Litchfield enquirer., 1870-09-08
ROYAL REVENUES IN ENGLAND.
QUEEN VICTORIA AND HER wEALTH.-T
 COME OF THE ROYAL FAMILY.

QUEEN VICTORIA AND HER wEALTH.-N-
 COME OF THE ROYAL FAMILY.
 Queen Victoria is, or ought by this time to be, very wealthy. She has from Parlia- ment grant of G365, ,00O year, and the palaces, save those which are her private property, are also kept up at the public expense. During the life of the Prince Consort, whose allowance was e3O,O0O a year, when the Court entertained great deal, the departments of the Lord Stew ard, Lord Chamberlain and Masters of the Horse no doubt exhausted the sums ap- propriated to them. but of late years, since the habits of the Queen have become so exceedingly retired, it is believed that nothing like the same expenses have been incurred, and that large savings have been effected.
 The Queen also derives an income from another source. About fifteen years ago, an eccentric old gentleman named Neale, who had no relatives with any claim on him, left her 950O,O ,OOO.
 On her accession to the throne the Queen did not inherit a sixpence. On the con- trary. her only inheritance was the heavy debt left by her father, whose life was one long career of hopeless ill-fortune and em- barrassment. These debts the Queen fully liquidated. Although her civil list is less than that of her grandfather, she has al- ways been noted as prompt payer, and has, besides, managed to purchase the very valuable properties of Osborne and Bal moral. Moreover. she has never, like her predecessors, asked for extra money to en- tertain foreign potentates: and although it is true that of late years such persona ges have been the guests of MT. Claridge, the fashionable hotel-keeper, rather than those of his sovereign, this was not the case in the earlier and happier days of her reign, as those who saw the Ascot races on the memorable occasion when the Czar Nicholas assisted at them, will testify.
 Again, while George III. received Par liamentary grants amounting to many thousands year, for his younger sons expenses almost from their infancy, Queen Victoria asked for nothing until her sons were men, and still defrays all Prince Ar thurs expenses. Yet the British public complains, not by any means angrily or loudly, that not enough of the large sum given for representative functions is spent upon them.
 THE PRINCE OF WALES.
 There is no doubt that an undue share O1 Lu0 GApSuS0S Ol Gub0fSaIuuu0uU 1all upOu the Prince of Wales, who is accounted in England poor man for his position. He receives about e7O,O0O from the Duchy of Cornwall, which, until his father took the property in hand, was sink of iobbery and corruption. Everybody connected with that estate had regarded it as food for plunder, and it's revenues had fallen to about half what they are at present.
 The Prince further receives by Parlia mentary grant e40,O0O year, and the Princess has G10,0OO. Marlborough House, which is crown property, is kept up at the public expense. It is large but not con- venient edifce, of red brick, with scarcely fine room in it.
 From the time of her husbands death until her own this abode was the home of Adelaide, the excellent Queen Dowager, but she died at Stanmore PriOry, few miles from London, residence famous in the earlier part of the century, as readers of Lady Morgan's memoirs will recollect, as the seat of the Marquis of Abercorn.
 Marlborough House was built by the great Duke, who, no doubt, selected the site for its convenient proximity to St. James palace, and the facility which it offered for back stairs communications be- tween Mrs. Morley and Mrs. Freeman, as the Duchess and Queen delighted to dub themselves.
 Sandringham was bought out of the funds accumulated from the Duchy of Cornwall during the Princes minority, and there are those who aver that the Prince paid 2