The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-22 00:00:00

WEST INDIES AND MEXICO.

Leave St. Nazaire on the 18th of each month for St.
Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, Now Orleans, Porto Rico,
Haiti, Santiago do 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 Guayra, Porto Ca-
bello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Demerara, Paramaribo,
Cayenne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, &c., San Jose, La Union,
San Francisco, China, and JapaL.
Hand books, with full details of all the routes of this
company, can be bad of
STRINGER, PEMBBROKE, and Co.,
Agents, 8, Anstinfriars, London, E.O.

ABSOLUTE SECURITY POLICIES, UN-
FORFEITABLE, UNCONDITIONAL, and UN-
CHALLENGEABLE, issued by the PRUDENTIAL
ASSURANCE COMPANY, 62, Ludgate-hill, London,
E.C. Established 1848. _

Branch Office-7, King-street, St. James's.
The Directors of this Company, in deference to an ob-
jection not unfrequently urged by persons invited to as-
sure, that the ordinary mode of Life Assurance is in their
opinion defective or uncertain, by reason of the operation
of the customary conditions, have resolved to promulgate
the present Tables, and to issue Assurances under them
which shall be absolutely Unforfeitable, Unconditional,
and Unchallengeable.
For the reason referred to, many persons hesitate or
decline to assure on the ground that, i n; ne event of in-
ability or unwillingness to continuo payment of their pre-
miums, the Assurance will become forfeited. To this
class of the public the system now introduced will espe-
cially commend itself, being entirely free from all condi-
tions of forfeiture on account of non-payment of premium,
or from any other cause whatever; while at the same
time it absolutely guarantees at decease, when even a de-
fault is made in payment of the premium, a fixed sum in
respect of every pi emium paid. bearing the same propor-
tion to the total amount assured as the number of pre-
miums actually paid may bear to the whole number origi-
nally contracted to be paid.
Besides this important advantage, every policy will ex
pressly state what sum can at any time be withdrawn on
the discontinuance of the assurance.
The assured will thus always have the option of retain-
ing either an ascertained fixed sum payable at decease,
or, in case of need, of withdrawing a certain amount, ac-
cording t) the duration of the Policy, such amounts being
set forth on every Policy, and rendering unnecessary any
future reference to the Company on these points, as is the
case with ordinary assurances.
Creditors assuring the lives of debtors will appreciate
this feature as one greatly protective of their interests, and
it will likewise commend itself to bankers, capitalists, and
others who are in the habit of making advances collaterally
secured by Life Policies, as they can at any time learn, by
mere inspection, the exact value, either immediate or re-
versionary, of a Policy of this description.
Every Policy issued on this plan will be without any
conditions as to voyaging, foreign residence, or other usual
limitations. By this freedom from restrictions of all kinds
the objections before referred to will be entirely removed,
and the Policies will become at once positively valuable as
actual securities.

In addition to the foregoing statement of advantages,
the number of premiums is strictly defined. The longest
term provided for is twenty-five years, and the shortest
five years, as shown by the Tables. Thus, bankers, credi-
tors, and others holding policies of this class as security,
amount I bey may be called
upon to advance so as to maintain the full benefit of the
A ssoranz..es—a matter of great importance whore policies
aro held as collateral security.

It is ouly necessary to aslci that, as a consequence of the
policies under these tlbles being unforfeitable and uncon-
ditional, they will also ho unchallengeable on any ground
whatever. They may thereforel be aptly termed Absolute
Security Policies.

The PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY pos-
sesses an income of £215,000 a year Its position is un-
questionable, and it obtains the largest amount of new
bngini-ms of any &Ike in the Kingdom. SPECIAL
AGENTS WANTED.

HENRY HARDEN, Secretary.

THE CAMBRIAN LEAGUE AND THE
WELSH BISHOPS.

