The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-17 00:00:00

ABOLITION OF THE DUTY ON FIRE
INSURANCES.

THE Directors of the ROYAL INSURANCE
OMPANY, in anticipation of the above, beg to intimate
that on all new I, surances now effected there will only be
payable (provisionally) the proportion of Duty for the time
between the date of the Order and Midsummer Day next.

ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES:
Royal Insurance Buildings, Liverpool,
and
Lombard-street, London.
CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS STERLING.

Important Announcement.
Increased Share of Life Profits.

ALL NEW INSURANCES, with Participation, EFFECTED
AFTER IST JANUARY, 1S(18, will become entitled to an INCRRASED
SHARE OF THE PROFITS, in accordance with the Resolution
passed at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders.
JOHN H. MeLAREN, Manager.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

THE ROYAL lIOSPITAL for DISEASES of
the MUST, City-road.—The wards for in-patients
are constantly full, those for ont-patients crowded daily.
FUNDS greatly needed.
CHARLES L. KEMP, Secretary.

KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL, Portugal-
street, Lincoln's-inn.—The Committee earnestly
APPEAL for FUNDS to defray the heavy current ex-
penses. Assistance is urgently needed.
F. ALFRED BEDWELL, Vice-Chairman.
JAMES BLYTH, Secretary.

DOG LICENSES.—CAUTION.
rIFIE COMMISSIONERS of INLAND RE-
-1 VENUE GIVE NOTICE that all DOG LICENSES
granted in the year 1868 expired on the 31st December
last, and every person keeping a dog in the current year is
required forthwith to take out a new License.
The duty payable for each dog kept is Five Shillings.
The penalty for keeping a dog without License is Five
Pounds.
A License is not transferable from one person to
another.
A License may be obtained by the owner giving his
name and address, and the name of the place where the
dog is kept on application at
The Office of the Collector of Inland'
In the neigh-
Revenue, bourhood of the
The Office of the Distributor of Stamps
applicant's re-
Or eidetic°.
A Mosey Order Post Office.
Licenses will also be granted by the several Supervisors
of Inland Revenue.
Persons residing. at a distance from any of the above
offices, by transmitting with their application Inland
Revenue (Receipt) or Postage Stamps for the proper
amount of duty, to the Collector of Inland Revenue for
the Die rid, will receive a liceuse in return by post.
WM. COBBET I', Secretary.

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

£1,317,207 2 11
Examined and approv
HTHENO3RYASROASLEL,EN , Auditors
jj
The total income of the year, it will be seen, is £544,466
9s. 2d., and the total outgo £409,654 14s. sd. ; thediffe-
rence, or the sum laid by- viz., £134.811 14s. 9d.—raises
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
more 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 £5 12s. per cent.
The premiums on now 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 aro 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
par 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-
eluding income tax, is at the rate of little more than 51
per cont. on the total income.
The balance-sheet is as follows :

£6,977 13 3

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DR. LIABILITIES.
Interest due to proprietors
Claims on decease of lives assured, and
additions thereto unpaid
Sundry accounts
Liability under sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,369,169 11 7
Proprietors' fund
Surplus fund as before 907,552 8 6

Total 17,565,198 1 3
CR. ASSETS.
Amount invested in fixed mortgages 71,460,772 2 7
Ditto ditto decreasing ditto
Ditto ditto reversions 347,136 5 5
Ditto ditto funded securities
Ditto ditto temporary securities 142,424 011
Current interest on the above invest-
ments
Cash and bills..

36,243 7 6
22,604 2 9

Advanced on security of the company's
policies 159,503 14 9
Agents' bah-Aces
Sundry accounts
Value of premiums (1867)
86,860 13 9
Value of re-assurances

Total £7,565,198 1 3
Examined and approved.
THOMAS ALLEN,} Auditors.
HENRY ROSE,

The present disposition of the Company's funds is shown
by this account. On ccmparing 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
3s. lid.
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 RIIE Esq., Deputy-

Chairman. .. . _
Charles Bischoff, Esq. Chas. Thos. Holcombe, Esq.
Thomas Boddington, Esq. Joshua Lockwood, Esq.
Charles Chatfield, Emil. James Murray, Esq.
Sir J. Buller East, Bart., Philip Rose, Esq.
D.C.L. George Russell, Esq.
Robert A. Gray Esq. Thos. Godfrey Sambrooke,
Wm. Augustus
.Guy M.D., Esq.
F.ILS. Admiral Tindal.

