The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-22 00:00:00

DOG LICENSES.-CAUTION.

rInE COMMISSIONERS of INLAND RE-
VENUE GIVE NOTICE that all DOG LICENSES
granted in the year 1868 expired on the 31st December '
last, and every person keeping a (log in the current year is
required forthwith to take out a new License.
The duty payable for each dog kept is Five Shillings.
The penalty for keeping a 4og without License is Five
Pounds.
A Licenso is not transferable from one person to
another.
A License may bo obtained by the owner giving his
name and address, and the name of the place whore the
dog is kept, on application at
The Office of the Collector of Inland).
Revenue,
The Office of tho Distributor of Stamps } blnourthhoeodnof e-
s applicant'siden ce re-
Or
A Money Order Post Office.
Licenses will also be granted by the several Supervisors
of Inland Revenue.
Persons residing at. a distance om any of the above
offices, by transmitting with their application Inland
Revenue (Receipt) or Postage Stamps for the proper
amount of duty, to the Collector of Inland Revenue for
the District, will receive a license in return by post.
WM. GOBBET r, Secretary,

LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL is the only in-
stitution in the Metropolis for the treatment and
prevention of contagious fevers.
CONTRIBUTIONS will be gratefully received by
Messrs. Dimsdale and Co., 50, Cornhill ; Messrs. Drum-
mond, Charing-cross ; Messrs. Coutts, Strand ; Messrs.
Hoare, Fleet-street : and by the Secretary, at the Hospital,
Liverpool-road, Islington, N.

OUR SICK and HELPLESS CHILDREN.
.11_. —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-ron.d, S.E.
Bankers—Messrs. Fuller, Banbury. and Co., 77, Lom-
bard-street; and Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand.
CHARLES J. F. RE N TON, Secretary.

TIIE METROPOLITAN CONVALESCENT
INSTITUTION.
President—his Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON.
Treasurers—The Right lion. Russell Gurney, M.P., and
Col. W. F. Grant.
DONATIONS and SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly
solicited, to enable the Board•to meet the greatly increased
expenditure of this old Charity. 240 adults aro received
at Walton ; 80 children at Mitcham and Hendon.
Bankers—London Joint-Stock Bank, Pall-mall.
CHARLES HOLMES, Secretary
Office, 32, Sackvillo-street, Piccadilly.

IVT URSING:—ST. JOHN'S HOUSE and
11 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 Chaiing-cross
Hospitals, and the Galignani English Hospital at Paris,
is at present superintended by the Sisters of John's
House.
ios g
or Sisterhood, qualify themselves as
hood, or as pupils to be
inetraLininle'deiersstooofnrtuhyoesteh,lu
others
seswe 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.

FN.ST LONDON HOSPITAL for CHILDREN
11The 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 bo admitted 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, E.S. Norris, Esq., Shadwell ; or by
61IERRARD B. BURNABY, Hon Sec.,
Rectory Wapping E

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES I
ire as follows:
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, Hamp- 150, New Kent-road.
stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-street,Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland. street. wish.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, Henstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's-street, Dover.
Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three homes for servants of good
character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The committee are deeply anxious to
open another house for this pitiable class.
The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young
women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 524 appli-
cants, whose histories are recorded in the applicant's book.
The Society's Report (of which a contributor writes, "I
never read a roport of any charitable institution which so
entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke -my
sympathy") may be had on application.
The Society is under the presidency of tho Earl of
Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Barclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly cominend'its work to the
benevolent. DANL. COOPER, See.
fir Queen-street

BRITISH HOME FOR INCURABLES,
Clapham rise.
Instituted 1861.
PATRONESS.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES.
I.nEASIMEIiS.

George Moore, Esq.; Mr. Alderman Gibbons.
This Institution, extending its operations to all parts of
the kingdom. provides for those afflicted with incurable
diseases a home for life, with every comfort and medical
attendance. Patients are admitted, and annuities of £lO
obtained by election.
No person under 20 yettrs of ago, nor, of the pauper
class, is eligible.
Full particulars and the necessary forms may be pro-
cured from the Secretary. Donations and annual sub-
scriptions are earnestly solicited.
BANKERS.

3lossrs Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, E C.; and
Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross, S.W.

EDWD. WEAVER, Secretary.
Offices, 73, Cheapside.