The Rev. W. Walsham How, rector of Whittington, has
addressed the following letter to the Osteestry Advertiser :
"I seo by your paper that an association called the Cam-
brian League has framed a petition in which it is com-
plained that the present Bishop of St. Asaph, though not
understanding a word of Welsh, has drawn £90,000 from
the Church during his episcopate of twenty-eight years.
; am wholly in favour of Welsh-speaking bishops for Wales,
but I should like to make known through your columns a
little fact with regard to the enormous sum which is, I
dare say, rightly calculated as that expended by a defrauded
and indignant people in support of an alien prelate. I
have it from the bishop's own lips that ho has given away
the whole of his episcopal income ever since he became
bishop. He said that having private means sufficient for,
his needs, he was very thankful to have been able to do
this. I am sure he is the last man to wish this fact
made public, but I believe that, in days when all snorts
of foolish and unjust charges arc made against bishops, it
is well such a fact should be known. I have reason to
believe it is less than the truth, and that the bishop's
liberality has by no means been bounded by the limits of
his episcopal revenue. If we could know the proportion of
their income given away by the bench of bishops, I think it
would astonish many persons very much. But I would
only ask one question in regard to this somewhat mercenary
view of a bishop's usefulness. Is tlaere any lay landed
proprietor in the diocese of St. Asaph who has given away
in proportion one half or one quarter of what the bishop
has given ?"

The death is announced of Captain John liudsrm,
R.N.; who was for many years Governor of the Queen's
Bench Prison.

Mr. Thomas Cooke Trench, a magistrate of the
county of Kildare, has written to the Evening Mail to " dedi-
cate a sum of £3,000 to the future EOivice of the Irish
Church."

The health of Mr. David Williams, of Castellden-
draeth, the Liberal member for the county Iferioneth, is
(according to the Liverpool Courier) giving cause to great
apprehension on the part of his friends.

A strange affair has taken. place.. at Salford. A
young Irishman has been shot, and, although in danger,
refuses to give information as to tho person who shot him,
except that ho is as good a man as himself.

The Bombay Association (consisting of native
gentlemen of influence) Las Loen led to withdraw its opposi-
tion to the Act now before the Government, making Vaccina-
tfon compulsory.

The boy Charles Gritt was again brought up on
remand on Saturday, before Mr. E. J. Phillips and Dr.
Woollett, charged with causing the death of Emily Amelia
Collier, by administering poisoned wheat to her on Easter
Monday last. The bench remanded the prisoner for a
week.

The unfortunate Iloylake Railway was on Satu. -
day put up in lots for sale by auction at Chester, under an
order made by the Court of Chancery to satisfy claims of
creditors. Only two of the four lots were disposed of,
bidders fighting shy owing to the probability of a purchase
involving further litigation in Chancery.

A Mrs. Swann was killed by an express train at
Leyland station, near Preston, on Friday. The d c.-escd,
when in the act of crossing tho line, saw a goods iraiu ap-
proaching on the far rails, and while keeping her eye on it
she failod to see the express engine coming along the line on
which sho was standing. Tho poor woman's husband pick' d
up her lifeless and cru3! cd hod:.

The Marquess of But (says the Western Mail),
has cifered unconditionally to pay off the whole of the
remaining dolt upon tho Cardiff Inffrmary. Thismunifi-
cent donation takes the form of a birthday gift. The wen k-
ing men of the town and neighbourhood have for montb
been making strenuous efforts to lighten the terrible load of
debt (about £1,200) which has 60 long been hanging over
that institution.

On Monday Thomas Whellock, the proprietcr
of a bcerhonse at Highgate, was charged wit'u using
treasonable language to Corporal James Bains, of the Royal
Horse Artillery. On Tuesday last the corporal went
to Whelloek's house and informed him, in the Queen's
name, that on the following day two soldiers would be
billeted on him. He at once said, "D
—n and b—t her
Majesty, and you too." Ho was fined 40s. and costs, a case
bang taken on the question whether a beerhouso is a public
place.

A meeting of working men was held in Manchester
on Saturday to consider the stagnation of trade. The un-
equal operations of the freo trade policy at present at work
were the suljects of discussion, and a Coventry weaver
bitterly complained of the French treaty. There was an
opposition meeting, which performed its part so effectually
that the police had to interefere. Resolutions condemning
the present state of things, and calling upon Parliamrta to
intorpoie, were passed.

A ir ee.ing of certificated achcolmasters iu Brad-
fort and the district was held at the Exchange, Bradford,
on Saturday, under the auspices of the YorksLiro Board
of Education. The object was to induce the
masters present to co-operate with the board in carrying out
the scheme of the Department of Science and Art in regard to
scientific education. At Leeds thirty-sown masters became
members of the science class upon a similar appeal. After
some discussion of the subject, several schoolmasters en-
rolled themselves as members of the projected science class
at Bradford.

