The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-05 00:00:00

DOG LICENSES.:-OATITION.

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HE COMMISSIONERS of INLAND RE-
VENUE GIVE NOTICE that all DOG LICENSES
granted in the year 1868 expired on the 81st December
last, and every person keeping a: dog in the current year is
required forthwith to talcs out a nee License.
The duty payable for each dog pt is Five Shillings.
The penalty for keeping a dog without License is Five
Pounds.
A License is not transferable from ono person to
another.
A License may be obtained by the owner giving his
name and address, and the name of the place where the
dog is kept, on application at
The Office of the Collector of Inland'
Revenue, In the neigh-
bourhood of the
The Office of the Distributor of Stamps t l•
app man s re-
Or sidence.
A Money Order Post Office.
Licenses will also be granted by the several Supervisors
of Inland Revenue.
Persons residing at a distance from any of the above
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"XX. GOBBET r, Secretary.

L'ORM of BEQUEST.—NATIONAL HOS-
PITAL for the PARALYSED and EPILEPTIC,
Queen-square, Bloomsbury :—I give and bequeath to the
Treasurer for the time being of the National Hospital for
the Paralysed and Epileptic, established in London in
1859, the sum of —, free of legacy duty, to be paid out
of such part of my estate as may by law be bequeathed for
charitable purposes, and to be applied to the general use
of the said Hospital. _ _ .

The Institution comprises an Hospital for In and Out
Patients, a Samaritan Society to relieve the more dedti-
tote out-patients and their families, a convalescent home,
and a pension fund for the incurable.__

E. H. CHANDLER, Hon. Sec.

BRITISH HOME for INCURABLES, Clap-
ham-rise. instituted in 1861.
Patroness—H.R.H. the Princess of WALES.
This Institution provides a home for life, with good
nursing and skilled medical attendance, for perscns over
20 years of age and above the pauper class, who are hope-
lessly afflicted with incurable disease.
Pensions of £2O per annum are also granted
The Home was opened in September 1863 ; 71 in-
patients and 106 annuitants have been elected. Elections
in May and November. Forms of application may be ob-
tained from the Secretary.
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS and DONATIONS are
earnestly solicited.
Bankers—Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard-
street, E.C. ; Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross, S.W.
ED WD. WEAVER, Seo.
Offices, 73, Cheapside, E.C.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
sire as follows :
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, Hemp- 150, Now Kent-road.
stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-stroet,Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Greet Portland• street. wich.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, Honstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhnrst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's-street, Dover.
Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, aheapside
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 road a report of any charitable institution which so
entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my
sympathy") may bo had on application.
The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of
Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Barclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent. DANL. QQP24B) §eo.
Qmou-binot chenNicle.

& DUMB.—The Committee of the
nd DUMB HOME are prepared to
artificial signs.
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JEEWDSEADFEAr a
receive APPLlCLTlONSrifgoirdtlhyeeAxDelMudleSsStlhOoNuosef DEAL'
and and DUMB CHILDREN, of all denominations, as Day
Pupils, for instruction in audible. speech and lip-reading.
is given every Wednesday, at 3 p.m.,
when the successful results of the system can be wit-
nessed.
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publicsayl alphabet
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Applications for terms, the course of instruction, and all
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other particulars, to be v
v. VANto PRAAGIT, Esq
Director of the Jews' Deaf and Dumb Homo,
44, Burton-crescent, W.C.
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VAST 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 the
staff of nurses would be able to attend upon more children,
but no more can be admitted in tho present building.
£B,OOO at least is required to carry out this much-wished-
for and urgent scheme.
Contributions will be thankfully received by the Trea-
surer, E.S. Norris Es q., Shadwell ; or by
sidERARD B. BURNABY, HOU 5001
1440017 Wapping 41

EISTABLISIIMENT for GENTLEWOMEN
during TEMPORARY ILLNESS.
The relatives of Clergymen, Naval, Military, and Pro-
fessional Mon, Governesses, and Artists may, for a small
weekly payment, receive the comforts of a HOME, com-
bined with the best medical and surgical treatment, at the
establishment, 90, "Upper Ilarley-streot.
This establishment, which was opened in 1850, is patro-
nised by her Majesty. The Bishop of London is Visitor,
and it is managed by the Marchioness of Ormonde, the
Lady Laura Palmer, Mrs. Edward Romilly, the Lady
Caroline Russell, Mrs. Cecil Russell, and other ladies.
All information respecting it may be obtained on writ-
ten or personal application to the Lady Superintendent.
Subscriptions received at the Institution, and by the
Treasurer, at Messrs. Coutts and Co.'s, 59, Strand.
W. C SPRING MOE Hon. Sec.

