The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY

" WTOODIN'S RETURN TO LONDON.''
V W. S. WOODIN "AT HOME" with his great)
Original CARPET BAG and SKETCH-BOOK.
TO-NIGHT,

In the large Room EI*YPTIAN HALL, Piccadilly.
Plan of Stalls at Mitchell's Royal Library, Old Bond-
street.

OYAL MUSIC HALL, lIOLBORN.
Proprietor—Mr. J. S. Sweasey.
On MONDAY NEXT and DURING the WEEK.
Miss Lizzie Graham, the new Serio Comic ;
Funny Little Lewis, who has been received nightly with
roars of laughter;
West, the celebrated Stump Orator, and Emma West ;
E. D. Davis, with his sons Tommy and Joey, the Funniest
of Funny Folks •,
Great Success of the Murray Family, the Fascinating Trio;
Jolly Nash, the well-known laughter provoking
comique ;
Madlle. Carlotta, Verte, acknowledged to be the Premier
Danseuse of the Music Hall Stage;
Mr. Rowland Lascelles, the accomplished Tenor ;
Great success of Metze Redman and lletze in their re-
fined Burlesque Operatic entertainment; the 108th of the
Wonderful Performance of Le Petit Blondin and Blanche.
on the Tight Rope, acknowledged by the whole of the
Public Press the most Wonderful Performance ever
atteMpted ; also Le Petit Blondin's unsurpassed imitations-
of Ancient Statuary.
Chairman—Mr 'W. Hamilton.
Mr. P. Core, Musical Director.
•
SPECIAL NOTICE.—W. Hill)ard's (Musical Instrument
Maker) Benefit, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 1870.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
Bake -street.—Po IITRAIT MODE LS of FttEDERICK
HINSON and TRAIIPPMANN are added to the Chamber of
Horrors. Admission, ls. ; Chamber of Horrors. 6d. extra.
Open from 11 a.m. till 5 p.m., and from 7 p.m. till 10 p.m.

RGYLL ROOMS, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET,

The extraordinary success which has attended the production
If the Shadow Dance, with the brilliant and varied effects of
the electric light on the groups of dancers that nightly partici-
pate. in it, combined with the admirable Operatic and Dance
Music Selections presented in the often-changed programmes,
have had the gratifying effect of making the r sent one the
most extensively patronized season since its first opening. The
celebrated Orchestra, under tho direction of its highly efficient
chef, Signor Luigi Curti, performs the choicest and latest com-
positions of ail distinguished composers—the solos in which are
assigned to the eminent euphonionist, Signor L. Moses; Messrs.
W. Graves, L. Silberberg, and other able artistes. Manager, Mr
Thomas Pitts. Professor Hailiman M.O.

Admission, Is.; Reserved Seats, 2s.
R. R. RIdNELL, Proprietor

SA U C E.—LEA and PERRINS.
THE "WORCESTERSHIRE,"

pronounced by Connoisseurs
"THE ONLY GOOD SAUCE."
Improves the appetite, and aids digestion.
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COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSAT-
LANTIQUE.
4. Rue de la Pala, Paris.
FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS.
NEW YORK.
'leave every 14 days, from Havre and Brest, for Now York
RATES OF PASSAGE.
From UAVRE or BREST to NEW YORE.
First Class 7OO fr.
Second Class 425 fr.
Third Class .., 275 fr.
From Paris to New York, via Havre or Brest, including
railway ticket, 725 fr. ; second class, 440 fr. ; third class
285 fr.
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 do Cuba, Guadeloupe, Martinique.
JAPAN, NORTH AD 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 Guayra, Porto Ca-
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San Francisco, China, and Japai.
Hand books, with full details of, all the routes of this
company, can be had of
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SHORT SUMMARY OF THE POSITION
OF THE

PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY,
6?, Lu igate 11111, London, E.C.

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

The Annual Premium Income of tho Vompany, at the
close of 1668, was £220,978 08.10 d., and the Total Amount
Assured £4,882,197.
The Business is divided under two heads:--
Ist—The General or Ordinary Business, being the
same as that transacted by other Compauies.
2nd —The Industrial or Working Class Assurances. 3
Tho Premium Income of the General
Business was £52,432, and the sum Assured
£1,562,960. The present value of the lia-
bility of this Branch by the Carlisle 3 per
Cent. Tables, throwing off the entire load-
ing. way.. £139,322 15 8
The Premium 'lncome 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 constantly lai se, 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 £241,401 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. BARBEN, 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. .
CHANDLER,
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.
—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., 77, Lom-
bard-street; and Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand.

