Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-02-23
THE COSTOF A QUEEN.
What England Pays for tho Luxury of Re
nj Family. P.

New York News.
Kings and queens have long since been
conceded to beluxuries. Exactly how cost
ly they are few people know. In view of
this fact, II is interesting to look into the
expense account the English people have
to make good for the sustension of their
certainly moderate ROYALTY as compared
with those of some O. the older European
realms.
There are, for instance, about one thou
sand persons attached to the royal house.
hold. One million nine hundred and
twenty five thousand dollars is the annual
allowance made to the civil list, out of
which the pay OF this host comes. This is
entirely apart from any allowance made to
members of tho royal family, Sr any ex-
penditure the queen makes ont of her pri-
vate elncome. Enormousas this sum seems,
even it is almost small by comparison with
those of previous re1gns, the allowance
which had to be made to William ", for
the same purpose wns So, $50, 900; George
", got 81. 225 900, and George H.. S.
100000.
The income of George w, was really
greater than that of his predecessor how
ever, for he had in addition to his 81, 225,
600, 81 800 900 from hereditary Irish and
Scotch estates and 81 100000 from tux
duties and custom duties, since abolished,
which ran his total up to &, OBS, 900. George
III. made things somewhat equal, though,
by leaving some II, 500 900 of debts of his
sons contraction to be paid for him by
parliament. Yet this monarch lived ON
mutton chops and epple dumplings, and
was all together modest and economical
sovereign, who left others to do the spend.
ing f9T %oM hin RAE aPd a6ssS f9esa Rsha hs Rl
To return to Queen Victoria. The
highest priced servant she requires to do
her proper service around the house is
master of ths horse, who costs the people
S12, ,50O;a lord steward, lord chamberlain
and the keeper Of the privy purse, who is
in plain English, her majesty's private Sec
retary, at 10000 each, and black rod,
who whatever his duties may be, gets the
same sum for performing them; $8, 500
Is the salary of the master of ihe
buckhounds, and the captain Of
the yeoman Of the guard is paid
6,09O, which is likewise tie salary of the
hereditary grand falconer, who is no less a
parsonage than the Duke Of st. Adams.
Tho master of the households wages are
5,79O and the comptroller of accounts,
secretary of the private seal of private
secretary, captain of the gentleman-at-
arms aud clerk marshul come in for $5, 900
year each.
The host Of smaller fry who figure on the
same pay roll is beyond enumeration.
There is vice chamberlain, price 5000;
treasurer and comptroller Of the land stew
ards department, price 81 $40 each; and
groom of the robes and crown equerry ut
S4,00D. The lord chamberlain's s chief clerk
receives $500, sNd his paymaster anu the
equerry il ordinary $4,000 II piece. The
mistress of the robes comes i'll for the same
sum, the examiner of plays for So, 900, the
secretary Of the board of green cloth for
81. 800, and the master of ceremonies for the
same. There are eight lords in waiting at
SO, $40 each, four grooms of the privy cham
ber at 1866 each, the same number of gen.
tlemen ushers at 81 ,0UG, eight grooms in
waiting st $l,670, three deputy gentlemen
ushers at $3.50, and some deputies deputies
at four thousand dollars in lump. Six
equerries in ordinay under the mas
ter of the horse receive $3,750
a piece, the master of the tennis
court $500, and 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 81 800 a piece to keep an
eye on. The eight maids OF honor receive
each $4,000. The dean of the chapel roya,
is a thousand dollar officer and his sub gets
$455. The sergeant5 -at-arms receive $500
each, eight of them, which is all the money
Tennyson is paid for being poet laureate
The poet laureate, by-the-by, is nominally
a member of the royal household. The sal
aries and retired allowances of these and
other retainers last year amounted to over
$500, ego, and it cost nearly 5000, 900 to
feed them and keep the house going
Among the odd items the people gave the
queen money for was $66,000 for royal
county, aims and special services
THE ROYAL FAMILY AND ITS WAGES.
A colossal item of expenditure is repre-
ented, too, by the allowance out of the pen
Gion fund to the royal family. The,p1ince
If Wales gets two hundred thousand dol
.ars a year and the princes fifty thousand,
The Princes Royal. who married the Grown
Prince of Prussia, receives forty thousand
dollars. The Duke of Edinburgh gets
one hundred twenty five thousand dollars;
Prince Arthur seyenty-fve thousand:
the Princessess Helena Of Schleswig 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 Augusta
Of Mechlanburg Streliz and the Duchess of
Cambridge, each fifteen thousand, and
the Duke Of Cambridge, sixty thousand
too. The archbishop of Canterbury and
York lead at $75, 900 and $50, 600; the bish-
opric of London, $4,000; the bishopric oil
Durham, $4,000, and twenty-six other
bishoprics with incomes of from SIC, 900 to
S32 500; twenty nine deaneries, bringing
their possessors from 81 600 to $4,000 O
year and SO on.
SOME PLACES WORTH HAVING
We are fond of complaining of the COS!
of running our government. There were
people who thought tho president of the
United States received too much when he
got $25, 900 q year and house rent free; and
when that salary was raised to $50, 900 quite
a howl Of Indignation hailed the extrava-
ganca. Yet the lord mayor of London gets
that much, and under the British govern.
anent the governor or the wretched colony
at the Cape gets $3U, GOO, and his lieutenan
governor $25, 600 & year. The governor
general of Canada receives $50, 900, the
governor in -chief of the Bahamas $2O,-
900, and he of Jamaica $4,000. The
governors of Malta, Gibraltar, Hong Kong
South Australia, Queensland, Singabore
the Fiji Islands and Demerara receive $25,
900 year each, and of Trinidad 800, 900.
The salary Of the Viceroy of India j!
$125, 400 and he has $73,305 allowance fo
his staff and household, $55, 900 "Drr ba
fund.-" and $378 925 for the expenses O.
his annual tour, making in all over $500, ,00t
annually. Besides him there are in India
lieutenant-governor for the northwest prov
inces and the Puniab, at $48,000 each, 6
governor.generala of Madras at $64, 900, {
commissioner for the central provinces a
$27, 900 and so on. The governor Of Bonn
bay receives over $50, 900 salary and tho al
lowances for his salary. staff, etc., is NOR,
than $4,000 90 It would be of no use Ia
continue the list. 1t would only arouse
envy, and render great many gentlemen
who are happy over the hope of catching Oh
to something worth having at Washington
miserable before their time comes.