The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-10 00:00:00

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ROX.A.r. EXCHANGE, LONDON.
BOBT. P. STEELE, Secretary,

TR' QUEEN INSURANCE COMPANY.
156, Leadenhall-street, London, E.C.
Queen Insurance-buildings, Liverpool.
Capital ONE MILLION STERLING.
At the Annual Meeting of the Proprietors, held at Liver-
pool., on the 21st October, 1863, BERNARD HALL, Esq..
Chairman of the Company, in the Chair, the Directors'
Report for the year stated-
- —That the Fire Prenliuins Air the year amounted to £70,300
being an increase over the precedin, year of 22;580
That the Life Premium Receipts for the first three years were ..
15,249
and for the past three years
being an increase in the latter triennial period ,
over the former of That the amount accumulated since last Meetisg 28,308
,as -
a ieire Reserve Fund, was 23,427
and the amount added to Lite Fund was 13,743
That during the past fiveyears the Company had paid
for Claims
The Actuary reported that the Life Liabilities had been
valued on the soundest principles, viz., Net Premiums at 3
per cent. interest, and that the Bonus to participating Policy-
holders averaged as much as 46 per cent. per annum of the
Premiums paid, while in some instances it was as high as 65,
70, and even 73 per cent.
A dividend was declared to proprietors at the rate of 8 per
Cent. per annum.
J. MONCRIEFF WILSON, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN E. LEYLAND, Secretary.

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Established 1809.
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.
ACCUMULATED AND INVESTED FUNDS, £2,122,828.
ANNUAL REVENUE, £122,401.
LONDON BOARD.
JOTTN WHITE CATER, Esq., Chairman.
CHARLES MOEtRISON, Esq., Deputy ( hairman.
A. De Arrovave, Esq. John Mollett, Esq.
Edward Cohen, Esq. Joutis S. Morgan, Esq.
James Buisson, Esq. G, Garden Nicol, Esq
P. du Pre Grentell, Esq. John H. Wm. Schroder, Esq.
A. Elockmann, Esq. George Young, Esq.
Ex-DIRECTORS.
A. Campbell, Esq. ! Robert Smith, Esq.
P. C.
P. I'. RalliCavan,
Esq. Esq. Frederic Somes, Esq.
,

TIRE DE PARTMEN
Manager, G. 11. Whytimr.—Surveyor, Thos. Piper.
The Company Errints Insurances against Fire in the United
Ilingdom, and all foreign countries.
Mercantile Risks in the Port of London accepted at re-
duced rates.

Losses promptly and liberally settled.
Foreign Department—Superintendent, G. H. Burnett.
The Directors, having a practical knowledge of Foreign
Countries, and being represented by Agents in all parts of
the World, are prepared to issue Policies on the most t avow-
ahle terms. In all cases a discount will be allowed to Mer-
chants and others effecting such Insurances.

LIFE DEPARTMENT
Actuary—Andrew Baden, Jun.
Every facility offered to Insurers.
90 per Cent. of the Profits divided among the Insurers on
the Participating. principle.
The following Statement exhibits the improvement in the
business during the las , few years :
No. of Policies
Year. Issued. Sums. Premiums.
1,454 ..... 455
3859........ 6r,5
18 0,,,,..... 449,013
1861 .... .. .. 741
.. .. 781 . 52" f
..... e, 16,553 2 9
1862 ........ 1,137 ........ 768,334
Thus in cave years the number of Policies issued was 3,623,
agsurini,7 the large sum of £2,928,917.
The le &din.' features of the Office are:—
1. Fattire'Se'urity to Assurers.
2. the large Bonus additions already declared, and the
prospect of a further Bonus at the next Investiga-
tion.
3. The advantages afforded by varied Tables of premiums
—unrestricted conditions of Policies—and general
liberality in dealing with the Assured.
CHIEF OFFICES :
LONDON
66
. 64,
4,
Princes-stree New Bank Bt. uildings, Lo ' hbury.
WEST END BRANCD 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.
Branch' Secretary—A. J. RUSSELL.
For further Explanation, Tables of Rates, &c., see the
Company's Prospectus, which may be had at any of the
Offices or Agencies throughout the Kingdom.
DAVID SMITH, General Manager.
F. W. LANCE. Secretary.

