The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-19 00:00:00

BONUS YEAR..-SPECIAL NOTICE,

fiLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL
LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
ANNUAL INCOME, steadily increasing.... £230,355.
ASSURANCE FUND, safely invested...... £1,707,709.
The NINTH BONUS will be declared inJanuary, 1872, and all
With-Profit Policies in existence on the 30th June, 1871, will
participate ; so that persons who complete such Assurances
before June 30th next will share in that Division, although
one Premium only will have been paid.
Report and Balance Sheets, Forms ,of Proposal, and every
information, can be obtained of
GEORGE CUTCLIFFE,
Actuary and Secretary.
13, St, James's-square, London, S.W.

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE OFFICE.
Established 1821.—Subscribed Capital Two Millions.

11, Lombard-street, London, E.C.
DIRECTORS:
CFIAIRNAN—FREDERICK-H. .TANSON, Esq.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—JAMES GOODSON, Esq.
Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. IJ. G. Hubbard, Esq.
Henry Bonham Carter, Esq. G. J. Shaw Lefevre, Esq., M.P.
Charles Wm. Curtis, Esq. John Martin, Esq.
Charles F. Devas, Esq. Augustus Prevost, Esq.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq., Abraham J. Robarts, Esq.
Sir W. R. Farquhar, Bart. William Stevens, Esq.
Archibald Hamilton, Esq. John G. Talbot, Esq., M.P.
Thomson Hankey, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq.
Richard M. Harvey, Esq.
SECRETARY—T. Tallemach, Esq. ACTUARY—SamueI Brown, Esq.
N.B.—Fire Policies which expire at Christmas must be renewed
at the Head Office, or with the Agents, on or before the 9th of
January.

Prospectuses and forms of proposal, with the Actnary's valua-
tion and statement of the assets and liabilities in the Life
Branch, free on application to the Company's Agents, or to the
Secretary.

Q SAVIOUR'S HOSPITAL and REFUGE,
. Alfred-terrace, Upper Holloway, N.—This Institution
affords a Refuge for Women seeking to abandon a life of sin,
especially those about to become mothers, and provides a Home
for the Children of such. FUNDS are very urgently NEEDED.
Bankers, London and South Western (Holloway Branch).

HUGH H. GOUGH. Hon. Sec

MEETING MOVEMENT. Office, 5,
lit Red Lion-square, W.C., London.—During the last 10 years
this Institution has been instrumental in rescuing a vast number
of poor girls from a life of degradation and misery. The plan
adopted has been to seek the wanderers in the streets of London
and gather them together at the midnight hour, when short and
faithful addresses have been given.
During the present year the Meetings have been held nearly
every week in some of the most frequented districts of the
metropolis.

Thepromoters have abundant evidence that these efforts have
been most successful hi effecting a great moral change in many
fallen ones.

To enable them to continue their important work, FUNDS are
earnestly solicited, and will be thankfully received by Mr. John
Stabb, Bon. See., 5, Red Lion-square, W.C., London ; and at the
Union Bank of London (Carey-street Branch), W.C.

COMIC PAPERS.

(I)vm. Punch.)

" ATTENTION !"—Punch (as Mars) : " Look here, Card-
well. You say you can keep George up to his work !
Mind you do ; or, by Jingo ! I shall advise her Majesty
to sack you both."
A IZEMEMBRANCE.—Artemus Ward, when contributing
to these columns, observed (it was on the Ist of September,
1866), " I say to that gifted but bald-headed Prushan,
Bismarck, `lse good and gentle in your hour of triump.'"
The hint of the kindly humorist has been forgotten by the
stern Chancellor.

BENEVOLENT NEUTRALITY.—Both the Germans and the
French keep abusing us for observing neutrality between
them. We incur this invective by helping neither one
side nor the other. Possibly we might avoid it by giving
help to both, and assisting the Germans with a fleet and
the French with an army.

BISMARCK'L BAD BUSINESS.-It is declared by resolute
Frenchmen that the reduction of Paris will not be the
reduction of France. Sooner or later, however, if the
war goes on, France will be so reduced in circumstances
as to be unable to pay Germany the damages which
William the Pious might have secured after Sedan. Then
the victors will be saddled with their own war-costs, and
the over-taxed German people will find the investment of
Paris to have turned-out a very bad one for themselves.

KING MOB AS KING RICHARD.
The diplomatic and punctilious Gladstone
No more shall be the Premier for our counsels :
Hath he so long held out with us untired,
And stops he now for breath? That halt's no go.