The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-21 00:00:00

SHORT SUMMARY OF THE POSITION
OF THE

PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY,
_ 62, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C.

Branch Office—=7, Kini-street, St. James's.

The Annual Premium Income of the ( lompany, at the
close of 1868, was £220,978 05.10 d., and the Total Amount
Assured £4,832,197.
The Business is divided under two beads:-
Ist —The General or Ordinary Business, being the
same as that transacted by other Companies.
2nd —The Industrial or Working Class Assurances.
The Premium Income of the General
Business was £52,432, and the sum Assured
£1,662,960. The present value of the lia-
bility of this Branch by the Carlisle 3 per
Cent. Tables, throwing of! the entire load-
ing, waQ £139,322 15 8
The Premium income of the Industrial
Branch was 16g.,"6, the sum Assured
£3,169,237, and the Estimated Reserve 50,000 0 0

The Liability of the Industrial Branch
does not admit of being estimated in the
same way as that of the General Branch,
ou account of the very largo proportion of
Policies which cc:Q.lst ,ntly lapse, so that
the bulk of the assurances are, in fact, risks
for short terms only
re-
serve for the liabilities of this Branch of
the business is shown by the re:mit of 14
years' experience to be abundantly suffi-
cient. ; the estimated

£lB 322 15 8

The Assurance Fund on 31st Decem-
ber, 1868, was ................................. £241,301 12 4
The average duration of the whole of
Lhe Industrial Policies was considerably
under three years.
Tho average age of the Assured in the
Industrial Branch was 19 yo3rs.
A detailed List of Assets can be bad on application.'
H. HARBEN, Secretary.

A. W. rrH.E MESMERIC INFIRMAR Y, 36, Wey-
mouth-street,incur-
able are cured). much needs support. Inspection is in-
vited from 10 till 12.30, The Council have placed the
(where tcany cases deemed
Institution under the control of THOS. CHANDLER,
Esq., M.R.C.S., who has above 30 years' experience in
Mesmerism and nervous diseases. Consultations—gra-
tuitous, till 10.30; private, till 12.30.

°ANGER 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 cases unable
to be admitted for want of FUNDS ; at present over 300
out-patients.

Treasurer—Geo. T. fleaslet, Esq., Lord Chamberlain's
Office, St. James's Palace.
Bankers—Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand.
By order, H. J. JUPP.

DOOR SICK and HELPLESS CHILDREN.
1 —The ROYAL INFIRAIARY 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., 77, Lom-
bard-street; and Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand.
CHARLES J. F. RE N TON, Secretary.

EAST LONDON lIOSI'ITAL 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 aro 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 moro beds, and the
staff of nurses would be able to attend upon more children,
but no more can be admitted 'n the present
XB,OOO at least is required to cart y out this much-wished-
for and urgent scheme
Contributions will be thankfully received by the Trea-
surer, B.S. Norris, Esq., Shadwell ; or by
SHERRARD B. BURNABY, Hon' Sec.,'
Rectory Wapping E',l

NURSING.—ST. JOHN'S HOUSE and
s SISTERHOOD for TRAINING NURSES for
HOSPITALS, Families, and the Poor: established 1848.
Presidont—Tho 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 thee 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 quested 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.O.

ROYAL SCHOOL for DAUGHTERS of
OFFICERS of the ARMY, Lansdown, Bath.
Instituted, A.D., 1864.
Under the Patronage of her Maj.-sty the QUEEN.
President—H.R.Ll. the Duke of CemmtincE, 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 aro
already 70 pupils iu 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 ono life vote at all
elections. Each annual subscription of £5 5s entitles to
ono vote at all elections during the current year. The
amount may be forwarded by an ardet on a bank, agent,
or post-office (Charing-cross), payable to.
GEO. W. FORSTER, Under 6ocretaxy
Office 22, Vockepur-street, London.

DR. KING'S DANDELION and QUININE
LIVER PILLS (Without Mercury)
The very best remedy for
PILE, WIND, INDIGESTION, ACIDITY, HEADACHE,
HEARTBURN.
And acknowledged by many eminent surgeons to be the safest
and mildest pills for every constitution.
In boxes at 15.10., 2s. 9d., and 4s. Gd., at all chemists.

ARROW ROOT.--Just received from the West
Indies a large consignment of ARROW ROOT of excel-
lent qinlity. which can be confidently recommended to clergy-
men and ()tier visitors of the poor, as an economical and whole
some article of diet for Invalids. Sold in 71b., 14th.. and •1 lh.
tins. at M. per lb.. tins extra; also a large quantity of the finest
BERMUDA ARROW ROOT, which can be offere I at the reduced
price of ls. flel.per lb.. in quantities of not less than 71b., tins
extra. THOM AS KEATING, 79, ST. PAUL'S CHURCIIYARD.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road
Open to all without letters of recommendation.
FUNDS are urgently needed. _

JAMES S. BLYTIT, Soc.

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

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

MHE ROYAL HOSPITAL for DISEASES of
the MUST, City-road.—The wards for in-patients
are constantly full, those for ont-patients crowded daily.
FONDS greatly needed. _

CHARLES L. KEMP, Secretary.

LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL is the only
-AAin-
stitution in the Metropolis for the treatment and
prevention of contagious fevers.

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

fINE HUNDRED & SEVENTY DESTITUTE
vt... ORPHAN CHILDREN are being maintained in the
ROYAL ALBERT ORPHAN ASYLUM, at the moderate rate
of £2d per annum each. Fan& greatly needed.
CHARLES A. WALKER, Secretary
Office, 54, Ohespaide, London, E.Oi

LONDON nosPrrAL, 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.

THE METROPOLITAN CONVALESCENT
INSTITUTION.
President—His Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON.
Treasurers—The Right Hon. Russell Gurney, M.P., and
Col. W. P. 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.

`SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL (the Dreadnought), off
kJ 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, Birchiu-
lane ; and at the Society's offices, 86, Sing William-street,
E. 0., by

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

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.

Amsterdam • Short ... 11 18 ... 11 19
Do
Rotterdam — ... 12 1 ... 12 11
Antwerp — ... 25 371 ... 25 42}
Brussels — ... 25 371 ... 25 42
Ha mburgh — ... 13 101 ... 13 11
Paris Short ... 25 15 ... 25 221
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 1201 ... 1201
Vienna — ... 12 65 ... 12 70
Trieste — ... 12 65 ... 12 70
Petersburg
Copenhagen.• — a. 9 18 ... 9 22
Berlin
Madrid..

Glad i 7

- r...

Legliorn
Milan -- ••• 26 75 ... 26 771
Genoa .. — ... 26 75 „„„ 26 77i
Naples
Palornio — ... 26 75 ... 26 77-1
Messina
Lisbon — ... slt ~. 52
Oporto — ... 51 ... 52 •
Rio canoiro
New York ......,. -- •• / - ••• ......

EXCLUSIVE, VERY IMPORTANT, BABE, AND VALUABLE
are the properties of Laffiplough's Pyretic Saline, curing the
worst headaches, sickness, skin, or billiary affections. Pleasant
polatable and leigeratlng. ;hid by all Olieralats.—pltt.)