Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-04-24

tvs priVy purse is E6O,OOO. Her
hou,choldrNprnscS are E3O3, $50, The
yearly expenditure upon palaces and
other royal residences is E3G,3ji.
From the revenue Of the Duchy Of
Lancaster she gets Eij,OOO. The royal
yacht and naval charges amount to
ElO,11j. The maintenance of royal
escort and military charges is EGS, ,7S3
Other items swell the annual total Of
payments on account of the sovereign
to E6l9,379. The payments to the
queens children are aS follows: The
princess royal (rrOwn princess of Ger
many gets ES,OOOa year. After her
marriage u special grant of ElO,ODO
was made. The prince Of Wales gets
from the country annually about
Gl2O,00D. The duke Of Edinburg, the
duke Of Connlught, and the duke Of
Albany (thc latter since dcad) get
G2G, 900 each, Helena (prinrcsS Chris
tiam and Louise (marchioncsS of
Lornc) receive II yearly allowance of
EG,OOO each. Other connections of the
rcigning family who are in receipt Of
handsome stipcnds from the funds of
Great Britain are duke and duchess of
Cambridge. Princess Augusta duchess
of Mccklcnhurg-StrrlitH), the princess
Of Tcck, Princess Frrdcrica (barOncSS
Pawcloammingcn) her maicSty's cous-
in. Prince Edward Of SaNc-Wcmar,
and two nrphcws, Prince Lcrningcn
and Count (ilcichcn. The grand total
of twelve months payment in cunncc-
tiOn with the royal family is ESSG. .973.
In addition to this the queen has gran
ted pension, during the forty-iive years
of her reign which, up to the present
time. have taken out Of the treasury of
the nation G7l2,GiO. The queen, it
should he remembered. is exempt
from income tax. She at one time.
through Sir Robert Peel. then prime
minister, expressed to parliament her
voluntary determination to stand on Il
level with her subjects in this matter,
and the announcement was received
with loud and prolonged cheering.
That was fory-two Years ago, when
she was young and impulSivc, and
the promise if kept ut all was honorcd
for onl va short time.
No incOn~idcrablc amount of the
country's revenue finds its way into
the pockets of the ariStocracy. Twcn-
ty.cight dukes and their relatives have
held LOIS offices in the last thirty-two
years, and for services CD rendered
have depleted the rNchcqucr to the
tunr pf go lTG OpO Tho fpmilips pf
thirty-throc marquiNrS have held l,212
offices in that time, drawing in ali
ES.3Oj,91O. while zoo rarls have in the
same period gobblcd up personally or
through their relatives j,963 Offices,
and pockctcd the snug sum of ElS,-
lSl,2O2, making total Of tG6, 6,2l1,2l2,
with the families of yiscounts and bar
ons still to be heard from. OF this
sum the Atholcs have received Eil7-
40, the BcaulortS tjlO,OOO, the Bed
fordS Ejjl,2Oo, the MarlboroughS
EG63, 80, the GraftonS fl.llj,SjO, and
the RichmondS El,GOO,jOO. All this in
thirty-two years. The first duke of
Grafton was an illcgitimatc son Of
Charles H., as was also the first duke
of Richmond. Their relations TO the
: Mcrric Monarch brought these fam
lilies not only title but vast hereditary
pensions, which are included in the
above amounts To give the exact
figures, and to put the matter plainly
the people of England have had to pay
the GraftonS G7iO,OOO and the Rich.
rlonds El,262,00O. in thlrty-twO years
only, because their original ancestor
enjoyed the distinguished privilege of
being the mistress OF an English king
who has been in his grave two hun
drcd years! And this sum is but a
fraction of the total amount they have
received. The pensions, moreover,
are to 20 on till the crack of doom.
For pensions and gratuities connected
with the different departments of the
govcrnments-morc cxcusable and