Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-01-31
OFFICIAL SALARIES IN ENGLAND.

The British government has recently pub
liShed a blue book which gives a return OF all
the receipts and expenditures of the United
Kingdom in respect of individuals as diStiD-
gHsned from exports and imports and also
from taxation. In 1t are found statements as
to the salaries now enjoyed by the officers
of the crown. civil and legal, and the pensions
to which they are entitled in respect of past
services themselves, or in some cases, of their
ancestors: For instance We find a full list of
the salaries enjoyed by the judges of the land
and by the rest of the legal staff, from the lord
chancellor. who sits upon his throne ENJOYING
$500 year, down to tn the person who figures
his modest annuity of $3.50. On another page
the annual allowance to each of the members
of the royal family will be found. Her males
ty, Including her civil list, the salaries and
expenses OF her household, the royal bounty
and special service fund, etc. } received in the
year lIcm March. 1876 to March, 1s77, the sum
of S1.9i3, 500; the Prince of Wales Sla5 900:
the Duke of Edinburgh, $l22, 900: the Duke of
Connaught and Prince Leopold, each s%3,OOO:
Cambridge, $4,000; the Grown Prince of Prus-
STA. $3S,0G0: Princess Alice, Princess Helena,
Princess Louise, and the Duchess of Cam
bridge, each ss9,CCo; Princess Mary of Teck
$24,3 Princess Augusta, Duchess of Meek
lenburgh StrelitZ, Sl4,5 500 or total cost i'm sal
aries for royalty alone of over s2,7l5,o 600.
t Turning to the diplomatic pensions, it is
father was uncle to George Canning.) who is
now in his eightyninth year enjoys an allow
anee Of $500: Lord C3wley; who is the only
Wellington, and who was for fifteen years am
hassador at Paris, receives $500: Sir George
Hamilton. Seymour, 81 400; Sir James Hudon,
once private secretary to William "
tn" washSgon $780, SSs eight eli e ga tom
Ga that se fFs chs at ao }
their own services, are the following: Lord
Chancellors, each at S?4000-Lord Chelms-
ford, who va, was =, born in l19i, and com
menced public life as midShipman in the
navy: Lord Gladstone, and Lord Selborne
who, in ISL, served the British government as
counsel at the arbitration court of Geneva.
William Earl receives $500. and ST. AGO each
goes to Sir Samuel Martin, Sir Henry Heating
Lord PenZance and Sir Richard LinderSy all
of whom are members of the prvy council
Lord Eversley, as eX-speaker of the House of
Commons, position he held for eighteen
years, is down for a pension of $l9,5O0, while
three eX-cablnet ministers. Sir George Grew
Mr.; Spencer, HOraio Walpole. and Mr.. Thomas
Miner Gibson, have each $500
But perhaps the most curious portion of this
book is the page which gives as a list of the
hereditary penSiOnS-that is, of pensions en-
joyed now by individuals on account of their
fathers or their ancestors naval and military
services. The Dukes of Marlborough and
Wellington, independent of the estates which
they both hold received the first $4,000 on ac-
count OF the services of the winner of Bien-
nelm, and the second like sum on account of
waterloo. But the Blenheim pension is in
perpetnity, while the annuity which cOmmenl-
crates Waterloo will cease with another life
tlScOant ST. vincent, the third holder OF that
title, enjoys pension of $4,000 a year for the
victory which Sir John Jervis Won but which
dies with him. 1t appears that the nation in
ISI6.a annexed in perpetuity a pension of
While to the present Lord Combermere and
his son alone will the $4,000 pension fall with
which his cOronet is endowed. Every Lord
EXmonth pa as long as the title shall last, will
draw $500, but Lords SeatOn, Napier of Mag
dola, keaneS, Hardinge. Cough, and Raglan,
and their next immediate successors in their
respective titles, and no descendants in a
further degree, will enjoy the same amount
reSpe cti,eiy.