The New York herald., 1879-07-06
ROYAL CIVIL LISTS.
THE ALLOWANCES TO EMPERoRs, KINGS AND
RULERS OF EUROPE

THE ALLOWANCES TO EMPERoRs, KINGS AND
RULERS OF EUROPE.
From the London Globe.l
Civil lists came in with constitutions and cabinets
and all tho other paraphernalia Of nineteenth CEN
tury government. The Frenchman, the Prussan
and the Austrian at the commencement Of the pres
ent century little acquainted the Turk or
Russian with any restraint the ability of
the sovereign to spend Is much he liked. One of
the rights which the Czars of Russia have always
most tenaciously claimed is never to be without
q ruble. In the olden days the semi-sac
position they held in the eyes Of their Musco-
vites would have rendered it something than
impertinence to attempt to interfere with Grip
pie their spending capabilities; aud even IN this
year grace 1879, with the entire legislative ad-
minstrative and executive powers in their own
hands. nothing but nihilism say nay to any ex-
travagance they may like to commit. The Sultans,
in the same way used to look upon the Pacha who
gathered in the finances of the Ottoman Empire as
bound to provide for the qualification their pleas
ures. however expensive they might be. He was
at least to exile from the sweet waters Of
Europe" If he showed any quams OF conscience
about what the faithful ought In justice to be made
pay their Caliph and another Chancellor Of the
chequer took up his portfolio who was better man
at putting on the screw. Those times are changed
The Commander OF the Faithful, it is true, is
not confined to civil list any than his prede-
cessors; but, In daily want OF piastre. he casts o
longing eye the allowances OF many little Ger
poten and has had to melt down his plate
order to pay his domestics' wages. But, excepting
the Gar. who is above civil list and the Sultan.
who would be only too glad of IL he could get it,
the sovercigns OF Europe have time past
had to content themselves with hxed incomes.
MODERN ALL,wANcEs
In England the civil list has been subject to
siderable vicsstudes. The trst sovereign of the
House o. Brupswiek 1T s got as n much as million
through the f9OO 900 ga 500 0O0 year that Parlis
ment allowed him. when still further reduced
for the sailor King. Queen victorias list Is fixed
by the statute of 1887 at f35.00O $1925 OOO per
mum. In impecunious countries the sovereign has
to cut his coat + according to his cloth. Thus; tho
E55 900 (s275OoC year and the King CT the Neither
lands gets about the same amount. King Luis OF
Portugal has fS2.OOO (S4OOOOO) u year to spend
while the Spanish Cortes bv act Of June. 1876.
made Alfonso XII. allowance Of 7,000.OOJ
rsnsr heavy drain on counsry sSs. has nesry
dry. The Emperor william. with his excess
lively simple tastes aud bourgeois habits. must nd 1t
impossible TO get through the more tn IN four mill
ion thaers of his civil list. especially he enjoys
the income as well of considerable landed prop
erty while the f6l5, ,o64 49, OsO 0O0 year which the
Italians pay King Humbert for the luxury Of pos
sessng one king over one kingdom is good deal to
take from them when We consider their present cir
cumstances and how their debit and credit account
stands.
KINGDOMS AND rnNcrrALrrrEs.
The new kingdoms aud principalites that have
sprung into existence in very recent times have all
adopted the civil list system part and parcel OF
that constitutional form OF government they copied.
And sometimes there has been some little difficulty
In scraping together the income which Is neces-
sary to keep up the state and dignity OF q king or
o hospodar. This the In Greece.
Otho, with all his faults-and they were not few
far between--had something of his own to spend.
but when the Hellcncs took King deorge. In 1863,
and a suitable civil list had to be voted by
the National Assembly it found that ali
they could settle their new sovereign was
1850. 900 drachmas little over f4O 00U ($2O0 OO0)
year. However, the governments of Great Britain,
France ana Russia came TO the rescue with f4.UO0
ls20OUo) year EACH and in this way King George
has been able 10 make both ends meet. And vet
what is looked upon almost poverty in Athens
would be thought an extravagant allowance indeed
at Cettinje. All that the Black Mountai necrs can
find to put In the pocket OF their Hospodnr is some
thing under f3,OVO (S15OOOI year, though we be-
lieve Prince Nicholas enjoys pension from his
patron the Czar of Russia, of 1900 ducats settled
OH Prince Peter III. aud his descendants In 1887
by the late Gar. The new HospoLar, Prince Alex-
ander L. of bulgaria. has allow settled by the
Constituante at 6OJOOOf. year. As lie will not have
much state to keep up at Sofa this is probably
enough for his wants at home. But princes In the
present day hnd travelling expensive. Hotel keep
ers are no rcspcccrs Of persons they ia tie
habit of making hno distinctions in the princely
SCALE prince oil Bulgaria will have to Day at the
Hotel Bristol the Lord Warden AZ much az the
most afuent OF Western potentatcs; and should
political necessities send Alexander often to Paris
and London he will have to ask his faithful I,ul-
garisns to increase his allowance to pay his debts