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Show A POOR PEER. Lord Chelmsford is probably the poorest peer of the realm. His private pri-vate moans certainly do not exceed $10,000 a year, and be baa no expectations. ex-pectations. His second brother is a cavalry officer, married, and with children. chil-dren. The next is a judge, with a salary of $25,000, and childless the only ailluent member of the family. The fourth sou is one of the lord chancellor's secretaries. The late Lord Chelmsford hail fcr over twenty years an income of $50,000 to $75,000 from his practice at the bar; then became be-came lord chancellor, with a salary of $50,000, and a pension of $2-5,003 on retiring. Yet, although he lived to So, he left but $250,000. He was a domestic do-mestic man.devoid of vices, but he bad a wife who was resolve i to vie in the fashionable world of London with Dersons having hereditary incomes of $250,000 and upward. Of three daughters, two married men with a 1 few hundreds a year, and the third is single. The eons have not married women of fortune. A position about the court yielding perhaps $4,000 a year is all that Lord Chelmsford can probably now lcok forward to. Prob ably the Dext poorest peer to Lord Chelmsford may also be lound in Zululaud in the person of Lotq Gif ford, grandson of another law lord, a gallant young fellow who won the Victoria Cross in Ashantee. The British army contains very few wealthy men past forty. Numbers of rich youths enter tbeGuards or crack oavalry regiments, but retire at their father'o deaih. Wellington and Marlborough were younger sous New York Sun. |