The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-30 00:00:00

rjij ASSOCIATION for the WELFARE of
1 the BLIND, 210, Oxford-street, and 127, Euston-road.
Patroness—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
This Institution affords employment in various ways to
172 blind men and women.
Pensions to various amounts are granted to the blind
who cannot earn their own living.
500 blind men and women aro applying for holp, which
cannot be given for WANT of FUNDS.
Contributions will be thankfully received by the Secre-
tary, Rev. C. B. REID, M.A.

GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL,
Caledonian-road, Islington, N.
Supported by Voluntary Contributions.
This Hospital has relieved 481,954 patients since it was
establisbe6 at King's-cross in 1856. Patients are admitted
free.

Bankers—Messrs. Barnet, Lloyds, and Co., 60, Lombard-
street, Messrs. Ransom and Bonverie, 1, Pall-malL—Hon.
Sec., P , Smith. Esa. GEO. REID, Sec.

HOSPITAL for DISEASES of the THROAT,
oen-square, .
President—His G
Graceld the DukWe of GRAFTON.
The Committee of Management earnestly APPEAL for
FUNDS to help them to meet the heavy current expenses.
Upwards of 18,000 poor persons have been relieved in the
last six years.

GEORGE WOOD, Secretary.

SAMARITAN FREE HOSPITAL for WOMEN
and CHILDREN, Lower Seymour-street, Portman-
square. The only Free Hospital for Diseases of Women ;
2,913 patients were treated last month without letters of
recommendation. SUBSCRIPTIONS and DONATIONS
are much needed, and will be received by Messrs.Hatchard,
Piccadilly; Sir Samuel Scott, Bart.; Messrs. Barclay,
Coutts, Glyn, Ransom ; and by the Secretary.

MORTH LONDON or UNIVERSITY
LI COLLEGE HOSPlTAL.—Accidents and Sickness.
—CONTRIBUTIONS earnesly solicited to meet the
annual expenses, which exceed the income by £4,000.
The committee also plead for help for the sick children,
the little victims of starvation, neglect, and disease, who
enjoy in the new wards, devoted to them, the privileges
•f nourishing food and careful nursing. Donations thank-
fully received by Edward Enfield, Esq., Treasurer, 19,
Chester-terrace, Regent's-park; and at the office of the
charity.

HENRY J. KELLY, R.N., Secretary.

VORAI of BEQUEST.—NATIONAL HOS-
PITAL for the PARALYSED and EPILEPTIC,
Queen-square, Bloomsbury :—I give and bequeath to the
Treasurer for the time being of the National Hospital for
the Paralysed and Epileptic, established in London in
1859, the sum of —, free of legacy duty, to be paid out
of such part of my estate as may by law be bequeathed for
charitable purposes, and to be applied to the general use
of the said Hospital.
The Institution comprises an Hospital for In and Out
Patients, a Samaritan Society to relieve the more de,3ti-
tute out-patients and their families, a convalescent home,
and a pension fund for the incurable.
E. H. CHANDLER, Hon. Sec.

BRITISH HOME for INCURABLES, 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 perscns over
20 years of age and above the pauper class, who are hope-
lessly afflicted with incurable disease.
Pensions of £2O per annum are also granted
The Home was opened in September 1863 ; 71 in-
patients and 106 annuitants have boon 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. Drummond, Charing-cross, S.W.
ED WD. WEAYER, Sec.
Offices, 73, Cheapside, E.G.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
lire as follows :
For Fallon Women.
28, Church-row, Ilamp- 150, Now gent-road.
stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Gres.t. Portland- street. I wich.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead. •
9, Henstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Marrs Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's-street, Dover.
Temporary Home-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 Pokland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The committee ate 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 Repert (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") may be had on application.
The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of
Shaftesbury. Its bankers aro Messrs. Barclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent. ;DANL. COOPER, Sea
81. Queen-street Qhenside.

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 Japan.
Hand books, with full details of all the routes of this
company, can be had of
STRINGER, PEMBBROKE, and Co.,
Agents, 8, Austinfriars, London, E.O.

ABSOLUTE SECURITY POLICIES, UN-
FORFEITABLE, UNCONDITIONAL, and UN-
CHALLENGEABLE, issued by the PRUDENTIAL
ASSURANCE COMPANY, 62, Ludgate-bill, London,
E.C. Established 1848.

Branch Office-7, King-street, St. James's

The Directors of this'Comiany, in' deference to an ob-
jection not unfrequently urged by persons invited to as-
sure, that the ordinary mode of Lifo 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; no 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, 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 point 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 aro 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
conditions 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 advantafres,
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 whore policios
%re held as collateral security.
It is only necessary to add that, as a consequence of the
policios under these tables being unforfoitable and uncon-
ditional, they will also be uuchallengeable on any ground
whatever. They may therefore be aptly termed Absolute
Security Policies.
The PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY pos-
sesses an income of X 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 HARDEN, Secretary.

BRITISH HOSPITAL for SKIN DISEASES,
56, Great Marlborough-street, W.
Bankers, Messrs. Ransom.
SUPPORT is earnestly solicited.
ALEXANDER RIVINGTON, 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 MAnsw the QUEEN.
Vice-Patron—
His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G.

President-:-His Grace the Duke of Bucculicli, 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 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 8,000 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.
Oontribntions are received by their bankers, Messrs.
Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abohurch-lane ; also by Messrs.
Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co.;
Harries said Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and
Co.; Smith, Paytia, and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Williams,
Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and oo.,:Berners-street ; and at
the Hospital fromel 0 till 5.

EMIGRATION AND AMERICAN FINANCE

(From the Anglo-American Times.).
It is not surprising that the political economists
of Europe should have blundered sadly about the
United States. From the outbreak of the Civil
War to the present they have predicted a financial
smash in the Republic, but the financial smash has
occurred everywhere else except there. If we had
time we would turn back a file of the Times of 1862
and 1863 to refresh the memory of our readers with
some extracts, and curious reading in the light of his-
tory they would be. Indeed we must yet do this,
for we doubt whether the point of remark can be
fully appreciated without such aid. Month after
month the Times discussed the impending crisis not
as a probability, but as a certainty, indeed, going
so far as to turn into a sort of ZADKIEL, fixing the
date at the end of a certain named month, when
the monetary erections in the United States were
to come tumbling down like the superstructure of
cards built to its highest by children. The break
was then to occur, if not before, precisely for the
reason that a reservoir without an outlet over-
flows by a certain time on the discharge therein
of a regular number of gallons per minute of
any fluid, or to become empty on their discharge
in obedience to a law of nature. Those who know
what servile copyists the English press are, ex-
cept a few leading journals, and how they follow
the Times as sheep do a bell-wether, can imagine
the effect produced on England by these decided
opinions. Seldom has the Times entered the arena
of prophecy with such confidence ; never had it
been less unqualified in its assertions, while all the
smaller fry of journalism bleated in harmony,
and the chorus was the coming financial ruin
in the United States. Fortunately for the Ger-
mans, they did not know English ; they did not
read English papers; they did not accept the
Times as infallible ; and this was lucky, too, for
the United States ; nevertheless the injury in-
flicted on American credit was so great as to
be felt to this day. England started with the
conviction firmly implanted that the longer the
eventually certain commercial smash was delayed
the worse it would befor the Union, that by cun-
ning devices and unscrupulous proceedings that