The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-06 00:00:00

OCTAVIUS WIGRAM
JAMES STEWART FiIDGSON, E
CIIART:PS JOHN MANNING,
DIREO

Esq
Governor.
sq Sub-Governor.
sq Deputy-Governor.
TORS
Tetlow 'Ebben,
Esq.
Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Egerton Hubbard, Esq.
Nevile Lubbock, Esq.
George Forbes Malcolmson,
E
Lord sq.
Josekline Wm. Percy.
Charles Robinson, Esq.
Samuel Loo Schuster, Esq.
Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
Joseph Somos, Esq.
William Wallace, Esq.
Charles Baring Young, Esq.
Solly, Esq., F.R.S.

Robert Barclay, Esq.
John Garratt Cattley, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq.
Edward James Daniell, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq
Lancelot William Dent, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq.
Fredk. Joseph Edlrnann, Esq.
Charles Hermann. Gosehen,
Esq.
Riversdale Wm. Gronfoll,

Esq.
Francis Aks. Ilamilton, Esq.
Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq.
. --Medical Referee, Sao

NOTICE.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment
of FIRE PREMIUMS falling due at Michaelmas will
expire on the 14th of October.
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 Fire Insurances.
FA 'MING STOCK.—No Extra Charge is made for the
use of Steam Thrashing Machines.
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 the 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 one
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
by the experience of nearly a CENTURY AND A
HALF.

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

rrHE ROYAL HOSPITAL for DISEASES of
IL the CHAST, City-road.—The wards for in-patients
are constantly full, those for out-patients crowded daily.
FUNDS greatly needed.
CHARLES L. KEMP, Secretary.

CANCER HOSPITAL (Free) : founded 1851.
—Brompton, S.W., and 167, Piccadilly.—Over 8,000
cases treated since foundation. Remedies and diet very
expensive. Over 40 in hospital, and many eases unable
to bo admitted for want of FUNDS ; at present over 300
out-patients.
Treasurer—Geo. T. Ifertslet, Esq., Lord Chamberlain's
Office, St. James's Palace.
Bankers—Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand.
By order, H. J. JTJPP.

SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL (the Dreadnought), off
Greenwich, for Sick and Diseased Seamen of All
Nations, who are received without any recomendation.
The Committee require upwards of £4,500 annually
from voluntary bounty to meet the expenditure of this
Hospital.
SUBSCRIPTIONS will be most thankfully received by
Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., bankers, Birchin-
lane ; and at the Society's offices, 86, King William-street,
E.C., by

S. KEMBALL COOK, Secretary.
Qualification for a Governor, 21s. annually ; Life
Governor, .£lO 10s.

LONDON HOSPITAL, Whitechapel-road, E.
The great East-end receptacle for Accidents and
Urgent Cases. 4,932 In-patients last year, of whom 4,059
were free cases.
CONTRIBUTIONS earnestly requested.
WM. J. NIXON, House Governor and Secretary.

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

President —liov. CANON DALE.

CIONTRIBUTIONSfOithe support of the Homes in 1868 are ear-
nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon
quet, Salt, and Co., 78, Lombard street, KC.; Francis Nicholls,
Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers,
E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road, N.W.

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, 32, Sackville-street, Piccadilly.

TiHE LONDON SURGICAL HOME for
-I- DISEASES and ACCIDENTS of WOMEN, for
the Reception of Gentlewomen and Females of Respect-
ability upon a weekly payment. Under the management
of Mr. Baker Brown.
The private medical attendants of tho patients are
invited 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, Ifarley-street, 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 tho 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.
21004,
untirighbulltiooinsborrn,ecesinvead4blyLthotehbLuoryndoEnca da
WILLI AMS, Secretary.
No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields.
and
WILLIAM minster Bank

4STABLISHMENT 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 Majestyy. The Bishop of London is Visitor,
and it is managed y 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
Treasurer, at Messrs. Coutta and Co.'s, 59, Strand.
w. C SPRING lill3F, non. Sec.

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 11.37. J. E. Kempe
,
Rev. R. 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 3. D. Morton, Esq.
Rev. J. E. Cox Rev. Canon 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. R. T. Pigott, Esq.
J. S. Gilliat, Esq. R. R. Pym, Esq.
Rev. Dr. F Hossey Hugh H. Seymour, Esq.
H G Heald, Esq. R. Wade, Esq.
R. Hook, Esq., Treassror Loftus Wigram, Esq.
Subscriptions will be received by any of the above ; by
Messrs. Harries,
Secretary, Rev. S. Lloyd, 14, Seymour-street, Port-
man-square, to whom conimurications may be addressed.
a, Farr,
res
s wbar, and Co ; and by the Hon.

