The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-01 00:00:00

THEA'TIVE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Duke ,One.
THIS EVENING, the pertormances will commence with
A DUKE IN OIFFICULTIES. Hrs. Stirling, Miss F.
Haydon, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr. Backstone,
Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, &a.
After which, Will be revived, with entirely new scenery
and effects, and all the original music by the late Sir Henry
Bishop, the melodrama of THE HILLER, AND HIS MEN.
Commence at 7.1

T "ATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.
Soil Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
Two New Dramas.—Reappearance of Mr. John Drew, and
First appearance of Miss Matilda Heron.

THIS EVENING (Easter Monday,) the Butletta of TBE
TWO GREGORIES.

After which, a new original comic drama, written by Sami.
Lover, Esq., entitled MAC CARTHY MORE ' • or, Possession
Nine Pointe of the Law. John Drew, J. Johnston, Forrester,
J. Rouse, Medlin ; Misses Rawlings, Hudspeth, &c.

To conclude with a new drama, NEW YEAR'S EVE ; or,
The Belle of the Season. Messrs. H. Neville, Villiers, Jas.
Johnstone, J. Rouse ; Mrs. Winstanley, Miss Matilda Heron,
Min Willard, &c.

RoyAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.---
Leasee and Manager. Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore,
Meadows, Garden, and Miss C. Leclercq.
Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Pechter. Sup-
ported by Messrs. Ryder, Hermann Vezin, Graham, Shore,
Meadows, &c. ; Misses Heath, R. Leclercq, and Elsworthy.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Great Attraction for the Easter Holidays.—First appearance
this season of Mr. B. Webster and Miss Julia Daly.
THIS EVENING, a new drama (Ist time) MAGLIORE,
PRESTIDIGITA2OII. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole,
D. Fisher, Sac.; Miss It. Kelly, Miss FL Simms, dm
After which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN.
Miss Julia Daly.
Doors open at half put 6—Commence at 7.

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CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS!!
Westminster-road.
Proprietor C. Morton.
A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera,
IL CORSARO,
(This opera has never been produced in this or any other
country, except at these Concerts), having met with that de-
cided success which charactise4 the most popular works of
this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ;
together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI-
MENTO, by Donizetti,
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss
Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and
C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A.
B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and
the Brothers Conrad.
John Martin's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on
view a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the
Establishment.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins Dly.—Morning, sh. 54m.—Afternoon, 611.16 m.
To-moaßow.-Morning, 6h. 44m.—Afternoon, 7h. 10m.

THE WEATHER.—Evx OFFICE, MARCH 31, 1861,
THERMOMETER, IN TIEB SHAM
61—highest since noon yesterday.
40—lowest this morning and during the night.
50—this day at noon.

BAnomrrEn-29.66.
Witfn South - Westerly—light; with rain in the
morning ; fine at noon.

APRIL 1

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
53—highest since noon yesterday.
35—lowest this morning and during the night.
46—this day at noon.

BAuomETER-29.76.

Warn—Easterly—light and variable ; with light, bul
continuous, rain. A bad Easter Monday for the Volun•
teers—Wimbledon to wit, and Brighton to boot.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1861.

The Revenue Returns now published are unhap-
pily in a very great measure what we have so
long been expecting and dreading. Not that we
have been prophets of disaster. Simply, we repeat—
these earliest results of Mr. GLADSTONE'S enormous
experiments of last year turn out to be in a very
great measure precisely what we have been dread-
ing and expecting. None would have avowed more
gladly than we should have done, supposing the
" Tables" to have been turned—not one would
have acknowledged more gladly or more eagerly
than we should have done the erroneous nature of
our. anticipations. The single regret we have at
this moment arises exclusively out of the unaffected
pang with which we recognise the complete
justifications of those unwelcome and un-
willing expectations of ours as to the
not simply probable, or problematic, but as we
conceived last year, and as this year the event has
actually proved the certain and inevitable conse-
quences of Mr. GLADSTONE'S daring exploits, or
rather, as we have said, and as they were
literally, experiments as a Financier. Without
further generalisations of regret, however, in the
way of preliminary comment upon these in many
parts really afflicting returns, let us turn to a
more careful and analytical examination of
the tables themselves—these tables for the past
year, and especially for the past quarter—
examining them under the microscopic lens of
the wonderful little official " MEMORANDUM" by
which they are accompanied.
This most unusual, if not absolutely un-
exampled " MEMORANDUM"--a memorandum sent
forth from the Treasury together with the Revenue
returns themselves—tells the tale of the year and
of the quarter pretty plainly by the mere fact of its
most unlooked for apparition. The returns when
looked into, as usual, do certainly appear to require
something quite out of the common in the way of
explanation. And here—in this Memorandum
Extraordinary—is precisely this something quite
out of the common in the way of explana-
tion. The memorandum coming to us from
the Treasury, not marked down " Private
and Confidential," we presume at once, with-
out affecting any great exercise of sagacity or
accumen, cannot be intended to convey to
us any very recondite or esoteric information,
any facts or figures confided tons sub rosa, for after
use according to our own discretion. Nevertheless,
if not whispering information to us sub rosa, the
memorandum we are here referring to is manifestly
designed to impart a sort of agreeable couleur de
lose effect to those otherwise lugubrious facts and
'figures jotted down in the Revenue Returns both
,for the year and for the quarter—facts and figures
that when they are viewed in their natural grim-
mess [not looking anthem through this couleur de
1•ose memorandum] certainly do lour upon us only
:too plainly and legibly in the doleful black-on
-white.

As usual, there are three abstracts in these re-
turns from the Treasury. There is 1., the abstract
of the gross produce of the revenue of the United
liingdom in the four quarters of 1860-1861 as com-
pare,2 with the corresponding quarters of 1859-
1860, supps_lementing this abstract upon those con-
trasting quarteo—by a comparison of the totals
upon each of those financial twelvemonths. There is

11-, the abstract defining the increase and the de-
Crew
within the quarter and within the year
ending March 31, 1861, as compared with the cor.
responding
Periods
of the preceding year, i c., of the
preceding financial
twelvemonth. Finally, there
is 111., the omit,
et explanatory of the nature and
'
amount of the }Leven,
last quarter, endin-sga and other receipts of this
yesterday, showing also the
m
application of this revenuet and the charge of
the Consolidated Fund for the
thatsaid quarter; not
forgetting either in regard to
ret r.trned mems. of surplus or deficiency.charge duly
G lancing down the second divisio
n of the Re-
venue, Tables—the abstract especially ref
erred to
by the very curious Memorandum
aeeora-panyin.
.the ,returvs,—we note in the first place a fain;
off' .in the revenue for the year ending yesterd
of a sum not far short of a round millioay n 1
Upc 13 the quarter ending yestaday there
is a-• far more formidable decrease, howlver,

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