The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-07-19

The Big Fay of the Public Servants
Across the Water.

Across the Water.
London Correspondence New York SUM-
Dignity is commonly an expensive
article in any country. II Is especially
80 in Great Britain. The Queen re-
ceives annually 1925, 900 from the ma.
tional exchequer I" for the support Of
her Majesty s household and Of the hon
or and dignity Of the Crown Of the Unit
cd Kingdom Of Great Britain and Ire
land" The Lord Mayor of London
receives $50, 900 year, likewise for the
support Of great amount of honor
and dignity" and Is said to spend more
than his salary, as common thing,
during his year Of Office.
Millions Of families in civilized coun-
tries earn less than $500 year, but
they can not, it must be presumed, af-
ford " dignity" on that income. Col
liers and iron-workers are literally
starving in South Wales and Stafford
shire, and yet the Lord Mayor OF Lon
don continues 10 take his $50, 900 year,
and her gracious Majesty the Queen
still takes her annual allowance of near
ly $1,000, 900, and each contentedly
spends nearly the whole amount in
mere pomp.
In strange contrast with the grovel-
ing ignorance and deep poverty Of the
masses Is the opulence Of the landed
nobility and gentry, and the extrava-
giant salaries of officials.
OF the Judges and other high law off,
GERS of the principal courts Of Great
Britain, one receives a salary Of CSC, 900
per annum; two have $4,000 each,
three have $35, 900 each, five have $780,
600 each, and no less than 29 Others re-
ceive $25, 900 per year each. The Lord
High Chancellor Of Great Britain
(Lord Cairns) receives the first-named
salary-S30, OO0--in his capacity as a
Judge and S20, 900 as presiding officer
Of the House OF Peers. His salary is
Just about four times that of the Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court Of the
United States.
In the House Of Lords the Chairman of
Committees, the Earl of Redesdale, re-
ceives $4,000; the Clerk Of Parlia-
ments, the same; the Deputy or First
Assistant Clerk, $4,000; the Reading
Clerk, $4,000; the Council to Chair,
1880; the Chief Clerk, 81, 900; the In
dex Clerk 81, 900; the Sergeant at-Arms,
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and, lastly, the Gentleman Usher Of the
Black Rod, $4,000. The last named is
. purely ornamental officer, think, and
that may be the reason Of his enormous
salary. In the House OF Commons the
the Speaker receives 5000; the Chair
man of Committees Ca kind Of Deputy
Speaker), $4,000; the Clerk of the
House Of Commons, $4,000 Assistant
Clerk, $500; Sergeant-at-Arms, &c.
900; Librarian, $1,000; and some half
adozen others receive about IS, 900 each.
British Ministers to foreign countries
are well paid. The Minister to France
has a salary of $4,000 to Austria and
Turkey, $4,000 each to Russia, $780,
600; to Germany and Italy, $4,000
each; TO the United States and China,
$4,000 each; to Persia and Spain, $685.
600 each; to Portugal, Japan and Bra
iii, $50, 600 each; to Denmark and the
Netherlands, $4,000 each; to Belgium,
Sl7,iO0; and to little Greece, $17,5O0,
which last is exactly the sum paid by
the United States TO American Minis
ters To Great Britain, France and other
first-class Powers.
In the Queens household the Master
of the Horse--the Earl OF Bradford
receives Sl2, 800, and the Master Of the
Buckhounds, 1900. This last officer
is also gentleman Of title, and no one
would pretend to say the Right Honor
able the Earl of Hardwicke, as ssMaster
of the Buckhounds,n has any labori-
Gus duties, either mental or physical,
to perform. About $1,000 of that
sum is probably for the "honor
and dignity Of his station, and
the little remnant of $500 for light
work. His principal duty consists in
occasionally taking tame stag TO
some open spot Of ground, and then
aiding u rabble to hunt It to death. Ten
querries-blue FLOODED dandies every
one Of them-receive $1,000 TO $3.50
each, for some merely nominal over
sight over horses. The " Hereditary
Grand Falconcr," with duties just about
rs definite and valuable, receives 5000,
The Archbishop Of Canterbury has a
salary OF $4,000 year, and of the en-
tire number Of Archbishops and Bish-
ops OF the Established Church--about
thirty in all--the average salary is over
$4,000 each. The Duke of Marlbor-
ough, as Lord Lieutenant Of Ireland, re-
ceives 100000 per year, and an addi-
tional $4,000 for the support Of his
household.
Sir George Airy, Astronomer Royal at
the Greenwich Observatory, has a sala-
ry of S6,O00-that is, his services are Of
exactly the same value as those Of the
Hereditary Grand Falconcr" Of the
Queen, but rather less valuable than
those Of the "Aiaster the Buckhounds. I"
The Chief Assistant mt the Observatory
gets 80, 600 about the same as the av-
erage salary Of the ten "Equerries. In
the London school Board, the Chief