The morning times., 1896-11-29

stance said some years ago that the queen
owned Some 500 odd houses In various parts
t,of England, not royal residences, but rent
yielding property, and that about 6 900
houses had been built by crown lessees on
building leasehOlds held by the queen. This
is sheer nonsense; that is, the figures are
absolutely incorrect. Her Majesty owns
nothing like 80 many houses, and, in fact,
she Is following the general craze and sell
, ing her bricks and mortar fast; advised so
to To do by her beloved Macduff.
The income Of her majesty is about f5S O..
700 per annum from the state. and her pri-
yate income Is very nearly f260, 900 per
annum, making nice total. Her official
salary cannot be said to be enormous, when
one takes into consideration the fact that
she Is an empress-q queen, rules over more
people and greater extent OF country
than any human being has ever ruled be-
Tore, and that the thetwopenny-halfpenn and
comparatively unimportant King Humbert.
OF Italy. Is paid exactly the same salary
by his very impecunious subjects.
As matter, of fact our queen gets but
little more than the French people pay
their present, N. Felix Faure, who anj joys
I the very pleasant little salary of E43S 900
per annum. But comparatively little OF
TINS is expended in entertaining. though,
OF course. NJ, Faure will have been severely
tapped by the cars visit this year and the
Jules Grevy) generally succeed in putting
by very nice Inagnot."
1t is, indeed, n well kno wn fact that Mar.
shal Mcmahon, who was poor man, man.
aged TO save the small fortune which alone
enabled his eldest boy, the present duke to
form royal alliance. And yet no more
honest man ever lived than Mcmahon,
only lie saved; and the entcrta inments given
at the Elysec while he was president were
the reverse of sumptuous, the tpple being
the poorest Sillery and-rum punch.
our niiserly and speculative friend, Leo
pod, of the Belgiums, receives f126 900
per annum from his people, and his private
income Is very nearly the same figure
that is, 1t ought to be, though his unfortu-
nate mucker in Congo has somewhat impoy-
erished his majesty.
Many sovercigns get bigger pay than does
ou- queen notably the cZar, the sultan the
emperor OF Austria and the German kaiser
The young Russian emperor is popuarly
credited with having a salary which repre-
sents about ESQ per hour, or s22.20o, 900
per annum. But this is pure phantasy. Far
more than that is paid into the imperial
treasury, and ''all the Russias'' are sup
posed TO belong to him, 50 that, in one sense
his income may be said to be an enormous
number OF millions sterling per annrm.
What Alexander III his pa, was given to
spend was about Il 500, 900 per annum.
or course, If the car wants more he can
order il, but lie would not get much more,
anu ii Is absurd TO imagine that he is really
SO lutCcratic as ieis supposed to bc-thatis,
that he cam do n bs olutcly what he likes with
ins people and their properties. 1t is the
mobiles who govern Russia. not the car.
Abdul the ASA ssin, on the ether hand is
absolutely boss of his show and. this being
the case. il Is very good OF him to content
himself with merely 91TO per hour, or fl,-
46O 600 per annum. This year IN urder will
have ebrodGhthiminquitc another $500 900!
The emperor OF Austria is enormously rich,
for he has large private fortune, is very
frugal, and the state gives him eel 2 800
per annum, or fiO0 per hour. The offensive
nonentity, the kaiser, has not large pri-
vate fortune. but pockets from his unfor-
tunate subjects e73O. 600, or f9O per hour,
for making simpleton of himself.