Two barns and other buildings on a farm in the
occupation of Mr. J. Oldham, in the suburbs of Leamington,
were on Sunday destroyed by fire. Owing to the cxcrtioLs
of the local fire brigade numerous and valuable eic ks
of wheat and other grain were saved. The firs•,
which Lroke out simultaneou,ly in different portions of the
buildings, is supposed to have bo',n the work of an incen-
diary. A journeyman dyer named Ilan gave himself up
this morning, and confessed that he had caused the fire.
111 states that he did it because he was tir. d of his life and
war:ted to bo transported. His narrat've is corroborated by
various facts.

The arrangements for the forthcoming Church
Congress in Liverpool are now almost complete. The
meetings will be held in the great room of St. George's-
hall, where especial accommodation for the speakers will
be provided, so that by means of sounding-boards and the
placing of the platform at the middle of the west sido
there is every probability that the addresses will be heard
distinctly in every part of the hall. The proceedings aro
so arranged that, except in a single instance, only one meet-
ing will be in progress at the same time, but little publicity
has been given to the arrangements. Ladies will be ad-
mitted to all the meetings, and are not expected to :appear
in full dress.

At a meeting held at Bradford by the Working-
Men's Association, Archdeacon Sandford said that
he bad been endeavouring to induce the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury to take his place in the
van of the Temperance Movement. The Archbishop bad writ-
On to him snyiug, "I have weighed your letter for a
week, and I ism much dial ose I to consent to your
request for I have studied your report, and I go with it to
the fullest extent. But this is a movement which must to
carried on by the people." The archbishop had also asked
for another copy of his report to send to Mr. Gladstone, as
ho wished to keep the subject before him.

ATTEMPTED DEMONSTRA.LION AT WOOrWICH.--
The last batch of men left the Woolwich Dockyard on
Saturday. Some of the smiths before leaving managed
to hoist a Mack flag to the top of the smithy shaft, on
which a groan was set up for Messrs. Gladstone, Childers,
and Bright. In the smithy shop a dummy was strung
up to a representation of a gallows. this was said to,
bo an eff3gy of "Mr. Childers, the poor man's friend," and
it came in for a largo share of curses and blows. in differ
eat parts of the. town blaok flags, bearing the skull and
cross-bones, were to be seen, and an attempt was rnads
Terra a funeral procession, headed, by a band playing th 9
"DeikZlavell to [3:ul,"' but tlia of RIL

EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY,
LONDON.
REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS,
For the Year ending 30th June, 1869, read at the Annual
General Meeting of Proprietors, 13th August, 1869,
WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, ESQ., Deputy-
Chairman of the Company, in the Chair.
The-Report which the directors have now to submit to
the proprietor differs in its tenor but little save in one or
two particular from that laid before then, in 1868.
fhe income of the year, it will le seen, amounts t
£540,499 18s., and the total charge to £445,077 10s. 9d
The difference, £95,422 7s. 3d., added to the balance a
the surplus fund at the commencement of the financia
year, raised that item to £1,002,974 15s. 9d., its present
amount.
SURPLUS FUND ACCOUNT, JUNE 30, 1869.
INCOME OF THE YEAR.
X s. d.

DR.
Balance
_of account, 30th

£ s. d

June, 1868 907,E52 8 6
Premiums on new assur-
ances
Ditto on old ditto...

371,548 12 1
Interest from investments 120,959 12 10

492,508 4 11

Profit and loss, bp.lance of
account

Total income

£1,448,052 6 6
Examined and approved.
THOMAS ALLEN,}
Auditors.
HENRY ROSE,
CHARGE OF THE YEAR.
L £ e. d.

Dividend to proprietors
Claims on decease of lives
assured
Additions to those under
participating policies
Policies surrendered
Re-assurances new
Ditto old 51,009 4 1

405,561 12 1
Commission
Medical foes
Income tax 3,017 15 8
Expenses of management 16,238 910