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-Ist. 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 thei
own homes.
A t ew wing to the Hospital has lust 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 are awaiting election.
For the maintenance of present operations, for the ex-
tension of the benefits of the Charity, donations, and espe-
cially annual subscriptions, aro 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 bo thankfully received.
FREDERIC ANDREW Secretary,
No. 10 Poultry! Loudon, E.C. September 1868.

IFE BOAT SERVICES.—During the Storms
J of the year 1868, the National Lifeboat Institution
contributed tc the saving of 862 lives from various ship-
wrecks and 25 vessels from destruction. The Institution
also expended £20,433 in the same period on its Lifeboat
Establishments, in addition to granting £2,431 for re-
wards.
The Committee of the Institution earnestly appeal to the
public for assistanceto enable them to meet the continued
heavy demands on their 198 Lifeboat Establishments.
Contributions will be thankfully received by the London
and country bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis,
Esq., at tht r.nstitution, 14, John-street Adelphi, London.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
are as follows :
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, Ramp- 150, New Kent-road.
stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Groat Portland. street. wish.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, llcnstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary s Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's-street, Dover.
Temporary llome-85, Queen-street, Cluzapside
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 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 kad on application.
The SoCiety is under the presidency of the Earl of
Shaftesl,urv. Its bankors are Messrs. Barclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend Ps work to the
benevolent. DANL. COOPER, Sec.
fif Queen-street Cheanside

ESTABLISHMENT for GENTLEWOMEN
during TEMPORARY ILLNESS.
The relatives of Clergymen, Naval, Military, and Pro-
fessional Men, Governesses, and Artists may, for a small
weekly payment,
receive the comforts of a HOME, com-
bined with the best medical and surgical treatment, at the
establishment, 90, Upper Harley-street.
This establishment, which was opened in 1850,i is patro-
nised by her Majesty. The Bishop of London s Visitor,
and it is managed by the Marchioness of Ormonde, the
Lady Laura Palmer, Mrs. Edward Romilly, the Lady
Caroline Russell, Mrs. Cecil Russell, and other ladies.
All information respecting it may be obtained on writ-
ten c,r personal application to the Lady Superintendent.
Subscriptions received at the Institution, and by the
Treasurer, at Messrs. Coutts an
SPRd Co.'s, 59, Strnd.
ING BICE lion Sec.

ROYAL FREE lIOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of tho Great Northern
Railway Terminus, King's Cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN.
Vice-Patron—
His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, E.G.

. _
President—His -;race the Duko of MUCCLEtieII, K.G.
This Hospital, founded iu 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 ler 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 3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the
benevolent, as the premises of this hospital aro capable of
containing several hundred more beds had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Coutrib%tions aro received by their bankers, Messrs.
Brown. Hansom and Co., Abcburch-lane ; also by Messrs.
Coutts and rummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ;
Horrit s Co.';;
Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, an,?
Co: ; and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Williams,
Deacon, and Cu.; Nisbet and oo.,:Berners-streot ; and at
the Hospital from 10 till 5.

The French elections, in spite of the adherence of the
greater number of the official candidates to the programme
of continued occupation at Rome, have been far too
favourable to the extreme revolutionary party to inspire
much confidence here. If the Emperor is bard pressed, he
is more likely, it is thought, to yield to the Republicans,
who threaten his dynasty, than to the CatholicS,
whom, he believes, will not resort to extreme
measures against him, even should he abandon
Rome. Moreover, he has obtained all they can give
him, and they will probably be less eamorous 'creditors
than Jules Favre and Garnier-Pagls. The subserviency
of official candidates is far too notorious for Catholics to
place any trust in their independent action, and no assu-
rances have been received here since the elections that
enable us to consider the continuance of the occupation a
settled matter.

