibit of The cost Of the British
Royalty; and to us plain Republicans it appears as
onishing, that people of such sterling good sense
should suffer themselves to be oppresslvely taxed
! to keep up the 'pomp and circumstance" which
maintains the "dignity that hedges in King"
|
! New ORLEANS AMusEMENTs-rIh people of
New Orleans, (says the Bait. Amercan) though
doomed TO a sort Of amphibious existence, are not
overwhelmed by the flood that threatens to sub
merge them. On the contrary, they bear the ncon-
veniences of their present situation with a most
commendahe spirit, and exhibit faculty of adapt
ing themselves to circumstances truly worthy of i'm
itation. The Delta says
1.-The fashionable circles have abandoned their fine
coaches, with silver mounted harness and Englisi,
drivers, and taken to gondolas, vugary called sks
Gay parties Of ladies may be in the afternoon
fluttering neat, pretty little skiffs, which, with
their snowy sails, skim pleasantly over the inunda-
ted districts. 1t is only requisite 10 adopt the gui-
tar, and this, with our musical population, would
j be quite easy, to make New Orleans at present
f fac sin,ile of Venice We observe one good effect
Of the overflow, in the abridged skirts of the ladies'
t dresses. Instead of the long, dragging, street.
sweeping and gutter Swimming style Of dress, our
I, fair have adopted the more convenient. neat and
graceful style of the Italian and French girls who
are not ashamed to reveal the beauties of well turn
e ed ankles"
The same paper gives the following description
of the contest now waginG between the Juveniles
and the reptiles for the supremacy of the streets:
Though the Juveniles are somewhat peSeTed by
the scarcity of solid ground on which TO spin their
tops--it being The top season.--they find
ample compensation in the exciting sport of chasing
the snakes and congos, that swarm in the immedi-
, ate region The water moccasn has come forth
from his swampy lair and now swiIs unconcern-
A edly through streets that awhile ago ratified with
the sound of carriage wheels, and he proudly lifts
S his crest above the water, snake hating and
fun loving uTchin sends piece Of sate pebble,
or stick at him with unerrng certainty and then
the viper after slight wriggle in the water, dis
appears and presently his inanimae body rises a
gain his white belly shining in the sum- and our
5 chin hauls him in and bears him away in triumph,
on pole.
Not so easily managed. however, is that hideous
$ creature, the congo, with its horrible sharp body.
|, and little almost invisible legs. The congo is eau,
;ious and wry. He has no spirit of entorprise-no
adventurous turn He vii! creep forth no doubt,
TO pobbe up some garbagc-but he has always IL
place of retreat at hand into which he will
. lvrrple before you say Jack Robinson. His
, skin too is SO tough that it might defy the spear
! of Ehurie and is perfectly mpeGvUus 10 the i'm
belle tcl,nn of urchendom. Like Ascending Eel.
on he has to be caught before he is killed. And
whenever the inSaient ire OF juvenilily is wreaked
@ upon him, ten 10 one he is only playing possum,
9 and will presently gather up his mangled remains
and hobble off to his mud hole, there to mediate
upon the cruelty and lnhumanity of man."
. How TO DIsLoDGE FISH BoNE FROM THE
JHgoAT-It sometimes happens that fish bone
accidentally swallowed will remain in the csOpha-
gus and occasion serious Inconvenience in fact, in