Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-09-14
PATRONAGE IN ENGLAND.
There Are Many BIg sslaried Ohices 1T
the Prime Ministers Disposal.

There Are Many BIg Sslaried Ohaces st
the Prime Ministers Disposal.
The patronage of the prime minister
is extensive and peculiar. The premier
does not concern himself with post
offices and custom houses and such
small fry; he has neither the power
nor the desire to do So The civil serv-
Ice system takes care of the offices
which in the United States gladden. the
heart of the politician. All that Lord
Salisbury has to do with the postoffice
is to appoint the postmaster general,
who, in his turn, has to submit to civil
service restrictions which would bring
tears to the eyes of an American poll
tician.
What the prime minister has to be-
stow is certainly worth bestowing and
worth receiving. The premier's powers
have said are peculiar, The SOW
ereign is supposed to be the head of the
church, but the premier is practically
the head. 1t is he who fills the arch
bishoprics, the bishoprics and the dean
cries. For ecclesiastical purposes Eng
land is divided into two provinces"-
Canterbury and York--and each prov
ince has an archbishop who takes from
it his title The archbishop of Canter-
bury is the prilnate of all England. He
has the fifth place in the table of prec-
edency, the queen having the first, the
Prince of Wales the second, the queens
fI.a fl,ir1 ar1 hAr nd
sons the fourth
The thirty-two bishops of the church,
twenty -four of whom have seats in the
house of peers, are appointed on the
prime minister's advice The salaries
of the church dignitaries range from
S75, 900 per annum Qor the archbishop
Of Canterbury to $4,000 Qor the
bishop of Sodor and NAM. Then there
are thirty deaneries. These are also
filed by the premier when a vacancy
occurs by death or promotion. A deans
income ranges all the way from SO, 100
which is the sum received by the dean
of Peterborough, to SIS, 900, received
by the dean of Durham. The dean of
Westminster has $40, 600 annually.
But it is not in these figures alone
that you will find expressed the full
worldly rewards of ecclesiastical pref
erence, for there are houses and lands
and other trifles that go with these en-
inently desirable appointments.
The lord chancellorship is one of the
treasures within the gift of the premier
For even more than the emoluments o.
the position its dignities are to be de
sired The lord high chancellor is th,
principal legal adviser of the crown, h'
is speaker of the house of lords, and h,
takes precedence of all but royal duke
and the archbishop of Canterbury; HI
has an extensive patronage, both il
the courts and in the church-havine
in the latter respect to appoint twelve
canons, to say nothing of awarding
over 600 livings. He receives $50, 00C
year, and upon his retirement takes
an annual pension of half that sum.
There are three lords of appeal, hav-
ing $780, 900 a year each; there is the
lord chief justiceship at $40, 900; there
are many high judgeships at $25, 900.
And SO the list runs on, carrying train
of titles as well as of pounds sterling.
Then there are rewards for services in
the past, rewards which demand no Of
ficial duties in the present or the future
Commoners are made peers, and peers
are raised in rank. There are knight
hoods to be onferred, and baronetcies
and orders of the garter.
1t may happen that during his ad
ministration the premier is called upon
to appoint a viceroy of India. This
post is prize of the first degree, being,
indeed, vice kingship. The viceroy
holds his appointment for five years
only. The lord lieutenancy of Ireland,
and Of the English counties, and the
colonial governorships are within the
premier's gift. The members of the
cabinet have $25, 900 a year each, and
besides these there are thirty or more
positions in the ministry at from 81, 900
upward, and each with peculiar powers
and privileges. London Cor. Boston
Herald