ROYAL HOSPITAL for INCURABLES
y~est _hill, Putnoy-h oat h.

Established 31st July, 1854.
This Institution exists for the comfort, and relief of per.
sons (being above the pauper class) afflicted with incur-
ablesupplying a home, with
bodily disease.
meiclteicliaelfaitstenaffdanrdcee,cin.ttingl3,aynd all requisites for the in-
valid.
2d. By granting an annuity of £2O to patients at thei
own homes.
last been completed
al-Ina:FUNDS are urgently
at
NEEDEDlAeroestwowing
atliquidaterodt;lioef fule`',lo3otoal expenses incurred.
There are 120 inmates and 237 pensioners, all entirely
dependent upon voluntary subscriptions.
Nearly 300 approved applicants are awaiting election
For the maintenance of present operations, for the ex
tension of the benefits of the Charity, donations, and espe-
cially annual subE3riptions, are earnestly solicited. Life
£5 55. and upwards; annual subscriptions,
and upwards, with votes in proportion.
hsuablfseargiputiinoenas,
Information will be supplied, with the g-eatest pleasure,
upon application to the Secretary, by whom contributions
will bo thankfully received.
FREDERIC ANDREW Secretary
No. 10, Poultry? London, E.C. September 1868.

BRITON MEDICA:
TAPE ASS(

AND GENERAL
,MATION.

Chief Offices-429, Strand, London.
TRUSTEES.
Lient.-General Sir J. E. IR. Partridge, Esq., F.R.S.
Dupuis, K.C.B. Francis Webb, Esq.
Sir James Duke, Bart. \V. Tyler Smith, M.D.
Sir W. Fergusson, Bart., Millis Coventry, Eaq.
F.R.S.
CHAIRMAN of THE BOARD—FRANCIS WEBB, Esq.
DEPUTY CHAIRMAN -W. TYLER SMITH, Esq.
EXTRACTS from the FIFTEENTH ANNUAL RE-
PORT, read at the Annual General Meeting held at the
Society's House on Thursday, 18th March, FRANCIS
WEBB, Esq., in the chair.
The directors have received 3,212 proposals for assur-
ing the sum of £972,806 18s. 9d. 2,472 'policies were
issued, assuring £703,451 4s. and producing in annual
premiums the sum of £25,227 Bd.
The following tabulated retur:
ness transactions during the th

•ns exhibit the new busi-
:o quinquennial periods :

g r:s
.7c1;,5
51
60, Amount 6 Amount Annual
F°o Proposed. Assured. Premiums
.5
cy,f 44
---
z 0. d. £ s. d. s. d.
ISSB 4,802 1,023;140 0 0 3,318 .854,140 00- 21,347 16 5
1863 13,244 2,779,666 0 0 9.746 2,037,383 0 0 63,507 19 10
1868 17,466 4,861,303 5 9 13,699 3,752,967 4 8 122,257 17 6
Total- 35,512 8,664,109 5 9 26,763 6444,490 4 8 207,113 13 9
The net premium income has increased to
the sum of - £218,704 1 7
• ••

The net premium income
the sum of
The interest on investmen
of receipt yield

Is and otheritems

:1,276 18 1

Making a total income of £237,980 19 8
The claims were 335, amounting to the sum of £127,886
12s. ld.
The balance of the year's income was £68,026 9s. 4d.
The assets of the association at the close of the year
amounted to £667,493 Bs. sd.
Tho directors draw special attention to the fact that the
next bonus valuation will take place at the end of the year
1872, and that all polices effected on the profit scales prior
to the 31st December, 1869, will be entitled to participate
in the same.
The directors also draw attention to the successful esta-
blishment during the past year of the Britannia Fire
Association, under the auspices of the Briton. The direc-
tors believe that the establishment of a Fire Company, to
work in active co-operation with the Life, will tend much
to the advantage and profit of both institutions. It is
scarcely necessary to remark that the capital funds and
constitution of each office are quite separate and distinct.
By order of the Board,
JOHN MESSENT, Actuary and Secretary.
London, March 18, 1869.

