ROYAL INCOMES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3715, 12 June 1883, Page 4

ROYAL INCOMES.

It is announced that (ho Kherlive has "•iven up ..3000 a-year of his Civil List towards ' the payment, of the smaller intlcmnitv claims." This is a step iv the ri"-bt direction, and can only rejoice to thmk Ills Highness will not be materially impoverished by this act of generosity. The ruler of Ku'vpt enjoys an annual allowance of CI On.Oil), while the members of his family divided an additional £120,000 ayear "among them. Of this latter sum, £00,000 is paid to tho ex-Khedive. I'ossiblv it Avould be unjust to compare these figures with the £3(3,000 a-year oil which the President of the French Republic maii"os Io keep up appearances, or Avirhal I/resident Aulhnr's ~10,0!)0. But there are Sovereign Princess enjoying smaller Civil Lists than Tewlik, who is but a tributary. Tho Kiie:- of tho Greeks receives no more than . 10,()(M) a-year from his subjects ; though England, France, and Russia club together to give him C 12,000 a year more. The whole of the grants to tho Royal Family of Portugal amounts to less than AT3i>,oi)o per annum. Oscar If. gets a Civil List from Sweden and another from Norway : but tho two combined do not yield a'revenue of CTiH.OOO. The King of the Netherlands has io be content with £00,000 for himself, and .12,000 for his relatives: the King of ,he Belgians with ~i:!2,ooo, the King of Dei-mark with someCO 1,000, b. -ides an allowance of C7OOO for the heir-apparent to his Crown. The Roumanian Civil'Lisl amounts up to a little over Cf 7.000. The- sum of the annual allowance which Italians would make the Pope, if he cared to accept it, is £120,000.