The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-02-18
Expenses Of Royalty.

| The salaries of the royal household OF
England which amount to $685., OOO year,
include vast Bumber Of totally useless
officials-chamberlain comptrollers, mas
ters of ceremonies, marshals of household,
grooms of the robes, lords-in- waiting,
grooms-in-waiting, gentlemen ushers, and
few persons whO appear to perform ser
vices, but who ought to be paid for those
services as they perform them, and not Dc
made permanent officials with great titles
OF honor-such, for instance. as the his
Etorical painter to the Queen, portrait
painter to the Queen and the photographer
in ordinary. Under the lord steward's de-
partment, and the department OF the master
Of the horse, we have such officers as tne
coroner of the household, and the CHIEF
equerry, the clerk marshal, and various
| others, whose duties are not of a very bur
depsoms description in the medical depart
ment. You would hardly credit the num-
Der of medical gentlemen who are required
for the service of the household, put am
aware that some of them are unpaid. There
are three ply sicians in ordinary, three ply
sicians extraordinary, ono ~sergeant-sur-
geons, three surgeons extraDldiLary, one
physician of the household, one surgeon OF
the household, one surgeon apothecary, two
chemists 81 the establishment in ordinary,
one surgeon-oculist, one surgeon. dentist,
one dentist in ordinary, and one other ply
sician-or twenty-one in all; while the
Prince of Wales has for his special benefit
three honorary physicians, two physicians
in ordinary, two surgeons i'll ordinary, one
surgeon extraordinary, one chemist in or
binary, or eleven more, making thirty-two
doctors in one family. should be almost
afraid of firing nybody who listened to
me while 1 went over the list of strange
Offices Of which the household is made up
lord high almoner, sub almoner, hereditary
grand almoner, master of the buck
clerk of the check, clerk of the closet, ex-
ons in waiting, and last, but not least, the
hereditary grand falconer, the Duke of St.
Adams, who might, perhaps, with advan
tage, if he is to retain his salary of $500
year, be created hereditary grand pigeon
shooter in ordinary. If we turn to the
lord stewards department., we come at once
upon q mysterious board Of green cloth, as
it is called, at the head of which are the
lord steward, the treasurer, the comptroller
of the household, and the master of the
household, with perfect army of secretaries
and clerks, and with special secretaries,
with special Offices, and with special sala-
ries, in each of those sections of the de-
partment. In the kitchen department we
have a chief cook and four master cooks,
receiving salaries of between $4,000 and
and SIS, 600 a year among the five, and q
host of cOnfederates, some of whom have
duties that 1 cannot even guess at-such,
for instance, as the two "green Office" men.
There are whole departments, the duties of
which cannot be very considerable, one
would think, OF, at all events, not consider
able enough to warrant their being made
into departments of the household; for in-
stance, the confectionery department., while
the duty of table decking employs no less
than five persons, who have salaries of be-
tween $500 and $1,000 year in ALL
Speech Of Sir Charles Dixie.