The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-09 00:00:00

DOG LICENSES.-CAUTION.

ruTTE CbIiIMISSIONERS of INLAND RE-
-1 VENUE GIVE NOTICE that all DOG LICENSES
granted in the year 18G8 expired on the 31st December
last, and every person keeping a dog 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 dog without License is Five
Pounds.

A License is not transferable from one person to
another.

A License may be obtained by the owner giving his
theho o dnoefi gt
hi'e-
name and address, and the name of the place where the
dog is kept, on application at
The
Revenue ce of the Collector of Inland'
blnour
,
The Office of the Distributor of Stamps .
Or applicant's re-
A Money Order Post Office. J sidence.
Licenses will also be granted by the several Supervisors
of Inland Revenue.
.. . .

Persons residing at a distance from 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 maw a license in retur❑ by post.
WM. CODDLTT, secootitry.

BSOLITTE SECURITY POLICIES, UN-
L_ FORFEITABLE, UNCONDITIONAL, and UN-
CHALLENGEABLM, issned by the PRUDENTIAL
ASSURANCE COMPANY, 62, Ludgate-bill, London,
E.C.
The Directors of this Company, in deference to an ob-
jection not unfrequently urged by parsons 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 Unforfoitable, Unconditional,
and Unchallengeable.
For the reason referred to, many persons hesitate or
decline to assure on the ground that, in the 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 ptemium 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 itnportal)t 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 ono 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 Lifo 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
coedit ions 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,
may always know the utmost amount they may be called
upon to advance so as to maintain the full benefit of the
Assurances—a matter of great importance where policies
are 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.

HOME for the HELPLESS.-ST. JAMES'S
DIOCESAN HOME for FEMALE PENITENTS
(Hammersmith), under the immediate direction of the
Bishop of London. The work carried on by a Sisterhood,
"in faithful accordance with the principles of the Re-
formed Church of England." FUNDS greatly needed
COUNCIL.
The Bishop of LONDON,
Rev. J. W. Ayre Major-Gen. Rt. Hon. Percy
Rev. F. G. Bloomfield Herbert. M.P.
Hon. and Rev. F. Byng Re7* J. E. TCemPe
Rev. It. G. Baker Rev. W. F. Erskine Knollys
Rev. S. Brooke Rev. S. W. Lloyd
The Lord Clinton Rev. A. Martineau
Rev W. Cadman Rev. W. D. Maclagan
E. Charrington, Esq. Rev. Daniel Moore
Rev. E. L. Cutts, Chaplain Rev. J. Moorhouse
Rev. E. Capel Cure J. D. Morton, Esq.
Rev. J. E. Cox Rev. Canoe Nepean
Octavius Coope, Esq. Rev. E. Parry
Arthur Currie, Esq. John Pearson, Esq., Q.C.
Rev. J. Connell Rev. G. F. Prescott
Rev. C. W. Furse Rev. F. Pigou
C. J. Freake. Esq. It. T. Pigott, Esq.
J. S. Gilliat, Esq. a E. Pym, Esq.
Rev. Dr. F Hessey H. Seymour, Esq.
H G Heald, Esq. Hughde, Esq.
R. Hook, Esq., Treasurer Loftus Wigram, Esq.
Subscriptions will be received by any of the above ; by
Messrs. Harries, Farquhar, and Co ; and by the Hon.
Secretary, Rev. S. W. Lloyd, 14, Seymour-street, Port-
man-square, to whom communications may be addressed.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
are as follows :--
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, Hamp- 150, New Kent-road.
stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-strect,Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland. street. wich.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, ll:twat:ad.
9, Honstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary 'd Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's-street, Dover.
Temporary Homo-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 aro admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The committee aro 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 aro recorded in the applicant's book.
The Society's Report (of which a contributor writes, "I
never read a report of any charitable institution which so
entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my
sympathy") maybe 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. DA.NL. CO 9PE13,1 5e0413
I 8; Qmen-ptreet Gheappide

The Room is supplied with Newspapers, both home
and foreign ; Reuter's Telegrams, giving commercial,
political, and general telegraphic information ; Shipping
Lists, Directories, Time Tables, and other Books of Re-
ference.