CHARLES J. F. RE NtON, Secretary.

EAST LONDON HOSPITAL for CHILDREN
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 tho
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 is required to can y out this much-wished-
for and urgent scheme

Contributions will be thankfully received by the Trea-
surer, B.S. Norris, Bsq., Shadwell ; or by
SHERRARD B. BURNABY, Hon Sec.,"`
Rectory Warping Ei

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.

Pijies 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. Coutts ; or to the Lady Superior, at St. John's
House Norfolk-street, Strand, W.C.

-13 OYAL SCHOOL for DAUGHTERS of
_lt OFFICERS of the ARMY, Lansiown, Bath.
Instituted, A.D., 1864.
Under the Patronage of her Maj• sty the QUEEN.
President—ll.R.ll. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, K.G., &c.
Chairman—Major-General Sir A. J. LAWRENCE, K.C.13.
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 are
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 thorn in carrying out tl 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
ono vote at all elections during the current year. The
amount may be forwarded by an erdei on a bank, agent,
or post-offico(Charing-cross), payable ro.
GEO. W. FORSTER, Under Secretary;
Offico 22 Cockspur-street London',

L
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" ATETROPOLITAN PUB : ~
111 . ACT, ISe9." :.
The following ORDER has been aps .. ed of by the Right
Honourable HENRY AUSTIN BR I -E, one of her Ma-
jesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and will be made by
him and be in force on and after the Ist day of January,
1870.
Orders as to Licensing Ilackne ad Stage Carriages,
as to Licensing Drivers of Ha 'hey and Stage Car-
riages, and as to certain Regulations relating to
Hackney and Stage Carriages; amide in pursuance
of "The Metropolitan Public Carriage Act. 1869,"
62 and 33 Vie., cap. 115, sec. 60, 9, 10, and 11, by
the Right Honourable Henry Austin Bruce, one of
her. Majesty's PrinCipal Secret Aries of State.

CARRIAGE

I do order, prescribe, and direct ai fellows (that is to
say):—
AS TO LICENSING HACKNEY AND STAGE
[CARRIAGES.
1. Licences to be granted for Hackney Carriages under
the said Act shall be in the Form A contained in the
Schedule to this Order, and Licences granted under the
said Act for Stage Carriages shall Win Form B contained
in the same Schedule.

2. Licences to be granted under the said Act shall be
granted by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis,
who has been appointed bv me
_for that purpose ; but no
Licence shall be granted to any person under the age of
21 years, or to any person whorshall have been previously
convicted of felony.
3. Before any such Licence shall be granted, the person
applying for the same shall pay to the Receiver of the Me-
tropolitan Police District, or to some person appointed by
the said Receiver to receive the same, the sum of £9,
which I hereby prescribe to be the sum and price to be
paid in respect thereof. The application for a Hackney-
carriage Licence shall be made iu the form of 0, and for a
Stage-carriage Licence in the Forts of D, in the Schedule
hereto.

4. Before any such Licence shall be granted a Certificate
is to be signed by an inspector of YublAii Carriages stating
that the hackney or Stage Carriage in respect of which
the application is made has been examined by him, and
that it is fit for use, and specifying the number of persons
which the carriage may be licensed to carry, and the num-
ber so specified shall be stated in the Licenee.
5. Any Licence granted on the application of any Co-
partnership or Company shall be issued to the senior part-
ner, or to the Secretary or Manages, of the Company, as
the ease may be ; and the senior partner, or the Secretary
or Manager, to whom the Licence shall be issued, shall be
responsible for the observance of the regulations hereby
made, and of the conditions under which the Licence is
granted, and shall be liable to all penalties for breaches of
these regulations and the provisions of this Order as if they
were the person solely interested in the Carriage and in
the Licence.

6. So soon as may bo after the signing of the Certificate
as to the fitness of any Carriage for public use, the Carriage
Shall be brought to the Police-station of the District,
where a metal Plate bearing the distinguishing number of
such Carriage will be fixed, in the presence of an Inspector
of Public Carriages, in the case of a four-wheeled Hack-
ney Carriage, on the back panel thereof; in the case of a
Hansom Carriage, on the off-side panel ; and in the case of
a Metropolitan Stage Carriage, on the back thereof. And
I hereby prescribe that each Carriage licensed shall be
distinguished by such Plate, and such Plate shall not be
removed from the place where it shall have been so fixed
without the authority of the Commissioner of Police of the
Metropolis.
7. A Licence will afterwards be prepared, bearing the
distinguishir g number of the Carriage, and mill be sent to
the Proprietor.

