The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-02 00:00:00

CANTERBURY HALL
THIS EVENING,
C. H. GOUNOD'S OPERA.
FATJST.
Irirst Time in this Country.

CONCERTS.-

Faust Mr. Henry Herbert.

Mephistopheles Mr. C. Beinard.
• Siobel Mrs. Anderson.
Marguerite
Conductor Mr. Jonghmans.
And selections from
Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other
Entertainments.
Balcony, ls , Hall. 6d.
Cottle Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), and T.V. T. Critchfleld.
The ETITIOPIANS, consisting of seventeen performers
(organised expressly for this Establishment). will make their
first appearance on MONDAY next for the performance of
Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with
Negro delineations, anecdotes, in addition to the usual
entertainments.
The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JULY 1, 1860.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
61—highest since noon yesterday.
49—lowest this morning and during the night.
65—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.38.
WlND—North-Westerly ; light, with fine dry weather.

JULY 2.

TIIZEMOILETER, IN THE
69—highest since noon yesterday.
56—lowest this morning and during the night.
70—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.45.
WlND—North-Westerly ; light, with fine, warm Sum-
mer weather, at last.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 12h. 56m.—Afternoon, lh. 22m.
To-monnow.-Morning, lh. 47m.—Afternoon, 2h. 9m.

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TII E SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1880.

The Quarterly Revenue returns are again before
us, and again indicate how vast and satisfactory
must be the trade and resources of the nation, and
how.well off the consuming classes must be. No
less a sum has been raised by taxation during the
year ending June 30th, 1860, than £71,416,587,
being an increase of £5,727,014 on the Revenue of
the preceding year.
Of course the point of greatest interest is—
to what the increase is due ? It is not certainly to
the new Customs Tariff. Customs figure with a de-
crease on the quarter, compared with the correspond-
ing quarter of last year, of not less than £375,641,
although we may be sure that orders had been held
back in anticipation of the changes to be made by
the Budget, and that they must have been very
large this quarter, both for speculation and to re-
plenish the diminished stocks.

The Excise, however, makes up, and more than
makes up, for the losses sustained under the new
tariff. Its increase on the year is £2,309,000, and
though a part of this is to be accountcd for by the
earlier payment of the malt and hop duties, yet
the amount of malt made during the year has
been unusually large. Altogether the excise re-
turns show that the consumption of articles
in popular use has increased ; and so, indeed, do the
Customs, for the alterations in the tariff were cal-
culated by Mr. GLADSTONE to cause a considerably
greater deficiency under that head than has actu-
ally occurred.
But it is the Highwayman-tax—the tax which,
whatever your necessities, you cannot escape—the
tax which you must pay in the same proportion,
whether it represent the sweat of your brow or your
brains, or whether it flow without trouble to you
from consols or broad acres—it is the merciless
Income-tax to which the chief increase of the na-
tional revenue is due. £3636,710, are the figures
which indicate how much, what Mr. GLADSTONE
has designated as a tax which is the sum of all
fiscal iniquities, has been wrung from ten thousand
sufferers--a tax which he has made more profi-
table by three or four millions, almost with
the avowed purpose of torturing us to cut down
our naval and military expenditure.
On all the heads - except- - Customs and Miscel-
laneous, for the year, there is, however, an in-
crease ; and under the latter, as it usually means
that we have sold at a " tremendous sacrifice"
stores we had previously purchased, a decrease is
generally a real gain. On t
-
the year, stamps
-
chew an increase of P 269,977, and the Post office of
£130,000, both being indicative of an active state
of trade. On the whole, both the quarter and the
year present an encouraging aspect.

By this time Lord PALMERSTON must be pretty
well convinced that we have not laid undue stress
on the political blunder of inserting. a " Religious
Profei.sion" column in the Census Bill for next.
year. It may be true that it is an exaggeration
t) term it an attack on religious liberty, but it is
a irritating attack on the religious susc;_plibilities