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

RUPTURES.-.--BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.

WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
(Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions
of 1851 and 1862) is allowed by upwards of Five Hundred
Medical men to be the most effective invention in
the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel
spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is hero avoided—a
soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requi-
site resisting power is supplied by the Moc-Main Pad and
Patent Lover, fitting with so much ease and closeness that
it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A
descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which can-
not fail to fit, forwardei by post, on the circumference of
the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the
manufacturer,
Mr. JO RN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London.
A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage,
ls. A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage,
ls. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and b2s. 6d. Postage,
is. 10d.
Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White,
Post-office, Piccadilly.

NEW PATENT
VLAS TIC STOCKINGS,
KNEE-OAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases
of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They
are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are
drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d.
10s., and 16s. each. Postage, 6d.
JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly.

GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Cale-
donian-road, N.—Several beds in the new buildings
cannot be occupied for WANT of FUNDS.
F. SMITH, Esq., Hon. Secretary.
GEORGE REID, Secretary.

KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL, Portugal-
street, Lincoln's-inn.—The Committee earnestly
APPEAL for FUNDS to defray the heavy current ex-
penses. Assistance is urgently needed.
J. W. WALDRON, Secretary.

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

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The private _ medical attendants of the patients are
invited to visit them, and to meet in consultation before
treatment.

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

URSING.—ST. JOHN'S HOUSE and
11 SISTERHOOD for TRAINING NURSES for
HOSPITALS, Families, and tho Poor: established 1848.

President—The Lord Bishop of LONDON.
The nursing at King's College and the Charing-cross
Hospitals, and the Galignani English Hospital at Paris,
is at present superintended by the Sisters of John's
House.
Ladies or others wishing to qualify themselves as
members of the House or Sisterhood, or as pupils to be
trained to nurse, are requested to communicate with the
Lady Superior.
Donations and Subscriptions to the General Fund, the
Sisters' Fund, or the Nurses' Pension Fund, may be paid
to Messrs. Coutts ; or to the Lady Superior, at St. John's
House, Norfolk-street, Strand, W.C.

ROYAL SCHOOL for DAUGHTERS of
OFFICERS of the ARMY, Lansdown, Bath.
Instituted, A.D., 1864.
Under the Patronage of her Majesty the QUEEN.
President—H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, K.G., &c.
Chairman—Major-General Sir A. J. LAWRENCE, K.C.B.
This school has been founded upwards of four years,
and it is intended for the education of the daughters of
officers of the army, Indian and Marines. There are
already 70 pupils in the school, but more could be admitted
if the committee had further funds; they, therefore
APPEAL to the public to aid them in carrying out to its
full extent the benefits of the only institution specially
provided for the daughters of officers of the Army.
Each donation of £5 ss. entitles to one life veto at all
elections. Each annual subscription of £5 Ss entitles to
one vote at all elections
w
ctions.
}dioußrisngTEt:
ucunrdroerntsyeceraer.tary.The
amount may be forwarded by an order on a bank, agent,
or post-office (Charing-cross), payable to.
Office, 22, Cockspur-street, London.

DOOR SICK and HELPLESS CHILDREN.
—The ROYAL INFIRMARY for CHILDREN
and WOMEN, Waterloo-bridge-road. Instituted 1810.
Increased PECUNIARY ASSISTANCE is most
urgently needed, and solicited, for continuing relief to the
ller'Coutts and Co.Banbury, and Co., 77, Lom-
bard-street; 59 Strand.
,
poor little suffering inmates at this Hospital.
Office, Waterloo-bridge-road, S.E.
s;CeraHsn.dARLES Fuller,
Messrs.
J. F. RENTON, Secretary.
B abnakredr_ss —t r Decl

iviE DEAF tk DUMB.—The Committee of the
1 JEWS' DEAF and DUMB HOME are prepared to
receive APPLICL.TN lOS for the ADMISSION of DEAF
and DUMB CHILDREN, of all denominations, as Day
Pupils, for instruction in audibledible speech and lip-reading.
The system adopted rigidly excludes the use of the
manual alphabet and all artificial signs.
A public lesson is given every Wednesday, at 3 p.m.,
when the successful results of the system can bo wit-
nessed.
Applications for terms, the course of instruction, and all
other particulars, to be made to
W. VAN PRAAGII, Esq.,
Director of the Jews Deaf and Dumb Home,
44, Burton-crescent, W.C.

