The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-28 00:00:00

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WILLIAM SAUNDERS, Proprietor.
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A.D. 1720. .
ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION.
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(Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First.)
For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES.
Offices, ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
Branch Office, 29, PALL MALL, S.W.

JAMES 'STEWART HODGSON, Esq., Governor.
CHARLES JOHN MANNING, Esq., Sub-Governor
FRANCIS ALEXANDER HAMILTON, Esq., Deputy-Governor.

Robert Barclay, Esq.
John Gairatt Cattley, Esq.
Mark Cutrie Close, Esq.
Edward James Daniell, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq.
Lancelot William Dent, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq.
Fredk. Joseph Edlmann, Esq.
Chas. Hermann Goschen, Esq.
Riversdaie Wm. Grenfell, Esq.
Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq.
Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Medical Referee, SAMII

DIRECTORS. -
Egerton H❑bbard, Esq.
Nevile Lubbock, Esq.
George Forbes Mal colmson, Esq.
Lord Josceline William Percy.
Charles Robinson, Esq.
Sir John Rose.
Samuet Leo Schuster, Esq.
Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
William Wallace, Esq.
Octavius Wigram, Esq.
Montagu C. Wilkinson, Esq.
Charles Baring Young, Esq.
EL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S.

NOTICE.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of
FIRE PREMIUMS falling due, at Christmas will expire on the
9th of January.
FIRE ASSURANCES may be effected on advantageous terms.
FIRE DUTY.—This tax having been abolished, the PREMIUM
is NOW the -only charge for FIRE INSURANCES.
FARMING STOCK.—No extra charge is made for the use of
Steam Thrashing-Machines.
LIFE ASSURANCES are granted with, or without, participa-
tion in Profits ; in the latter case at reduced rates of Premium.
The divisions of Profit take place EVERY FIVE YEARS.
Any sum not exceeding .£15,000 may be insured on one Life.
The Corporation bear the cost of Policy Stamps and Medical
Fees.
A Liberalparticipation in Profits, with the guarantee 01 a large
invested Capital Stock, and exemption, under Rbyal Charter
from the liabilities of partnership.
The advantages of modern practice, with the Security of an
Office whose resources have been tested by the experience of a
CENTURY AND A-HALF.
ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
ROBERT P. STEELE, Secretary.

EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
Empowered by Special Acts of Parliament.
For Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity in
Situations of Trust.
Chief Oface-17, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.
Annual Income, £300,000.
Capital, subscribed by more than 1,600 Shareholders, nearly
£BOO,OOO.
DIRECTORS.
CruramAN--General Sir FREDERIC SMITH, K.H., F.R.S.
The Rev. A. Alston, D.D. R. M. Carter, Esq., M.P.
E. Hamilton Anson, Esq. Edmund Heeley,
A. R. Bristow, Esq. Reginald Read, Esq., M.D.
This Society are now ISSUIN COMPLETE LIFE POLICIES.
The peculiar features of these Policies are as follow :-
1. The Payments Cease after Ten or Twenty Years.
2. The Policy is not forfeited by the non-payment of renewal
premium during the ten or twenty years.
3. The Assurer is entitled for each yearly payment lie has
made to a paid-up Policy for one-tenth or one-twentieth of the
sum Assured.

HENRY B. PARMINTER, Manager.

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IIFEBOAT SERVICES.—Daring the Storms of
—1 the past eleven months the National Lifeboat Institution
has contributed to, the saving of 918 lives from various ship-
wrecks and 24 vessels from destruction. It has also expended
£23,287 in the same period on its Lifeboat Establishments, in
addition to granting £2,023 for rewards.
The Institution has now 223 Lifeboat Stations under its
management.
Contributions are earnestly solicited, and will be thankfully
received by the London and Country bankers, and by the Secre-
tary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street,
Adelphi, London.

CHARACTERISTICS OF TIIE CANADIAN.
The popular English idea of the Canadians pictures
them—so far as it pictures them at all—as being pretty
thoroughly Americanised. Of the richer classes in Canada
this idea is hardly a true one. Coming direct from
England amongst them you may he struck by their un-
likeness to their fellow-subjects at home; but, returning
into Canada after any stay-in the States, you are so
forcibly struck by the resemblance of the Cana-
dians to our own people that you almost feel as if
you had got home again. In look, and in many points of
manner and address, in accent and in costume, the men
now seem to you nearly English. All our writers
upon Canada have noticed the fresh, ruddy English com-
plexions, the fair round English proportions (~f body,
as distinguishing marks of the British parts of
the continent ; and a recent French writer has
said about Canada, " Il y aici dana les figures une bonne
humeur que vous chercheriez en vain sur la face osseuse et
maussade des Yankees." The people of the States
also claim that a can tell a Canadian at a glance
from one of themselves ; and it is certainly not rare for an
Englishman travelling among them, who has been found
out at once to be a stranger, but has not as yet been
thoroughly investigated, to be asked, in the first place,
whether he is English or Canadian ; as if this were one of
the points-about him not to be made out with certainty by
simple inspection. In the ladies, perhaps, a greater di-
vergence from the. English type strikes the eye, than in the
men. Among the former the free naturalness in manner, as
well as the graceful luxury in dress, of their neighbours
in the States, tend not strangely, and perhaps not
unfortunately, to make more and more way. But the
ladies of Canada would be much more shocked, even than
the men, at being thought " un-English." It has hitherto
been a matter of study among all Canadians—except, as
it may be, the very poorest class—to save their English
nationality intact. With respect to this, a change is said
to be now taking place. In a conversation recently held
with an Upper Canadian, about the probable future
annexation of British America to the States, when it
was remarked to him that, whatever might be the
advantages, there certainly was a drawback in
the dissimilar character of the Canadian people,
" You are a separate nationality and more like
Englishmen than like Americans," "Like Englishmen !"
he answered ; " why we are Englishmen. Why we have
hardly any Yankee blood in us. But we are getting to be less
English. I remember very well when any departure from
what was English was scouted and resented by all of us,
however trifling the matter in which it had shewn itself.
I remember when, if a Canadian was seen with anything
noticeably American in his dress, or borrowed American
phrases in his talk, his friends would reproach
him with it at once. But we have changed all that now.
We don't so much care about being like the Englishman,
and we have no such great horror of being like the
Yankee."—" Sketches from America," by John Whyte.