The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-17 00:00:00

WEST INDIES AND MEXICO.

Leave St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St.
Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, Now Orleans, Porto Rico
Haiti, Santiago de Cuba, Guadeloupe, Martinique.
JAPAN, NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC), AND
CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama).
Leave St. Nazaire on the Bth of each month for Mar-
tinique, St. Martha (United States of Columbia), Colon,
Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama), La Gnayra, Porto Ca-
bello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Demerara, Paramaribo,
Cayenne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, &c., San Jose, La Union,
San Francisco, China, and Japan.
Hand books, with full details of all tho, routes of this
company, can be had of
STRINGER, PEMBBROKE, and 00.,
Agents. 8. Austinfriars, London, E.O.

SHORT SUMMARY OF THE POSITION
OF THE

PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY,
02, Ludgate 11111, London, }IC

Branch Office-7, King-street, St. James's.

The Annual Premium Income of the Company, at the
close ef Itt6B, was £220,078 08.10 d., and the Total Amount
Assured £1,832,197.
The Business is divided under two heads:-
Ist —The General or Ordinary Business, being the
same as that transacted by other Companies,
2nd —The Industrial or Working Class Assurances
The Premium Income of the General
Business was £52,432, and the sum Assured
£1,662,960. The present value of the lia-
bility of this Branch by the Carlisle 3 per
Cent. Tables, throwing off the entire load-
ing, was £139,322 15 8
The Premium 'income of the Industrial
Branch was 168,546, the sum Assured
£3,169,237, and the Estimated Reserve 50,000 0 0

£lB 322 15 8

The Liability of the Industrial Branch
does not admit of being estimated in the
same way as that of the General Branch,
on account of the very large proportion of
Policies which const tntly lapse, so that
the bulk of the assurances are, in fact, risks
for short terms only ; the estimated re-
serve for the liabilities of this Branch of
the business is shown by the result of 14
years' experience to be abundantly suffi-
cient.
The Assurance Fund on 31st Decem-
ber, 1868, was £241,301 12 4
The average duration of the whole of
the Industrial Policies was considerably
under three years.
The average age of the Assured in the
Industrial Branch was 19 years.

A detailed List of Assets can be bad on application.:
H. HARDEN, Secretary.

THE MESMERIC INFIRMARY, 36, Wey-
mouth-street, W. (where many cases deemed incur-
able are cured), much needs support. Inspection is in-
vited from 10 till 12.30. The Council have placed the
Institution under the control of THOS. CTIA.NDLER,
Esq., M.R.C.S., who has above 30 years' experience in
Mesmerism and nervous diseases. Consultations—gra-
tuitous, till 10.30; private, till 12.30.

CANCER, HOSPITAL (Free) : founded 1851.
—Brompton, S.W., and 167, Piccadilly.—Over 8,000
cases treated since foundation. Remedies and diet very
expensive. Over 40 in hospital, and many cases unable
to be admitted for want of FUNDS ; at present over 300
out-patients.
Treasurer—Geo. T. Hertslet, Esq., Lord Chamberlain's
Office, St. James's Palace.
Bankers—Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand.
By order, H. J. JUPP.

DOOR SICK and HELPLESS CHILDREN.
1 —The ROYAL INFIRMARY for CHILDREN
and WOMEN, Waterloo-bridge-road. Instituted 1810.
Increased PECUNIARY ASSISTANCE is most
urgently needed, and solicited, for continuing relief to the
poor little suffering inmates at this Hospital.
Office, Waterloo-bridge-road, S.E.
Bankers—Messrs. Fuller, Banbury, and Co., 71, Lom-
, bard-street; and Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand.
CHARLES J. F. RE N TON, Secretary.