A.D. 1720.
ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION
(Eitablisheel by Charter of his Majesty George the First)
FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES.
Offices, Royal Exchange, London.
Branch Office, 29, Pall-malL
OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor.
GEORGE PEARKES BARCLAY, ESQ., Sub-Governor.
Sir Jouw HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.
Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville.
John Garratt Cattlei, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy.
Thomas Dent, Esq, Charles Robinson, Esq.
Alexander Drum, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
Riversdale W. Grenfell Esq. William Soltau, Esq.
i'obt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P.
Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.: William Wallace, Esq.
Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. = Chas. Baring Young, Esq.
Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S.
FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this
Corporation on advantageous terms.
The Reversionary Bonus on British Life Policies has ave-
raged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured.
Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums
ayable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus.
The divisions of Profit take place every Five years.
Life
Any sum not exceeding X 15,000 may be insured on one

This Corporation affords to the Assured—
Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from
the liabilities of partnership.
N _ A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual
Stock. ocieties—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital
The advantages of modern pr
been tested
the security
Perience
of au °lnce whose resources have tested by the ex-
°l nearly a CENTURY AND A HALE

RUPTURFa.
BY ROYAL LETTERS 'PATENT.
WHITE
H.• 7,tE;ESCTEDND XHIBEITLEDEVER TRUSS
IN THE
GREAT
OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by
upwarndEsAoTi
Two HunklrQd Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective
invention in the curative treatment of HERN I A.
The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects,
is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the
oc l'ody, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the
Di-Alain Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease
and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn
during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the
truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir-
ealuference of the body, two inches below the hips, being
°Mt to the manufacturer,

Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly.
A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, is.
A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd.
An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d.
Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post-
office, Piccadilly.

NEW PATENT
ELASTIC STOCKINGS,
Sle,„tknec,B-zE-cArs, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of
trrOus, light
Swelling ot the Legs, Sprains, &o. They are
ht in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on
Lan costa tf nary
:r c ki
ng. Prioe 48. 6cL, 78. 6d., 10s., to 16s.
aor. ~.•
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cs to MOORE BROTHERS respectfully
that their New Prospectus now ready.
They
I:4'cootionunhone2ndr tdhueciredimtopr3osv.etdd.}; ammiixlyeaT
lured
Assam, creed.
to 3s. ifeve• 8E1.; and the finest Assam, reduced from 4s. 4d.
r .
310 lb
IIIi3OTHERS. 35, London-bridge, City, E.C.

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in the in, REE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
way Termious--aniteidi,ante vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
Preside Va. gscross.
The QUEEN.
Edward Masterman, Esq.
Treasurer_ Duke of BUCCLEUCTI, K.G.
sins was the first h
to the destitutee:l wi
end tant admi,ei esPital to introduce the principle of free
mality.of noveruors?l'
Pitiable form—viz., that which is t out t e ot:-
uequate s
intoreiatts
mwarditslPaPverrt;
tution in its most
ranied by sickness
nawnitude that, withnad, disease, and is now of suseccirni
-
capable of admitting
lathe ityp broeproerntidoeureodi
bedsetropolis. It requires but the
the casual sick of this
our f fable for the reception of
tinneorardoesrt tworheatevhezoof a
-creatures. Moreover,
and medicine to more,
fends
these
imperative dut
it gratuitously affords medical ag,Vw
on the average, than 3,000 out-patiecentas
for continued support,
The Weekly Board feel it thepiruibrniipee a Week.
EARNEST APPEAL to the
thee Treasurer Edward
y to make an
to enable them to admit and relievyeth
daily present themselves. "'stressing cases that
Contributions are received b
mas Arman, Esq. Nicholas-lane; also by mean
Co. ; Drummond' and Co. ; Berries and Co.;Messrs.
and
Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, andatsom and
and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Cu. ; onze Giyn
Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverric-07
and Co. ; W Mains, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney.l:ll.Bnn
t2O. ; Nisbet and Co. ;
and at the iloppital.
STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary

SULLIEN'S CONCERTS,
_LTA. • HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE,
THIS EVENING, TUESDAY, November 10.
Vocalist, Mdlle. VOLPINI.
Solo Cornet-a-Pistons, M. LEGENDRE.
The New Selection from Gounod's Grand Opera, FAUST,
arranged express, y for these Concerts by M. Jullien.
THE BRITISH ARMY QUADRILLE, performed by the
Grand Orchestra, the Band of the Grenadier Guards, the
Band of the Coldstream Guards, and the Band of the Scots
Fusilier Guards.
Conductor; M. JULLIEN.
Admission—ONE SHILLING.
Commence at Eight. Pfaces may be secured at the Box-
office of the Theatre, and of the Principal Libraries and
music Warehouses.

