The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-29 00:00:00

FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON
FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN
STITUTION.

President —Rev. CANON DA LB.
CONTRIBUTIONS for the support of the Homes in 1363 are ear-
nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon
qnnt, Salt, and CO., 73, Lombard street., K. 0.; Francis Nicholls,
EN. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, B.C.
E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road,

THE METROPOLITAN CONVALESCENT
INSTITUTION.
President—His Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON.
Treasurers—The Right Hon. 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 are received
at Walton ; 80 children at Mitcham and Hendon.
Bankers—London Joint-Stock Bank, Pall-mall.
CHARLES HOLMES, Secretary •
Office, 82, Sackville-street, Piccadilly.

THE LONDON SURGICAL HOME for
DISEASES and AQOIDENTS of WOMEN, for
the Reception of Gentlewomen and Females of Respect-
ability upon a weekly payment. Under the management
of Mr. Baker Brown.

The privatemedical attendants of the patients are
in rited to visit them, and to meet in consultation before
treatment.

Full particulars can be obtained on application to the
Lady-Superintendent, 18, Stanley-terrace, Notting-hill,
W. ; or to Mr. Baker Brown, 136, Harley-stroet, W.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and
clothing for the
126 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship.
150 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street.
94 girls in the Refuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing

870 children.
£l5 will keep a boy or girl for one year.
Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank
214, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbury, KO.; and by
WILLIAM WILLI ADIS, Secretary.
No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-flede.

ESTABLISHMENT for GENTLEWOMEN

during TEMPORARY ILLNESS.
The relatives of Clergymen, Naval, Military, and Pro-
fessional Men, 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 Harley-street.
This establishment, which was opened in 1860, 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
Treasure; at Messrs. Coutts and Co.'s, 59, Strand.
W. 0 SPRING WOE Hon. See.

A BSOLUTE SECURITY POLICIES, UN-
L 1 FORFEITABLE, UNCONDITIONAL, and UN-
CHALLENGEABLE, issued by the PRUDENTIAL
ASSURANCE COMPANY, 62, Ludgate-bill, 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 Unchallongeable.
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 continue 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 premium 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
sot forth on every Policy, and rendering unnecessary any
future reference to the Company on these points, as is the
case with ordinary assurances.

Oroditors 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 ibsued on this plan will be without any
conditions as to vnyncing, foreign residence, or other usual
limitations. By this freedom from restrictions of all kinds

the objections before referred to will be sntirely removed,
and the Policies will become at once positively valuable as
actul.l securities.

In addition to the foregoing statement of advantages,
the number of premiums is strictly defined. The ingest
term provided for is twenty-fire years, and the shortest
five years, as shown by tho Tables. Thus, bankers, credi-
tors, and others holding policies of this class as security,
may always know the utmost amount they may be called
upon to advance so as to maintain tho full benefit of the
Assurances—a matter of great importance where policies
axe held as collateral security.
It is only necessary to add that, as a consequence of the
policies under these tables being unforfeitable and uncon-
ditional, they will also be unchallengeable on any ground
whatever. They may therefore 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
business of any office in the Kingdom. SPECIAL
AGENTS WANTED.

HENRY HARBEN, Secretary.

BRITISH HOSPITAL for SKIN DISEASES,
56, Great Marlborough-street, W.
Bankers, Messrs. Ransom.
SUPPORT is earnestly solicited.
ALEXANDER RIVINGTON, Hon. Sec.

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

pk,OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern
Railway Terminus, King's Cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN.
Vico-Patron—
His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G.
President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.
This Hospital, founded iu the year 1828, the first to
establish the principle of free admission to the sick poor,
without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is
wholly dependent fer support on voluntary contributions
and legacies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged be-
tween 8,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the
benevolent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs.
Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs.
Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ;
Harries and no.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and
Co.; Smith, Payii, and Co.; Barclay and Co. ; Williams,
Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co..:Berners-street ; and,at
the Hospital from,lo till 5.

We do not know what our London tailors will
say, but, according to the Woo York Sun, this is the cos-
tume of Mr. John Lester Wallack, since his return from
Europe, who wears "on full dress occasions a blue swallow •
tail coat, with velvet collar and gilt buttons, a white vest,
with rich fancy white buttons, black kneo breeches, with
black silk stockings,and pumps with delicate silver buckles.
This is now the correct thing for full dress. As worn
by Mr. Wallack it is a very elegant costume, and our
dandies will imitate it of course. it is not well suited for
their legs."
"K." writes to the Boston Advertiser the account
of a boat race between an English and American crew in
1824 at New York. A British frigate arrived from the West
Indies and anchored off the Battery. Having a trained
boat's crew on board, the captain published a challenge in
the American papers to pull a given distance against his
crew. The boatmen of New York took it up, and although
considering their task almost hopeless in the face of the
superior training and the great confidence of tho English,
they set to work to make the best arrangements possible.
The boats started from the frigate, about one mile up the
North River, around a barge anchored in the stream and
back to the man-of-war,each with six oarsmen and a coxs-
wain. The captain of the English frigate steered his own
boat, but to do honour to the occasion he came out in " full
fig," with a great cocked hat, which acted as a sail as they
pulled against a strong wind up the river. Whether the
cocked hat was the reason or not, the " Whitehall" boat
took the lead, and kept it, increasing the distance till they
won by nearly a quarter of a mile, amid shouts of delight,
New York devoting the remainder of tho day to celebrat-
ing the victory. The boat, with the crew in it, was car-
ried in triumph through the principal streets, and in the
evening was exhibited at one of the theatres, and a sort of
ovation given to the men. The English officer took his
defeat with good nature, and was complimented for his
fairness and ready submission to the result, which some
thought was in no small degree attributable to his cocked
hat,