TURKISH EXTRA VAGANCE.

Evening Star, Issue 4063, 4 March 1876, Page 1 (Supplement)

TURKISH EXTRA VAGANCE.

In' England, the richest country .in .the world, the Pome Minister receives L5.00Q per annum; in Turkey the. Grand yiriSr draws L3oippq a ye^ |; whUe the ciwl list and the; palaness q£ cOI the high offici&ara vastly more thpnthose of the QueeDKand Ministers ot Great Britain. Mr T Brassev the member for Hastings, who is on a craise m his yacht, the Sunbeam, has sent. Homa for publication aseries ot letters relatwgto his voyage. Dating from Cbhstaatindmfc he writes, relative to the Government ofTnr; key : _ The authorised civil list pf the Sultan is about L 1,200,000, and by-means of more or less mkitraiy. manta it ip actually a yrarijSSbng the. shores of the J^osphorus.vast palaces a J~ kiokfy .occip: in sdccewion at a distance kittle more thaw £ mile; apart. Some of these buildings are farmsbed in., the .most cosUy.. The daily dinner of the Sultan—he always dines Jone --rand consists of ninety-four dishes ; !ana,ton other meals are prepared in rase itshpuldbe his fancy to partake of them. He haarnght hundred wives, attended and three hupdred andkfty ounhchs;^v" s<Mihw enormous household forty ttiousand oxenare yearly slaughtered • W. the pnmm»re are W° one hundred lambs or goatp, teh,calvefi, ( jtwd hundred heps, two kundred pairs pl pwepn£ ppd fifty grepn Between the .preflU the.^b^h^tpfit^^^ choly. The incomes of ae Mmia: ter of Statp areijSncn as \rouW, jmerotudV ■ tb®, Grand ■ Viaei;js^C^oS)<