The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-01 00:00:00

WEST INnIES AND MEXICO.

Leave St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St.
Tho►naa, Havana, Vera Cm; New Orleana, Porto Rico,
Haiti. Santiago de Cuba, Guadeloupe, Martinique.
JAPAN, NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC, AND

OENTR..9.L AMERICA (via Panama).
Leave St. Nazlire 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, Paramiribo,
Cayenne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, &c., San Jose, La Union,
San Francisco, China, and Japat..
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.C.

F. THOMAS AND CO.S PATENT
V V • SEWING MACHINES. —The celebrated No. 2 Ma.-
chine, unequalled for general work, £lO. The new Domestic
Machines, complete (Lock Stitch), .£5 55., £6 65., and CS.
Catalogues free. -W. F. Tnouls and Co., 1 and 2, Cheapside,
and Regent-circus, Oxford-street, London.

WATJKENPHAST'S BOOTS,
10, PALL-MALL, EAST, LONDON, S.W.

Choose your fit, and have your number registered for future
supplies; and obtain all the advantages of special lasts, at far
lower cost.

AT CH R I g'T MA S many persons
are induced to take more than is wholesome. Two or
three of PARR'S LIFE PILLS will clear off ACIDITIES, and
remove FEVERISH HEADACHE and other unpleasant symp-
toms, without pain or inconvenience. PARR'S LIFE PILLS
may be obtained of any Medicine Vendor, in boxes. ls. lid., 2s.
9d., and in Family Packets, lls. each. Directions with each
box.

INDIA OFFICE, DECEMBER 10, 1868.
By order of the SECRETARY of STATE for
INDIA in Council.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that it is intended to
send to India annually a certain number of YOUNG
MEN, trained and educated for ultimate employment in
the higher branches of the Department for the conserva-
tion and management of the Forests under tho Govern-
ment of India.

Eight young men will be selected in February next to
go to India at the end of 1871.
The salary will be at first £3OO a year, and the salaries
of the appointments in the three Presidencies range be-
tween that sum and £1,900 a year. Promotions will de-
pend upon efficiency, and the occurrence of vacancies in
the higher grades.
Applicants must be British subjects above 17 and under
25 years of age.
As active habits and a strong constitution are most im-
portant, candidates will have to undergo a strict medical
examination. _ _

They must send to the Revenue Department of the
India Office, on or before the Bth of January, 1869, a
statement of their names and parentage, with a certificate
of birth, and of being posssesed of a competent knowledge
of the following subjects, and they must be prepared o
undergo an examination in them :-
1, English writing from dictation and English com-
position.
2. Arithmetic in all its branches.

3. Algebra, elementary principles, simple and quadratic
equations, ratios and proportions, logarithms, arithmetical
and geometrical progression.
4. Geometry (Ist, 2d, 3d, 4th, and 6th books of Euclid)
and plane trigonometry.
5. Free hand and plan drawing.
6. A good colloquial knowledge of either French or
German, with the facility to read and translate the works
of some classical writer in the language.
A preference will be given to those candidates who
obtain a certain proficiency in,—.

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1. Surveying and land measuring.
2. The elements of any of the following natural
sciences :

Mechanical and natural philosophy.
Chemistry.
Botany.
C4eology.

If selectea, they will be further required to go through
a course of training and instruction in Forestry and cog-
nate sciences for two years and a half, in France or Ger-
many, previous to their departure for India, and the Sec-
retary of State will contribute £5O at the end of each half
year towards the expenses of their training, in the case of
such candidates as are favourably reported on by their in-
structors. In addition to this, if it should be found prac-
ticable, the young mon will be required to place them-
selves under an approved forester iu Scotland for a few
months before they go out to India.
More detailed information as to these appointments may
he bad on application to the Under Secretary of State for
India, India Office. Westminster.

(Signed)

HERMAN MERIVALE.

ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY,
ROYAL INSURANCE BUILDINGS,
Lombard-street, London, and Liverpool.
EPITOME of ANNUAL REPORT for 18G7.
The "ROYAL" has never had a larger body of Constituents
than now.
FIRE BRANCH.

PREMIUMS in 1867
being a larger revenue than in any preceding
year.
LOSSES by Fire in 1867
NET PROFITS, after paying all losses and ex-
penses £56,373
LIFE BRANCH.
Annual Average of new business in 1865-6-7 £BOl,OOO
Do. during previous Quinquennium £688,000
Amount added to Life Reserves in 1867 £128,583
LIFE PROPOSALS now effected will participate in the
increased share of Profits recently conceded to Policy-
holders. _ .

---IERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.
August, 1868.

r r lIE 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-map.
CHARLES HOLMES, Secretary.
Office, 32, Sackville-street, Piccadilly.