The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-29
LEOPOLD'S SWAG.
What 1t Costs to Maintain Royalty in
England.
office.

From the New York Times.
The grant of $4,000 year extra to the
Duke of Albany, making his income SI25. 900
year.. found only forty-two opponents in an
ultra Liberal House of Commons, and there
is no doubt that when the one remaining
member of the present generation of the royal
family comes forward for provision it will
be as cheertully accorded to her. The thrifty
habits of the queen may be unacceptable to
the tradesmen Of London and Windsow, but
with the people at large they tend rather to
increase her popularity Her free spend
ing in London would do Wolverhampton
and Newcastle-on-Tynen no sort of good,
and would as little affect Ipswich or PEN
zance. 1t has been a marked feature in
her career as it was pre-eminently in that
of Queen Elizabeth. to identify herself with
the whole country always excepting Ireland
rather than with the metropolis, whereas
most of her predecessors rarely moved from
the neighborhood of London. Even Charles
H., who personally was so popular, rarely
got beyond Newmarket, occasionally making
a trip to Winchester to hunt in the New For
est. He got such a sickener of Scotland.
when he had 20 go there because he could
not help it, that he severly avoided it there
after, and expressed the opinion that che
did not think Presbyterianism was a religion
for a gentleman" and so il happen
Tweed until George ~. William III, took
his holidays in Holland. George |. and IL.
took theirs at Herrenhausen. George III. os-
ciated between London, Kew. and Windsor
and had never seen the sea until he was past
s., went mad, and was ordered to Weymouth
Tor charge Of air. &c rye Tvs visits to
Scotland and Ireland. though notoriously done
with view to popularity hunting, were emf
nentIy successful. and it is to the habit the
present royal family has had of spreading it
self over the whole country that its eXraOrdln-
airy popularity Is due to-day. The country peO-
pie say they belong to them as much as to Lon
don. Even the most unattractive towns, Not
tlngham, Swansea. Northampton, etc. are
al familiar with them personally, and have
pleasant associations with their visits. The
tug Of war may come should applications be
made for the children Of the present royal PEN
sionerS, and it is doubtless in view Of avertng
such contingency, except in the case Of the
direct heir to the throne, that the Queen is
amassng a vast sum, which will practically
make the royal family independent of crown
grants, for that she is thus amassing money
there IS no doubt. Only four months ago
there died IN Australia in very comfortable Cir
CuillStahCeS the great-nepheW OF Mr.. Nelld
the miser, who left her personal and real es-
tate She sold the latter amounting altogether
to s.. 100000. He said that he applied TO the
Queen for gift in compensation of his uncle's
oDhvlousness Of him, and was granted an an
nulty Of $500. The Queen has for a long time
owned Balmoral and Osborne. and has now
added to her real estate the splendid abode
known as Claremont in which She already had
life interest. She will thus have three fine
residences to bequeath. ClaremOnt is TO be
the future home Of Prince Leopold. as it was
OF his godfather, his mothers idoliled uncle,
the late King OF the Begaus.
! An English writer says that on account of
: the hlIarity with which Dickens writes about
drinking the time may come when bands of
hope will be forbidden to read him. and at
least that the great novelist and cold punch
Will g down to posterity together.
Leo XIII. has sent the palm which he car
ned on Palm Sunday to Cardinal MacCabe.
This gift is always considered a very special
mark OF the Pontiff's favor. The palm is one
OF unusual beauty, and has as its central orna-
ment portrait Of Leo the Great