-FAST LONDON HOSPITAL for CHILDREN
£4 The Committee earnestly desire to raise funds which
shall enable them to establish the Hospital in more suit-
able buildings. The premises now occupied are crowded
and inconvenient, causing additional expense from that
circumstance. It is impossible even to purchase on whole-
sale terms many articles of daily consumption from want
of room for stowage, every inch of available space being
occupied. There is a daily demand for more beds, and the
staff of nurses would be able to attend upon more children,
but no more can be admitted In the present building.
£B,OOO at least islrequired to can y out this much-wished-
for and urgent scheme
Contributions will be thankfully received by the Trea-
surer, E.S. Norris, Esq., Shadwell ; or by
SHERRARD B. BURNABY, Hon' Sec.,
Rectory Wapping

NURSING.—ST. JOHN'S HOUSE and
SISTERHOOD for TRAINING NURSES for
HOSPITALS, Families, and the Poor: established 1848.
President—The Lord Bishop of LONDON.
The nursing at King's College and the Charing-cross
Hospitals, and the Galignani English Hospital at Paris,
is at present superintended by the.; Sisters of John's
House. _ _ .

Ladies or others wishing to qualify themselves as
members of the House or Sisterhood, or as pupils to be
trained to nurse, are quested to communicate with the
Lady Superior.
Donations and Subscriptions to the General Fund, the
Sisters' Fund, or the Nurses' Pension Fund, may be paid
to Messrs. Colitis ; or to the Lady Superior, at St. John's
House Norfolk-street, Strand, W.O.

ROYAL SCHOOL for DAUGHTERS of
OFFICERS of the ARMY, Lans‘lown, Bath.
Instituted, A.D., 1861.
Under the Patronage of her Maj-sty the QUEEN.
President—ll.R.U. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, K.G., &c.
Chairman—Major-General Sir A. J. LAWRENCE, K.C.B.
This school has been founded upwards of four years,
and it is intended for the education of the daughters of
officers of the army, Indian- and Marines. There aro
already 70 pupils in the school, but more could be admitted
if the committee had further funds; they, therefore
APPEAL to the public to aid them in carrying out to its
full extent the benefits of the only institution specially
provided for the daughters of officers of the Army.
Each donation of £5 ss. entitles to one life vote at all
elections. Each annual subscription of £5 5s entitles to
one vote at all elections during the current year. The
amount may he forwarded by an ordei on a bank, agent,
or post-office Charing-cross), payable w.
Il GEO. W. FORSTER, Under Secretary;
Office 22 Cockspur-street London,

This Corporation affords to tho Assured
Liberal participation in Profits, with the guarantee
of a large invested Capital' Stock, and exemption
under Royal Charter from the liabilities of part-
nership.
The advantages of modern practice, with the secu-
rity of an Office whose resources have been tested
by the experience of nearly a CENTURY AND A
Kara.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
ROBERT P STEELE, Secretary.

GREAT NORTIIERN HOSPITAL, Cale-
donian-road, N.—Several beds in the new buildings
cannot be occupied for WANT of FUNDS.
F. SMITH, Esq., Hon. Secretary.
GEORGE REID, Secretary.

THE LONDON SURGICAL HOME for
DISEASES and ACCIDENTS of WOMEN, for
the Reception of Gentlewomen and Females of Respect-
ability upon a weekly payment. Under the management
of Mr. Baker Brown.

The private medical attendants of the patients are
in vited to visit them, and to meet in consultation before
treatment.

Full particulars can be obtained on application to the
Lady-Superintendent, 18, Stanley-terrace, Notting-hill,
W. ; or to Mr. Baker Brown, 136, Harley-street, W.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.

Amst3rdam
Do
Rotterdam — ... 12 1; ... 12 14
Antwerp — ... 25 Mr ... 25 421
Brussels
Hamburgh — ... 13 10; ... 13 11
Paris

Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort-on-the-Main
V ienna —
Trieste —
Petersburg
Copenhagen —
Berlin
Madrid..