There is also an excellent Refreshment-ronm attached,
as well as a Reading and Writing Room, comfortably fur-
nished.

The attention of country bankers, solicitors, manufac-
turers, and others is invited to this Institution, which will
be found very convenient to gentlemen whose business
engagements oblige them frequently to visit the metro-
polis.
For further particulars apply to the Manager of the
Room, or to Mr. G. W. Benwell, Secretary of the City
Offices Company, Palmerston-buildings, London.
N.B.—For Advertisement Spaces apply to Messrs. Letts, Son
and Co., 8, Royal Exchange, E.G.; or at the Office in the Lom-
bard Exchange.

Mgrs. Talbot and Howard leave on Monday for
Brindisi, and thence for Constantinople, on a mission to
the Patriarchs in communion with Rome. Joseph Karam,

the Sheik of the Maronite Christians, has arrived in
Rome, having been for the last few months in Greece.
In consequence of the accident to Mrs. Firmin and her
daughters, which I mentioned to you in my last, veloci-
pedes have been forbidden by the Senators and by
Prince Borglino in the villa and in the Pincio, as it was
through the fright occasioned by one of these vehicles
passing at full speed that the horses ran away. Mrs.
Firmin still lies in a very dangerous condition, and her
eldest daughter will, it is feared, be disfigured for life.
An address was presented on Tuesday to the Pope by
the various strangers of distinction now in Rome of diffe-
rent nations, among whom the names of FUrstenberg-
Lechtenstein, Salm-Clury, Windischgratz, Von Blom,
among the Germans ; De Valori, De Sabian, De Mirepoix,
De Crazelles, De Blams, De la Ferronnaye, among the
French ; Maxwell, Stourton, Bodelsham7 of Rytturwas,
Vavasour, Melman, Wyse, and Petre, among the English,
were the most worthy of note. There was also a conside-
rable number of Spaniards, Milanese, and Belgians,
making altogether 450 gentlemen and noblemen of nearly
every country in Europe. The address was expressive of
the most devoted obedience to the Holy See, and of the
hopes Europe reposed in the assemblage of the General
Council for restoring peace and order to the world. It
was drawn up and read by Count von Thom, the ex.
Minister of Public Instruction in Vienna. Just
as he ended reading it, a very eccentric but zealous
adherent of the Pope, Don Antonio Almeida, nephew of
the late Portuguese Ambassador, the Duke of Saldanha,
rushed forward, and throwing himself on his knees before
the Pope, who with great difficulty maintained his gravity,
began a voluble protest against all the acts of the Portu-
guese Government since the Liberal Administration 4
attacked the Church. Don Antonio was happily induced
to desist by his friends, and the Pope then proceeded to
reply in a short but well•worded discourse to the
gentlemen presenting the address. He thanked them
for their zeal and devotion, and said that much now
devolved on the Catholic laymen of all countries to stem
the tide of infidelity and immorality now abroad in every
part of Europe. He expressed a firm reliance on Provi-
dence in the difficulties of the Holy See, and on the aid of
the Holy Spirit in the approaching Council, and concluded
by the usual benediction.

It is more than probable that a complete reform in the
discipline of the religious orders will be carried out
by the Council. The Pope, at the beginning of his reign,
was desirous of effecting it, and of restoring them to their
primitive fervour. Those in Rome which have been
always under the eye of the Holy See leave little to be
desired, but in the provinces reforms on minors points are
required, and will be effected by the Church herself. I
do not speak of so-called " scandals," for immorality is
extremely rare ; but of relaxation of sincerity, and of
separation from the original purpose and spirit of
the institute. In the Sicilies and Tuscany especially this
has long been the case, from the jealousy of any inter-
ference which existed on the part of both the Grand Duke
and the King of Naples, and which prevented Rome from
carrying out the necessary reforms as she has done here to
a far greater extent.
It is said—in well-informed circles, too—that several
very important decisions as to the respective rights of the
Church and the civil power when opposed to each other
will be arrived at. Immense preparations are being made
everywhere for the Pope's jubilee of fifty years of priest.
hood. He will, on the anniversary of that day (the 11th
April), say Mass in St. Peter's, at the high altar, and will
afterwards receive the deputations from all parts of Italy
and the Christian world, who will each present him with
offerings in money, destined to defray the expenses of the
Council. A grand military review will take place before
St. Peter's, and the city will he magnificently illuminated,
besides other rejoicings, which are at present en ttat de
projet.

