The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-02-17
A Few Statistical Facts.

The Financial Reform Almanack"
for the present year contains good
deal of interesting statistical informa-
ton.
The total amount annually received
or expended on her Majesty and ON the
other members of the royal family is
E893, 1872 (S4, 500, 000). In this is in
cluded maintenance of palaces, expend-
iture in connection with royal yachts
(f35, $3.50 (S180,00O, households of
deceased sovereigns (E6, 475), and
many other such items. Looking
through them, l should say that about
ESQ, 900 per annum would have to be
expended were there no royal family to
provide for.
The House of Lor s consists of SIG
Peers. In pay or pensions these noble
men receive 1921, $50 per annum. This,
however, includes the amounts received
by Peers of the royal family. The
Peers have between them II, 25S, 527
acres of land, with rental of Ell, $780,
30S. As, however, the income of the
Duke of Westminster is only put down
in this estimate at f37, l45, many of
those who derive incomes rom ground
rents, mines, etc, are far richer than
the above total, which presume is the
amount received from agricultural land.
Probably it would not be an eN-
cessive estimate to put down the
total incomes of Peers derived
from all sources at f16, 900, 900
$3.50, 900, COO, which would make the
income of each individual Peer aver
age trihe over $4,000 per annum
($145, 000). In the House of Lords
there are &c members holding Office I'M
der the present Administration; As Of
ficers OF the army on active service and
81 retired officers. OF naval officers
there are Z on active serv ce and 3 re-
tired. Sixty-two Peers are either
Chairmen or directors of railways. Six
peerages date from the Thirteenth cent
ury, from the Fourteenth, IL from the
| Fifteenth, l8 from the Sixteenth, As
from the Seventeenth, 1876 from the
| Eighteenth, and the rest from the pres
ent century.
The amount of salaries, pay and
pensions received by members of the
House of Commons is f162, $40, and
the acreage owned by members of this
House is 2,121, 1871, producing an an
nual revenue of E1,S43,2 In the
House OF Commons the aristocratic in
terests are represented by 272 mem
bers, the fighting interests by 16S, the
landed interests by 267, the law inter
ests by 122, the liquor interests by 1S,
the moneyed interests by %, the liter
airy, professional and scientific interests
by 81, the official interests by ll3, the
railway interests by 113, the trading,
commercial and manufacturing inter
ests by 1856, and the vast labor interests
by members.
The Church of England has an in.
come of "a, 525, 900. Of this, Episcopa,
and cathedral officials receive f342, 81.
The patronage of 4, 362 benefces. with
an income of Fl, 513, 092, is ecclesiastical
and collegiate; that of S45, with an in
come of 1927, 345, belong to the Exec
utive; and that of 8,521, with an in
come of t2, 7l9, 95S, to private patr ms
The statistics of pensions are curious.
Ten thousand pensioners draw Ej,196,
551 per annum for India and $50, 25(
pensioners, mostly retired civil office
holders, receive from the taxpayers o
the United Kingdom more than T., 900,
600 per annum 1886, 900, 000). OF these
latter recipients of public charity many
are nourished by grateful country, be
cause offices which they have held have
been abolished. The blue ribbon of tn,
pension list is held by ID. ID. Heath
This gentleman has received since 1871
f3. 100 per annum. In the same year ;
pension of ELIAS per annum wa
granted to w. T. N. Champ, which h
still enjoys, in consideration of the Office
of 'Chaff Wax" whatever that mal
be. having been abolished in that year
4 In 1882 the public expenditure wa
ESQ., 1863. 7S4 (S430, 600, coo. OF this
f29,665,945 was spent in interes
on the debt Eli, 400, 2S5 on the army
and f1O. 756, 453 on the navy, f535, 00l
on the war in South Africa, $500. 00'
on the Afghan war, and 10000 OIL
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