3 ➢ls. ... 25 35 25 40
... 25 35 25 40
120{ 120 k
...• 12 65 12 70
• 12 65 ... 12 70
... 28f ... 281
9 18 9 22
.., 6 27i ... 6 28
48} ... 481

Cadiz ^ ... 49 ... 493,
Leghorn
Milan — ... 26 75 ... 26 771
Genoa — ... 26 75 .... 26 771
N---' -.. 26 75 ... 2P 771

.4aples
Palermo .—... 26 75 ... 26 77i
Messina
... 511 ~ 52
51-i ... 52

Lisbon —
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Rio 3 aneiro — • .
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THE METROPOLIS.

pean nations to dominate the immensely more popu-
lous regions of Asia. She desires now to intro-
duce the latest processes of art without impairing
the industry of her people ; to increase facilities
for manufacturing, agricultural, and mining eute ?-
prise, as the basis of a more extended and mutually
profitable foreign and domestic commerce. To
enable the Chinese to realize such results, by assist-
ing them in avoiding the complications of European
diplomacy, in affording adequate moral support
against ambitious schemes of foreign conquest, but
above all in striking the key-note of nobler social
organization and individual manhood, this country
will render a service that will add to the American
name a glory not eclipsed by past achievements
in civilization. Our claims to the regard of that
people will, of course, unlock to us the doors of a
more intimate commercial intercourse than has yet
been accorded to any nations=an- advantage not
lessened by recollections of any injustice or aggres-
i?n. Through an established trading intercourse
with China, exerting a powerful influence on her
internal as well as her external trade, the commer-
cial interests of America will gain permanent foot-
ing. The railroads which will soon intersect the
Celestial Empire will act as feeders to our Ameri-
can Pacific steam fleet. These railways will reach
the tribes of the interior, and develope commercial
relations with people yet but partially known. Our
steamers upon the Yang-tze-Kiang, the Hoang-ho,
and the lloang-Kiang, vrfi bring down the pro-
ducts of Chinese ind
'astry, and in return carry to
the furthest poi S't of navigation cargoes of Ameri-
can mecharncal, agricultural, and mining products,
thus d' using the blessings of a varied industry and
an enriching commerce, not controlled by military
conquest and colonial empire, but by the regular
I normal influences of fair dealing and intelligent
enterprise. In order to furnish some idea, in con-
centrated form, of the existing interests to be ef-
fected
connec-
tionby the trans-Pacific commerce in
with the progressive and active settlement of
the public lands, inquiries within the last few
months were addressed by the Commissioner to
the Governors of the several States and Territories,
and the authorities of 371 municipalities. The re-
sults, as far as received, will appear iu an accotn-
panying paper. From these, with other sources, it
is estimated that there are now completed 40,000
miles of railroad, at a cost of nearly $2,000,000,000 ;
that 20,000 miles additional are projected and in
process of construction ; that the earnings of the
American people maybe set down at $7.500,000,000
annually, and that the domestic trade is now nearly
$6,000,000,000 a year. Among the agencies which
have secured the expansion of American power over
this continent, the public land system, in effecting
progressive and rapid settlement, stands pre-emi-
nent. The ruling principle, in its legal constitu-
tion and uniform administration, has been the dif-
fusion of democratic civilization, affording choice
places for homes to multitudes of actual settlers in
different latitudes, yet with climatic variations
fading into each other with remarkable serial regu-
larity: The agricultural and mineral resources of the
Union are supplemented by manufacturing facili-
ties, and diversified industries, in a vast territory
not isolated in its parts, like those of Asia, by almost
impassable mountains and irreclaimable deserts,
but dominated by a matchless river navigation, and
extended artificial facilities of intercommunication.
%V hat will be the aggregate of domestic trade and
the effect upon our foreign commerce when Ameri-
can resources have been developed? What system
of statistics can embody the commercial and indus-
trial movements of the rich and powerful States
which our people, aided by immigration, will ere
long plant in unbroken column across this conti-
nent? There are submitted the following state-
ments showing the number of acres of public lands
surveyed in the laud States and Territories up to
June 30, 1868, the quantity remaining unsurveyed,
also the area of public lands disposed of under the
various laws, all illustrated under 22 different heads,
since the commencement of the land system ; esti-
mates of appropriations required for the office of
the Commissioner of the General Land Office for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1870 ; those for, the
surveying department for the same period. There
are also herewith annual reports of the surveyors-
general of the 12 surveying departments,h ac-
companying documents; historical and statistical
table of the United States of North America ; also
29 separate maps of all the public land, States, and
Territories, showing the extension of the lines of
public surveys. Also herewith will be found a con-
nected map of the United States from ocean to
ocean, exhibiting the public surveys, land districts,
sites of surveyors-general and district land offices,
prominent railroads, and mineral deposits. Map of
the world onMercator's projection, indicating routes
of trade from an early date, anterior to the Chris-
tian era, to the present time. Preliminary reports
are also sent by the geologist engaged in extending
explorations, pursuant to the Act of Congress, ap-
proved July 20, 1868.
JAS. S. WILSON, Commissioner.
Hon. 0. 11. Browning, Secretary of
the Interior.

