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THE SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1862,

While we write the park guns are calling on us
to rejoice in a Royal wedding. All who hear them
will be ready to do so. The Princess ALICE has
earned a place in the nation's affections. In the
moments when our SOVEREIGN'S griefs were
heaviest, she it was who soothed the sorrows and
dying bed of her beloved parent, and with affec-
tionate self-command fulfilled so tenderly and com-
pletely fhe duties of a faithful daughter. For such
a Princess all England wished a marriage worthy
of her ; and we have no reason to doubt that such
will prove to be the case. We can have nothing
against the young Prince who has been chosen for
her, but in her case, as in that of the PRINCESS
ROYAL, we can but regret the bad taste which
which matches all our Royal Family to aliens.
LOUIS NAPOLEON, after being thwarted in his at-
tempt to obtain a princess from a Royal family,
was wise enough to fix his attentions on an in-
teresting woman, the subject of another
Sovereign; better still if our princes and prin-
cesses were allowed to chose their partners for
life among those whom they knew, amidst whom
they had been educated and lived, and towards
whom they might be naturally led to form unques-
tionable attachments. We would not insinuate the
slightest suspicion that, in this case, we have not a
true love match; we only remark that this system
of alien marriages can hardly be considered as na-
turally conducive to such a result. We were pleased
to notice, a week or two ago, that a Prussian
clergyman of high standing spoke in most enthu-

siastic terms, and even affectionate terms, to a
public meeting at Exeter Hall, of "not only your
but our Princess Royal "—she often attended his
church with the Prince, and he could testify that
their family was as much a model family in Prussia
as that of our QUEEN had been in England. That
the same will be said of the family of the Princess

ALICE we entertain no doubt; we have all sympa-
thised with her in the postponement, twice, of her
marriage by the solemn intervention of family
deaths, and we now all unite in the best wishes
which subjects of our beloved QUEEN can have for
her daughter's happiness, and admirers of the
daughter herself, for a future worthy of her merits.

It is satisfactory to know at once that the re-
sults brought to light by the Revenue Returns for
the year and quarter just completed are far more
satisfactory than might have been anticipated.
Wherever there is observable any particular falling
off, the diminution is found to have occurred under
a heading in regard to which a diminution of some
kind was known beforehand to be simply inevitable.
For example, the reduction of the tax upon incomes
from 10d. to 9d. prepared us for some such intimated
dec"ase, under the head of Income Tax, as the
Revenue Tables chew—namely, a decrease amount-
ing to no less than £1,874,000: or, the better part
of two millions sterling ! The remission of
the Paper Duty still tells again, as a matter
of pure necessity. "While there are two other
equally comprehensible reasons for a diminished
revenue that are so obvious that they hardly need
Firstly, there is the Cotton
Itoimbeinpe
ni
sequent
particularised.
upon the civil war in America.
g quota, and
Secondly, there is the diminished consumption of
consumption
such as
articles of food, ordinarily contributing
theirtuar,
to the revenue—article
spirits—a diminished tea, andconsequent,
in
its turn, from the Cotton Famine and the diming_
tion of work and wages caused by it. Nevertheless,
in spiteof allthese preventives of any veryflourishin g
development of our vast national resources, the
ultimate results are, under the circumstances, full
of encouragement. The total revenue for the year
just expired amounts to £69,685,789. And while
it is true that total revenue, as compared with
the revenue of last year, amounting to £71,863,04,
reveals, as compared with that latter year, a net
decrease of no less than £2,177,305—it must in
, justice to Mr. GLADSTONE be borne in mind