8. Each Licence shall be issued in respect of one Carriage
only, and shall distinguish tho Carriage licensed by a
Number.

9. Every Licence to be granted in pursuance of the
said Act and this Order shall cuntiuue in force for one
year from the date of such Licence, unless suspended or
revoked, and the Licence shall be subject to revision, or
suspension for any period, in any events in which any
Hackney or Stage-carriage Licence might have been sus-
pended or revoked at the time of the passing of the sa'd
Metropolitan Public Carriage Act, 1869 ; and iu the event
of any breach of the provisions of the said Act, or of this
Order, or of any regulati ns made thereby, which provi-
sions and regulations relate to Hackney or State Car-
riages and the Proprietors thereof ; and also in the event
of the Proprietor being convicted of any felony or mis-
demeanour. And I hereby order and prescribe it to bo an
express condition of the granting of any Hackney or Stage-
carriage Licence under this Order, that any such Licence
shall be subject to revision and suspension for any period
by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if at
any time any Proprietor shall be convicted of any offence
against the provisions of this Order, or of any Act for
the time being in force relating to Hackney or Stage Car-
riages, or of any felony or misdemeanour.
10. The Proprietor of any Licensed Carriage shall,
within three days after a notice shall have been deli-
vered to him, either personally or left at the address
mentioned in his Licence, or on the expiration of the
period for which his Licence shall have been granted,
within three days from such expiration, deliver up his
Licence to the Inspector of Public Carriages at the
Police-station of the District within which the place of
his address, as described in the 15th Clause hereof, shall
be situate, and within the said periods shall bring the
Carriage to such Police-station named, in order that the
Plate may be unfixed, and he shall then and there de-
liver up the Plato to the Inspector of Public Carriages.
11. The Proprietor of any Licensed Carriage , hall at
any time, when required by the QlPassieialeioner of Police
of the Metropolis, produce and show the Licence which
shall have been granted to him in respect of such
Carriage.
12. The Proprietor of any Licensed Carriage shall not
conceal tho Plate, nor shall he obliterate or deface any
number or mark thereon.
13. The Proprietor of auy Licensed Carriage shall not
knowingly permit the same to be used for any illegal
purpose.
14. Any Licence erased or defaced shall be void and of
none effect.
15. The Proprietor of any Licensed Carriage who shall,
during the currency of the Licence, change his abode or
place of residence, shall within seven days of such
change, give notice thereof to the Commissioner of Police
of the Metropolis, and until such notice the address men-
tioned in the Licence, and after such notice the address
mentioned in the notice shall be deemed to be the address
of the Proprietor of the Licensed Carriage for all pur-
poses, whether cf service of notices or otherwise.
Police
16. During the currency of any Licence, and until it
shall have been returned to the Commissioner of the Police
of the Metropolis, the Proprietorie Commissioner r
of any Carriage
of
at all reasonable times, allow to all persons appointed by
the Secretary of State, or by ti
inspecting Horses
s whore such
Horses and Carriages are kept,
or Carriages, free access to their premise
such
for the purpose of in-
a
of the Metropolis, for the purpose of
e
shall,
in-
spection, on, the production of a special order of the said
Commissioner for that purpose.
Proprieto
r during the
17. In case of the death of any
• continuance of his Licence, the Licence shall be brought
to the Office of the Commissioner of Police of the Metro -
polls, who will by endorsement thereon transfer the
Licence to the person entitled thereto by Will, or to the
person entitled to administer to the deceased Proprietor,
or to the widow or surviving husband, or eldest male
child (being of age) of the deceased Proprietor.
N.B.—The above provisions apply both to Hackney
Carriages and Metrdpolitan Stage Carriages, and the
word Carriage when used above (unless where
otherwise specified) applies equally to both of these
Basses. The following provisions apply to Hack-
ney Carriages on.ly:—
'n fora Licence in
18. Every person desirous of app yi g
respect of any Hackney Carriage, under the said Act and
this Order, shall make and sign his application in the Form
C contained in the Schedule hereto.
19. At any time during the currency of the Licence the
Proprietor of the licensed Carriage may alter the Fares
mentioned in the Form of Application, but fourteen days'
notice shall, previously to any such alteration, be given to
the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.
And with respect to Regulations relating to Hack-
ney and Stage Carriages," I do by this my Order
make the following Regulations :
AS TO HACKNEY CARRIAGES ONLY.
1. The number of persona to be carried in any Hackney
Carriage shall be the number mentioned in the Licence
granted in respect of such Carriage.
2. Previous to the granting of any Licence for any
Hackney Carriage, the Proprietor thereof shall cause to
be distinctly painted, and shall thereafter keep distinctly
painted, on the outside, at the back of each Carriage, the
Number of persons to be carried, and no greater number
of persons shall be carried than authorised by the Licence.
8. Every child shall be reckoned as a person within the
meaning of the foregoing Regulations.
4. The liable of Distances signed by the Commissioner
of Police of the Metropolis in pursuance of the 6th section
of statute 16 and 17 Vic, c. 33, sec. 17, and now in force,
shall until further order be evidence for the purpose of
any Fare to be charged by distance within the meaning
of the 9th section of the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act,
1869.
5. The Proprietor of every Licensed Hackney Carriage
shall provide and affix to the top of the Carriage, in a
socket or by a hinge, as the Commissioner of Police of the
Metropolis shall direct, a metal flag, on which shall be
distinctly painted in black letters on a white ground, or
white letters on a black ground, the Fares licensed to be
charged both for distance and time.
6. Fares to be charged shall be the Fares mentioned in
the written application for a Licence until they shall have
been altered and notice of such alteration shall have been
given, as above mentioned, and after the expiration of such
notice, then the Fares mentioned in tho notice, and such
alteration of Fares are to be repainted on the flag.
7. It shall not be lawful for any Licensed Hackney Car-
riage to ply for hire except on an authorised public stand-
ing ; and while the Carriage shall be there plying for hire,
the flag shall be raised on the hinge or fixed in the socket
so as to be plainly exhibited on the top of the Carriage.
8. Immediately on the Carriage being hired, the flag
shall be lowered on the hinge or taken from the socket,
and shall not be again raised on the hinge or placed in the
socket or otherwise exhibited, until the Carriage shall be
again plying for hire on an authorised public standing.
9. No Hackney Carriage shall be let to hire elsewhere
than on an authorised public standing, nor shall any Fare
be recoverable in respect of any hiring unless at the time
of the hiring the Carriage hired shall have been plying on
an authorised public standing, with 14 flag raised and
exhibited in pursuance of the RegulatlO 7, as above pre-
scribed

