The Daily Southern Cross.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXV, Issue 3643, 23 March 1869, Page 3

The Daily Southern Cross.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 23.

The question of Fenianism at the Thames is miaed once more, aud in. a very unpleasant way, by the recent St. Patrick's Day festivals at that place. It appears certain that those who had the direction of the programme omitted the usual loyal toast of the Queen's health. The omission was of course noticed, and very strenuous efforts were made to alter the arrangements in this respect. A protest was made by his Honor the Superintendent, and another by one of the goldfielda members on the spot. Neither protest was allowed to prevail however, and the result was that her Majesty's health was deliberately omitted from the proceedings of the evening. The attention of the public has been called to this matter by various persons who were present, and it is therefore useless to ignore the subject. The affair will be commented upon in other parts of the colony, and it may as .well form the subject of our own comments, who are perhaps in a better position to judge of the matter than people at a distance. We need (scarcely say that the omission of her Majesty's health was a very serious offence against good taste, if nothing worse can be said of it. And had the authors of the blunder come forward and said the thing was caielessly done, it might have rested with this amount of condemnation. This, however, they havenot done. On onehand we aretold thatthe reason for nofc drinking her health was simply that it would in such a case have been necessary to drink the Pope's, to which some of the company' might have objected. It is hardly necessary to say that we do not believe in th« sincerity of the excuse. We never yet heard that it was customary to drink the Pope's, or the Archbishop of Canterbury's, or the Chairman of the Wesleyau Conference's health, at dinners attended chiefly by Roman Catholics, Church of England men, or Wesleyans. The idea is feeble — absurd to a ridiculous degree ; and vre can only hope that when next the Honorary Secretary of the St. Patrick's festivities feels called on to find an excuse for any of his actions, he may find a better one than this. But it is said by another party that the real reason of the slight to her Majesty was the conduct of the British Government in withdrawing the troops. And, ill ogical as the reason may be, it has a much greater air of probability about it than the first. Indeed, we may go so far as to admit that, had there not been a wide-spread feeling of indignation at the treatment we have received from the Home Government, it would have been impossible to have committed the serious blunder that was made. Under the circumstances that now exist in New Zealand, those that hold feelings of disloyalty on other points could easily find vent for them to a certain extent, under the protection of the prevailing feeling of indignation. We have spoken before on the subject of ; Fenianism, and have regretted while we marvelled at the folly which would insist upon transplanting to this new country fancies and prejudices by no means sensible even in the land to which they are native. To say that the St. Patrick's Ball was a Fenian demonstration would perhaps be to say too much, but it is not too much to say that it will be so regarded in other parts of this colony and in Australia. And this we must look upon as a very serious misfortune to us as a community. We have not hesitated to speak strongly of our relations to the mother cointry as being anything but satisfactory ; we have not minced matters in speaking of her treatment of us aa very far the reverse of honourable to herself; and we have even said that the natural result of this sort of thing must be a decay of all loyalty of feeling towards the mother country. And all this, and something more, we are still prepared to say. We do not retract anything, and we are willing to allow what we have said to be fairly reasoned out to its conclusion, even if there were a formal separation of this colony from England. But while we go so far as this, we do not go to the lengths of the St. Patrick's Bali Committee. In