Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-19
OUR LONDON LETTER.
STATISTICS AS TO COST OF MAIN.
TANNING A MONARCHY.
Iucome OF the Royal Family and
Nobility -IniQuitous Taxation
Statistical Exhibits.
IoNpon. March %, 1884.

vino was not glad to be told the price of
her neiehbor's bonnet, and I do not think
there are many citizens Of our glorious
Republic Who viii object to being told
how much ii costs to run q frst-clas6 mon
archv. Nv statistics will have Al least one
raerit. They are collected from the best
sources, ana your readers may rely i'm
plicitly upon their correctness. We viii
begin with the Queen and her family,
first intimating that one pound (G) in
English money is equal to about FIVE dol
lars, 20 that when there is q curiosity 10
know how much is represented in our cur
rency, the amounts given have only to be
multiplied by that figure and the trans
formation is effected at once For in
stance, $500 would be $500; 10000,
$4,000; el,000,000, $5,000,0G0.
INCOME OF QUEEN AND FAMILY.
The annual allowance to her Majesty's
privy purse is $4,000. Her household
expenses are e303,760 The yearly ex-
penditure upon palaces and other royal
residences is G36, 354. From the revenues
of the Duchy of Lancaster she gets G45,-
GOO; the royal yacht and naval charges
amount to G40,775; the maintenance OF
royal escort and military charges is G6S,-
793. Other items swell the annual total
of payments on account Of the sovereign to
G6l9,379. The payments to the Queens
children are rs follows: The Princess
ROYAL Grown Princess of Germany gets
$4,000 year. At her marriage special
grant of e40,000 was made. The Prince
of Wales gets from the country annually
about 100000. The Duke of Edinburgh,
the Duke Of ConnaUght and the Duke of
Albany get about e26,000 each. Helena
princes Christian and Louise (Marchion-
ess Of Lome) receive yearly allowance Of
$4,000 each. Other connections Of the
reigning family who are in receipt Of
handsome stipends from the funds of
Great Britain are the Duke and
Duchess Of Cambridge, Princess Au-
glsta duchess of Mecklenhurg StreEtz)
the Princess of Tecll, Princess Frederick
Baroness Paweloamoingen); her Maiesty's
cousin, Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar
and two nephews, Prince Leiningen, and
Count Gleichen. The grand total of
twelve months payments in connection
with the royal family is s8S6, 975. In ad
dition to this, the Queen has granted pen
sions during the forty-tive years Of her
reign, which, up to the present time, have
taken out of the treasury Of the nation
&7l2640 The Queen, II should also be
remembered, Is exempt from income tax.
She at one time through Sir Robert Peel,
then Prime Minister, expressed to Parlia-
ment her voluntary determination to stand
on q level with her subjects in this matter
and the announcement was received with
load and prolonged cheering. That was
forty-two years ago, when she was young
and impulsive and the promise, if kept at
all, was honored for only short time
CKET-sTUFPTEG by THE ARIsToCRACY.
No uncomfortable amount of the coun-
t<y's revenue finds its way into the pockets
Of the aristocracy. Twenty-eight Dukes
and their relations have held 1913 offices
IL the last 80 years, and for services (?)
rendered have depleted the exchecquer TO
the tune of E9,760,090 The families of 80
Marquises have held / ,252 Offices in that
time, drawing, in all Is, 305, $50; while
Earls have IN the same period gobbled up,
personally and through their relatives,
1868 Offices, and pocketed the sum of
E48. ISL POP; making total of ESQ, 247,-
242, with the families Of Viscounts and
Barcns still to he heard from. Of
this sum the Atholcs have received G4l7,-
750 the Beauforts, G5f0,600; the Bed
fords, e554, 200; the MarlhOroughs e633,-
$50 the Graftona 81, ll5, $50, and the
two years. The first Duke Of Grafton was
an Legitimate son Of Charles H., az was
also the first Duke Of Richmond. Their
relation to the Merie Monarch -
brought these families not only title, but
vast hereditary pensions, which are in
Guided 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 e740,O00 and the Richmonds
81, 10000, IN thirty-two years, only he
cause their original ancestor enjoyed the
distinguished privilege OF being
THE MISTRESS OF AN ENGLISH KING
Who has been in his grave two hundred
years and this sum is but fraction Of the
total amount they have received The
pensions, moreover, are to 90 on till the
crack of doom. For pensions and gratui-
ties connected with the different depart
nents Of the Government, more eXCusable
than the above, bat still exceedingly bur
densome to the Treasury, the country Is
now paving cI3, $4,000 a year. The sal-
aries Of Cabinet Ministers are ~ follows:
Lord Chancellor 100000 First Lord of
the Treasury Qrcmier), Chancellor Of the
Exchequer, Secretaries Of Home, Foreign,
Colonial, War and Indian Departments,
$4,000 each; First Lord Of the Admiralty,
G4,500; five Others, G200O each.
UBIQUITOUS METHODS OF TAXATION.
The total income of the Government
last year WAS esq, $50, 3S4, the expenditure
falling below that sum to the amount of
G276,752 Most OF this money comes from
the earnings of the trading ard industrial
ciasses The anomalies Of the English sys-
ten Of taxation are very glazing. The
lands Of the rich pay but one million i
year 10 land tax, while the pipe and pot Of
the lahorer yield in customs and excise
duties about thirty millions. The estates
bequeajhed 10y the rich at death pay no
probate and little succession duty, but the
savings OF the frugal in the lover and
middle classes are taxed in those various
directions 10 the tune Of six and one-half
millions q year. These shameful inequali-
ties are the result of that wretched sys-
tenn of Parliamentary representation
which has kept 10th branches of the
National Legislature under the control Of
= pampered aTistOGaCy-an evil which
still continues, for to suppose for a moment
that the House Of Commons. which is
called The Peoples Chamber" Is at all
worthy Of that name, would be one Of the |
widest conclusions an ignorant person
could possibly reach
CONGESTION OF THE COMMONS"
have before me a table in which this
branch Of the Legislature is dissected. The /
summaries are rs follows, many members, !
of course, being CHASED in two or three Of |
the different categories: Connected by |
birth or marriage with the aristoracy, |
272; army and navy, les; landed inter
ests (sons and heirs Of peers or great land |
holders 81 law interests, I22; LIQUOR |
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