The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-29 00:00:00

CONTRACT FOR GOLD LACE.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, 25th March, 15369.
TENDERS will be received on THURSDAY, the
15th April u-xt, for GOLD LACE, to be supplie.d
under a Contract for Twelve Calendar months certain
an I Three Calendar months' warning.
The Conditions of Contract and LT particulars may be
ascertained at this Office.
By order.
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts.

COMPAGNIE GENE RALE TRANSAT-
LANTIC/17E.
4. Rue do la Nix, Paris.
FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS.
NEW YORK.
Leave every 14 days, from Havre and Brest, for Now York.
RATES OF PASSAGE.
From lIAvnE or BREST to NEW YORK.
First Class 7OO fr.
Second Class 425 fr.
Third Class
From Paris to New York, via Havre or Brest, including
railway ticket, 725 fr. ; second class, 440 fr. ; third class
285 fr.

WEST INDIES AND MEXICO.
Leave _St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St.
Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, New Orleans, Porto Rico,
Haiti, Santiago de Cuba, Guadeloupe, Martinique.
JAPAN, NORTH ND 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 Joso, La Union,
San Francisco, China, and Japat..
Hand books, with full details of all the routes of this
company, can be bad of
STRINGER, PEMBBROKE, and Co.,
Agents, 8, Austiufriars, London, E.C.

ABSOLUTE SECURITY POLICIES, UN-
FORFEITABLE, 'UNCONDITIONAL, and UN-
CIIALLENGEABLM, issued by the PRUDENTIAL
ASSURANCE COMPANY, 62, Ludgate-hill, London,
E.O. Established 1848.
The Directors of this Company, in deference to an 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 be 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, 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 pentium 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 assure i 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 one greatly protective of their interests, and
it will likewise commend itself to bankers, capitalists, and
others who are 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 advantages,
the number of premiums is strictly defined. The lon,,,sest
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 mait.tain the full benefit of the
Assurances—a matter of great importance where policies
are 11,111 as collateral security.
It is only necessary to add that, as a censsquence of the
eng
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whatever.
they r
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rolicies under these tables being unforfeitable and uncon-
rity P,4]ieies.
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position
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questionable, and it obtains the largest amount of new
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busineNs of :Inv office in the Kingdom. SPECIAL
AGENTS WANTED. I:Aalbyl°telossin
lIENR Y HARDEN, Secretary.