The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-27 00:00:00

ROYAL HOSPITAL for INCURABLES,
West-hill Putney-heath

Established' 31st July, 1854.

This Institution exists for the comfort and relief of per-
sons (being above the pauper class) afflicted with incur-
able bodily disease.
Relief is afforded—lst. By supplying a home, with
medical attendance, nursing, and all requisites for the in-
valid.
2d. By granting an annuity of £2O to patients at thoi
own homes.
A row wing to the Hospital has just been completed
at a cost of upwards of £lO,OOO, and FUNDS are urgently
NEEDED to liquidate the expenses incurred.
There are 120 inmates and 237 pensioners, all entirely
dependent upon voluntary subscriptions.
Nearly 300 approved applicants aro awaiting election
For the maintenance of present operations, for the ex •
tension of the benefits of the Charity, donations, and espe-
cially annual subscriptions, are earnestly solicited. Life
subscriptions, £5 ss. and upwards; annual subscriptions,
half a guinea and upwards, with votes in proportion.
Information will be supplied, with the g-eatest pleasure,
upon application to the Secretary, by whom contributions
will be thankfully received.
FREDERIC ANDREW Secretary
No. 10. Poultry% London, E.C. September 1868.

A very extraordinary law suit has just been
tried in San Francisco. Charles Geggus left that city on
the 22d of August, 1868, when verging on insanity. On
the 3d of the September following, his body was found
among the mountains in an advanced stage of decompo-
sition. Ile loft a widow, and a policy of insurance, which
expired on Aug. 27, 1868, five days after his departure
from San Francisco, and a week before his body had been
found. The Insurance Office, assorting that he had died
after the expiry of the policy, refused payment. A struggle
took place between the widow, backed by a certain num-
ber of doctors, and the Insurance Office, backed by a cer-
tain number of other doctors, but although the doctors
differed, the jury undertook to decide as follows :—"We,
the jury, find that the late Charles Geggus died previous
to the 27th day of August, 1868, and, therefore, find for
the plaintiff, Elizabeth Geggus, in the sum of 59,776 78,
with interest, 5437 97 ; total, 510,214 75."
The Mississippi Valley Convention has been sit-
ting at Keokuk, William Van Dever, the president. Ma-
jority and minority reports were read, the minority being
adopted, providing for the consideration of the subjects of
the Mississippi River and its tributaries, immigration, and
foreign commerce. Committees were appointed on these
subjects, and on the removal of the capital. Resolutions
were passed favouring the removal of the National Capital,
asking Congress to make an appropriation for the bolding
of a World's Fair in the Mississippi Valley in 1871, and
favouring free immigration from every quarter. The Com-
mittee on Foreign Commerce made a report, with resolu-
ticus, looking to reciprocal trade with all nations. request-
ing that a full share of the diploma!ic appointments bo
given to the Mississippi Valley, recommending the estab-
lishment of an emigration depot at Now Orleans, a reduc-
tion of the revenue on some articles of popular consump-
tion, and the introduction in Congress of a bill giving
subsidies to steamers running between Now Orleans and
foreign ports.