The Infant Don Alfonso, brother of the Duke of
Madrid, a corporal in the Pontifical Zouaves, has been
summoned to Paris by his brothers, in consequence of the
probability of civil war in Spain, where the Carlists are
preparing to take the field. Constitutional monarchy, a
free Parliament, liberty of worship for foreigners at least,
municipal institutions, extension of railways, mines,
public works, and commerce at home and in the colonies,
and the gradual abolition of slavery in Cuba, form their
programme, a copy of which, privately circulated in the
party, lies before me. The Duke de Montpensier's candi-
dature is considered the most probable here ; but a
Republic will either follow it or precede it, and it is only
the certainty that Serrano has received an immense sum from
the Orleans family that lends credit to the probability of
the Duke's success. I incline to the belief that Don
Carlos will be the eventual King of Spain, chosen by the
entire nation.

A ridiculous scrap—a mere " memo" of the
editor—on the rise in the value of property in Ireland,
taken from " The Realities of Irish Life" by W. T. Trench,
found its way into a lat 3 issue, where it appeared as a
sort of Chinese puzzle. The facts are these :—The
Barony of Farney, when granted by Queen Elizabeth to
Walter Earl of Essex, in 1576, was a wild and almost un-
enclosed alder plain, consisting chiefly of coarse pasturage,
interspersed with low alder scrub. In 1606 the Lord
Deputy, the Lord Chambarlain, and the Chief Justice, when
passing through this district to hold a Commission of Assize
in the north, had to be guarded by six or seven score of foot
and two or three score of horse, which was considered an
improvement on former times when a thousand men was
the smallest escort. Tho lease of the whole Barony was
granted to Ivar MacMahon at a yearly rent of £250, pay-
able in Dublin, a proviso necessary to secure any payment
at all. In 1618 the rental was £1,500; in 1638, £2,022,
tenants 38 ; in 1692 (church lands excepted), £2,627 ; in
1829, £4,000 ; in 1843, before the famine, the population
amounted to 44,107. The extent of land was 67,333 acres:
the valuation, including church lands, was about £46,395
per annum. The increase appears greater than it really
is, for the £250 31acMahon paid in 1606 was intrinsically
worth five times the money of the present day, but still
enough remains to show a progress not unlike that going
on in America or in a British colony.
The Woman Suffrage movement continues to
make way under the active measures of the ladies who
have interested themselves in it. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton and Miss Susan B. Anthony lectured at Mercan-
tile Hall, St. Louis on Monday, the 15th Feb., under the
auspices of theiWoman's Suffrage Association of Missouri,
to a large audience. Miss Anthony had started for Lea-
venworth, and Mrs. Stanton was to address the Illinois
Legislature at Springfield on the 19th Feb.

A new patented cattle car has arrived in Provi-
dence from Albany. It hits made one prolious trip from
Chicago to Boston. It is 40 feet long, divided into 14
stalls, each 34 inches wide, intended for one head of cattle
each. They thus have room to lie down at pleasure.
Each stall is provided with a trough to feed and water the
animal on the way. Under the centre of the car is a largo
box for carrying feed. The inventor, James H. Aldrich
of Worcester, Massachusetts, has two patents, both ob-
tained in 1867.

Senator elect Pratt, to whom rumour had as-
signed the height of 7 feet, and weight above 4001b5., hes
at length settled the question. Ho says be wsighs 270
pounds, and, in addition, informs a wondering world that
he is 6 feet 4 inches high.

The death of Major-Gen. Barnes, of the United
States Army, at his residence in Springfield, Mass., is an-
nounced. Ho was a graduate of West Point.
DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest
holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re •
commended by the medical profession in preference to French
Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exports .
tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Danville and Co.
Belfast; cr 4, Beaufort-buildings Strand, London W.Q.—[Ad-
TertiSeMent.