THE LIVERPOOL TRAMWAYS COMPANY

An extraordinary general meeting of this com-
pany was held at their offices in King-street, Cheap-
side, on Tuesday last—Mr. N. R. Vail in the chair.
The contractors, Messrs. Fisher and Parrish,
reported that the line from the Adelphi Hotel
to the borough boundary is finished, and that
the entire line, running from the Adelphi
Hotel, down Lime-street, Church-street, and up
Elliot-street, back to the Adelphi Hotel, will
be completed this week. Ten of the car-
riages are now in Liverpool, and others will be
forthcoming as the traffic requires. The contrac-
tors expect to have the road ready for public traffic
within a month from the present time. Owing to
the company not having earlier obtained the ne-
cessary land for stables, Messrs. Fisher and Parrish
have been obliged to make use of temporary build-
ings for that purpose. The land, however, has
now been secured, and the contractors will com-
plete the permanent erections in three months. In
reply to Mr. Fox, a director, who asked what
length of time the traffic was obstructed during the
construction of the road, Mr. Fisher said it was
not obstructed for one moment. They commenced
the road on the 12th of July last, and but for an
unavoidable delay on the part of the corporation
contractors for paving the line would have
been ready for opening by the first of October. A
shareholder having inquired what arrangements
had been made for the management of the road
when opened, the Chairman stated that the con-
tractors were largely interested as shareholders, and
that Mr. Parrish bad consented to manage the
road until the directors could make other arrange-
ments, and ho thought they could not be in better
hands. Some other business of a formal character
was disposed of before the meeting dissolved.

Commissioner Delano has determined to tho-
roughly sift the income assessments, and to this end had
appointed a large number of assistant assessors, whose
special duties will be to reassess incomes. Commissions
have already been issued, and the work will commence la
the large cities immediately.
LADVERTISYMENT. I—Holloway's1—Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—
Dangerous Di seases.—Ho w many life-long maladies spring
neglected trifling symptoms. The pimple readily curable
in the nursery beccmes, through carelessness, the irreme-
diable torment of after life. With a knowledge of the
curative means of Holloway's ointment and pills, those
who fail to use them for extirpating the first seeds of here-
ditary ai!ments will have to bear the punishment resulting
from their folly. Holloway's remedies will remove erup-
tions of the skin, scorbutical diseases, and scrofula; and
heal every description of ulcers, sores, wounds, and abra-
sion. By the employment of Holloway's excellent, speedy,
and safe medicaments much pain and expence will be
saved, and a great benefit con! erred on the present and
§uccocclipg Scnorativs•

LONDON, SATI7I?.DAY EV=ING.
It is difficult to estimate the extent of the obstacle to
trade presented by the condition of the gold market,at
New York. Ever since the passing of the Legal Tender
Act gold has presented the widest field for speculatio•A.,
and the extent to which this speculation "Au
been pursued, by legal and illegal means, has been made
known from timo to time by the violent fluctuation and
panics that have periodically taken place in New York.
Under present circumstances it is impossible to avoid Chia„
speculation in gold. The metal itself has now become%
mere article of merchandise, and has, for all practical
purposes, lost its distinction as a circulating medium.
All transactions take place in greenbacks, which have a
forced circulation, and which are inconvertible into gold.
To this, however, there is the exception of dealings with
the Government itself, in which case it is required that all,
import duties aro to be paid in gold. This fact should new.*
be lost sight of in dealing with American finance, end
the omission of its consideration always leads, to
incorrect, if not ridiculous, infe?cnces. For instance, as
import duties are payable in gold, the imports themselves
are entered at gold values, whereas the values of they
exports are stated in currency, which necessarily involver,
a deduction of between 30 and 40 per cent. on the latterin
any dealings between the two countries, that representing
the present depreciation of the forced papercurrency. It will
be at once apparent that the fact of gold being aily in
request for the payment of duties, &c., that the gold
market at once assumes a most important character, antra
position perhaps more important than the extent of -the
legitimate transactions carried on in the gold room warrant.
But the fact of violent fluctuation at times taking place has
led to operations of a very different nature, and of the most
speculative kind. The supply of such an article as gold is
necessarily small, for even the wealthiest corporations
could not afford to hold any considerable stock of
so valuable a commodity, and, accordingly, con-,
tracts are entered into for forward delivery,
sometimes at lengthy periods. These contracts become
again the sources of speculation, which becomes more,
extravagant until a collapse—sooner or later, inevitable—
occurs. As a rule, we do not find the gold operators_
defaulters. Their system is a very complete one, and the
advantage of ;combination has long been apparent to all,
engaged, and it is this combination for the purpose of
"rigging the market " which has brought the Gold Ring
into such unenviable repute.

