THE PENSION LIST.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1312, 25 November 1880, Page 3

THE PENSION LIST.

As one of the novel features of the next session of Parliament will be Mr. Bradlaugh's attack on the Pension List, it may be interesting to catalogue the State pensions or annuities at present enjoyed by — not to go into other olasses — members of the House of Lords. The Earl of Morley receives on trust for Earl Amherst a yearly allowance of £3,000, whioh has been paid since 1803 ; Lord Blanchford has a yearly allowance of £1,066 on account of services at the Colonial Office; Lord Bloomfiold has £1,700 a year on account of diplomatic services; Viscount Combermere gets £2,000 a year on account of the first lord's military service. This pension has been paid sinoe 1814. Earl Cowley has £l,7oo a year, fairly earned by kis past diplomatic services; Viscount Eversley, the former Speaker of the House of Commons has a life pension of £4,000 ; Lord Gough (and next heir) has £2,000 a year on account of military services ; Lord Hammond has a special allowance of £2,500 per annum on account of services rendered as Permanent Secretary of the Foreign Office up t.o 1873 ; Viscount Hardinge (and next heir) enjoys a pension of £3,000 (military service) : the Duke of Marlborough inherits a pension of £4,000, which has been regularly paid to the possessor of the title since the year 1710. Lord Napier of Magdala (and next heir) has £2,000 a year, this being one of the most recently conferred pensions. Earl Nelson and his successors are entitled to £3,500 a year on account of the memorable services of the hero of Trafalgar. This pension has been in existence for 73 years. The late Countess Nelson enjoyed, up to the time of her death in 1879, a separate pension of £1,500. Lord O'Hagan has a life pension of £5,000 as ex-Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Lord Seaton has £2,000 a year (military service). Lord Raglan (and next heir) has £2,000 a year, also for military service, Lady Raglan having a separate pension of £1,000 a year for Me.— Court Journal.

The Weslyan Chapel, London, founded by Wesley, and which was partly destroyed by fire, has beea restored and reopened. A boy of twelve years, dining at his uncle's, made such a good dinner that his aunt observed, "Johnny, you appear to eat well." "Yes," replied the young urchin, "Ive been practicing eating all my life." Poor Lady Coutts has been forced by the vicious intermeddling with her private affairs to announce to a friend in a formal way that the queen has not objected to her marriage ; that her future husband, Ashmead Bartlett, has never been in her j pay as private secretary, the only connection between them being the purely honorary one that sprang from their mutual esteem, and that she will not lose her property on marriage. Somewhat neatly, too, Lady Coutts drops the remark that no one objected when her grandfather at 86 married tho aotress, Miss Welton, at 38 ; or the actress, after his death, at the ripe age of 49, married the Duke of St. Albans in his 25th year. Weddings between January and May seem to run in the family ; but then it i« generally understood in these matters that January is masouline and May feminine. A squatter, who clips his hundreds of thousands of sheep within a not very great distance trom this town (observes the Wugga Advertiser), lately received a telegram from a Melbourne woolbroker, asking him to forward his clip to Melbourne. His reply was characteristic :—: — "Remoye your stock tax, throw open your colony to free trade, and I will then consider your request. '* There are many more of the same opinion as the .squatter referred to ; but so long as Mr. Berry rules Victorian politics, so long will Melbourne markets be unavailable for the New South Wales producers. A fearful accident happened last week to Mrs. W. Phelan, wife of a selector residing in the Wombat Ranges (says the liemlla Standard). Prom what we can gather, it appears that while coming into town on horsaback her dog stuck up an old-man kangaroo. Finding the dog was getting the worst oi the encounter, she got off her horse to go to the animal's assistance. The kangaroo immediately attacked her, and inflicted frightful injuries on different parts of the body, from the effects of which she has tince died.