THF 0 R ,
6, OXFORD STREET, W.
THIS EVENING, will be performed Selecions from the
following Operas, viz., THE SLAVE, and CLARA, the
MAID of MILAN, by Sir Hy. Bishop ; also, from ERNANI
and LA SONN A BIBULA; by the following talented artistes :
—Misses Russell, Townley, Fitz Henry, %%slmsley, and Elli-
son ; Messrs. Green, Huish, Kimberley, Stuart, &c.
Also, Solos on the Violin by VIOII.I COLLINS. the
celebrated English Violinist

Flute by Drew Dean. Pianoforte, Miss Bryant.
And the marvellous instrument, the ORCHESTRAL
PIANO, by Herr SCHALILENBACH, the Inventor.

Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Comedy, by UNSWORTH (" or any oilier man "), Eugene,
W. Randall, E. Marshall, G. Hutchenson, &c.
The HALL has been newly Decorated, and is one of the
most Beautiful in the Metropolis.
Open at half-past 7 o'clock. Admission, area, Cd. ; stalls
and balcony, Is. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d.

PANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In order
V to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasing crowds,
Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the representation of Pro-
fessor Pepper and HenryDircks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral
Illusion, " THE GHOST," to the Concert Hall, where a
new and elegant stage is erected, affording a more ample
view of the Illusion from Stalls, Balcony, and body of the
Hall. He has also arranged for Mr. A. Silvester to give
(with all that gentleman's latest improvements and effects),
REPRESENTATIONS EACH EVENING, at half-past
Nine o'clock.
All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual,
including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Comedy by tfesworth
(the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, George Hodson, E.
Marshall, and the marvellous Arthur and Bertrand.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. - IM-
MNINSE SUCCESS.—ARTHUR and BERTRAND,
the celebrated French Clowns, will appear every evening in
an entertainment reserved expressly for their engagement at
this establishment -The MARVELS of PERU, the most
wonderful Periormers in the WorId—LANGLOIS, the great
Indian Juggler—The FAIRY FOUNTAlN—Operatic Selec-
tions —Grand Comic Divertissement, by the Francesco Family
and Mons. Ratel, assisted by 12 Young Ladies.
Doors open at 7—commence at half-past 7.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
Piccadilly.
During the Concerts given by Mons. JULLIEN. at Her
Majesty's Theatre, the BALL will commence EVERY
EVENING at NINE O'CLOCK.

Doors open at 8 o'clock.
Admission, ls.
Manager—M. GIiENET.

MADAME 'I'USSAUD'S HISTORICAL GAL-
LERY—Established 27 years at the Bazaar, Baker-
street.—AMEßlCAN WAR. —A Model of GENERAL
M`GLELLAN, in military unLorm, late Commander-in-
Chief of the Federal Army, is now added.—CONTINUA-
T lON of ANCIENT ENGLISH. KINGS, Henry V., in the
costume of the period. Open from 11 till ausk, and from 7
till 10. Admittance, Is ; extra rooms, 6d.

29, GEORGE-STREET, HANOVER-SQUARE.
THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM.
Open daily from 10 till 10. Lectures at 4 and 7
o'clock. Where may be seen the Astecs ; Bushman and
Wife; Julia Pastrana and Infant; Eng and Shang, the
Siamese Twins ; and upwards of 3,000 Models, Natural Pre-
parations, &o. Egyptian Mummies, unwrapped, 4,000 years
old. Admission, One shilling ,tor Gentlemen only),.

MR. A. B. HOLLINGSWORTH,
COMIC VOCALIST.

SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVE ti at the OFFICE of THIS
PAPER for the above artist, suddenly aillieted with Blind-
ness, and, in his helplessness, having a wife and child de-
pendant on him.

TO COWICEEPERS.—DoubIe your quantity
of Milk and improve its quality by using two penny
packets of THORLEY'S delicious CONDIMENT daily
mixed with damped chaff, grains, pulped turnips, or wurtzeL
—lss, Fleet-street, City; and may be had of all Grocers,
Druggists, and Corn Chandlers in Town or Country. Read
the Discussions on this Condiment before the Members of the
Royal Agricultural Society held in Hanover-square Rooms.
Sent free on application.