..E g. d.
8,880 4 0

436,187 6 9

Total charge
Balance of account, June 30, 1869, as per
balance-sheet

£1,448,052 6 6

The total of premiums received is £371,548 12s. ld., of
which sum £13,560 ss. ld. is for new assurances effected
in the year.
The interest from investments is £120,959 12s. 10d., or
£4 2s. per cent. on the net amount of the company's
realised assets existing in June, 1868 ; and in connection
with this important feature of the company's affairs the
directors have the satisfaction of reporting that the profit
and loss account again exhibits a considerable profit,
amounting this year within a trifle to the sum of £48,000.
It may be remembered that a profit of nearly equal amount
was announced in last year's report.
Turning to the items constituting the charge of the
year, it will be noticed that the sum payable in satisfac-
tion of claims on decease of lives assured is larger than
usual. This circumstance, however, is not very material;
as was observed ol a previous occasion, the proper quin-
quennial average is generally pretty sure to obtain, and
the fact that the average for the past two years barely ex-
ceeds £309,000 tends to confirm that statement.
The expenses of management are greater by nearly
1800 than they were last year. They would have been
materially less but for the unavoidable cost of transferring
the company's securities into the names of additional trus-
tees. Taken as they are, however, these expenses must
be regarded as very moderate. It will be observed that
they are only three per cent. of the total income.

_
BALANCE-SHEET. JUNE 30, 1869.
DR. LIABILITIES.
Interest duo to proprietors £6,757 17 0
vlaims on decease of lives assured, and

Ad iditions thereto unpaid 108,940 6 7
Sundry accounts
Liability under sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,336,626 8 2
Proprietors' fund
Surplus fund

£7,675,813 0 10
Examined and approved.
THOMAS ALLEN,} Auditors.
HENRY ROSE,
ASSETS.

.Amount invested in fixed mortgages £1,661,699 9 2
Ditto ditto decreasing ditto .. 162,770 15 2
Ditto ditto Reversions 278,557 16 6
Ditto ditto Funded securities 491,303 4 2
Ditto ditto Temporary secu-

rities 198,207 17 0
Current interest on the above investments 30,934 4 6
Cash and bills 12,256 15 10
Advanced on security of the company's
policies 165,387 1 8
Agents' balances
Sundry accounts
Value of premiums (1867) .... 4,506,167 18 0
Value of re-assurances . 85,706 14 5

£7,675,813 0 10

The balance-sheet does not appear to call for any re-
mark. The assets are, of course, increased by the sum of
V 5,422 7s. 2cl. already mentioned, as is shown by the
augmentation to that extent in the balance of the surplus
fund.
The Direction of the Company is now constituted as
follows:
WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, ESQ., Chairman.
ROBERT ALEXANDER GRAY, ESQ., Deputy-Chairman
Charles Bischoff, Esq. James Murray, Esq.
Thomas Boddington, Esq. Philip Rose, Esq.
Charles Chatfield, Esq. George Russell, Esq.
SirJ.BullerEast, Bt., D.C.L. homes Godfrey Sambrook°
Wm. Augustus Guy, M.D., Esq.
F.R.S. Admiral Tindal.
CuariesThos.nolcombe,Esq. Right Hon. Sir John Young
Joshua Lockwo:Al, EEq. Bart., K.C.B.

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GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL.
Proprietor, Mr. Sefton Parry.
THIS EVENING, at 7, BREACH OF PROMISE.
At 8.15, Mr. T. W. Ito!'ertson's new Comedy, in three acts,
entitled PROGRESS: Messrs. Billington, H. Neville, J. Clarke,
Parselle, Westland, E. Marshall ; Mesdames Lydia Foote,
Hughes, Berend, and Mrs. Stephens.

HOLBORN THEATRE-ROYAL.
Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN.
First Night of the Winter season.
SATURDAY nest, Sept. 25, at 7 o'clock, a new and original
sketch. by Harry Lemon, Esq , called WAIT FOR AN
ANSWER.
After which, at 7.45 will be produced, with new scenery, fur-
niture, and appointments, a new Comedy, in three acts, by
Thomas Morton, Esq., entitled PLAIN ENGLISH, in which
Messrs. Parry Sullivan, George Honey, J. C. Cowper, W. H.
Stephens, D. Evans, Charles Horsman, Lin Rayne, Cotte, Dyas,
W. Arthur, 3lrs. Hermann Vezin; Miss Jane Rignold, and Miss
Howard will appear.
To conclude with the Musical Farce of THE WATERMAN.
The magnificent new scenery by Mr. Julian Hicks; the furni
ture and upholstery by Mr. James Lyon.
Acting Manager—AstonY SULLIVAN.

I) OYAL STRAND THE A_ T PI
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'ollowed by THE TOOD LES: Mr Clarke,

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Fosbrooke, te.

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GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL.
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