VAST LONDON HOSPITAL for CIIILDREN.
The Committee earnestly desire to raise funds which
shall enable them to establish the Hospital in more suit-
ablee buildings
The
premises now occupied are crowded
and n
causing additional expense from that binud
circumstance.eiolivn 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 the present building.
£B,OOO at least is required to carry out this much-wished-
for and urgent scheme.
Contributions will bo thankfully received by the Trea-
surer, E.S.lNorris, Esq., Shadwoll ; or by
SHERRARD B. BURNABY, Hon. Sec.,
Rectory, Wapping, E.

£1,448,052 6 6
Examined and approved.
THOMAS ALLEN,} Auditors.
HENRY ROSE,
CHARGE OF THE TEAR.
x s. d.

CR.
pivideud to proprietors
naims on decease of lives
assured
Ldditions to those under
Participating policies
?olicies surrendered
ile-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 9 10

£ s. 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 oa a previous occasion, the proper quin-
quennial average is generally pretty sure to obtain, and
tho fact that the average for the past two years barely ex-
ceeds £309,000 tends to confirm that statement.
The expenses of management. aro greater by nearly
£BOO 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 reearded as very moderate. It will be observed that
they are only three per cent. of the total income.
BALANCE-SHEET, JUNE 30, 1869.
Dn. LIABILITIES.
Interest due to proprietors
Claims on decease of lives assured, and
additions thereto unpaid 108,940 6 7
Sundry accounts
Liability under sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,336, 10 0626 8 2
Proprietors' fund
Surplus fund

£6,757 17 0

£7,675,813 0 10
Examinod and approved.
THOMAS ALLEN )
Auditors.
HENRY ROSE,
CR ASSETS.
Amount invested in fixed mortgagee £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 aboveinvestinents 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 aceounts
Value of premiums (1867) .... 4,506,167 18 0
%ralue of re-assurances 85,706 14 5

£7,675,813 0 10

Tho balance-sheet does not appear to call for any re-
mark. The assets are, of course, increased by the sum of
£95,422 7s. 3d. already mentioned, as is shown by tho
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. Buller East, Bt., D.C.L. Thomas Godfrey Sambrook°,
Win. Augustus Guy, M.D., Esq.
F.R.S. Admiral Tindal.
CharlesThos.llolcombe,Esq. Right lion. Sir John Young
Joshua Lockwood, Esq. Bart., K.C.B.

NE HUNDRED & SEVENTY D E STIT UT E
ORPHAN OHILDREN are being maintained in tho
ROYAL ALBERT ORPHAN ASYLUM, at tho moderato rate
of £245 per annum each. Funds greatly needed.
CHARLES A. WALLET, Secretary
Office, 54, Cheareide, Londe; E.O,

R 0 YAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION.
(Established by Charter of his Majesty George tho First),
For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITIES.
Offices—ROYAL EXCHANGE, London.
Branch Offico-29, Pall Mall, S.W.

OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq Governor.
JAMES STEWART lI9DGSON, Esq Sub-Governor.
CHARLES JOHN MANNING, Esq Deputy-Govornor.

DIRECTORS.

Robert Barclay, Esq.
John Garratt Cattlev, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq.
Edward James Daniell, Esq,
William Davidson, Esq _

William Totlow Hibbert,
Esq.
Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Egerton Hubbard, Esq.
Novilo Lubbock, Esq.
George Forbes Malcolmson,
Esq.
Lord Josceline Wm. Percy.
Charles Robinson, Esq.
Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
Joseph Somes, Esq.
William Wallace, Esq.
Charles Baring Young, Esq.
uol Solly, Esq., F.R.S.

Lancelot William Dent, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq.
Fredk. Joseph Edlmann, Esq.
Charles B.ormann Goschen,
E sq.
Riversdale Wm. Grenfell,
Esq.
Francis Alex. Hamilton, Esq.
Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq.
Medical Referee, Sam.

FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected on
advantageous terms.
FIRE DUTY. —This Tax having been abolished, the
PREMIUM is NOW the only charge for Firo Insurances.
FA rMING STOCK.—No Extra Charge is made for the
use of Steam Thrashing Machine 3.
The Reversionary Bonus on British LIFE POLICIES
has averaged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum
assured.

Equivalent reductions have been made in tho Premiums
payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus.

. ~ .
The Divisions of Profit take place every Five Years.
Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on 0110
Life.