objecting to the treatment we have received from the mother country, we have reason and right on our side. In refusing to acknowledge her right to dictate to us if she will not help us, we claim common sense a*d justice as our justification. But in doing as those! who took part in the festivities at,Shortland did, we should have no such justification. • From being members of a community seriously insulted and wronged, and" by these, things forced to reconsider our position, entertaining the idea that it might 'become necessary to alter it, we should sink into a mere knot of rash and disaffected men— a soi-fc of balstard shoot.from the ill-grown .tree of Irish Fejnjanism. And in this position we should giet jno sympathy, and indeed should deserve f none. The vulgar idea that an»ipsult ,to J the representative of sovereignty, in tibia colony would 'be a proper way of ihowing our sensdo? ,the wrongs wff are suffering is si seiMbfe', thing when compared , with trnVsJigW .fo> °ne! whd is felt by allto add, lustre to thetnrone whilch she occupies. ■ . . \\" Whatdr^t, then, we do to mark our aense of pur changed circumstances, let' us jkefcp clear of such coarse and objectionable blunders as this. So long as we are part oft the' British 'Empire, it becomes us to show ail due honour ancf respe^to^the.headof JtßStnt^vien if ,^i.d9.noJi^tejnpfc,any^oisJ^Q«p|dfimbnBt^ vtioni of * loyalty which it is not ni^timl vr*

should feel. If we feel ourseiteft placed in j cilitiesit^^tibtt^tHef^ l & tW ft&e £ee<j th* we " r shoula be careful noli, to' wage %ii character,; by any hasty ando ili-consiUereic demonstrations. We shall aiot jitit down tH« rebels on* whit the better bebatise wVdeclari i our 1 ; dislji^tj , c tp* ,^4' fsjknl ' a^d 'apt j shal: | ceiitaiply losa^ao^rpai't/ftt all eTelits ottW .Warm iympaijhy which' has always b«ek felt i for pur difficulties' by th* inhabitaritg of the neigHbouHii i g,c6l6iiie3. jWe 'viwb, However, once more assert our belief fcaat the majority >of thosQ >-«rho allowed themaeives to be more or less compromised by the committee at Shortland were taken at unawares. The feeling we hnve: no doubt was strong that under existing circumstances some failing in the wonted respect to her Majesty was excusable, and many did mot pause to think of the inevitable result of the course pursued in giving a false impression. Our own impression, is, we confess, that England will cease to bo the ruler over these colonies before very long, becausa she does not value the BQTereifcnty; but we should be sorrr indeed- that a separation should be brought about or hastened by any demonstrations of that anomalous genus, ihe New Zoaland Fenian. _^

>Srh« official declaration of the poll for the flection of » memto to represent the district of the Northern Division in the General Assembly took place yesterday. The Returning Officer declared the number* to be, for Mr. famall 162, for. Mr. Mcllhon* 160. The successful' and defeated candidates briefly addresaed the elector*, and the meeting , terminated With a vote of, thanks to the 'Returning Officer. A meeting of the Trustees of the Lake Highway District was held yesterday, at 3 p.m., in tho Lake schoolroom, for the purpose of hearing appeals against the assessment list. About ten ratepayers attended, 'and two objection! were raised and sub* ! mitted for the decision of the Board; A full report appears elsewhere. '■"' " At the District Court yesterday a large number of OJaSes were disposed of. In the ckse of Ftfzpatrick y. Coope, heard, last Court-day, and which rested upon the question of whether a settler is liable, when burning off his own bush, for the damage which the fire might cause by extending to hio neighbour's pro* ' nerty, his Honor decided that, feren' though no culpable negligence was proved against any on* so doing, he would still be' held responsible 'for the damages which his act might cause. Judgment was given for the defendant in the case of /Tally Y. James, which was also heard last Court day, and in which the slim of £200 waff claimed as compensation for damage sustained in consequence of plaintiff having purchased two fall shares in the Crown Claim upon an alleged false representation. The other cases heard