The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-01 00:00:00

THE EIGHTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.—A Public Break ast
will take place at the Royal Opera Colonade Hotel, Charles-
street, St. James, on Thursday, July 4, at Two o'clock. The
Rev. Dr. Patten, of New York, in the Chair. Tickets 10s.,
to be had at Blessra. Starr and Co., 156. Chcapside, the
office of the 4, London American." 9,:Exeter-change
above
hotel.

NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION.-
C. F. HANCOCK, Jeweller and Silversmith to the
Queen. 38, Bruton-street, Bond-street, having been selected
by the C 3:nmittee to make the "BADGE " to be worn by
the Members of the " National Rifle Association," begs
respectfully to inform them that it may be procured at his
Establishment, or on the grounds at Wimbledon, in SILVER,
price 73. 6d., and in GOLD ENAMELLED, price Three
Guineas.

er.A TRI3:-R YAL, HAYMARKET.
Lesgee, Mr. J. B. Backstune.
THIS EVENING, the performances will oommense with
THE tiAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE.
After which THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Chas.
Mathews, Buckstone, E. Villiers, Rogers, &c. ; Mrs. Wilkins,
Mrs. C. Mathews, and Miss E. Weekes.
AN APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC by Mr. C. Mathews.
And THE GALICIAN FETE.

Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCE S S'S THEATRE..-.
Laseee and Manaft-er, Mr. A. ilarris.

' THIS EVENING, the new comic drama, entitled A
HOMESTEAD STORY, Messrs. Ryder, Shore, and Alias
M. Harris.

Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fec'hter. Sup-
ported by Hermann Vezin, Ryder, Meadows, Zee. ; Misses
Heath, Elsworthy, and R. Leclercq.

EW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. 11 .

TIIIS EVENING (IRt time) MR. GORILLA. Messrs. J.
L. Toole, P. Bedford, Billington ; Miss Kate Kelly, Miss K
tVhorne.

After which (220th time), TIM COLLEEN BAWN. Mr.
D. Boucicault, D. rislier, Ilillington, Falconer, Stephenson,
C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss
Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with the successful new Farce, entitled A
TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford.
Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY - HALL CONCERTS
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.

EVERY EVENING,

Two Grand Selections from celebrated Operas. including
Verdi's new Opera, THE BAL MASQUE (first produced
in England at this Establishment), with a Chorus of Forty
Voices, and upon a scale unequalled at any other Concerts.
Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Greville, Mr. Herbert, Signor
Tivoli, Mr. Bernard ; popular Solos on the Cornet-a-piston,
by Mr. Levy (the first performer of the day); the Brothers
Conrad (in an entirely original entertainment on the double
rope, not to be seen elsewhere); continued success of Mr.
Wood and his talented little Son.

The Comic Department comprises the following favourites :
—Mr. Marshall, Mr. Hollingsworth ; the NERVES, by
Messrs. Harvey and French ; and Mrs. Lawrence.
Musical Director, Mr. JONGHMANS.

T H E

O X F OR D,
6, OXFORD-STREET.
This noble building being now completed, its architectural
beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and brilliancy of lighting
render it one of the sights of the metropolis. Open Every
Evening. The programme is varied, and includes Selections
(by a full company of principals, powerful band, and chorus)
from " Macbeth" and "Lin Ballo in Maschera." both operas
by Verdi, the composer of the day—The wonderful Solos on
the Cornet-a-Piston of the renowned LEVY—Scotch Duets by
the Misses Stuart, and other vocal and instrumental music
of the highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghtnans. The
Comic portion of the entertainment is supported by miss
Green, Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey, and French (the Nerves)
m Wieland, E. Marshall, and W. Randall. Admission,
Hall, sixpence ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private
Boxes, 105. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.-IVorning, 7h. 56m.—Afternoon, Bh. 20m.
To-monnow.-Morning, Bh. 54m.—Afternoon.' 9h. 26m.

THE WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE, JUNE 30, 1361.
THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE.
71—highest since noon yesterday.
53—lowest this morning and during the night.
66—this day at noon.

BAnowzrzn-30.10; rising.
WlND—North -Westerly; fresh, with fine weather,
but cloudy.

JULY 1.

THZIWOMETER, IN 11111 SHADS.
67—highest since noon yesterday.
52—lowest this morning and during the night.
68 —this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.22.

WlND—WeEterly ; light, with fine weather.

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THE SUNS

LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 1, 1861.

The Revenue Tables for the past year, but espe-
cially for, the past quarter ending 30th June, 1861,
reveal, upon calculation, a quotient in the highest
degree satisfactory. Upon the receipts for the
twelvemonth ending on Saturday, when compared
with the year preceding, there is visible a net
increase of £445,507. Upon the receipts for the
quarter ending on Saturday, in the same way, there
is visible a net increase of £1,578,420. Otherwise,
in round numbers, an increase of nearly half a
million in the revenue for this last year, and of
upwards of a million and a half sterling in the
revenue for this last quarter. It is almost needless
to add therefore that ample provision has been made
for the receipts covering the expenditure. A gra-
tifying consideration in itself certainly--not a doubt
of it. Though our exhilaration resulting from the
knowledge of this is somewhat diminished, it is true,
by the reflection immediately afterwards that such
ought assuredly in all conscience to be the result
when it is remembered that the total sum raised
during the twelvemonth last past through the
pleasant medium of taxation, reaches the enormous
amount of £71,862,094 ! A " tottle of the whole',
that would have made poor JoE.HualE stand aghast
at such national extravagance in a time of peace
nominally—a time actually, however, not so much
of peace as of warlike preparation ! To our grand-
fathers, this aggregate amount of the receipts with-
in a single year, a year of soi disant European tran-
quillity—to our grandfathers, we say, this aggregate
amount of the receipts of One single year attaining
a sum so vast that it is really but by the trivial sum
of £137,906 short of a round total of £72,000,000,
would have been little else than incredible !
Gradually, however, we have come to be
habituated to contemplate sums like these
as mere matters of Course sums that
a generation or two back would, if syllabled
by any ambitious Chancellor of the Exchequer in
the course of his financial statement, have instantly
qualified him for a cell in St. Luke's. Our financier
nowadays has to deal with such vast figures,
the nation reflects now without much discern_
posure upon the fact that within this last year,
ending 30th June, 1861, there have poured into the
Treasury—X93,399,ooo through the Customs—.
£9,492,000 through the Excise—close upon
£12,000,000 from Stamps and Taxes—£3,4oo,ooo
through the Post-office—Xl2,423,ooo through the
medium of the Property and Income Tax—and
£1,551,924 under the heads of Crown Lands and
Miscellaneous. Altogether, in other words, a
revenue within the year of £71,862,094 ; or but a
paltry £137,906 less than £72,000,000 within a
single twelvemonth !
It is, at any rate, a consolation to remember that
while we have to balance so stupendous a revenue
against so enormous an expenditure, we have occa-
sion at the same time to recognise the fact of an
increase in the receipts both of the last year and of
the last quarter—of the last quarter especially ! The
Midsummer Quarter returns oflS6l show, in point of
fact, a steady increase, as compared with the Mid-
summer Quarter returns of 1860, upon every item,
with the solitary exception of the last vague item
upon the list, entitled, for want of a more definite
name, the Miscellaneous. There, however, under
the head Miscellaneous, we find a decrease upon the
quarter of a little less than £200,000 altogether—a
decrease, in fact, of merely £192,745. But—how
caused ! Why, simply by the circumstance that we
had no such windfall to take into account as that
dropping to us from the clouds somewhat
unexpected/1y last year, in the shape of
an odd half millidn sterling honourably paid