INCOMES IN ENGLAND.

Evening Star, Issue 2928, 8 July 1872, Page 3

INCOMES IN ENGLAND.

In one of his City letters to the Paris Temps, M, Taine writes My Knglish friends confirm what I had guessed about the large number and the vastness of the private fortunes, “Take a cab from Sydenham ; for five miles you will pass homes which indicate an annual outlay of LloOOand upwards.” According to the official statistics of 1841, there are one million of servants to sixteen millions of inhabitants. The liberal professions are much better remunerated than on the Continent. I know a musician at Leipzig of firstclass talent ; he receives three shillings a lesson at the Academy of Leipzig, six shillings in the city, ond one guinea at Loudon. The visit o£ a doctor who is not celebrated, costs from four to nine shillings in Paris, and a guinea here. With us a professor at the College of France receives L3OO, at the Sorbonue L4BO, at the School of Medicine L4OO. A professor at Oxford, a head of a house, has often LIOOO to L3OUO. Tennyson, who writes little, is said to make LSOOO a year. The head master of Eton has a salary of L6OSO; of Harrow, L 6280; of Rugby, L 5960 ; many of the masters in these establishments have salaries from LI2OO to Ll24o—one of them at Harrow has L 2210. The Bishop of London has LIO.OOO a year; the Archbishop of York has 1.15,000. An article is paid for at tlie rate of 1.8 the sheet in the rfe Deux Maudes, and L2O in the English Quarterlies. The Times has paid LIOO for a certain article. Thackeray, the nl. velist, has made LIOO irf 24 hours through the medium of two lectures—the one being delivered in Brighton, the other in London ; from the magazine to which lie contributed his novels, he received L2OOO a year, and LlO a page in addition ; this magazine had 10,000 subscribers; ho estimated his own yearly earnings at L4BOO. It must be underjstor d that I put on one side Hie enormous fortunes made in manufactures, those of the nobility, the profit of revenues of L 200,000 yearly ; their outlay is proportionate. A young engineer. a younger sou, and who was obliged to make his fortune, said to me one day, “ With LSOO yearly, one is not wealthy in England : one is merely very comfortably