The festival of the " Statute," on the 7th, seems to have
been celebrated by very serious riots allover Italy, and
especially at Parma, where the authorities were insulted,
and cries of " Viva la Republica!" raised. A number of
arrests were made that day at Cozenza, in Calabria,
among Menotti's adherents, and some correspondence of
his seized. Mazzini is . thought to have 'returned
in disguise to Italy, to be near the scene of events
should the moment come ; but of his whereabouts nothing
certain is known.

The Pope enters the twenty-fourth year of his Pontificate
next week. He is 77 years of age, and his two brothers are
four and seven years older. He is extremely well, and
drove on Monday to the Church of St. Francis, of Rome,
in the Torrino, the transfer of whose relics had taken place
there the day before.
The excavations at the Emporium have been very suc-
cessful this week, and seventeen blocks of marble and
alabaster of great value have been disinterred.—A curious
fact is reported from Naples. Vesuvius has begun to
throw up a quantity of saline crystals, so brilliant and
perfect as to resemble diamonds. This beautiful natural
phenomenon is being investigated, and excites great
interest in the scientific world.

There is very little political news of importance, all
being in suspension till after the meeting of the Corps
Legislatif. The Count of Girgenti has declared that he
accepts the claims of Don Carlos as rightful King of
Spain, and will sustain his cause ; and very nearly
all the Isabellist generals have done the same,
General Reina among others. Catalonia has offered
a sword to the Carlist General Wistany, and the
officers of the army are daily sending in their adherence
to Don Carlos.

The Duke of Montpensier has been requested by the
Portuguese Government to leave Lisbon, and he is pre-
paring to go to Tangier, where be possesses a splendid
palace.
A remarkable instance of courage on the part of an
Englishman occurred last week. During a fire which
destroyed the pyroclinist Mazazzi'a shop, it was recol-
lected that a large barrel of powderhad been most foolishly,
and in direct defiance of the law, left in the house. The
firemen recoiled before the idea of venturing in to fetch it,
and in a few minutes the street would have been blown
up but for the daring gallantry of a young Englishman,
Mr. Herbert Duke, a private of Zouaves, who was
passing, and who bad stopped to assist the fire-
men. He entered the burning house, and returned
blackened with flame and smoke, but carrying the powder
barrel on his shoulders! His courage saved the street
from a most fearful explosion, which must have taken
place in a few minutes had he hesitated to risk his life for
the safety of others.
The Scottish College, which has been under resto-
ration, was reoccupied yesterday by the students.
The building is a beautiful ono. The inde-
fatigable rector, Dr. Grant, will, it is expected,
be seconded in his efforts to improve and extend
its organisation. The Marquis of Bute has, it is
said, made a handsome donation to St. Andrea, which is
now the most perfect collegiate building in Romo. It
overlooks the Barberini Palace, and commands a splendid
view from its upper terraces and galleries.
Most conciliatory despatches regarding the Concordat
and the Marriage laws have been received at the Vatican,
and all discussion has been put off till the next session
of the Beichsratli. Mgr. Negroni, present Governor of
the Interior, will probably succeed Mgr. Chigi as Nuncio
in Paris.

FOREIGN NOTES.

ANNEXATION MOVEMENT IN NOVA SCOTIA.

Nothing, apparently, can reconcile the Nova Scotians to
their union with the Dominion of Canada. Net even the
increased subsidy just granted by the Ottawa Parliament,
though Nova Scotia Lad previously joined the confedera-
tion on favourable terms, not even the fine example of
"flexibility "—to put it mildly—set by Mr:El owe, the former
leader of the Repeal party, can bring the discontented round.
The recent di v isions in the Assembly at Halifax, one rejecting
a motion to make another appeal to England, prove that
a majority in the local House are favourable to continuing
the union; but it is also -clear that there is a Powerful
disaffected party. A cable telegram which we published
yesterday stated that the League formed to abrogate
the connection with the Dominion had determined to
adopt the policy of annexation to the United States.
This resolution will probably ruin the Repealer& So
long as they opposed only the connection with the Dominion
they were sure to have some support ; but they can hardly
succeed in persuading the Nova Scotians that the evils of
the Confederation, whatever they may be, can be escaped
by going over to the States. If the former union is bur-
densome, the latter would be infinitely more so. If the
Nova Scotians think they are now chastised with whips,
they cau clearly gain nothing by suffering the infliction of
scorpions.