TOPICS OF TUE DAY.
PRINCE ALBERTS " ESTABLISIDIENT."' • tIcd.
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disrespect to is. ■-, .• 1,1,- 11„ and at the end of t'i ‘,11t soc ti t3ter into any inve.C:,_ to II, • . nit: 111
any expen-es of a natute.
Ali alai,, especially the ref, r. !Ices to " i':c Qtieeit First,'" to "the (;Win ( ;tiff.;
of tlroitc;i: the ;
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ofopinion, the
tiniform legal ,1, c,
of l'arliament.
presumptive, At- •:745 t() \Vales, or, as ti,,e ha,; L.
sesses the wile,- I: hcri As we have
establishment. t‘)
:Intl to • Or vast social • of :„1111:.
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himself cannot prc :end tlett •,,
of this kind. .\ , ::
separate establishmeiu, 11011-...
deprive no one of ;my i!dng. 1.1
hold his office ill the Palace, Court, in despite common bill of man with two great itrivilt.g,a....0 ,,• obth!..->: el. a
Of Settleillellt 11111;t be tstiSlik11,,,',1 i I; We he (..:11: lie ,t1 .t Peer or tt Couneillont \\'', zi:nls to the 5,, ;., I.
JOHN 1.112SSELL'S 4. is t!",(• * Written previous to let- 1 .1..: 1' •• l.'s • 1 1,1 " 4,1
Commons last night.
f" That after the said limitation olv 11 take effect, as aforesaid, no i 911 bunt out of the hingdoin, Eli; land. f-.,cotland, and Ire1and, or the thereunto belonging, :3111tongli he he naturalized or made a dellik:o. such RS are lawn of English pare.; shall lie capable to tie at' he l'r,ey Council, or a ...Member of tither P:aliair iii ; or It ullitly auty 0,71Cc or place of trust, either civil or military ; or to liase any minis, tote- THE nature of his case and the terms of the Royal Speech have placed Lord JOBS Ressrm. in a difficulty. Having, contrary to the last precedent of a Queen's husband, as well as in opposition to necessity and reason, decided upon advising her Majesty to de- mand an allowance for Prince .Ammar, the Ministers should have called it by its right name; when the amount only would have been open to question. Unskiltbiness or courtly pulitesse having induced them to dignify an "annuity " by the name of an " es- tablishment," some explanation of its nature was to' e expected from the Ministers of the Crown. When a gentleman mzuntains another lady besides his wife, or married people live apart, it is customary to talk of separate establishments; but when Parliament is called upon to vote au " establishment" for a person in the position of Prince ALBERT, the house of Commons dues not NM its function unless it inquire into the leading particulars of this' establishment. There is little chance of the Opposition taking up the whole question upon broad and rat 31111 grounds ; but th-y seem inclined to annoy the Minister on the more ilmnal points, and to make him (which will be very difficult) render reasons for the grant. On NVednesday, llr. Ctum.aive,N succeeded 111 forcing Lord JonN Rt.ssEr.i, to give the House "forty-eight hours for deliberation after the vote sliould be formarly introduced. Without appearing to see the exact distinction involved in tit(. phrase "establishment," Mr. Gig:LIU:RN dwelt upon the c.xposi- tions usually otkred on lloyal Civil Lists, and wauggled hard to make Lord ..,TonN promiie to make a speech ; which his Lordship with critical fbresight, declined. Lora Jolty ltt-ssEr.r. said---" I should be glad to comply with the honourable gentleman's reupi ,r, if I. could find any mod.. in which 1 coldd satisfy the right !mini-arable ;!-,:tilleman; but I do not ex::etly conn.rclp:o4 what, sort of a Stilt nient the 14dit hoaotttalde goatleinan expects ft con The gr011itd OIL ;,;!.1,: roar tict.s ,cciir to nit (a c,J-• mu of any stabwr,,t t pdr:i,u(gr which 13 (Ili!". 11111.0114E4CW' With p, ;•. (ht.. StlitiuCt seems to I find that, in :• t of It.410, lie ginal estimate irt First Class was ;■■ • the amended estimate of the Committee lir 11(I,000/., precisely t!..• r•;; ; til,re was no ell c...„Con in that estimate and the Report 1,1 that :0111 it portioning, that sum gave 60,0001. T., his Majesty, and 5J,01)0,', to her Queen Adelaide ; and, emilitr, Report states that, with c, et -:•,%:sions in the 1•':;-t nature of the subject, tif.. Coona■,•,. no data npf,n opinions,which could only 1:e :t ,:cc that they found that tit, -(.11I of , of the queen of Oco,;,e • sum of
the queen of 6, that at f I , -a- ,
the Queen of 6, ,a--, 1,f,2
1786 to 58,00111.. eent; .: The Committee, 11, sum to that class. ' the salaries of t ha (11
the present Ministry had in effect made use of this distinction in bringing forward their extravagant Civil List. It was urged as a reason for granting a larger stun to Queen VICTORIA than to Wiergam the Fourth, that certain ladies of the Household were paid by Queen ADELAIDE out of her own Privy Purse, which in the case of a Queen Regnant must be paid by the public. The amount in question was not large, but the principle was strictly laid down. Mr. HustE has given notice of a motion to reduce the proposed allowance of 50,000/. a year to 21,000/. a year, the annuity granted to our Royal Dukes : a motion which contains no other principle than that of the breeches-pocket. 'No doubt, its triumph would be of public advantage to the extent of the arithmetical difference between 50 and 21 ; but the analogy of his argument is not very clear. A Royal Duke has a standing in the country_; he does not marry a wife with 895,000l. per annum ; the annuity granted to hint is his maintenance ; and he is the more entitled to such a maintenance because he is not allowed to turn fortune-hunter and make a profit of a matrimonial speculation. For public reasons, a member of the Royal Family is Ihrbidden to marry without. the consent of the Crown or of Parliament ; and as he cannot howls about his royal blood and title to heiresses or wealthy widows, it seems but fair that he should be supported in a condition which his birth and public opinion require. But the husband of the Queen requires no militate:once apart from or in addition to his wife's.
The late Mr. WI mu:snows in his Diary, on the mei:slot) of some Royal grant, remarked that it was shucking to see bow disregard- ful the aristocracy were of morels or opinion, provided the money was gotten. Something of this feeling is visible on the present occasion. The public are too obviously considered as a " milch- cow." The Queen's Speech talked of what was "suitable to the rank of the Prince and the dignity of the Crown," but not a word of the feelings of the people. A story in the newspapers, if true, would lead us to infer that Prince ALBERT is animated by the clanship popularly attributed to the German connexions of our Royal Family : according to the story, he possessed an income of some 2,4001. a year, which Inc has assigned over to his brother, subject to some annuities ; so that he conies to our shores without a stiver, to make a property of " Miler Anglais."
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