QUEEN VICTORIA'S WEALTH.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 211, 6 September 1877, Page 4

QUEEN VICTORIA'S WEALTH.

What Queen Yictoria leaves behind her will never be kuovvo, because the. ; willa of Sovereigns are not prov .d,: but thoßp- -who have curtfully consioered the subject are ot opioioo that she must since the Prince Consort'd d«itti, have saved at the very least LIOO,OOO a-year. Not. only liaa she lived so quietly that a large proportion of ber L385.000 a-year public income most be saved, but it ia to bo rem .inhered that Mr Nield left her L500.000 year, which at four per cent, woulu give her L20.000 a-yeur, aud she receives L44.000 a-year irom her Duchy of Lauacst-.r. Tho Crown lands given up to the country in lieu of l\u*iiame\itttfy annual grant, have of lute years been ao ably and economically managed that their revenue covers the

royal allowance, and these cr 9 wn lan asi jwere' as much'/the| proper.], pf 4 the sovereigns i as thei la'Ads bf the Duke' : ef ! ! Devonshire, or ' hny' "'''ptl,-^^ 'tod-**! j polder, are his. If the country I Chooses to ma;ke the most of theselands by cutting; up, say, .the New Forest, iind filing it in ilpts, and adopting; a similar plan with :othreir outlying pos. sessions of the Crown, it would make money out of the royal family. The revenue of the Du.hy of Cornwall has * peuifrom 1i22,000 in 1824t0iL72 ( 000, and increases annually about 'L3,006,\. so that the next Prince of Wales willprobably be iudepandent pf 11 Parlia-' mentary grant. ' *J'~TiT';iTTrTriTTT' 111 1 "_ .