The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-05-20

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sons would be likely to divulge even the
smallest item Of information on the sub
ject, and the will of the sovereign is be-
yond the Jurisdiction Of the officials of
Somerset house, authentic details on this
really very interesting point will probably
never become public But from sources
that are available indications may be
obtained that tend to show that the popn-
lar idea is to great extent Justified Inc
allowance granted to her majesty by +he
country amounts to f3S5,O00 a year, says
"a writer in the New York Herald. or this
sum the queen is allowed for her privy
purse, ECO, 900; for expenses OF the house
hold f172, 500; for salaries and retiring al
lowances, f131 ,26O and for royal bounty,
aims and special service, $4,000.
These sums leave unappropriated 5000
Per annum. In addition to this sum the
queen, when she came to the throne, Sc
cured a grant of $4,000 a year for her
mother, the duchess OF Kent, while after
her marriage the prince consort had
eeparateallowance of 100000 year, The
queen wished the prince to have f1OO,OOu,
but Lord Melbourne persuaded her to ask
the country for $4,000 only. Her maj
'esty was much annoyed at the further
reduction of the allowance.
AS soon as the princes came of age
suitable grants were made to them, while
on their marriages the princesses we're
each voted incomes of $4,000 year. These
figures are given merely to show that so
far as the civil list is concerned the SOW
ereign has the Individual disposal Of al
most every shilling of it. In detail the
civil list is wonderful document
Every imaginable want, whether to eat,
drink, wear or give away, has certain
sums set down for it. Hence it is that
the splendid income from the duchy OF
Lancaster, which belongs to the reignlng
sovereign by private right, and as an
appa1rtenance from the crown, Is paid
directly into the privy purse, and her
majesty can save or spend it as she
pleases. "a. IL. :!
meads, forests, chases and woods IN thlr-
teen counties, belonged originally to
Saxon mobiles who rose against the Nor
man conqueror. The queens revenue
from this source has been steadily in
Creasing. Thus in 1866, it was f26, QUO; in
1867, 100000; in 1869, $4,000; i'm 1877,
100000; now it is over f5O,OOO a year
A second source Of income which the
queen held until the prince OF Wales
C6C-WAASAA "e~7,
precedence, made over to his royal nigh
ness-was the duchy of Cornwall, the es-
tates of which lie in Devon, Somerset
Willis, Surrey and London. Inc ducny
had been, at the time of the queens &C
cession, hopelessly mismanaged, and II
was owing to the prince cou,sorts untiring
energy that his eldest sons heritage was
at ell worth having.
In 1924 the gross revenue had fallen to
f12,U~O; in 1872 it was nearly tF0,OOo.
L. L. TTo1n ovvoS nf q
instead of having from f13,O 600 to f14,OoO
a year from his duchy, as the last prince
Of Wales had, there was revenue OF toos-
600 a year clear, and cash enough to puy
Sandringham. The princes income from
the duchy of Cornwall is now increasing
at the rate of about e., 600 a year, ON the
average. .
Far more: romantic, however, than the
incomes from long settled heritages can
ever be, is the origin of the greater por-
ton of her majesty's great wealth. On
Aug. 30, 1852, there died a penurlous olo
gentleman OF seVenty-tWo na1neu 1onAi
Camden Neild. '',.
He was the son of a goldsmith, who had
executed work for George Ill, ana kept
a shop in st. James street. The old Jew
.eler was, in his way, great ph1ianthro-
pist, and emulated Howard in his attempt
to ameliorate the condition of those poor
wretches who ,languished in his majesty $
prisons. He sent his SON to Trinity COZ
lege, Cambridge, and the Bar, and at MS
death left him $3.50, 600. ..sa...r.
This great sum John Camden Neild
saved and invested, living himself In a
opened it was found that with the ex-
ception Of few legacies he had lett MS
fortune of $500, 600 to Her Most Gracious
Majesty Queen Victoria, begging her ma
.jestys, most gracious acceptance 81 the
same, for her sole use and peneI. an q
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Neild 9, relatives and gave them $1,000
leach, and raised a monument to his mem
AOry. ..,.- i. - a, {4 49,
This splendid sum her majesty has left
practically untouched, and It must now
have accumulated to million pounds
The queen also inherited FROM her nus.
band, who was Of most careful and
!businesslike disposition, large part OF
the 100000 he left behind him.
It was in her comparatively poor days
that her majesty purchased the greater
portion Of the Osborne estate She had
/ originally hoped to buy Norris castle. also
in the Isle of Wight, where she had
stayed in her childhood, but was obliged
to give it up as she said she "eoGld not
afford it,
" little later Balmoral was bought, and
the castle built Both these private prop
critics Of the queen have been added to
very largely from time to time, and their
value is yearly increasing. Osborne is
now reckoned as being five times as val
alable as when it was purchased in 1854.
The queen had another stroke Of luck
In 1881, when, by the advice Of Lord Cross
Lord Sidney, and the late Sir Arnold
White Cher sOlicitor), she bought outright
some property for f7s,OOO The market
value of that purchase IS now reckoned
at about f17OOOO. -
According to the new Doomsday Book.
her majesty OWNS, privately, some 81 ,372
acres OF land, which yields a yearly in.
come Of between EGO, 900 and EOS OOO. The
return would be higher but for the fact
that much OF the acreage is Scottish moor
land forest land The queen owns three
very fne forests-those Of Balmoral. Ral.
iochbfne and Abergeldie. ss#-1 SsIT7,Tsss77 -
The use of the Claremont estate was
granted to the queen for life In 1896 blit
in 1882 her majesty bought It from thu
crown. OF property abroad, the Queen
possesses land and houses at CoburR. aI,d
magnificent villa at Baden, which was
left to the queen by q princess Of the
house Of Hohenlohe. -,
Il InN ested money and land do not form
the limits OF the queens wealth. far from
It. No monarch can point to such 8 Inasa
OF yaluables as were presented Is her
majesty ct the tinaA Of har a,a. s..s..i-.. =
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