The Queen's Household

The clerk of the kitliea has a salary of L700 a year and his board, and to aid in his work he has four assistants, who keep all the accounts, check weights and measures, and issue orders to the tradespeople; he has also a messenger and a "necessary woman." Besides these officials of her majesty's kitchen there ia the chief, with a salary of L700 per year, and four master cooks at about L350 a year each, who have the privilege of taking four apprentices at premiums of f rom Ll50 to L200 each; two yeomen of the kitchen, two assistants cooks, four scourers, three kitchen-inaids, a storekeeper, two " Green office " men and two steam apparatus men. And in the confectionery department there are a flrst and second yeomen, with salaries of L300 and L250 respectively; au apprentice, three female assistauts and an errand man ; and in addition to these, there are also a pastry cook and two female assistants, and three or four colïes-room women. The ewer departrn-nt, which has charge of all the linen, consists of a yeomen and two female assistants only. The gentlemen of the wine aud beer cellars- or, properly speaking, her majesty'a chief butler - has a salary of L500 a year. He has to select and purchase wine for the royal establishment, to superintend the decanting, and send them up to table. Next to hirfi are the principal tabledeckers, with L200 a year each; the second table decker, witb L150; the third with L90, and an assistant, with L25- their duties being to superintend the laying out of the queen's table before dinner is served. The plate pantry is under the care of three men- with salaries of L160, L150 and L120, respectively, besides lodgingmoney and board - a groom and six assistants. Ttiese oflices are of great trust and are not overpaid, seeing that at a rough guess the gold and silver plate at Windsor Castle alone is probably woith L300,000,000 and includes some very precious specimens of art workmanship. The getting in of her majesty's coal must be an important and arduous task, as no fewer than thirteen persons are employed all the year round on this duty alone.