ABOLITION OF THE DUTY ON FIRE
INSURANCES.

►'rHE Directors of the ROYAL INSURANCE
( OMPANY, in anticipation of the above, beg to intimate
that on all new D.surances now effected there will only be
payable (provisionally) the proportion of Duty for the time
between the date of the Order and Midsummer Day next.
ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.

HEAD OFFICES:
Boyd Insurance Buildings, Liverp3ol,
and.
Lombard-street, London.
CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS STERLING.

Important Announcement.
Increased Share of Life Prate.

ALL NEW INSUTIANOF.S, with Participation, EFFECTED
AFTER IST JANUARY, 1868, will become entitled to au INCREASED
SHARE OF THE PROFITS, in accordance with the Resolution
passed at tho Annual Meeting of Shareholders.
JOHN H. McLAItEN. Manager.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

SAUCE.—LEA and .PERRINS.--SAUCE.
THE "WORCESTERSHIRE,"
pronounced by Connoisseurs
"THE ONLY GOOD SAUCE."
Its use improves appetite and digestion.
UNRIVALLED Frtß PIQUANCY AND FLAVOUR.
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS,
To avoid which, see the names,
LEA and PEERINS, on all bottles and labels,
ASK for " LEA and PERRINS' " SAUCE.
Agents—Crosse and Blackwell, London, and sold by all
Dealers in Sauces throughout the World

BRITISH HOME FOR INCURABLES,
Clapham rise.
Instituted 1861.
PATRONESS.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES.
TREASURERS.
George Moore, Esq.; Mr. Alderman Gibbons.
This Institution, extending its operations to all parts of
the kingdom, provides for those afflicted with incurable
diseases a home for life, with every comfort and medical
attendance. Patients are admitted, and annuities of £lO
obtained by election.

No person under 20 years of age, nor of the pauper
class, is eligible.
Full particulars and the necessary forms may be pro-
cured from the Secretary. Donations and annual sub-
scriptions are earnestly solicited.

. -
BANKERS.
Messrs Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, E C.; and
Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross, S.W.
EDWD. WEAVERS Secretary.
Offices, 73, Cheapside.

NURSING.—ST. JOHN'S HOUSE and
1I SISTERHOOD for TRAINING NURSES for
HOSPITALS, Families, and the 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.
Prosident—H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, K.G.,
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 vote at all
elections. Each annual subscription of £5 5s entitles to
one vote at all elections during the current year. The
amount may be forwarded by an order on a bank, agent,
or post-office (Charing-cross), payable to.
GEO. W. FORSTER, Under Secretary.
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
poor little suffering inmates at this Hospital.
Office, Waterloo-bridge-road, S.E.
Bankers—Messrs. Fuller, Banbury, and Co., 71, Lom-
bard-street; and Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand.
CHARLES J. F. REN TON, Secretary.

/111-1 E DEAF & DUMB.—The Committee of the
JEWS DEAF and DUMB HOME are prepared to
receive APPLICL.TIONS for the ADMISSION of DEAF
and BUHR CHILDREN, of all denomivatione, as Day
Pupils, for instruction in audible 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 be wit-
nessed.
Applications for terms, the course of instruction, and all
other particulars, to be made to
W. VAN PRAAGIT, Eqg
. - •

,
Director of the Jews' Deaf and Dumb home,
44, Burton-crescent, W.C.

EAST LONDON HOSPITAL for CHILDREN.
The Committee earnestly desire to raise funds which
shall enable them to establish the Hospital in more suit-
able buildings. The premises now occupied are crowded
and inconvenient, causing additional expense from that
circumstance. 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 bo admitted in the present building.
£B,OOO at least is required to carry out this much-wished-
for and urgent scheme.
Contributions will be thankfully received by the Trea-
surer, E.S. Norris, 13sq. Shadwell ; or by
SHERRARD B. BURNABY, Hon Sec.,
Rectory Wapping Et

KEATING'S INSECT r OWDER,
KILLS MOTHS, and ILL OFFEN,IVE INSECTS.

Sold in Packets, ls., and Tins, 2s. Gd. and 4s. GI. each ; or Is'
Packets, free by post, for 12 Postage St'tmps. Also in tittles,
with itellows, Is tid. and as. each, by THOMAS KEATING,
Chemist, 79, St. Paul's Churchyard, London, E.C.

SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS.
.8..7 A NEVER-FAILING REMEDY.—Prepared with-
out any mercurial ingredient, will be found invaluablawt&
all who suffer from bilious and liver complaints, indiges-
tion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &c.
For habitual costiveness, as a. family aperient medicine,
and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent ;
mild in their operation and grateful to • the stomach, they
create appetite, promote digestion, and strengthen the
whole nervous system.—Prepared only and sold by W.
Lambert, chemist, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross,
London, and by most druggists, in boxes, is. lid., and
three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for
Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. Tho genuine are in
a square greon package, with " William Lambert, 8, King
William-street, Charing-cross," engraved on the Govern.
ment stamp.

ABSOLUTE SECURITY POLICIES, UN-
FORFEITABLE, UNCONDITIONAL, and UN-
CHALLENGEABLE, issued by the PRUDENTIAL
ASSURANCE COMPANY, 62, Ludgate-hill, London,
E.O. Established 1848.
Branch Office-7, King-street, St. J ame s'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 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 ox
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
more 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 bo 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
itre 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.

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE OFFICE.
Established 1821.
Subscribed Capital Two Millions.
11, Lombard-street, London, E.O.
DIRECTORS.
CHAIRMAN—WiIIiam Steven, Esq.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN— Frederick H. Janson, Esq.
Henry Hulse Berens, Esq Richard M. Harvey, Esq
Hy. Bonham-Carter, Esq J. G. Hubbard, Esq
Charles Wm Curtis, Esq G. J. Shaw Lefevre, Esq, M.P;
Charles F. Devas, Esq John Martin, Esq
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq Rowland Mitchell, Esq
Sir W. R. Farquhar, Bart James Morris, Esq
James Goodson, Esq Abraham J. Roberts,, Esq
Archibald Hamilton. Esq Henry Vigne, Esq
Thomson Hankey, Esq
SECRETARY—Thomas Tallemach, Esq,
AcTuAßY—Saml. Brown, Esq.

N.B.—Fire Policies which expire at Michaelmas must
be renewed at the Head Office, or with the agents, on or
before the 14th of October.
• The Government Duty is totally abolished.
Prospectus and Forms of Proposal, with statemen' of the
asset• and liabilities in the Life Branch, free on application to
the Company's Agents,or to the Secretary.

ROYAL 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.
Vice-Patron—

_ .
His Royal Highness the Prince of WALBS, K.G.
President—His Grace the Duke of Buccultrom. K.G.

This Hospital, founded in 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 largo 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 thorn.
Contrib-.ltions 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 Co.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and
Co.; Smith, Pitytiii, and Co.; Barclay and Co. ; Williams,
Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Clo.,:Barnars-street ; and at
the Hospital from 10 till 5.

. Jem Mace, the English pugilist, meets with an
attention in New York, where his lucky star has brought
him that no American pugilist could look for in London.
On Wall-street he was the great attraction, and he was
shown about as the bosom friend of a well-known finan-
cier and politician. We hope Jem will behave well in
the society in which he now finds himself ; some of
his fraternity have turned out gentlemen, though it
is not the walk of life wherein to look for them.
The Spirit of the Times tells us that "Tammany,
under the ambitious and Liberal management of Mr.
Grover, strides from attraction.to attraction with marvel-
ous celerity. The latest feature is the engagement of the
celebrated "Jem" Mace, champion of England, whose
statuesque illustrations throughout England, Ireland, and
Scotland have been the theme of admiration and critical
praise from sculptors, painters, and 'leading art critics in
the principal cities of the United Kingdom. Mace is to-day
in his highest form, and presents a model of symmetry and
physical manhood. He performs upon a pedestal and with
the grace of a ger.uine artistif we may rely upon the opinions
of the English press, makes one transition after another with
marvellous celerity, grace, and agility. The most classic
and beautiful of his representations are the " Fighting
Gladiator," " Dying Gladiator," "Samson Carrying the
Gates of Gaza," "Ajax defying the Lightning," and other
classical poses. Brodie, the sculpt(•r, recommends the
study of Mace's performances to artists, both sculptors
and painters. We trust Mace may prosper in his new and
imp oved career, and keep aloof from the " hippodroming"
and fraudulent sparring exhibitions which have made
pugilism odious in America to oven its old-time supporters.
His first exhibition was announced for Monday evening
Sept. 20, at Tammany Ball. The Yew pork S 1111 announces
1 "Jem" Mace, the English prize-fighter, as having arrived
from London, and wandering about the city with two or
three hat-boxes and a bag of trophies, looking for Mr.
Samuel Colville, who had invited him to America. "Mr.
Colville being at this writing in France, the distinguished
guest did not find his host, and was thereupon dis-
consolate."

