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Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 89, 23 March 1876, Page 6

In England, the; richest cdvh try in the world, the Prime Minister receives £5000 per annuhv; in ..Turkey the

Grand Vizier : draws £30,000 a year, while the civil list and the salaries of f ,he high officials are vastly more than those of the Queen; arid Ministers of Great- Britian. - Mr T. Brassey, the member for Hastings, who ony a! cruise in his yact; theSuribeanj,:hajUejit Hftme for publication a series of lettersT.elating to his voyage. Dating jfrpm r <3pfij[tantinople, he writeSj'relative to the Government of Turkey :^"The. authorised civil list of the Sutotf is* - abdiit r-£l 1 ,2d0,Q0.0, and by the. means of mqreor less ai-bit-rarv grants' is "actually ' little Tess than : £2,000-000 a year.- - All -Along tbe shores of the Bosphorus vast, palaces,, and elaborate kiosk's occur in succession at a distance little ■ more -than a mile 'apart. Some of these buildings ar.e s furixiSjhed in the costliest style." „The, d ally ciin ncr of the Sultan— he al^a^s' Bines 'albne-7. and consists of 94 dishes ; and. other meals are .prepared in case Jt_ should be his fancy to partake of them. He has eight-hundred wives, attended and guarded , by three, .hundred,, and .fij^y eunuchs. ' For this foidrmous household forty thousand oxen are yearly slaughtered ; and the purveyors are. 'require.djto furnish daily two hundred sheep, one hundied lambs or goats, t en calves, PW9 hundred 'hens,' two hundred pairs ' of pigeons, and fifty green geese. Between profligate luxury of the establish-. .X^f ment of the sovereign and tbe miserable poverty of two many of bis subject's, the contrast-isrtruly melftncholy.^i'The incomes of th<-o\pt-i_ieipnl Minister of * States are' such' as'HwbuJd^gnevonsly shock- the^'rad^ our country. The salary of the tJrand a Vizier is £30,000, ; ; pf!; the minister of Finance, £11^0.00:} andso in proportion for'the-other principal Minister* * n