The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-24 00:00:00

WEST INDIES AND MEXICO.

Leave St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St.
Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, Now Orleans, Porto Rico,
Haiti, Santiago de 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 Japak.
Hand books, with full details of all the routes of this
company, can be bad of
STRINGER, PEMBBRORE, and Co.,
Agents, 8, Austinfriars, London, E.C.

CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL
LTFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
13, ST. JAMES'S SQUARE, LONDON, S.W.

CHAIRMAN.
Right Hon. John Robert Mowbray, M.P.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMEN.
William Bowman, Esq., F.R.S.
Sir Charles Locock, Bart, D.C.L., F.R.S.

Extracts from the Report of the• Directors, presented at
the Annual General Meeting held on the 27th November,
1868 :-
1. The sum of £412,345 was proposed for Assurance, of
which £307,395 was completed at Premiums pro-
ducing £10,067 per Annum.
2. The amount paid under Claims by death was £100,883,
being the smallest since 1860, whilst the expenses of
management and all other outgoings were even less
than for many years past.
3. On the other hand, the Income was raised to £219,769,
notwithstanding that its increase was retarded by
abatements of premium which did not take effect in
the previous year, and by the cessation of interest on
I he large sum paid as Bonus in 1867.
4. The Surplus income was very considerable. It
amounted to £93,152, a sum exceeding by more than
£B,OOO any previous Surplus during the forty-four
years of the Society'g existence.
5. The Accumulated Fund was thereby increased to
£1,598,906.

The following are among the distinctive features of the
Society :
CREDIT SYSTEM.—On any Policy for the w'.ole of
Life, where the age does net exceed 60, one-half of the
Annual Premiums during the past five years may remain
on credit.
ENDOWMENT ASSURANCES may be effected,
without Profits, by which the Sum Assured becomes pay-
able on the attainment of a specified age, or at death,
whichever event shall first happen.
INVALID LIVES may be assured at rates proportioned
to the increased risk. -
PROMPT SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS.—Claims paid
thirty days after proof of death.
Tables of Rites and Forms of Prop
Ofial can be obtained
of any of the Society's Agents, or of
GEORGE CUTCLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary.
13, St. James's-square, London. S.W.
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ABSOLUTE
SECURITY POLICIES, UN-
FORFEITABLE, UNCONDITIONAL, and UN-
CHALLENGEABLM, issued by the PRUDENTIAL
ASSURANCE COMPANY, 62, Ludgate-hill, London,
E.C. Established 1848.
The Directors of this Company, 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
m
the present Tables, and to issue AssuraDOCS under
which shall be absolutely Unforfeitable, 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 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, ©Very 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 to 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 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
foreign residence, or other usual
conditions as to voyaging,
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
may therefore be aptly termed Absolute
whatever. They
Security Policies.
The PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY pos-
sesses an income of £215,000 a year. Its position is 1111•
questionable, and it obtains the largest amount of new
business of any office in the Kingdom. SPECIAL
AGENTS WARTED.
HENRY HARBEN, Secretary.

CAUTION.
DOG LICENSES—_
ripHE COMMISSIONERS of INLAND RE-
_I VENUE GIVE NOTICE that all DOG LICENSES
granted in the year 1868 expired on the 31st December
a dog in the current year is
last, and every person keeping
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
name and address, and the name of the place where the
dog is kept, on application at
The Office of the Collector of Inland) In the neigh-
Revenue,
The Office of the Distributor of Stamps bourhood of the
applicant's re-
Or
A Money Order Post Office. sldence.
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 receive 4 license ret
LlT,urn by st.
QinQBB Pepo
crotory;

rirHE ROYAL INFIRMARY for DISEASES
of CHILDREN and WOMEN, Waterloo-bridge-

road. •
Upwards of 100 poor sick children aro relieved daily at
this Hospital.
The Committee most earnestly solicit Contributions, to
enable them to continue the benefits of medical aid to those
numerous poor suffering children, who aro rendered so
helpless by sickness and poverty.
Bankers, Messrs. Fuller, Banbury, and Co., 77, Lombard-
street; and by Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand.
CHARLES J. F. RENTON, Secretary.
Waterloo-bridge-road, S E.

BRITISH HOME for INC URABLES, 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 perm: ns over
20 years of age and above the pauper class, who aro hope-
lessly afflicted with incurable disease.
Pensions of VO per annum are also granted
The Home was opened in September 1R63 ; 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. DrummoDndWD., ChaWEriogA -cross, S
Sec.EVEliy
Offices, 73, Cheapside, E.C.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
Are as follows :
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, Hamp- 150, New Bent-road.
stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-street,Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland• street. wich.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, Henstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, Buckburst-hill.
Country Homo—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 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,
never read a report 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
or the Earl of
Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Barclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent. DANL. COOrFA Sec'
8 Qasa-etrot Glaeßside.