The Republican insurrection which has broken out in
Spain is of a very serious character, especially in Catalonia
and Andalusia—the north-east and south provinces
of the kingdom. There has been heavy fight-
ing, martial law has been proclaimed, telegraphic
communication—as usual—has been stopped, and the
Government seeks for power to suspend individual rights.
This rising is no spasmodic outbreak. Ever since the
Revolution, or at least ever since the present rulers sheaved
themselves incapable of retrieving the fortunes of the
nation committed to their care, the Republicans
have been getting ready. "Whilst the Monarehiste,"
says the Times correspondent, "have bcGn squabbling
for place and power, fighting over the spoils which
the success of the Revolution of September placed
within their reach, the Republicans have been
slowly, but steadily, Laying down their principles, harangu-
ing the masses, extending their propaganda, and estallish-
ing their federal compacts, clubs, and committees, until at
last they have drawn the -whole country into a perfect net-
work of organisation. By their own accounts they have at
this moment 2,300 clubs and committees, all in working
order, in Spain (by the accounts of their enemies it is 1,800),
and when it is remembered that these embrace every
city, town, or pueblo whose population exceeds 500, and a
great many of those with less, it will be admitted their
leaders have made no idle time of it during the past
twelve months. Things have come to such a pass that they
have recently been regarded with considerable apprehen-
sion by the Government, who in every possible way have
been endeavouring to curb and restrain them, and to pre-
vent their becoming a 'real power in the State."
The efforts to check the spread of Republicanism have
led to the present outbreak. The Government increased
the garrisons in the principle cities, endeavoured to weed
the Republicans from the ranks of the Liberty Volunteers,
and gave the chief power of repression to the Home Minis-
ter, Senor Sagasta, the mortal foe of Republicanism. The
Republicans on their side carried on the agitation with
vigour. During the recess the leaders have been holding
" demonstrations" in all the principal cities and t„ alis of
the provinces, and by their earnestness and eloquence
creating an amount of enthusiasm for their cause which
alarmed the Government. In the act of carrying
out Senor Sagasta's instructions to restrict these
" demonstrations," or rather in the vain effort
to forbid vivis and mottoes to the Republic
Ileing given or displayed, the unfortunate Secretary
of the Civil Government of Tarragona fell a victim—victim
alike of his own rashness and of the Minister's indiscke-
tion. Finally, a resolution to disarm the volunteers .of
Barcelona fanned the spark ;of insurrection; and lighted
the flame of civil war. The Republicans did not hesitate
to take up the gauntlet which was this thrown down.

The _Maria de Barcelona has furnished some details of
the fighting that occurred in that city. The inhabitants
were alarmed when they found that an edict would be
published to order the disarming of some of the
national militia, and their fears were only too well
founded. If was soon known that barricades were
formed, and that some of the battalions would
disobey the edict. At last the authorities or-
dered the alarm gun to be fired, and the citizens
were thrown into a state of groat excitement in conse-
quence. The shops were closed, and the streets nearly
deserted in a short time. The news-boys cried out "The
Manifesto of General Pierrad to the Spanish people." At
two in the morning the last barricade was taken. The
fighting was confined throughout to the suburbs.
The Ayuntamiento asked for a delay in the delivery of
the arms. A short respite was granted, but as the barri-
cades were not abandoned, the order for attack was given
at half-past nine. Great resistance was made in some quarters,
and in the first attack on the great barricade in f: cnt ;i the
Church of the Carmelites the troops had to retire, for the
defenders mustered strong, being joined by these who had
left the other barricades. Tho commander then ordered
the artillery to prepare away for the soldiers, and the pos
tion was at length taken.
On Sunday. afternoon Barcelona had resumed its usual
quiet, but the postal train which left in the course of the
day was obliged to return on account of the lino being
blocked and guarded by a party of armed men. The pri-
soners and arrests exceed 120 ; they are on board the ships
of war in the harbour.

These facts, be it noted, are given in the Ministerial
journals. The Republican papers give a very differpnt
account of the insurrection. More than one engagement
which the Government claims as a victory the insurgents
allege to be a defeat ; in particular one contest in which
1,000 men on each side were engaged.