did not posses! any features of public interest. In accordance with a resolution passed at a meeting of the Mount Albert ratepayers on Friday last, a deputation waited upon the Superintendent yesterday morning, and explained their object to his Honor, which was to request the Government to hand over to the trustees certain sums of money received at the toll-gate at the junotion of the Mount Eden and New North Roads. After some discussion his Honor informed the deputation that he would consult his Exe< outive on the matter, and give them a reply in writ* ing at twelve o'clock on Wednesday. The oity pump in front of the Pc-t-offioe hag at length cosae to grief. For a long time past hordes of boya have been ia the habit of amusing themselves by standing on the cistern and displaying their ingenuity in making jets d'eau of various patterns, unchecked by police or municipal interference. Yesterday morning, however, some of these young urchins were performing aoro* bdtto exercises on the outer rim, when, their weight acting as the power of a lever of the first order, the whole ooocern toppled over, and now remains in a useless state, much to the inconvenience of the neighbours. This, we fear, will be the fate of others if some means are not adopted of putting a stop to similar " skylarking." We perceive that the ropes of several of tbe fire* bells have vanished' lately. We would suggest that they be replaced by light chains, if possible, for the ropes are too easily rotaoved, and are exceedingly convenient as well ropes for some of the uuiorupuloua of the neighbouring inhabitants. Among the oity improvement i now in progreu we may mention new stores iv cou oof erection on the property of Mr. Dilworth, ot Kemuera, next tbe Thames Hotel, in Gustom-home-street. These will ! fill an unsightly gap, and will diminish tho delightful view of that branoh of tho intake. The much-n«ded embankment in Wynyarditreet is gradually progressing, some half-dozen men and two dobbins being constantly employed ; but we are aorry to fiad that the stone retaining wall, For which we commended the City Board in % previous paragraph, is not to ba carried bo the full height of the earthwork, as we were led to believe, but will remain merely as a kind of parapet over the] culvert. As however bhere is ample width of roadway, this will not ba of much consequence, provided a good slope ba given to the sides. If any attempt be made to give the top % width anything like that of the regular breadth of the road, the material will certainly slide away as usual with the slippery clay of Auckland in bad weather. The shareholders of the Full Moon Gold-Mining Company are convened to attend a meeting on Thursday afternoon next, at 3 o'clock, at the office, 22, Qaeen-sbreet. An extraordinary meeting of tbe thareholders of the Hauraki Gold- Mining Company will be held this afternoon, at 3 o'clock, at the Company's office, Shortland, for the purpose of considering the best mode of winding up and re-organising the Company. A meeting of the shareholders of the Faugh-a Bftllagh. Claim ia to be held at 10 o'clock on the unoruiDg of Saturday next, at the Royal Insurance Company's office, Quean-ntreer, for the conlideration of buaiutii of importance. The Government rifle firm* by tbe Auokland, Ofcahuhu, and tfowick troops of the Royal Cavalry Volunteers, abd Engineer Volunteers, will take place at Point Chevalier to»day. A man named William Harris, who came out in the sbip ' Percy,' was apprehended last evening by constable Gamble for being drunk and disorderly. On being searched at the station, a pawn ticket was found upon, hint for. ft. oase of mathematical instruments, which had been pawned at Neumecpn's loan office. Having information that such a, oase of instruments had been stolon from the shop of Mr. Munroe, sailmaker, Fort-street, , Mr« Neumegen was communicated with, as well »s Mr. Mnuroe, and, on the case being produced, th.c latter gentleman identified it as the one which bad been stolen from his ihop a few days previously. Harris was therefore detained on the oharga of felony, and will be brought up. at the Police Court this morning. The annual meeting of Justices of the Peace for the Bay of Islands district is to be held