FACTS ANTD FIGURES.
■ ♦ — : — '—' - The following information is taken from the Financial Befo.rm Almanac for 1883 : — There are at present in the British Hoiiße of Cp.nmons 639 members, of whom 272 are connected with thg. peerage. Only two are laborei\s, one a mariner, and one a mirier. Oue hundred and sixty-eight members are connected with the tiglitiug interests, 267 with landed interests, 122. with law, 18 with liquor, 25 with money, 84 with literary, professional, and scientific interests, 113 with oificial, and 183 with railway interest, 155 with trade, commerce, and manufactures. What ! royalty costs Britain may be learned from the following figures : The total j payments on account of ;he Queen are £622,133 per year ; then the Princess Eoyal gets £8,040, the Prince of Wales. £117,748, the Duke of Edinburgh ! £26,596, Princess Christian £6,000, Princess Louise £6\6dVi, her husband* •' gets £10,000 as Governor-General of Canada, the Duke of Gqnnaught gets£26,soo, Prince . Leopold £25,350, Duchess of Cambridge £'6,000, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, i'3.,080, the Duke of Cambridge £22,203, Princess of Teck £500, Prince Edward of Saxe- Weimar £3,357, Dake of Cumberland £500, PrineeLeiningeh £1,460. Count Gleichen £1,860; the pensioners of deceased sovereigns get £6,475 ;in all, £898,302. Then there is £ 112,837 spent on royal parks and . ple-t^u'e grounds, besides the tree use of numerous palaces.
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Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1321, 9 November 1883, Page 2
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213FACTS ANTD FIGURES. Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1321, 9 November 1883, Page 2
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