10. When the Carriage shall have been hired by dis-
tance, and the carriage shall be stopped at the request of
the hirer during the journey, for any time or times amount-
ing in the whole to fifteen minutes, the driver shall be en-
titled, at the end of the journey, to demand and receive
further sum, i❑ addition to the Faro to which ho shall be

entitled for the journey calculated by distance, equal to one
fourth part of the Fare exhibited on the metal flag as ft..:
Fare per hour, and to an additional sum equal to one such
fourth part for every further fifteen minutes completed for
which the Carriage shall have boon stopped at the request
of the hirer during the journey.
11. When the Carriage shall have been hired by the
hour the driver shall be entitled to demand, for every
fifteen minutes or any part of fifteen minutes not com-
pleted above one hour, one fourth of the Fare per hour
exhibited on the metal plate.
12. And for the bettor publication of the Fares which

SE AMEN'S HOSPITAL (the Dreadnought), off
Greenwich, for Sick and Diseased Seamen of All
Nations, who aro received without any recomendation.
The Committee require upwards of £4,500 annually
from voluntary bounty to meet tho expenditure of this
Hospital.

SUBSCRIPTIONS will be most thankfully received by
Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., bankers, Birchin-
lano ; and at the Society's offices, 86, King William-street,
8.C., by

S. KEMBALL COOK, Secretary.
Qualification for a Governor, 21s. annually ; Life
Governor, £lO 10s.

ILBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT of MEAL
:—AMSTERDANI EXHIBITION, 1869, FIRST PRIZE,
being ABOVE the Gold Medal. Supplied to the Bri.ish, French,
Prussian. Russ'an, Italian, Dutch, and other Governments. One
pint of tine flavoured Beef-tea at 21d. Most convenient and
economic "stock."

CAUTION.—OnIy sort warranted genuine by the Inventor, Baron
Liebig, whose signature is on every genuine Jar.

Ask for LIEBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT, and not for
LIEBIG'S EXTRACT of MEAT.

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