THE QUEEN'S INCOME.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 55, 27 February 1869, Page 3

THE QUEEN'S INCOME.

The Civil List of the Queen is verymuch less than that of any of her pre-. decessors, and is indeed very much exceeded by the sovereigns of several second-rate States in the world. The income of G-eorge I. mounted up toone million sterling, and even that of "William (who was relieved from the burden of many charges to which his predecessors were liable), was £510,000. The Queen's Civil list is £385,000, and even the expenditure of that is dictated by Act of Parliament ; £6(£000 is alloted to the Privy Purse ; £281,260 for the salaries of the royal household; £-±4,240 for retiring allowance and pensions to servants ; and £13,000 for royal bounty, alms, &c. In order to give the reader somn idea of the liberality with which this nation deals with its sovereign, Vv-o subjoin the .mnount of a few Civil Lists and Incomes belonging to somo of the more prominent sovereigns in the world, premising that, in several cases (in that of the French Emperor notoriously so), the. maximum amount is by no means adhered to, but a lai-go amount of debt is annually added to the regular allowance : —

Water is so scarce at the Spring Creek diggings, Victoria, that in erne case beer was used as a substitute. A small bucketful of dirt was washed in a tub of ale, the result being an ounce and a half of gold. Pour clerks in a Greelon^ bank lately attempted to horsewhip the manager^ A. French rcan-o'-war — of wliat size is not stated — has passed through the Suez Canal. Bishop Jenner has been favourably received at Waikouaiti and Oainaru. Mr. Chaplin is about to dispos^^i his racing stud, with the exceptiS^^M Hermit and two mares. *~t(|^^ A tremendous eruptioa of Mount; Etna has taken place. Thb "Daily Times" sUtss fcbat lhe:'"!!owin:» persons have been appointed by his ExcpU&ic/ •he Governor to be Inspectors of '.'.'..igJita^uJ Measures, under the Weights and M&S^^^ Act, 1868, for the seven divisions of tld^^^H vines :— 0. J. NadeH, Hawksbu*-y ; J^^^| iNiinon, Danedtn ! L. J. WeHner, Tok'otrJ^^^M T.-M. Sriitli, Tuapeka ; Njcholv" -J^^^H Rlcxiiiu Ida ; Andio« 'I'v.o ivr-u-i, J" O, F -x, V-vaijanj/!. " i '«^^^^|

Himperor or Austria ... Emperor of France (with ".a debt of £3,200,000)... - ... King of Italy The Pope (total income calculated at over) King of Prussia (about) Emperor of Russia (the income of the Crown dominions is calculated at) Queen of Spain Queen of Sweden King of Bavaria Sultan of Turkey Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and of colonies upon which " the sun never sots." ... £760,737 1,(380.000 650,000 1 000,000 '450,0:ja 5,700,00".* 523.50:) •3J6J500. 2-i9,653. 1,333.832 383,000