The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-02 00:00:00

Latest official Ap, ointments.

(From the Observer.)
Mr. Charles Frederick Rothery, formerly a mem.
ber of the mixed British and Portuguese Slave Trad©
Commission in the Cape de Verd Islands, has been
appointed assistant Judge of the Bahamas.
Major Charles Creagh has been appointed Inspec-
tor-General of Police in the Colony of St. Vincent.
The Hon. W. Stuart, Secretary of Embassy at
Constantinople, has been appointed Secretary of
Embassy at St. Petersburg.
Mr. Barron, Secretary of Legation at Brussels,
has been appointed Secretary of Embassy at Con-
stantinople. _ _ .

Mr. G. Petre, Secretary of Legation at Copen-
hagen, has been appointed Secretary of Legation
at Brussels.

Mr. Ford, Secretary of Legation at Buenos Ayres,
has been appointed Secretary of Legation at Copen-
hagen. _ _

Mr. Strachey, Second Secretary at Vienna, has
been appointed Secretary of Legation at Buenos
Ayres.
The Hon. H. Wodehouse, Second Secretary at
Madrid, has been transferred to Vienna.
Mr. J. Walsham, Second Secretary at Mexico,
has been transferred to Madrid.

Mr. Scott, Third Secretary at Berne, has been
promoted to be Second Secretary at Mexico.
Major Wodehouse, Consul at Para,
,has been
appointed Commissioner and Consul-General in the
Sandwich Islands.

Mr. J. Drummond Hay, Vice-Consul at Rabat,
has been appointed Consul at Para.
Mr. Charles Wilthew has been appointed Consul
at St. Croix.

Mr. Turner has been appointed Vice-Consul at
Rabat.

LOST HIS BALANCE.—There are a variety of
stories told at the West End clubs with reference to the
late panic, for then will have their joke even upon serious
subjects. A celebrated barrister, who invested a small
sum in Overond and Gurney's Company, met a friend to
whom he communicated his loss. " Five hundred," said
the latter, "that must have quite upset you." "Not at all,"
responded the wit, "I only lost my balance."
NEW KIND OF HAIR OlL.—Nitro-glycerine, which
was the cause of the great explosion at Aspinwall, is the
subject of a paragraph in the Court Journal, which makes
the following humane suggestion :—" We hear of a coach-
man who oiled the wheel hubs of his carriage with the article
supposing it to be common lubricating oil, and that the
vehicle had only been in motion a few moments before a
grand explosion occurred, demolishing the coach and kill-
ing the coachman. A pity the Fenians could not be in-
duced to use it for hair oil, and be supplied gratuitously by
England with hair brushes."
[AnvEstrumiENT.]— Dyspepsia (indigestion), constipa-
tion, debility, consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach
and liver complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and
accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly cur-
able by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica
Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been con-
sidered hopeless, such as-cough, asthma, also diarrhoea,
limmorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness,
biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds,
influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheurnstism, gout, im-
purities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irrit ,bility, sleepless
ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility,
dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in preg-
nancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of
the chest, pains in the pit of the stomach and between the
shou'ders, &o. We quote a few :—Cure No. 46,276. Mr James
Roberts, timber merchant, of Fernley, Surrey, of 30 years'
diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and par-
tial deafness.—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of ex-
treme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings; low spirits, and
nervous fancies. -Cure No 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decks, lord
lieut. of Waterford, of many Tears' dyspepsia. -No. 49,832.
Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness,
asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and
vomiting—Maria Joly —Cure No. 51,816. The Rev, James
T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, of indigestion and torpid-
ity of the liver, which had resisted all medical treatment.—
In tins, Ilb, 2s 9d; 21b, 4s 61; 51b. lis ; 121 b, 22s ; 241 b,
40s.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London ;
also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-street ; likewise
at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopsgate-
street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 330, Strand;
54, Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tottenham-court-road ; 96.
Upper-street, Islington. N.; Harvey, Notting-hill; Close
Brothers, 65, high-street ; and Stubble Queen's-terrace. St.
John's-wood. London; and all respectable grocers and Che.
Wist&—Beware of spurious imitiltißis.

LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1866.

The end of June brings us as usual the quarterly
revenue tables, and happily, as usual also, these
give us convincing proof of the satisfactory condi-
tion of the national finances. We have grown in
this country so accustomed to receive this gratifying
evidence of general prosperity quarter by quarter
that we receive it almost as a matter of course ; yet
there are many considerations which should make
us especially thankful for the continued elasticity
of nearly every branch of the revenue. It has not
by any means been a favourable quarter. We
have had agitations and disturbances abroad such as
never fail to affect the money market, culminating
at last in a war of which none can foresee the end,
or speak with confidence as to the part we shall be
called upon to play in it. We have had a panic at
home, terrible in its int insity if brief in its crisis ;
we have had, and have still, public confidence shaken
in the oldest cetablislinaents, and a host of dishonest
speculators busying themselves to destroy men's
credit, to overthrow the tottering capitalist, and to
undermine the credit of the really sound, and all this
in a year in which a deficit was anticipated under.
the most favourable circumstances from the reduc-
tions made in the Budget of 1865. Yet notwith-
standing all these adverse influences the decrease is
much less than was estimated, being only £85,856 on
the quarter, and of £.l 862
,320 on the year. But for the
reduction of the income tax from 6d. to 4d. the
quarter's returns would have shown
an increase of
£700,000. Even this loss, however, is less than the
estimate. The reduction of the tea duty,
the abolition of the timber
duties, and
the duty on pepper must all bei borne in
mind in co,nparing the returns of the June quarter,
1866, with those of the same quarter in 1865.
In
spite of all these reductions, the custom duties •
give
us £5,271,000, or £03,000 more than 1865, thus
giving additional evidence of the wisdom of lighten-
ing the public burdens, and depending for our in-
come on the amount of consumption rather than on
the extent of a burdensome tax. If we wanted
further confirmation of this fact, we may turn to
the Post-office, whose income shows an increase
on the quarter of £lOO,OOO. The June quarter,
always the least productive in the year, so far as the
Post-office is concerned, gives us £1,070, and the
year just concluded no less than £4,350,000 from
the same source. The result of the year then shows
us that Mr. GLADSTONE'S estimates have been con-
siderably exceeded, and he will have the satisfaction
of seeing that the buoyancy of the revenue has more
than j ustified his calculations. We hope this experience