Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-07-04
The Amount EngIfshnlen are taxed tG
SuPPOrt the Royal EstabIIshment.
! coyresnondence New York Sun.

LONDON correspondence New YORK sun +,
When Queen Victoria came to the
throne in 1887, the usual steps were taken
to provide for the support of her Majesty
and the royal household. A select COM
mittee of twenty-one members were ap-
pointed by the House of Commons to pre-
pare estimates for such support. The
charges for the household of William "
were made the base of their calculations.
They seem really to have taken it as
model household, and to have arranged the
present one on almost exactly the same /
plan. and with just about the same ex-
penses. For her majesty's priVy purse /
they set apart $500, 600 yearly; for house
hold salaries, 1856, 800: for ordinary /
household expenses, 500, 500; for royal
bounty, ETC., $66, 900; and for various
other small items, $40, 200. The total is
1855, 900, or about 81, ,925, 900. The esti-
mate was agreed to by the House of Com
mons, and so the account stands to-day.
Some of the offices for which provision
was made in that list have since become
obsolete, and the incumbents have abso-
lutely no duties to perform. Yet the Of
fees are still filled and the salaries are
still paid as before.
These items by no means constitute the
whole expense of the Queens household,
and that sum of 81, ,925, 900 is by no means
her whole income from the National
Treasury. She also receives the revenues
of the Duchy of Lancaster which amount
to $215, 900 net. The amount from this
source is not uniform, but that was the
sum received for the last year reported
| 1876-77. This swells her Majesty's privy
purse to $515, 900 per annum out of the
funds of the nation. On this sum she has
! absolutely no demands for her actual or
binary expenses. 1t is clear pocket mon-
ey. She is under no necessity of laying
out penny of it, for every possible ex-
pense seems to be provided for in other
= allowances. IF she travels by water, a
e yatch is placed at her disposal at govern
s ment expense. If she travels by rail, the
country, likewise, foots the bill by an adj
r ditional allowance. Even for charity she
: need not draw upon her own purse, for a
$ liberal grant is made for this express pur-
: pose. Not only does she travel by water
e in royal yatchs, but by small fleet of
n these yachts is built and kept in repair
i for her particular use. This, of itself, is
an enormous extra bill, but I have no
e means of finding the amount of it. The
/, maintenance of royal palaces takes an adj
y ditional $l57, 900 a year, and the mainten-
ance of royal parks and pleasure gardens
N takes another $529,655 per annum.
1, Adding the annual allowance to her
Majesty, the net revenues of the Duehy
y y of Lancaster and the maintenances of roy
y al palaces, parks and pleasure gardens.
If we have total of 81, ,827 ,559 year. This
a' does not include the travelling gezpenses OF
p the Queen, the maintenance of the roya
le yachts, or any of half dozen other i'm
lr portant items which are strictly part o
~ ~ the expenses of royalty in England. Al
to | lowauces to other members of the roya
he family are also additional items. 'n
IL fact, = as an English authority says, s'i
all the expenses incidental to the 'hono
and dignity of the Crown could be ascer
tanned, it would be found that the H385,
og 600 annually settled by parliament upo
her Majesty constitutes but very smal
he portion of the actual cost of royalty.
Tt would be wrong to blame the Quee
= individually with any great part of tn
= responsibility of her absurd and exper
sive household. It is a creature of tn
British aristocracy as whole, and th
sar Queen is only a kind of central figure {
70' the system which the country has bull
I may add that the Queen also has a larg
'op private fortune from which it is estimate
his she realizes an income of no less the
81 ,OOo, 900 a year, in addition to the amou
di- paid by the nation.
eff The allowances to the royal family n
one including the Queen, amount to $3.50
yearly. The revenue of the Prince
IT. Wales from the Duehy of Cornwall
tbo tl about $3.50, 900 annual1y-is not includ
+bis in this sum. Summing up the leadil
1AiS items of til e cost of royalty in Englan
we have total of So, 1854, ,43O. If all t
bal items could be ascertained, I do not dou
lck, that the total given would be found to
don notmore than one-half the direct annu
cost of royalty in this country.