Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-10
HosarohIcal Place. RoldIug.

The injustice of monarchical, as compared
with republican institutions, was exempli6ed
in a remarkable manner in the accumulation
of offices of emolument and dignity in the
person of Prince Albert, lately the husband
of Queen Victoria. With us it is considered
that no person ought to hold more than one
public Office, or receive more than one sal
ary-in fact, that there is injustice in plu-
rality of office-inasmuch as the pluralist,
with his energies divided, con not acquit
himself properly in double capacity, and
also deprives seme other person of a situa-
ton. In England, though with some grum-
bling from the masses-the aristocracy think
ing that scarcely too much could be done
for royalty-Priuce Albert was literally
loaded with Office and emoiument.
On his marriage life pension of $780, 900
per annum was settled upon him by Parlia.
ment. But of this, living at free quarters
with his wife, the Prince never spent more
than one sixth in any one year, aud the ac-
emulation Of savings during nearly twenty
three years must have amounted, at ordi.
nary interest to the sum OF Sc, 900, 900. One
would naturally say, Prince Albert would,
doubtless, provide for his younger children
out of this immense sum- Not so. When
any of the royal offspring marry, Parliament
votes great sum in hand as a wedding por-
ton, and endows the bride or bridegroom
with a great life pension. The. Princess
Royal, on her marriage with the Prince of
Prussia, received a dowry of $685. in
cash, and was put on the pension list for
SAC, 900 year for life. AS the Royal chill
dren reach maturity, they are disposed of in
the following manner: The Princesses are
married off, with dowries and pensions, and
the Princes, thus made very dear to the
over-taxed British people, are established in
| life, each with a life-pension of from $l00..
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may take as holding Offices under the
| Crown. Thus, Prince Alfred, who is now a
Midshipman, will probably be Lord High
| Admiral, with large salary, by the time be
is of age, and his brother, Prince Arthur,
the god-child of "The Iron Duke" is as
| likely to be Commander-in Chief of the
army, when he is about twenty-one years
old, the pay being only $40 a day, and $50
day if he also be Field Mashal OF course
that he will be, for his father, the late Prince
Albert, was made Field Marshal in February
1910, at the mature age of twenty years and
five months.
The transformations in a pantomime can
scarcely exceed this. The young gentlemar
might as well have been made Archbishop
Of Canterbury, or Admiral at More, or Lore
High Chancellor, or President of the Roya
Academy, or Prime Minister. If the Roya
letters-patent could at once change a raw
| yOuLu Vi tWbubJ luJO y commander
of the highest rank, they could, by the same
magical process, have bestowed upon him al
intuitive capacity for filling the most re
spoDsible offices in Church and State, on th
bench or in the navy, in medicine or the fin
arts.
The late Duke of Wellington was forty
four years old before he received the bato
Of Field Marshal, sent to him by the Prime
Regent in return for having. sent him tn
baton of Marshal of France, captured at tn
battle of Vittoria; fit reward for thirty year
of service. In November, 1916, three othe
Field Marshals were made: Sir George NJ
gent, after seventy.four years of service
General Grosvenor, after seventy-two; tn
Marquis of Anglesey after seventy. Their
/ were others, also, holding this rank; two
} (the King of Hanover and the late Duke
Cambridge, because they were Princes
the Blood. The King of Holland, out G
compliment. Leopold, of Belgium, becaus
he had married the daughter of George tn
| Fourth. Wellington-who had fought 70
it. Two days before his marriage Prime
Albert received the baton, leaping over tn
heads of all the officers in the British Army
, without having ever "smelt powder" exceI
at a review. What did he gain by it2 Pay
! to the amount of nearly 500 day, and th
privilege of wearing cooked hat with in
| mense plumes of red and white leather
, gauntlets on his hands, and a tall pair
jack.boots upon his lower limbs.