New-York tribune., 1905-01-22

his by right He has made bargain whereby the
nation manages the estates he inherited, and at the
present time it does not return to him all it receives
from them. The crown lands technically just
much the Kings for life the lands which the
Duke of Devonshire inherited from his father. But
the bargain works well for both sides, and Great
Britain at last beginning to make profit out of it
There is still, however, balance the wrong side.
The late Queen received during her reign one hundred
and twenty-five million dollars as her share under the
agreement and the national eXchequer received during
the same period only hundred million dollars from
the surrendered Besides large marriage
portions and annues had been paid to other members
of the royal family. The Queen informed committee
of Parliament in 1880 that she had saved from her
allowance four million one hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars, but that it had been applied to the
entertainment of many foreign potentates who had
visited the country and in other extraordinary outlays
But beyond the crown lands, his interest in which
is surrendered, the King of England is private land
owner, and has inherited some valuable properties.
He is hereditary Duke of Lancaster and draws large
from his duchy The income of this property
has trebled in fifty years and at the present time the
King receives three hundred and twenty thousand
dollars year as his portion of its proceeds.
The Prince of Wales is also hereditary Duke of Corn
wall and draws hundred and seventy-tive thousand
to three hundred thousand dollars year from that
property addition his allowance from the nation.
When the King as Prince of Wales, began house
of Denmark he received allowance OF two hundred
thousand dollars and his bride of fifty thousand
dollars and with the of the Duchy of Corn
wall then smaller than now he had an income of
five hundred thousand a year
Strictly speaking, those grants were voluntary allow
ances or gratuites from the nation but when he
ceeded the throne he became entitled to such
as it was agreed he should draw, and after a careful
inquiry it was resolved that his Civil List should be
fixed at million three hundred and fifty thousand
dollars that the Prince of Wales, also Duke of
Cornwall should receive one hundred thousand dollars
and his Princess fifty thousand dollars ninety thousand
dollars was provided for the Kings daughters the
allowances of three hundred and sixty thousand dollars
other members of the royal family continued;
and hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars
allotted for pensions to the servants OF the late
Queen.
This was an increase on the previous Civil List of
three hundred and sixty thousand dollars, making in
all three million and seventy-hve thousand, which
is the minimum annual cost of the royal family
to England. Many economies were effected in the
charges on the Kings purse at this time The Royal
Buckhounds obsolete and absurd sporting nstitu-
ton abolished and thirty-one thousand dollars a
year saved, and many salaries, among them those
of the Treasurer of the Household the Captain of the
Yeomen of the Guard, the Gentlemen at Arms and
the Master of the Horse reduced. But there
still are many Pages of the Presence, Pages of the
Back Stairs, Gentlemen Porters, Gentlemen of the
Cellars Equerres and Gold and Silver Sticks in Wait
ing and even the Queen has her separate household