The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-10-13
Cost OF the British Government.

From the Philadelphia Press.
The money paid to Queen Victoria and
her family by the British people, or, if not
by them, of their own free will out of the
taxes chiefly raised by the sweat of their
brows, amounts to three million dollars q
year, besides palaces on palaces kept in
fine repair, and splendidly refurnished
every year or two, out of the aforesaid
taxes. And all this is independent of ad-
ditional sums paid to some members of that
family on other grounds. The Prince of
Wales, for example, receives about $75, 900
year extra, as General and as Colonel
of a crack regiment, while the Duke of
Cambridge, as Field Marshal, Commander
in.Chief, and Colonel of one of the best
regiments in the service, adds about
$4,000 year to his Parliamentary allow
ance. 1t would seem as if there was no
thing too hot or heavy, with mocey in it,
for "Royal Highness to carry off. We
are not quite sure (writing this where we
have no book to consult) if the Prince and
the Duke are not also paid salaries as
Keeper of Windsor Forest and Ranger of
Hyde Park.
The diplomatic service costs England
great deal of money. The embassy to
France, consisting of an Ambassador and
four Secretaries, with naval and military
attaches, costs about $75, 900 q year. In
addition, the Ambassador has one of the
best houses in Paris to live in, near the
Champs Elysess, the property of England.
The rent of such mansion, furnished,
would be at least $4,000 to $4,000 q
year. The Turkish embassy costs $55, 900
year; the Russian is the same; the
Austrian trifle less; the United States
consists of five paid persons, the Ambassa-
dor and four others, and costs about $685.
600 year and so on, ranging lower and
lower, until the Ambassador to Morocco,
last On the list, receives only $4,000 a
year-whioh probably goes great way in
that dark complexioned empire.
The British Judges receive salaries which
would be considered enormous here. For
example, the Lord Chancellor has $50, 900
year salary, and when he leaves Office,
which he must do when his party is COM
PEELED to resign, he obtains life pension
Of $25, 900 year. In the first place, he
probably gives up from $1,000 to $780,
900 per annum, which he realizes at the
bar, to accept position which may be of
brief tenure. Lord St. Leonard (better
known as the Edward Sugden who wrote
"On Powers'O was Chancellor for only ten
months, February to December, 1862; and
Lord Chelmsford was little more than
year on the woolsacS. Now when Chelms-
ford, long known as having bar-practice
OF at least 100000 year, became Chan
cellOr, he gave up that practice forever,
it being positive rule in English practice
that an ex.Judge never can return to the
bar. He gave up steady income of
double what the Chancellorship could yield
him-he was about fourteen months in
Office, he could never 60 back to the prac-
tice of his commission, and his pension of
$25, 900 year, though it may seem large,
is not q great compensation for the income
he relinquished.
The Master of the Rolls in England re-
ceives $50, 900, and in Ireland has $40, 900
ayear. The Irish Lord Chancellor has
$4,000. The Chief Justice of England
has $4,000 year; of the Common
Pleas, $4,000, and the Chief Baron of
the Exchequer The same. Each of the
other twelve common law Judges, as we'll
as three Vice ChancellOrs, receive $685.
OO0a year. There are admiralty and pro-
bate judges paid the same, and quite an
army of stipendary police magistrates and
county court judges, each having from
$4,000 to $4,000. A dozen bankruptcy
judges have $4,000. In Scotland, there
are about fifteen judges, called Lords OF
session, each receiving from $15, 900 to
$24, 900 year. In Ireland the judicial
staff is somewhat more numerous, as we'll
as more costly. On the whole, however,
these salaries are compensative for work
done, and generally well done. We come
now to some cases where this cannot be
alleged.
The pension list of England is uncom-
monty heavy, and is swelled up with large
grants to members of the aristocracy.
Five ex-Chancellors receive $25, 900 per
snnum each, ss compensation for losing