at the Resident Magistrate's Court, Russell, at; noon on Tuesday, the 20th April next, for tbe purpose of taking into consideration applications for licenses for the sale of fermented and spirituous liquors. We have been requested to state that, at 11 a.m. yesterday, Mr, B, Hogan was ia waiting at the Wellington HoteT to arrange the preliminaries with the person who had' advertised that he was prepared to take up the challenge; but, no appearance being made, he says he will' be riady at any'timeto enter the lists' with ft bookmaker, willing to accept the challenge ; and the money' had been lodged with Mr. Kane, of the Wellington Hotel, so' that no delay may' take place.! A meeting was held at Newton last nifht, Mir. Dewolt in ifehe_chair,v,At.. which arrangements' were made to have a supply of registration forms left at the shops of Mr. Hill, Freeman's Baj ; , Mr. More, grocer, Cabbage-tre,el Swamp Ro*d ; Mr. Wilkes, bookeller/ comer of XTpperi Queen and East-jwreeta i; Mr* Gra,haMKar*ngahape Roadf; andMr^naerty, •frooex, (oppoiitefßoydV ßrick Works), .Gxeat ;North J&oad. aAs the 1 electoral roll, of Newton already mtmbWi 1,000 9 of whom only about 300 are. expected to rote, a meeting Of .the electors is advertised; to bo held at^hejNewton Hali on Wednesday to take steps to reTM^the.eleefcpralrOll.; , i „lv I "'" We Have WeiSS "requeitied to call attention to the notice which 0 ; appears in our, advertising columns announcing ttie mtdfatidn o"f MeVsrs. Lewis Brothers to i«irby auoHbn t'J-dJiy,.'at the stores of Mr. H. Meyirs, a large d>eMs of Inpeltor fruit; efT Bella Tista,' from Jiobrt b Town, f.* t, .. > '; .W ' We beg to Remind our readers' that the Newton PreibVferian Qburoh soirftj 1 «iU tak" place thi« sreitfn¥;-W % b« l ioh;tafe '*<- W. l >** «x j after wniolf the riieett^ will be Mddfeiwd- siam-

The Cejwfepf&ettj; ; Bewiont will be held tfc,,tW fhjejnorfting." the following is the rot* ofc JTiiati<^f\ Bil worth, Fe|i#n, GMttan, J. "A. _ Oilfi|bta. u K. THyldriG. J.'Tayltfr, 'Swainion, ScoW Pw&r,* ■] , %t% t ? *'„' ' Two teen, r n»me|' ' JG'Borge, and J3dwar£,srigma6\ . Were brought into town from ,ye§terday, having been lentenoed to tiro.^iont^' imprisonment;' R.M., for .stealing two mgij.valcfif' 452 each,' the property of * Maori namejj ;( Kepa te Wao., living near,. Waiujtu. Whjsn .jbhe officers wbo had Wwpe Wo meriin^afge: arhred ia t tp^ one of them, gamed Parser, identified a soldier bis^gingto the 18th Regiment, nanied : Patriok M^Kenni,<who< was in jjusWyon a oba.rg'e, of, de« erjtoji, us .the'per* ion who b.aa been guilty of committing a (j rape iuthe vicinity of Wmiuku.,, Immediately the, of ttelajpttou V« 'typo' 1 ?,? ,M,,^n« > r ,tn«f. man bad been ! harmed over, to the military, was, {faked into custody by the oiVil authorities on the obargeof rape, for the purpose of being, sent on to Waiuku to \ undergo magisterial ex'amiaaWttV ' , The report, about, the drowning of three men turned out to be, as wo anticipated it would in our issue of yesterday, » mere canard. : Two . women well known to -the police were last atoning apprehended for being drank and dborderiy, and using abusive and bbi'oe'rie language. Mr. ft. A. OarrTogton has addressed the following letter to the Taranaki Hevald,on theaubjeofeof road* through the Northern island: w»r expenditure \jx this the North, Inland of -New. Zealand has now become a moat serious oharge to this colony, the pre« sent oo«t of whioh ig more than would 1 hare been demanded had we asked for and obtained theservioes apd benefit?,^ be derived from nine Imperial regi^ ments. That it would have been humane and politio to retafn the Qaeen'i troops in this island until it was more peopled snd advanced, and until certain com* manding roads, had been -made, and the country thereby placed ia a position capable of beinggOTerned, has from the first been the opinion of myself and others, who have had experience in primitive Indian countries, and is now clear to all who are not wilfully blind to the welfare of this colony. That such, was my opinion as to the inestimable value of the Queen's troopa in t thi«i»land /or the 7>reservatiopoflife and property, and the good government of the o'olony, until commanding roads, were