New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-13

1t was RochefOucauld, if we remember Alright,
who observed that there is something in the mis-
fortunes Of our friends not entirely dspeasing to
us. Perhaps, therefore, our City readers, in view
of the scandalous rottenness of our Municipal Ad-
ministraton, the exOrbitancy Of our taxes, the
general insecurity of life and property among US,
the amplitude and growth of our public debt, and
the immeasurable fthiness Of our Streets will de-
rive consolation from the facts set forth below:
Queen Victoria Of England is believed to boa
good ife and mother, and her six or seven children
are all living. The eldest is the Princess Royal
Victoria, now fifteen, betrothed to the son OF
the Prince Royal Of Prussia, about twenty-five.
Hitherto she has been no special burden to the
British Nation but her approaching marriage
raises q question of dOtatiOn or Outft-in other
words, how much shall Great Britain give TO the
Prince who WEEDS her Queens almost manageable
daughter7 The sum fixed on by the Ministry
doubtless after full consultation with their Royal
Mistress-is f7O,OOO Cor $3.50, 0OO) per annum-
about ten times the annual stipend of our Presi-
dent, Vice. President and Chief Justice combined.
The little lady in whose behalf this generous allow
snce is proposed, is quite likely to live fifty years
longer in which case she will have drawn directly
from the Brit.h Treasury no less than $780,
00C-which, if we mistake not il rather more than
the entire cost of maintaining our Federal Govern
ment during the eight years of WashiDgtons Ad'
ministration. This sum is additional to the amount
which the Princess may fairly expect to receive
from Prussia as cOnsort of the Heir Presuuptve
and ultimately as Queen of that powerful and pros
porous Kingdom. And all for what! Not for
aught that the young lady has yet done or given
promise of doing beyond "condeseendins to be
bonn" she may be paragon Of wisdom, virtue,
benefcence; but as yet she has been simply child
in AIM and little girl eating her bread and butter
and miDdiDg Cor slighting) her lessons. And tor
this and her Royal birth she is to be lowered with
$3.50, COO per anDum
Mr.. Robert Gladstone, President OF the Liver
pool Financial Reform Association, writes to the
two Members Of Parliament from that city letter
on the subject of this dOtatiOn, of which the fol-
lowing is q specimen:
"The proposed dowry is so preposterously exrava'
CANT that the first mention Of it conveys the impress
sion that, in this as in many other instances common
report must be a common deceiver. f7oo 600 per an
nun! Just consider the circumstances under which
this Job il sald to be in contemplation. We have
spent upward of hundred millions on the war now
terminated for the present; we have borrowed, or
sLall have TO borrow some thirty or fifty millions
more; our double income tax and imyosts on commod
tiles wrrg from US nearly seventy millions annually;
there are the strongest motives for reducing expend
ture 20 the lowest limits consistent with the efficiency
If the public service; how, then, is it possible that
our rules csn mediate such piece Of wastefu ex.
travsganee as the alienation Of f7O 600 per annum Of
the pubic roney for tbs lie Of princess who in the
natural coLse OF events, viii become QUEEN OF for,
,isn L .s ION? Why shqp!a tie people Of En2haA