The Worthington advance., 1882-02-23
THE COST OF A QUEEN.
What England Pays for tho Luxury OF Ro
al Family.

New York News.
Angs and queens have long since been
conceded to be luxuries. Exactly how cost
~ they are .fewpeoplea know. In view of
this fact, 1t is interesting to look into the
expense account tho English people have
to make good for the sustension Of their
certainly moderato ROYALTY as compared
with those Of some O. the older European
| realms.
| There are, for instaD>e, about one thou
sand persons attached TO the royal house,
hold. One million nine hundred aud
twenty tive thousand dollars is the annual
allowance made to the civil list, out Of
which the pay OF this host comes. This is
I entirely apart from any allowance made to
members OF the royal family, or any ex-
| pendlture the queen makes out Of her pri.
vato income. Enormousa as this sum seems,
even it is almost small by comparison with
those OF previous relgns, the allowance
which had to be made to William w., for
the same purpose was $3.50, 900; George
~, got 81, 225 goo, and George III. $5,-
| 500, GEO.
! The income of George Nv, was really
! greater than that of his predecessor, how
ever, for he had in addition to his 81, 225,
goo, 81 500, 600 from hereditary Irish and
| Scotch estates and 81, ,0OO, 600 from tax
| dutes and custom duties, since abolished.
which ran his total up to G, ,o25, 900. George
! III: made things somewhat euunl, though,
| by leaving some 1850, 600 Of debts OF his
sons contraction to be paid for him by
| parliament. Yet this monarch lived On
mutton chops and mple tiumplings. and
was all together Il modest and economical
sovereign, who left others to do tho spend.
lug ~ % az fGH3sS i2 RHn@s 3f hous.
To return to Queen Victoria. The
highest priced servant sho requires to do
! her proper service around the house is q
master Of tho horse, who costs the people
$l2,5O0;a lord steward, lord chamberlain
ola tho keeper Of the privy purse, who is
in plain English, her maj ajesty's private Sec
rctary, at $4,000 eucA, and black rod,
WHO whatever his duties may be, gets tue
same sum for performing them; S., 500
Is the salary Of the master Ut ihe
b"cAhounls, and the captain Of
the yeoman Of the guard is paid
6,ooo, which is likewise tie salary Of the
hereditary grand falconer, who is no loss
parsonage than the Duke of St. Adams.
Tho master Of the households wages arc
$3.50 and tho comptroller of accounts.
secretary Of the private seal of private
secretary, captain Of tho gentleman at
arms and clerk uarshal come in FOR S5 .OO0
q year each.
Tie host OF smaller fry who figure on the
same pay roll is beyond enumeration.
There is vice chamberlain price $l;2O; a
treasurer and comptroller OF Tie land stew
ards department, price 81 $50 each; and Il
groom OF the robes and Il crown cuucrry ut
$4,"uo. The lord chamberlain g chief clerk
receives ss}5OO, and lis I,aynslstcr anu the
eq''erry ii, ordinary S'2,>uJ u piece. The
mistress OF the robes comes. in for the Same
sum. the examiner OF plays for - 900, the
secretary OF the board Of green cloth for
$l.500, and the master Of ceremonies for the
same. There are eight lords in waiting ut
$3,'lo each, four grooms OF the privy cham
ber at $3.50 each. the same number Of gen.
tlemen rshers at $1,000, eight groons in
waiting at $l,G7O, three deputy gentlemen
ushers at $3.50, and some deputies deputies
at fou: thousand dollars in lump. Six
equerries III ordinay under the mas
ter OF the horse receive $3.50
piece, the master OF the tennis
court $3.50, nnd the pages of honor, of
whom there are five, 5000 piece.
Inc mistress Of the robes has eight ladies'
| of the bed -chamberat 50, 500 and eight bed
| chamber women at 81 500 piece to keep IN
eye on. The eight maids OF honor rocciye
each $2,5G0. The dean Of the chapel royu.
| is q thousand dollar officer and his sub gets
| $455. The sergeants- st arms receive $500
each, eight of them, which is all the money
Tennyson is paid for being poet laureate.
The poet laureate, by-thc-by, is no1nina}ly
\ member Of the royal household. The sal
lrics and retired allowances Of these and
other retainers last year amounted to over
! SG0O,Ooo, aud it cost nearly $4,000 to
feed them and Keep the house going
Among the odd itons tho people gave tile
queen money for was $4,000 for royal
county, aims and special services"
| THE ROYAL FAMILY AND IT'S WAGES.
A colossal item of expenditure is repre-
'ented, too, by the allowance out Of the pen
ZION fund to the royal family. The prince
IT Wales gets two hundred thousand dol
.ars year and the princes fifty thousand,
The Princes Royal. who married the Crown
Prince of Prussia, receives forty thousand
dollars. The Duke of Edinburgh gets
one hundred twenty five thousand dollars;
she Princessess Helena Of Schlcswig and
Louise of Lorne, thirty thousand dollars
each, and the princess Mary Of Teak,
twenty-five Thousand, dollars. The allow
ance Of Prince Leopold is seventy five
thousand dollars; Of the Princess Agusta
Of Mechlanburg Streliz and the Duchess Of
Cambridge, each fifteen thousand, and
the Duke Of Cambridge, sixty thousand
too. Ihe archbishop OF Canterbury and
York lead at $75, 900 and $50, 600; the bish-
opric Of London, $4,000; the bishopric of
Durham, $4,000, and twenty-six othe,
bishoprics with incomes of from $4,000 to
$32, 500; twenty deaneries, bringing
their possessors from $1,000 to $4,000 a
! year and so on.
| SOME PLACES WORTH HAVING
We are fond of complaining Of tho cos!
Of running our government. There were
| people who thought the president of the
United States received too much when be
got $25, ,0O0a year and house rent free: and
when that salary was raised to $50, 600 quite
howl of indignation hailed the extrava-
ganco. Yet the lord mayor Of London gets
that much. and under the British govern.
nent the governor OF the wretched colony
at the Cape gets $50, 900, and his Lieutenant
governor $25,000 year. The governor
general of Canada receives $50, 900. tho
governor in chief Of the Bahamas $780,
O3O, and he of Jamaica $4,000. The
governors OF Malta, Gibraltar Hong Kong,
South Australia, Queensland, SinXabore,
the Fiji Islands and Demera,a receive $25.-
0O0 a year each, and of Trinidad $40, ,OO0
$125, 400 md he has $73, ,305 allowance fol
his staff and household, $55,OOO "Dxr bal
fund.-" and $378, ,925 :or the expenses OF
his annual tour, making in oil over 5000, 900
annually. Besides him there are in India a
| lieutenant governor for the northwest prov.
lnces and tho Punicb, ut $4S,O each, a
! governor-general of Madras at $G4, 900, q
commissioner for the central provinces al
| $27 600 and so on. The governor of BON.
bay receives over $50, 900 salary and tl,, al
lowances for his salary, staff, etc., is III IRE
than $90O,0 ,0G0 It would be Of no use to
continue the list. it would only arouse
envy, and render great many gentlemen,
who are happy over the hope of catching ON
to something worth having at Washington.
| miserable before their time comes.
Fitz John Porter Case.