made, is clear from, that which,. l pffiojiaUy made known and published just eight years ago. - Had the oivilising and humane work of ro«d-making been determined upon and judicioudy carried ou^in tb^it island instead of the harassing and irritating, pphoy of war, we should Jong «nco have h»d the demoralised and rebellious aborigines suing for occupation and employment on the very line of road which .must be made ere we oan now assuage or govern them. Now that life and property have been sacrrfioed to a fearful extent, and money spent which would have paid for the making of 2,600 miles of maoadamised road, are we not, both native and European, in a more unpropitibus position than we were before , the war began ? What can we show for all the anxiety and sacrifice made— that will compensate, for the loss -of the slain ? So long aa the npw existing polioy be continued and the country left without roads, so 'ong, I fear, must we t>e prepared for the great evils which now afflict New Zealand." Self-reliance never was really believed in. It was continued aa a means of evading liability to the Imperial country, under the impression that the Imperial Government would not remove the troops. The oolony was in reality with the Governor ; the departure of the troops was felt to be replete with danger; but still the Colonial Government pretended to , be ready to get rid of them, whilst the Governor was doing all he could to stay them. To our mind the ' diplomacy would be more aptly named meanness; The crowning act of despicable petty craft was to be found in the boast, officially put forth, that the colony was to retain thetroops at Taranaki for a while,* without the Colonial Government having committed their - Solve*. At auoh a time as this, when the presence of the troops at Taranakl is imperatively necessary to the safetylof the settlement, the hesitation to fully, freely, and frankly declare that necessity is an insult to the Imperial Government, and a disgrace to the oolony. The oolony has, to use a slangy bat very appropriate phrase, used self-reliance as a means of jockeying the Home Government, and this last has retaliated by taking the oolony at its word. Between the two there seems to have been a forgetfulness of the relations beivreen parent state and dependency. Nothing Colonial Governments oan do oan relieve Great Britain of her responsibilities to the coloniea themselves whilst they continue British, subjects. Colonial Governments are expedients for governing and for affording protection, devised by the Imperial Legislature. If the expedients fail) and Governments prove inadequate to govern or protect, the ppimary responsibility recurs. In 1865 Mr. Stafford replaced Mr. Weld, and iv the following year Mr. Weld's colleagues joined Mr. Stafford. On this occasion Mr. FitzQemld, one at fcha loudest advOO&teS for ■elf-reliance, moved a resolution antagonistic ia its tendency to self-reliance. Later, again, Mr. Fitzherbert gave it as the deliberate polioy of his Government not to maintain as an ordinary expenditure a colonial force. Still later, the Imperial Government was told by resolution that the amount contributed for native purposes was sufficient, according to the standard iet up by the late Duke of Newcastle, to justify a request that the troops should be retained, The Governor has declared over and over again that he does not agree with theself-reliance polioy. Taranaki, a reputed kead-quartor of self" reliance, has pasted, in a large public mooting, a vote of thanks to the Wellington magistrates who waited on his Excellency to represent the necessity of retaining the troopi at New Plymouth. A larg* section of the Tarauaki people also ask for a suspension of the Constitution in the North Island. — Next Zealand Sun. The woman's-rights movement seems to have extended itself in a very inconvenient manner to the farthest East. As it cannot be communication with American or English vindicators of the sbx that has stirred up the tenants of the harem and the zenana to strike a blow for freedom, we must assume that an instinctive reaction against man is going on all over the earth at the same time. This has been % year of convulsions in the social and physical world, and the disturbing