The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-30 00:00:00

ANNUITY TAX (EDINBURGH) BILL.

Mr. XPLAREN moved the second reading of this bill.
[LEFT SITTING. I

LONDON GAZETTE--Last Even:ng.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, JUNE 28.

This day an audience of her Majesty :—The Cavaliere
Carlo Cadorna, Envey Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary from the King of Italy, to deliver his cre len-
tials ; to which audience he was introduced by the Earl
of Clarendon, K.G., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs.
DO W NING- STREET, JUNE 28.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Venerable
Walter Chambers (Archdeacon of Sarawak) to be ordained
and consecrated Bishop of the See of Labuan.
WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, JUNE 29.
3d Regiment of Dlagoon Guards— Captain Joseph Norton,
from the 15th Ilu-sirs, to be Captain ; Lieut. Robert
Stevenson to be Captain ; Cornet Ernie K. A. Burney
to be Lieutenant; Pred,Tiek Heyor Wardrop, Gout., to
be Coronet.

3d Hussars—Veterinary Surgeon Alfred Jones, from
the Royal Artillery, to Le Vetei Lary Surgeon.
Hussars—Captain Henry LanBtry, from 3d Dragoon
Guards, to b..: CaVain.
irth Lancers—Cornet Rarrie Reid to be Lieutenant.

16th hussars—Paymaster Loftus Cassiey, from the 4th
Foot, to be Paymaster.
19th Hussars—Captain Robert Baring to be Major, Lieu-
tenant Abel Henry Chap:nau to be Captaia, Cornet
J. Boullerson to be Lieutenant, Lieutenant John
Nethorcote to be Adjutant.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Easign and Lieutenant the Hon
Francis Charles Bridgernan ti Lieutenant and Captain.
2d Fuot —Terence John Bock Ott Dunne to be Ensign.
4th Foot—Lieutenant Daniel List Brain, from the
Train, to be Lieutenant.
Gth Foot—Ensign Att4ustus Q.lia to b.) Lieutenant.
13th Foot—Ensign Edward Clairk to be Lieutenant.

15th Foot—Captain Cyril Tew to bo Captain.

19th Foot—Ensigu William Curtis to he Lieutenant.

23d Foot—CaptUins Joseph Napier and John Addison
Napier Lave been permitted to retire from the Service
by the sale of their Co:u:uissions.

27th Foct—Lieut Kenelin D. Murray to bo Captain, En-
sign E ]ward Barton to bo Lieutenant, Edmund Balfe
to be Ensign, Alexander James Irvine to be Ensign.

31st Foot—Lieut. George Moo.o Lambert to be Captain,
Ensign Arthur F. W. nosh) to be Lieutenant.
37th Foot—Lieut. lleury Edward Gaulter to be Instructor
---,a Ai ti,ketary.

42d Foot—Captain Ilow•land urn Gordon 1w been per-
mitted to retire from the Service by the sale of his Com-

mission.
49th Foot—Ensign Thomas Charles Armstrong Fox, from

the Ceylon Milo Regiment, to be Lieutenant.
62d Foot—Liutenaut Thomas J. FitzSiuion to bo In-
Etructor of Musketry.
88th Foot - Ensign Lascolles Wharton Ford to be Liou-

tenant.
95th Foot— Staff-Surgeon William Langford Farmer to
be Surgeon.

A SUMMER BREAKFAST.

A happy family looks best at breakfast, and
breakfast is at its best in summer time : albeit
Leigh Hunt--a notable authority on domestic
graces and celebrations—says, " One of the first
things that belong to a breakfast is a good fire.
There is a delightful mixture of the lively and snug
in coming down into one's breakfast room of a
cold morning, and finding everything prepared for
us ; a blazing grate, clean table-cloth, and tea-
things, newly-washed faces and combed heads of
a set of good humoured urchins, and the sole
empty chair ready for its occupant." I grant the
tea, the coffee, the dry toast, the butter, the eggs,
the ham, something potted, the bread, the salt, the
mustard, the knives, the forks ; but I will not give
up the summer time, the dishes of fruit, the
fresh-cut flowers, the lilac of May, and the roses of
June. Breakfast, maintain, is at its sweetest and
best when the lark, having built its nest in the corn,
is singing over the ripening harvest. I can part
with the fire, in favour of the fruit and flowers, the
open window, and theinsects murmuring by the petals
of the floral riches we have brought forth from the
hothouse. 1 concede the washed faces and combed
heads—in moderation as to numbers ; and I am
particular as to the heads being only a trifle higher
than the table. A little sprightly miss is bearable
at the breakfast hour ; but no romp, nor clatter of
tongues, no confusion in the number to be helped.
Dickens's " All the Year Round.'

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Muitralla and New Zealand, via Southamptoa.....July 12.
Ditto, via arsenics l4
Brasil, Buenos-Ayres, and Monte Video July 4.
Ditto, by Frenoh packet
Cape Verde, by Brazil packet ......
Cape of Good llupe, Ascension, and Bt. ilelena July 13.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton July 3.
bibraltar. via Southampton July 3
India, via Southampton ...... • • July 3
vitt% via Marseilles
bbilta, Egypt, &o. July 3
DIM; Marseilles.. July 7
Newt o un d la nu „.....,.,...Ju1y 14
&lauritlus, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal. via
Scuthauti ton

_
Ditto, Marseilles ~ July 4
Portugal July 4.
...
United States, t. anada, California, &0., by British

p aok et

Ditto ditty (Baltimore)
Ditto, by L sited States packet
Ditto, by Inman packet June 30
West Indies and ?aline (except Mexico and Baha-
mas) July 14
Wyst Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe July 4.
Cuba and Mexico

Bermuda, via Halifax.
Bahamas. via New York. . July 11

A conditional order was granted by Mr. Justice
Lawson in Dublin yesterday for leave to serve a writ on
Messrs. Smith and Sone, as agents of the Times, in au
action by Mrs. Bradshaw, widow of Mr. Bradshaw, lately
murdered in Tipperary, for libel in a letter alleged to affect
her character. The damages are laid at £2,000.

correspondent of the New York Herald makes
the following interesting calculation :—The national debt
of America, per capita, is $66.03 in gold, that of Great Bri-
tain is $126.75, and that of Holland $106.35 ; while France
and Spain average more than $6O of debt for each inhabit-
ant. Americans pay more interest per head than any
nation but Great Britain, which pays 4.53 dollars to their
3.691 dollars. Iu annual expenditure, however, seven
countries of Europe exceed us, Lamely, Holland, Great
Britain, France, Denmark, Bavaria, Spain, and Austria.
The expenditure is $7 18 per head in gold, while that of '
France is $9 43, and that of Great Britain $ll 311, esti-
mating the population of the States at 38,000,000,1kvhich is
too small. The same writer repot ts that, in cost of col-
lecting revenue, America compares favourably with other
countries, being but little more extravagant iu this than
England, while Hesse, Italy, Prussia, Bavaria, BeAr
Turkey, Austria, Denmark, Belgium, Greece, Pais ,ia:
Hungary, and France pay a larger per centaga for 01,1 act-
ing their taxes.