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

RUPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.

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

NEW PATENT
FILAS TIC STOCKINGS,
J KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases
of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &O. 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.

ABSOLUTE SECURITY POLICIES, UN-
L FORFEITABLE, UNCONDITIONAL, and UN-
CHALLENGEABLM, leaned by the PRUDENTIAL
ASSURANCE COMPANY, 62, Ludgate-bill, London,
E.C.
The Directors of this Company, in deference to ay2 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 bo absolutely Unforfeitable, Unconditional,
and Unchallengeable.
For the reason referred to, many persons hesitate or
decline to assure on the ground that, in the event of in-
ability or unwillingness to continue payment of their pre-
miums, tho 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, bcarinp., 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 assurel 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 ono greatly protective of their interests, and
it will likeWse commend itself to bankers, capitalists, and
others who are in the habit of making advances collaterally
secured by Lifo Policies, as they can at any time learn, by
mere inspection, the exact value, either immediato 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 alvance so as to maintain the full benefit of the
Assurances—a matter of great importance where policies
are 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-
and it obtains the largest amount of new
pos-
sesses an income of £215,000 a year Its position is un-
questionable,business of any office in the Kingdom. SPECIAL
AGENTS WANTED.
HENRY HARBEN, Secretary.

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 - Rey. J. E:KemPe
Rev. It 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 J• D. Morton, Esq.
Rev. J. E. Cox Rev. Canc,n Nepean
.octavius Coope, Esq. Rev. E. Parry
Arthur Currie, Esq. John Pearson, Esq., Q.O.
Rev. J. Connell. Rev. G. F. rrescott
Rev. C. W. Purse Rev. F. Pigou .
C. J. Freake. Esq. R. T. Pigott, Esq.
J. S. Gilliat, Eeq. R. R. Pym, Esq.
Rev. Dr. F Ilessey Hugh H. Seymour, Esq.
H G Heald, Esq. R. Wade, Esq.
R. Hook, Esq., Treasurer Loftus Wigram, Esq.
Subscriptions will be received by any of the above ; by
Messrs. Harries, Farquhar, and Co; and by the Hon.
Secretary, Rev. S. W. Lloyd, 14, Seymour-street, Port-
man-square, to whom commur ications may be addressed,

rrillE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
3. ‘re as follows :
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, Hamp- 150, New Kent-road.
stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland- street. wich.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, Henstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's street, Dover.
Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Chcapside.
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three homes for servants of good
character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The committee are 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 Report (of which a contributor writes, "I
never road a roport 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 banlgers are Messrs. Barclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the ,
benevolent. DA.NL. CO DREI3,I Seca

ac Qmou-otreet cbmip.eide4Lia*

EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY,
LONDON.
Report of the Directors for the year ending the 30th
June, 1868, read at the Annual General Meeting of
Proprietors, August 14, 1868—Colonel CHARLES
WETHERALL, K.C.T., Chairman of the Company, in
the Chair.

The proprietors will no doubt remember that at the last
annual general meeting a report was made to them for the
quinquennial period then terminating, and that a bonus
was declared in respect of it amounting to the sum of
£208,774. The surplus fund account, as under, commences
with the balance of June, 1867. after deduction of this
bonus—that is to say, with the debit of £772,740 13s. 9d.

SURPLUS FUND ACCOUNT, 30Ta JUNE, 1868.
INCOME OF TILE YEAR.
Balance of account, 30th
June, 1867, X981,514 13 9
Less amount distributed
as bonus...,‘

208,774 0 0

Premiums cti new assur-
ances
Ditto on old ditto 866,215 7 3

Interest from invest-
ments

X 380,811 8 3

117,584 7 3

£772,740 13 9

£498,395 15 11
Profit and loss, balance
of account ............... 46,070 13 3
Total income ............... ----- 544,466 9 2

£1,317,207 2 11

CR. CIIARGE OF THE YEAR
Dividend to proprietors
Claims on decease of lives
assured .................. £265,523 13 5
Additions to those under
participating policies—. 22,816 4 7
Policies surrendered 28,642 11 3
Re-assurances, new
Ditto, old

£370,618 5 3
Commission
Medical fees
Ilacome tax .............. 2,215 4 7
Expenses of manage-
ment
400,777 9 5

Total chargA
Balance of account, 30th Juno 1868 907,552 8 6

£1,317,207 2 11
Examined and approve
THOMAS ALLEN Auditors.
HENRY ROSJ, f
The total income of the year, it will be seen, is £544,466
9s. 2d., and the total outgo £409,654 14s. sd. ; the diffe-
rence, or the sum laid by--viz., £134,811 14s. the
a,
the fund again to £907,552 Bs. 6d.
The interest received during the year is £117,584 7s.
3d., arising from the productive portion of the realised
assets of £2,897,157, mentioned in the last year's report.
The whole assets. productive and unproductive, may there-
fore be considered as having improved at the rate of rather
wore than 4 per cent. ; or, if the profit shown of £46,070
13s. 3d., derived from various extraneous sources, be in-
cluded, at upwards of £sl2s. per cent.

---The'preniiums on new assurances are £14,596 is. 9d.,
and of this sum £3,270 15s. 4d. has been expended in re-
assurances.
The claims on decease of lives assured are nearly iden-
tical in amount with those of 1866. They are less than
those of last year by nearly £19,000.
A considerable reduction, too, appears in the amount
of premiums paid for re-assurance, many of the risks
re-assured having terminated by death and other causes.
The expenses of management are less than those of last
year by upwards of £1,400. But they still include charges
incurred in the final closing of the two officeslast absorbed
by the company. The whole expenditure, however, in-
cluding income tax, is at the rate of little more than 51
per cent. on the total income.
The balance-sheet is as follows :
Da. LIABILITIES.
Interest due to proprietors £6,977 13 3
Claims on decease of lives assured, and •
additions thereto unpaid 61,530 4
Sundry accounts
Liability under sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,369,469 11 7
Proprietors' fund
Surplus fund as before 907,552 8 6

Total .
£7,565,198 1 3
GIL ASSETS.
Amount invested in fixed mortgages X1,460,772 2 7
Ditto ditto decreasing ditto
Ditto ditto reversions 347 136 5 5
Ditto ditto funded securities
Ditto ditto temporary securities 142,42- 011
Current interest on the above invest-
-36
2 9243 7 6
ments
Cash and bills 22,604
Advanced on security of the company's
503 14
policies.....
159,
9 9
Agents' bah. Aces
Sundry accounts
Value of premiums (1867) • •••
4,506112,,16786846600
111385
300
Value of re-assurances

Total £7,565,198 1 3
Examined and approved.
THOMAS A LLEN,} Auditors.
HENRY ROSE,
The present disposition of the Company's funds is shown
by this account. On ccmpapng it with that of 1867, it
will be observed that further investments have been made
on mortgage and in the Government funds, and that about
£ll,OOO more has been advanced on security of the com-
pany's policies. Exclusive of the sum indicating the value
of the future premiums, the assets amount to £3,059,030
38. 3d.
The direction of the company is now constituted as
follows :
The Right Hon. Sir JOHN YOUNG, Bart., K.C.B. Chair-

man.
WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE Esq., Deputy-
Chairman.
Charles l3iseboff, Esq. Chas. Thos. Holcombe, Esq.
Thomas Boddington, Esq. Joshua Lockwood, Esq.
Charles Chatfield, Esq, James Murray, Esq.
Sir J. Buller East, Bart., Philip Rose, Esq.
George Russell, Esq.
Robert A. Grayl Esq. Thos. Godfrey Sambrooke,
Wm. Augustus Guy, 11. D., Esq.
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