This Corporation affords to the Assured
Liberal participation in Profits, with the guarantee
of a large invested Capital Stock, and exemption
under Royal Charter from the liabilities of part-
nership.
The advantages of modern practice, with the secu-
rity of an Office whose resources have been tested
127 the experience of nearly a CENTURY AND A
RAM

ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
ROBERT P. STEELE, Secretary.

.ONDON FEVER HOSPITAL is the only
ILA institution in the Metropolis for the treatment and
prevention of contagious fevers. _

CONTRIBUTIONS will be gratefully received by
Messrs. Dimsdale and Co., 50, Cornhill ; Messrs. Drum-
mond, Charing-cross ; Messrs. Coutts, Strand ; Messrs.
Hare, Fleet-street ; and by the Secretary, at the Hospital,
Liverpool-road, Islington, N.

2STABLISHMENT 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 1850, is patro-
nised by her Majesty. The Bishop of London is Visitor,
and it is managed by the Marchioness of Ormondo, the
Lady Laura Palmer, Mrs. Edward Romilly, the Lady
Caroline Russell, Mrs. Cecil Russell, and othoi 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. C SPRTNG BRIE Hon. Sec.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern
Railway Terminus, King's Cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious MATESTY the QUEEN.
Vice-Patron—
His Royal highness the Prince of WALES, K.G.

President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEIICII, 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 for 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 3,000 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.
Contrib,:.tions aro received by their bankers, Messrs.
Brown, Ifan.om, and Co., Abehurch-lano ; also by Messrs.
Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co.;
Harries and Co.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and
Co.; Smith, Parae, and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Williams,
Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co.,ll3orners-street i and'at
the Hospital from 10,itill 5.

Livery who are willing to join the committee be
requested to forward their names at once to the

chairman.

So the matter remains at present, and the elee-
,ion will be held, as usual, at the Guildhall on the

29th of September (Michaelmas Day).

711 E FATAL ACCIDENI AT THE BOAT

RACE.

Last evening the inquiry concerning the death of
Thomas Ilenry Edmund Showell, accountant, of
Basinghall-street, who met his death on the
Metropolitan Railway, returning from the great
boat race, was resumed before Dr. Diplick, at the
Station Hotel, Latimer-road.
The issue raised on behalf of the young man was
that he was very short-sighted and suffered very
much from the heat, and that consequently when
the train was delayed at Latimer-road, he got out
on to the parapet, thinking it was the platform,
and so met his death. The evidence was very con-

flictiDg.

James Smith deposed that he was in the same
carriage with deceased. When the train stopped
at Latimer-road, and after five or ten minutes
delay, people began to speculate as to the cause.
His attention was drawn to the deceased by hearing
him offer to toss anybody for a bottle of cham-
pagne. The deceased then opened the carriage
door and went out, notwithstanding the dissuasions
of several gentlemen. lie afterwards heard be had
fallen over.

Sarah Miller was in the next carriage, and saw
deceased get into the train at Shepherd's-bush. She
was looking out at the window when the train was
delayed at Latimer-road, and saw the deceased get
out of the carriage and step on to the parapet. lle
did not stand on the wall but fell over immediately.
From his manner of walking at Shepherd's-bush
she judged he had been drinking.
Arthur Palmer was also a passenger in the same
compartment. his impression was that the deceased
got out slowly, that he put his hands upon the wall
in order to jump up, and that in doing so he fell
over. It was pitch dark, and the light of the car-
riage shone on the wall, so that no one could know
what was on the other side.

John Knight saw the deceased led to the train
by a porter at Shephherd's-bulb, and also saw him
get out of the carriage. He should certainly think
he was not sober.
Henry T. Staples, M.R.C.S., deposed to seeing
deceased in articulo nzortis, and described the state
in which he found him. He did not perceive the
slightest smell of liquor, but he should not like to
say deceased was perfectly sober.
Mr. Chas. Chapman, surveyor, was called to
show that the parapet was only an inch and a half
higher than the platform, and that it was easy to
step out of the train on tc it.

The father of the deceased stated that his son's
conduct had always been that of a gentleman, and
that he was of temperate habits.
The Coroner having summed up,

The jury consulted for 10 minutes, when they
returned the following verdict : " We are of opinion
that deceased came by his death accidentally, and,
while we do not consider the company to blame in
this matter, as deceaNd had taken a ticket to
King's-cross, we deem it advisable that all parapets
should be protected so as to prevent the recurrenco
of a similar accident."