forces have not yet exhausted them«elvei. So at least the unlucky Kajah of Jeypore must be of opinion. There has occurred late so much insubordination among the female members of his family that he found it necessary to put a special guardian over them, by name Fntteh Singh, this man kept a strict watch upon the doors, and otherwise wa« so industrious in the performance of hid duty, and piaoed ao many restrictions on personal freedom, that he raised a rebellion among the gentle recluses. One day they, .all set upon him, gave him a " good beating," abused' him to their hearts' content, and wound up with breaking one of his arms. There were two thousand Women attacking him all at once. Unfortunate Fiitteh Singh! With the Oriental oapacity. for exaggeration, let us hope that he overestimated the number of his aswilants. But his arm is broken — that 1 cannot be denied. The women of the East have been infected by the influences of the West. At the next Social ■Science Congress who knows but that we may have a vast round robin from the oppressed sex, instead of an address from one of their number? The fighting women of the zenana are, at least, entitled to friendly recognition from Mi«s Anthony, of New Yoiki—Tetegraph. A letter from Stettin gives the following account of Count Bismarck and his estate at Pomerania:— "No one thought anything about that country before the Chancellor ia 1867. bought hia property there. At present tha melancholy steppes which border the, Baltic are well frequented, an 1 Vertzia is now s, token of as Sans Souei was formerly. The railway from this town to Kce-ilin oughc certainly to burn tapers in,, honour of Couqt de Bismarck. , His residence^ simply a grand seignorial mansion, large, and comfortable,, but without any architectural style, the ideal of the dwelling of one who is half countrymap. and half townsman. In front it &,gatden laid out with great regularity ; and further on is. a large, park which is wflH s.|jooked with game. The Count, frequently invite* the neighbours to bunting parties, at one of whioh he had that fall last autumn which mig^,,h*TOP'ovedJaJ;al|tp:P|iu.».sia; The sea r is» about 15 miles off, aud during winter the north w.ind. muat be parfciqularlykeen there, Jon will be aitqnished Jq, learn th»t,the proprietor of this* domajn is eng%ged4n..numeroua commercial pursuits* ; The , Minister, of hia" Prussian Maje^yij^ta wool, manufactures tiles and brick*, and d^tila , .brandy, fiis sheep walks are renowned, and tbe praqieds of the •hearing aresougbtfor far aod^neai!* v, One of these days y >u will hear he is making paper, as h^e has en.jbered into pattnerribjp vfjth.oajs^ ( thej)rincipal ) men of Kceilin, M. Bdhrend, to entablish a f^iy wber* thiajrtiqle wilube, / prodsicedby a %.anew Iprooe«s.) 1 prooe«s. ) „I ,be#eve, that tha firm Ifcsgiarck^dT BjhjandJi;go«ng. ' tomake their produce from |>ark. a ..The, jas| woods ,of Vertzin,, Wussow, Chpmi^, ,aa.d -C^arlownthal Will* .tarnish tHejnw^atagajL \u abundane^ " 1 ' ; ■'•6h Saturday laifc fhe Fife' foiHdundi met at Clalto P,n, i» th. t&Uu'o* Eittlt;ands«h after tiearthtd

** t6t\h ,tHrtriar'iiilK)urh-o6^. Ll . ! They ¥b'{6y»A'»i good, T He dißplayeiipm© foa« nntUthf ioor w« strat* thereafter the dogs followed jn jp^r«ai^ 4 $»Xin;jtq« aamerottte as th« |or^^|i|;w4ffßf^ ll * ls<e4 '* fc ' dontmuotu howling. The tiunters S^fe^^tif oY them said ,-to tie good woman, « tjie.. iiouw, " Surely you havt foithft , fox in. thtj jioaifc*. She a*i£ *1u had, and told them jrhew'ha, wm.- -I ne of the keeper* entered tßa'rQ..m,a|x|4l PW*. on the head with, bis riding iirhip, Whicn stunned him.. The aniaul wm then carried to aneighbounng field and despatched, aud the brush presented 1 ty Mr. fidie, farmer. Surely, after ha had to much cunning, the fox might hay« ( '^ad another ohanoe for hii life. Some of our readers may ramember that an iaciden^ similar to th« above' occurred at Ceres laifc winter, bat on that occasion ReVnird escaped and betook himself hii old h^otne, rHok Vtry probably would, bo Olatto 1>«o «r, aiar'at hand jlt Ui, therefore, poia^blo th|» may be the Mine animal, whioh, remembering how ; ht had esoaped before, had tried the same plan aKainj but with quite a different.«Bult."