The difficulty presented by this state of things is very
great, and no ready remedy is apparent for it. It is an
absolute necessity for the American Government to possess
a large stock of gold, for the interest on a large portion
of their debt, and on the whole of the debt
held abroad, is payable in coin, and it is for
this reason that the import duties aro made
payable in gold. Were the Government to receive
the duties in currency and purchase gold according
to their requirements, the confusion ensuing would pro-
bably be even greater than it is, and there is no doubt that
such a course would cause great loss to the Exchequer.
We, therefore, regard the collection of the import
duties in gold as unavoidable, and the fact
of this creating a gold market is unavoidable
also. Nevertheless, if the American Government adopted
a less cumbrous system of finance, the inconvenience
resulting from this state of affairs would be greatly modi-
fied. The sales of gold by the Government are
not sufficiently heavy to check the operations
of speculators, but if the Government had a
State banker, or made use of the national banks,
AS depositaries of their balances, the gold in the
Treasury—now upwards of twenty millions sterling—
would not be withdrawn_fram_the market at all, and
would, by creating a greater feeling of confidence, have
the immediate effect of lowering the gold premium. We
do not say that this:would meet the whole requirements cf
the case. But it in well known that the American Govern-
ment have no banker, and that the withdrawal of their
large balances from circulation is the source of great em-
barrassment to trade, and is utterly opposed to all eco-
nomical principles.

The London correspondent of the Elgin Courant
states that Mrs. Leigh's children aro commencing an action
for damages against Macmillan's Magazine, and they might
perhaps Iry for an injunction against the publication of any-
thing further from Mrs. Stowe.

The British Medical Journal is glad to know that,
although Mr. Gladstone still, on medical advice, declines to
add any avoidable engagements to his necessary and most
onerous duties, yet his health may be considered fully re-
established. Ile is no longer under medical treatment, and
is strong enough to take exercise most freely.

Mr. Robert Barnes, of Manchester, has intimated
his intention not only to purchase the Cheadle Hall estate
and present it to the trustees of the Royal Infirmary, for use
as a convalescent hospital, but to supplement the purchase
money to the extent of .£IC,OOO, for the purpose of rondering
the place thoroughly suitable.

The Sporting Gazette says that Mr. Alexander
intends to bring forward a resolution at the next meeting of
the Jockey Club to do away with all selling-by-auction
raceP, the abolition of which will be a great boon to owners
of horses, who, to a man, are anxious for this much-desired
reform.

Whilst " settling" in the Subscription Room at
Newmarket on Friday morning, Mr. Newhall left his scat
at the table, on which was £2OO in notes, for an instant
to speak to a bystander, and on his return the " flimsies"
had disappeared! All inquiries and search for the missing
property, we need scarcely add, proved unsuccessful.

Mr. Gordon (says the London Scotsman) will pro-
bably succeed Mr. Moncreiff as Dean of the Faculty of
Advocates. Their aro no direct emoluments attached to the
office, but to receive the appointment is a direct testimony
from the bar of the pre-eminent legal and personal attain-
ments of the gentleman appointed. It carries with it im-
portant privileges as to precedence.

The Railway News is informed that the directors
of the Hudson Bay Company will, at tho meeting to be
held next month, recommend the distribution of the sum of
£300,000, received from the Government of Canada, among
the shareholders, which will give a distribution at the rate
of £3 per share. The report will show very satisfactory
results of tho trading operations of the company.

Speaking of the cruise of the combined fleets, the
Globe says the Hercules proved herself by far the most
economical in fuel of the entire number of vessels, as the
following figures, giving the total amount consumed by the
different ships, on the passage from Lisbon to Queenstown,
will show:—Hercules, 113 tons; Monarch, 201 tons; Agin-
court, 226 tons ; Morthumbrian, 211 tons ; and Minotaur,
248 tons.

The case of Mr. Leonard Edmunds will come OR
in the Court of Arbitration (Court of Common Pleas, West-
minster Hall) on Thursday, the 21st inst. The Court will
sit de die in diem, and there is now every prospect of this
protracted litigation, which has been going on for nearly six
years, being brought to a close. The arbitrators are the
Hon. G. Denman, Q.C., and Mr. C. Pollock, Q.C., and the
umpire, Mr. blanisty, Q.C.

A baby show took place at Penistone, a village in
Yorkshire, last week, and, according to a local paper,
attracted a large number of people to witness it. The first
prize was a plated teapot, for the finest baby under twelve
months old; second price, a large gas lustre, for the best
dressed baby ; third prize, a set of jewellery, for second best
dressed baby. It is worthy of note that only nine infants
wore placed in competition.
The steamer Viking, bound from Archangel to
Dundee, with a cargo of flax, was wrecked on Kinnaird
Head, near Fraserburgh, early on Friday morning. A tre-
mendous gale was blowing from the north-East at the time.
The lifeboat was launched and the crew were got off and
brought safe to land. The value of the ship and cargo is
estimated at about .£50,000. The owners are insured in Hull.
The vessel was only launched this year by Messrs. Gourlay
Brothers.

It is stated that arrangements have been made by
the Great Eastern Company with Mr. Pepper, the agent of
the company, by which the loss which the company would
sustain 1)3 his bankruptcy will ultimately be fully covered.
The arrangement provides that Mr. Porper shall still act as
the egent of the Great Eastern, and liquidate the small
balance of the debt which will remain due after realising ow
the bond which the company holds suAtlte kayo ent 9t
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