Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-11-25
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AnoNe THH SOvEREIGftS AND ABOVE THE

from the Philadelphs Press
AMONG rHH sovEREIGNs AND ABOVE The
- : |aT - PEOPLE. s:aitaa ,iif 4 !
rs. r,nd for the relief Of saasrers ~ The Indian
nntinv now in course Of collection In Eng'enossi-
,.sdv amounts to over e26o 900, 1t will, prcbAoly'
zach the enormous sum. OF f400. oo0-eql:i 70 W,
Sssn r.ised 10 very plain Fisst by individual do
nations, and next by collections made IN various
places Of worship throughout all parts Of the United
Kingdom. ga . l".als,
Some few Of the individual donations are ample
Seven xoGS se
Dovaeer Lady Forbes, Mr. E. J. Woolsey. Of New
York. Messrs Gslignsni Of Paris, and another Pri'
vate gentleman, whom we shall presently name
Prince Albert gave $500; the Duchess OF Kent
mother to the Queen, and the Duke OF Cambridge,
elO0 each the Duchess of Cambridge and her Two
daughters ESQ each. Several public institutions in
London (such rs the Bank of England, the Corpora.
don Of London, and the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company each gave E50n, and
the same sum was respectively subscribed by SIX
private persons in Paris The Marquis Of Dalhousie
late Viceroy Of India, also gave f500. The lmperi'
d Guard Of France sent S4OO. -.
:. As might be expected, the members Of Queen VIC
toria's ministry have contributed to this Fund In
each instance, the subscription was only flOO the
average salary of EACH besides their own private in
come, (which usually is very considerable, being
E5, 600 year. OF all the remainder Of the British
nobility. only two-namely, the Earl Of Derby and
Lord Charles Wellesley-gave a. much as f20O.-
Lord Charless brother, the Duke Of Wellington,
could not his courage to the giving point, BE-
yond . shabby 9lOO Lord Overstone, Dieter
known, perhaps, as Jones Lloyd, the banker and one
Of the richest men in England could not afford more
than e10O. He was in good company, however, IN
his niggardness, for the Duke Of DevonshiTe, with
q IN mn If anc6N
SlOO, 900 year. the Earl OF Ripon, worth fl50,O
. year, and the Duke of Cleveland, worth flO0, 600
q year. were, each and all, SO much under the
weather" lin generosity or purse) that tlOO each
was the limit of their charity. The Most Noble the
Marquis Of Westminster, who literally owns two
thirds of the fashionable streets in the West End OF
London, besides immense landed estates in Cheshire
and Dorsetshire,-this poor man, with an annual
income of nearly e7O0.O00 gave no more than
miserable 4lOO.
To be sure, the Royal precedents did not 60 to in
cline the nobility to be liberal Queen Victoria with
allowances Of about 100000 q year. and privy
purse Of Eco, 900 per annum, gave FL ,0OO Prince
Albert, with as much as EGO, coo year, gave ESQ.,
The Duke of Cambridge, bis mother and sisters. re-
ceivc about e40, 900 year-out of which they man
aged to spare ESQ. The Duchess Of Kent, mother
to the Qunen. who is another State-pauper, to the
tune Of $4,000 per annum, could afford no more
In truth the British Arstocracy, by far the rich
est in the world have behaved shamefully shabby in
this matter. They literally give-their sympathy
There they rest Not fifty out Of the whole lot have
given anything at all. Taking the English, Scottish
and Irish peerage as containing about thousand in
number, this is small proportion. The idea Of
men worth 10000 to ESQ. 600 year, giving only
fl0 to EGO to what certainly is looked upon in Eng
land as National Fund. is contemplate. There is
in England another class, the Baronetcy-one degree
next below the titled aristocracy-which has been
equally miserly The members Of the House of Com
mons also have held back from contributing. The
estated country gentlemen and the wealthy CONNER
cialists have also hung back. Emphatically, then,
it is the middle and working classes-what We may
call the People-who have raised this Indian Fund.
The seventh donor of FL 900 is Mr.. Thackery, the
novelist A very remarkable donation his must be
considered. Nappears, in the advertisement among
the sums subscribed 10 Paris, as
W. Makepeace Thackeray, Esq, $1,000
It ID doubtful whether the whole of Mr.. Thack-
esay's property can consist Of more than f1O 600
perhaps not much, for the high station he
doubtedly occupies in London and Continental So
ciety, from his success in literature, is not nexpen-
sfye. The capital Of the Marquis Of Westminster,
the richest nobleman in England-easily aseertained
BY taking his annual income at thirty years pur-
ehase-exceeds two million pounds sterling. He
gives the onetwenty thousandth part of bis proper.
T.; Thackers, gives one-tenth of hu. Which, in
deed, is the nobleman?
Living solely by his pen, Mr. Thackeray has given
largely. It may he said that he has given ostenta
tionsly-a charge which We, for one. believe to be
wholly unfounded. His amour preprs is very large
no man can be on better terms with himself-but
Thackeray is the reverse Of ostentatious. He was
born at Calcutta, fifty three years ago. and his as
sociatons relating to India probably strong rs
TO have induced him to exercise this municent be-
nevolenee. of bis sincerity there be no doubt.
"A man who voluntarily gives up the tenth of bis
whole property, in aid Of public cause, must indeed
be devoted to it. 81,
There is covert satire, whether intentional or not
in the tacit reproof conveyed by the simple an
yn0uncement that when the weatbest noble eave
only e100, this hard-working man of letters gave
FL 0OO-an amount equal to what Queen Victoria
herself had presented. II the mobiles can blush they
will surely have flushed cheeks nov.
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