BANKRUPTCY AND COMPOSITIONS.-
Mr. WETHERFIELD, Solicitor, 35, Moorgate-street,
City, PRACTISE in COURT, and effects PRIVATE
ARRANGEMENTS with creditors, without publicity.
Charges, the lowest possible, payable by instalments. Coun-
try cases economically conducted.
N.B.—DEBTS recovered on commission, free of law costs.
Divorce and Probate business conducted at moderate ex-
pense.

SHORTHAND.-PITMAN'S PHONOGRA-
PHIC TEACHER. 6d. ; free by post, 7d.

SHORTHAND.-PITMAN'S PHONOGRA-
PHIC MANUAL. Free by post, ls. 6d.

Q H 0 R THAN D.-"PITMAN'S PHONO
L 7 GRAPHY forms an exceedingly efficient-probably
the MOST efficient - system of Shorthand that exists."—Sir
Rowland HilL

London : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C.

~'PECTACLES.—The Patent Newly-invented
P.] Tinted Spectacles are patronised by the majority of the
Nobility, including Viscount Palmerston. They afford extra-
ordinary relief to weak, din), and detective vision.—S. and B
SOLOMON S, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.

CAPTAIN WHITE'S ORIENTAL PICKLE,
CURRY or MULLIGATAWNY PASTE,
Curry Powder, and Curry Sauce, may be obAained from all
Sauce Vendors, and wholesale of
CROSSE and IsLACKWELL, Purveyors to the Queen,
Soho-square, London,

BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.—Alabaster Powder,
and the Magnetic Rock Dew Water from Sahara. Cir-
cassian Bloom, Arabian Soaps, and Alabaster Liquid. These
costly and inimitable toilet preparations render the hair,
teeth, and complexion beautiful beyond comparison.—Can be
had only at Madame RACIIIGL'S, 47A, New Bond-street,
where she can be consulted daily. All contmunications are
strictly confidential.

LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.-AN
EFFECTUAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels
or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant is ad-
mitted colds the best medicine for immediately relieving; coughs, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con-
sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty
pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which
provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption
its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or
even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on
relief
in a few minutes after taking it. Prepared only and sold by
W. LAMBERT, Chemist. 8, King-William-street, Charing-
h.Thßeenparna retiacunldara.daLeds asks
i
London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 13/d., and
cross,
engraved on the stamp.
fort hrthree
aqmuba
enrtti es i n
Asthmaticone, 2 s
B. 9a dl
8.
aemae.

A GREAT DRAWING OF PRIZES
WILL TARE PLACE AT

ST. JOSEPH'S RETREAT, HIGHGATE, LONDON, N.,
On THURSDAY, the 26th of NOVEMBER, 1863, to aid in
liquidating the Debt still remaining on the New Church and
Organ ; and to assist in establishing the English.,Missihn of
St. Nicholas in Paris, now under the charge of the Passionist
Fathers.
The prizes of the first catalogue consist principally of
objects of art and other precious articles, presented by His
Holiness, several Cardinals, Princes, and other persons of
distinction in Rome.
TICKETS ONE SHILLING EACH.
The amount realised will 1:1:; disposed of as follows :—That
arising from the sale of tickets in England will be applied to
St. Joseph's, and that from the sale of tickets in France to
St. Nicholas', in Paris.
THE DRAWING OF PRIZES WILL BE ON THE
PRINCIPL E OF THE ART UNION.
Any one purchasing or aiding in selling 25 tickets will be
entitled to a large Engraving, either of the Death of St.
Joseph, or of Blessed Paul of the Cros., which will be
forwarded by post upon receipt of 4 posta7.,e stamps.
Catalogues as well as tickets may be had on application at
St. Joseph's Retreat, Highgate, and at 39, Rue de Berri, Paris.

CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
the BIRTH of SFIAKSPEARE, at Stratford-upon-
Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert
N. C. Hamilton, Bart., is Chairman) are now receiv-
ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the
account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge
and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks,
Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and
Greenway, Warwick ; or their London agents, Messrs.
Smith, Payne, and Co , Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or Messrs.
Glyn and Co., bankers, London.
The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip-
tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers
of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee
rtst their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only
the Shakspeare, but the centre of attraction to
all
great Poet's works, and that it was his
abdimrtihrperlascc,totfhe
home, the town he loved, and where he lived and died.