-i>vn4« Advertistr. ' A plant has reoently been diiooVered in phina wkioh appears to bear a marked resemblance to the awhetowheto of Hew, Zealand (chtnMU vegetoli*). ** The Courier da ffallss tt Uarchtt, % paper whiob ia not rery well known boyond th«.preoincti of the marketi, informs us that 'an extremely ourfous Chinese plant called the Bias-taa«tom*ohom exists ia the Flo««ry Empire. The name of this dogular plant meant that during summer it is a re£et*blo, 'but that in winter it becomes a worm, If it Is ob•erred olosely at the latter end of September, nothing ■imuiatas better to the eye a .yellow worm about four inohes in length. The apparent transformation takes plaoa gradually, and one can. see head, eye*, body, &c, in course of formation,' This plant U extremely rare ; it ia to be met with in Thibet, and in the etnperor** gardens at Pekin, where it ia reiervfd for madioinal purposes. To believe the Chinese swans it is a capital strengthening medicine. Attempts are being made to aoolimattse it in South Afrioa.f" So ueuoh nonserita ii iodnstantly talked, and) such erroneous notions are held,' ~reipecting the Queen's inoume, that 4t can hardly be con^dared, a wqrk of supererogation to put the precise facts Woze the public By an Act passed soon after her Majesty* accession, m whioh the Queen waives her right to and interest in certain hereditary rates, charges, duties, and revenues, whioh by her prerogative she might have oUimed, the civil list, i.e., her income, ia fixed at £885,000 per annum. Many people have an idea that this sum is actually paid to the Queen, every year. Suoh is not the case. The civil lint ii divided into six classes, to eSfoh of whioh we will briefly refer. Oiaas 1 really represents the amount ef money paid to her Majesty for ber private use. This amount is £60,000, whioh is payable in monthly instalmenti so long m her Majesty lives. Class 2, which appropriates £181,260, is for the payment of the salaries of hor Majesty's household. The butiness is conducted by an official called the Paymaster of the Household ; and when it is considered what a multiplicity of offices thera^ are connected with the Court' —from the lord of the bedchamber to the page of the backtkirts— it can readily be imagined how easily th« sum ia expended, Class 3 appropriates a still higher sum of 46172,600, aud ia for the expenses of the houiehold. Hoyal housekeeping and Boy si parties andJballs must be kept up on a Royal soale, ! and any one who has visited the Buckingham Palace I mows and the Windsor stables — not to mention the Royal kitohea — will not wonder that thia sum finds I plenty of channels for ita disposal. The amouut of i class 4 ia small, and its purposes are almost entirely i charitable. Out of the sum of .£13. 200, £9,000 is devoted to the payment of what are termed "itoyal bounty grants" and "special service awards." Grants from the Royal bounty fund, whioh are in the gift of the Premier, are generally made to distressed literary men or women or to the necessitous relations of deceased military or naval officers, or to other* who have claims on the Government. "Speoial service" coven extraordinary payments, such, for instance, as the award made to the officer who first landed in England with the Abyosiuian despatches from General Na.pier. The alms, or "Maundy" money, alao come from Claw 4, and to the amount of £2,000 are distributed by the Biihop of Oxford as Lord High Almoner. A further item of £1,200 is devoted to the payment of pensions to distreised ladies. These pensions, as they fall in through death, •re in the gift, of the wife of the Prime Minister for the time being. Class 6, which consists bf the payments made as peusions to deserving literary aud scientific persons, or to any that have deserved the gratitude of their country, does not con» out of the £385,000, but by * special clause in the Aob before referred to the sum of £1,200 is act apart from the consolidated fund in each year of the Sovereign's reign for this purpose. The civil list pension.* now amount to £17,000, afcer allowing for deaths. Class 6 may be regarded as ft hort of reserve' fuAd, The amount of it, in £8,040, and it may be used towards meeting a deficiency in any of the other classes.