The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-01 00:00:00

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 dutics 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 allcwed 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
a 3 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, fora 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
i
"110 d. to 9d. prepared us for some such intimated
decrease, under the head of Income Tax, as the
Revenue Tables shew—namely, a decrease amount-
ing to no less thanions er Xtl,Bl.ng . 74,0,00 :The remission of
or, the better part
of two millions
the Paper Duty
still tells again, as a matter
i
of pure necessity. -whii
equally comprehensible rei
e there are two other
asons for a diminished
revenue that are so obvious that
they hardly need
to be particularised. Firstly, there is the Cotton
consumption of
Famine consequent upon the civil war in America.
Secondly, there is the diminished
articles of food, ordinarily contributing their quota
to the revenue—articles such as tea, and sugar, and
spirits—a diminished consumption consequent, in
its turn, from the Cotton Famine and the dirainu_
tion of work and wages caused by it. Nevertheless,
in spite of all these preventives of any very flourishing
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 /71,863,094,
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

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