Surprise is expressed in America at a cable de-
spatch from Berlin, declaring the American bishops to be
the most devoted adherents of the Papacy. In explanation
of this the Tribune says :—" Canon law having no force
in this country, the Bishops are not chosen by their clergy
or cathedral chapters, but appointed at the mere will of
the Pope. The hierarchy in fact is a close corporation, in
which the members nominate candidates to fill vacancies
in their own body, and the Pope appoints at his pleasure,
generally selecting one from the list of nominees presented
for his approval, but sometimes disregarding that list
altogether, and consulting only his own preferences. Thus,
however widely liberal ideas may be spread among the
lower clergy and the laity, it is next to impossible for
any one to become a bishop who is not a zealous pro-
moter of the Papal prerogatives. There is no part
of the world in which the influence of the Roman
Court over the Episcopal body is stronger than in the
United States." We have, however, another despatch
to Berlin from the Roman correspondent of the Berlin Post,
who represents the Americans as asking, " Row can we
reconcile our position as free citizens of tLe United States
with the principles which necessarily follow from the
acceptance of the Pope's infallibility, such as religious per-
secution, the right of Catholicism to exclusive power in
the State, and the temporal supremacy of the Pope? Our
fellow-countrymen would consider and treat us as parias,
and all other religious parties would unite against the com-
mon enemy, and exclude us from every public office. One
of the North American bishops lately said no one ought to
be elected Pope who had not passed three years iu the
United States, and thus see what a modern liberal Govern-
ment really is, and what it is possible to do under it."
The argument appears to us more material than theologi-
cal. It was not the good of souls, but the good of bodies
the Bishops had in view when they used it. Apropos of
bodies, we learn that the mortality amongst the prelates
assembled at the Council has been great. The old gen-
tlemen have been dragged from their quiet firesides, some
of them encountering the fatigue of travel from out-of
the-way places to be huddled together in discomfort in the
Eternal City, which literally becomes their eternal abode.
Besides Cardinals Reisach and Pentini several American
and oriental Bishops, we understand, have died, and the
aged Bishop of Foggia also, whom the Pope went to see to
give him his last benediction.
Last Wednesday, at the Liverpool Police-court,
two young men, named Edward Curtis Steele and Thomas
Mortimer. were charged on suspicion of having been con-
cerned in the recent robbery at the London residence of
Mr. Motley, the American Ambassador, when upwards of
£2,000 worth of jewellery and plate was stolen. On Tues-
day the prisoners, who said they were natives of London,
offered in pledge to a Mr. Cohen, of Duke-street, Liverpool,
a statuette of Victory, which, with its frame or stand,
front which other figures, had evidently been broken,
are of masivo silver, and of considerable value. Not being
satisfied with the answers they gave to Lis que,tions as
to how they became p,sse,sed of the property, Mr.
Cohen called in the police. There being reason to be-
lieve that it formed part of the proceeds of the robbery at
Mr. P.,lotley's, the American Ambassador, the prisoueri
were remauded. COM..
BREAKrAST.—EPPS'S COCOA.—GRATEFUL AND
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marks:—" The singular success which Mr. Epps attai
homoeopathic preparation of cocoa has never bee
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