A schooner. from Nassau arrived at New York
with 120 men from the Lillian, the Cuban steamer cap-
tured at Nasc;an, where the remainder cf her crew now
are. All but seven officers of the Cuba were discharged
by the United. States Commissioner, Oct. 30, the, seven
being held in bail for 8500 to appear before the United
States District Court. This was after bearing long testi-
mony. • Twenty-four were brought up charged with vio-
lating the Neutrality Laws. The question hinged ou whe-
ther the acts alleged were within the league from the
shore over which extends the jurisdiction of the United
States, and Mr. Rutherford, the Commissioner, believes that
the vessel was without that jurisdiction. Edward
the commander, was not among the seven committed, their
names being David a Telfair, D. D. Munro, Nicholas Es-
ling, R. H. Gibson, W. D. Phillips, Louis French, and John
Lynch. The prosecution desires to have the caserremoved
to Brooklyn, the offence having been committed within the
jurisdiction of that Court. The Hornet is bold as a prize,
being treated as a pirate and dismantled, though not yet
condemned in the Wilmington Court.

The Economist thinks the balance of probabilities is that
the canal will be kept in working order for many years to
come, but we cannot on that account believe that any very
marked effect will be produced either on the politics or
the commerce of the world, still less any effect adverse to
Great Britain. It used to be said that the canal once
completed, India would be a Mediterranean State liable to
attack from the fleets of any European Power, but that is
a mere delusion. It always was liable to such attack by
any Power with the means to send a fleet on a three
months' voyage round the Cape, and the reductioroof the
time to two months does not increase the liability. Nor
do we perceive that the canal will greatly affect very soon
the course of trade. For sailing ships it will be useless,
as they will save no time, and greatly increase their
risk; and for steamers, though it may diminish dis=
tance, it cannot very greatly reduce expense—the tolls, the
price of coal in tho Red Sea, and the danger of that long
passage, quite compensating the saving of a month in time.
Further, and this the great truth which as it seems to us
all French writers habitually forget, every sea route like'
every railway has two ends, and in this case ono of the
two ends happens to be ours. Let us suppose for one
moment that M. de Lesseps' most magnificent dreams are
all fulfilled ; that Asiatic commerce is immensely accele-
rated and developed by the new route. The first result
of that change must be a great addition to the trade of
India, which is our own ; of China, which is chiefly ,in our
hands ; and of Australia, which is possessed by our own
people and best customers. None of these countries can
be enriched without soma of the profit reaching London;
their gain is to all practical. purposes our gain, and their'
gain on M. de Lesseps's view is absolutely inevitable.
Europe cannot double its traiewith Indiadrithout India
doubling its trade with Europe, and the profits of that
doubled trade mill be as much' English as those pf the
single trade now are. • _ •

The Rever6o r. Moore,who was for seven year
a missionary of the Society iev. the Propagation of the
Gospeloin Indio, andwho'has been for some time employed
in the Punjaub Educational Department, was receiveil into
the Church (of Rome) at Mussoorie, in tho li(irth4-IVest
of India, on Sunday, the 10th of October, by the Right
Reverend Dr. Tacopi, Vicar Apostolic of Agra.-7-71-ivkly

Register.
No RETITUN.—A Spanish noveli§t tells a story of
a man who went to church on one of the days when souls
may be bought for a trifling fee out of purgatory. Ad the
priest came round he deposited his dollar on the plate.
"Is my friend's soul out of purgatory, now ?" he inquired.
"Yes," replied the ghostly man. " Are you quite sure?"
repeated the affectionate inquirer. "Quite sure," an-
swered the priest. "Well, then, they won't put him back
again," responded the relieved friend, "the dollar is a Pad
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SHORT SIIIIMAWY OF THE POSITION

OF THE

PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY,
C• 3, Ludgate Bill, London, R.C.

Branch Officel7, King-street, St. James's.

The Annual Premium Income of the Company, at the
close of 1668, was £220,978 Os. 10d., and the Total Amount
Assured £4,832,197.
The Business is divided ender 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
£1,562,960. The present 'value of the lia-
bility of this Branch by the Carlisle 3 per
Cent. Tables, throwing off the entire load-
ing. wa.4 £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

£189,322 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 .ntly large, 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 sho'wn by the result of 14
years' experience to be abundantly suffi-
cient.

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