New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-15
About $4,000 more is required for his

nun. About $4,000 more is required Tor his
household, private secretaries, clerks, etc. he
has also the use Of the White House, rent
free. The Queen lin her own right one OF the
richest women of England receives from the
Consolidated Fund, as pin money, S3Oo,ooo per
annum from tho revenues OF the Duchy OF
Lancaster, S251, 800, also for her own personal
expenses, with the royal castles and revenues
appertaining While We are grumbiing at the
$4,000 paid TO Gems. Porter Dent, etc., the
Consolidated Fund sets apart yearly S1,725OOO
for the support of the Queens household
Masters of the Horse who never sec stable,
and Ladies of the Bedchamber who 1.-Two in
palaces of their own. Out of the same fund
is paid annually to her children and cousins
$4,000 with additional grants of dowers or
portions in the event of marriage or
coming OF age. The Prince OF Wales,
in addition to his personal fortune, has an
income from tho nation of S47G.SOO, with q
trile besides of $4,000 for his wife's pin
money. The salaries of the English Cabinet
Ministers average moro than that of the Presl-
dent: our own Cabinet officers and tho Vice.
President receive each $780, less than the
sum paid to Her Majesty's Master OF
the Buckhounds or Chef in the kitchen.
| The salaries Of our congressman, $4,000,
barely pays them for the loss Of time
in their professions or business. Pen
sions (and those ordinarily mere pittance)
| are granted by us only to men or the widows
| of men who have lost life or limb in the
service of the country; but the pension list in
| Great Britain includes every man who has held
Office for six months. These are kind Of
| leech, which, once applied, never cease TO
| draw blood. We recommend the study OF this
list to every Englishman disposed to count the
cost he will find, beside princey sums paid to
ex-ChancelIors and Lords of the Admiralty,
curious poinls Of interest, such as infants In
arms receiving appointments as tide-waiters, and
retiring on pensions at the age OF three, to draw
them until old age; faithful loyalists who
have been paid good income for half life
time for keeping the door in building
| destroyed forty years ago, &C., &c. Or, IL
these minute barnacles which clog the ship do
not interest him, let him turn to the list OF
the Peerage, which forms the great parasitic
body of the monarchical system. 1t would be
worth his while to study the reasons why
these men, at one time or another, have been
lifted from the poorer classes and given the
lions share OF the nations land or money; to
observe how, gaining their position, in the
first place, in too many cases, by being the
illegitimate sons Of trucking fayorites of
kings, their families have usurped to them
selves not only the first chances for honor,
education, and place among Englishmen, but
also tie very soil and air. There arc other
things than money to be counted in the cost
of an aristOcracy.
Englishmen, it is certain, are counting all
the prices they pay for Queen or Peers and
the value neutrality-suspicious. represented,
too, by the grayest conservative thinkers, as
well as our excitable friend Odger-and no
studied display of loyalty, such as that Of the
Thanksgiving, will silence such inquiries, any
moro than the cred curtains with heraldic
"devices hung over decayed tenements" re-
moved the filth and squalor that lay protest
| ipo balinI