The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-28 00:00:00

S ATIC E.—LEA and PE UCE,
THE WORCESTERSHIRE,"
pronounced by Connoisseurs
"THE ONLY GOOD SAUCE."
Its use improves appetite and digestion.
UNRIVALLED FOR PIQUANCY AND FLAVOUR.
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS,
To avoid which, see the names,
LEA and PERRINS, on all bottles and labels,
ASK for " LEA and PERRINS"' SAUCE.
Agents—Crosse and Blackwell, London, and sold by all
Dealers in Sauces throughout the World

BRITISH HOME FOR INCURABLES,
Clapham rise.
Instituted 1861.
PATRONESS.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES.
TREASURERS.
George Moore, Esq.; Mr. Alderman Gibbons.
This Institution, extending its operations to all parts of
the kingdom, provides for those afflicted with incurable
diseases a home for life, with every comfort and medical
attendance. Patients are admitted, and annuities of .£lO
obtained by election.
No person under 20 years of age, nor of the pauper
class, is eligible.
Full particulars and the necessary forms may bo pro-
cured from the Secretary. Donations and annual sub-
scriptions are earnestly solicited.

- BANKERS.
Messrs Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, E.C.; and
Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross, S.W.
ED WD. WEAVER, Secretary.
Offices, 73, Cheapsido. .

NURSING.—ST. JOHN'S HOUSE and
SISTERHOOD for TRAINING NURSES for
HOSPITALS, Families, and the Poor: established 1848.

President—The Lord Bishop of LONDON.
The nursing at King's College and the Charing-cross
Hospitals, and the Galignani English Hospital at Paris,
is at present superintended by the Sisters of John's
House.

Ladies or others wishing to qualify themselves as
members of the louse or Sisterhood, or as pupils to be
trained to nurse, are requested to communicate with the
Lady Superior.
Donations and Subscriptions to the General Fund, the
Sisters' Fund, or the Nurses' Pension Fund, may be paid
to Messrs. Coutts ; or to the Lady Superior, at St. John's
House Norfolk-street, Strand, W.o.

ROYAL SCHOOL for DAUGHTERS of
OFFICERS of the ARMY, Lansdown, Bath.
Instituted, A.D., 1864.
Under the Patronage of her Majesty the QUEEN.
President—H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, K.G.,
Chairman—Major-General Sir A. J. LAWRENCE, S.C.B.
This school has been founded upwards of four years,
and it is intended for the education of the daughters of
officers of the army, Indian and Marines. There are
already 70 pupils in the school, but more could be admitted
if the committee had further funds; they, therefore
APPEAL to the public to aid them in carrying out to its
full extent the benefits of the only institution specially
provided for the daughters of officers of the Army.
Each donation of £5 ss. entitles to one life vote at all
elections. Each annual subscription of f 5 5s entitles to
one vote at all elections during the current year. The
amount may be forwarded by an order on a bank, agent,
or post-office (Charing-cross), payable to.
GEO. W. FORSTERI Under Secretary.
Office, 22, Cockspnr-street, London.

POOR SICK and HELPLESS CHILDREN.
—The ROYAL INFIRMARY for CHILDREN
and WOMEN, Waterloo-bridge-road. Instituted 1810.
Increased PECUNIARY ASSISTANCE is most
urgently needed, and solicited, for continuing relief to the
poor little suffering inmates at this Hospital.
Office, Waterloo-bridge-road, S.E.
Bankers—Messrs. Fuller, Banbury, and Co., 77, Lom-
bard-street; and Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand.
CHARLES J. F. REN TON, Secretary.

iIIHE DEAF & DUMB.—The Committee of the
1 JEWS' DEAF and DUMB HOME are prepared to
receive APPLICATIONS for the ADMISSION of DEAF
and DUMB CHILDREN, of all denominations, as Day
Pupils, for instruction in audible speech and lip-reading.
The system adopted rigidly excludes the use of the
manual alphabet and all artificial signs.
A public lesson is given every Wednesday, at 3 p.m.,
when the successful results of the system can be wit-
nessed.

Applications for terms, the course of instruction, and all
other particulars, to be made to
W. VAN PRAA.GIT, Esq.,
Director of the Jews' Deaf and Dumb Home,
44, Burton-crescent, W.C.

VAST LONDON HOSPITAL for CHILDREN.
-A-4 The Committee earnestly desire to raise funds which
shall enable them to establish the Hospital in more suit-
able buildings. The premises now occupied are crowded
and inconvenient, causing additional expense from that
circumstance. It is impossible oven to purchase on whole-
sale terms many articles of daily consumption from want
of room for stowage, every inch of available space being
occupied. There is a drily demand for more beds, and the
staff of nurses would 1-,e able to attend upon more children,
but no more can IY3 admitted in the present building.
£B,OOO at least is required to carry out this much-wished-
for and urgent seb eme.

Contribiitions tivill be thankfully received by tho Trea-
surer, E.S. Norrip, Esq., Shadwell; or by
SITERRD B. BURNABY, Hon Sec.,
Rectory, Wapping, E!

!.t BSOLUTE SECURITY POLICIES, UN.
C FORFEITABLE, UNCONDITIONAL, and 13/1-
CHALLENGEABLE, issued by tho -PRUDENTIAL,
ASSURANCE COMPANY, 62, Ludgate-bill, Loudon,
E.O. Established 1848.
Branch Office-7, King-street, St. James's.

The Directors of this'Comiany, 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 Un ch a lle n geable.
For the reason referred to, many persons hesitate or
decline to assure on the ground that, i n. no 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 premium 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 assured 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 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 ibsued 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 bo called
upon to advance 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 unforfeitablo and uncon-
ditional, they will also be unchallengeable on any ground
whatever. They may therefore bo aptly termed Absolute
Security Policies.
The PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY pos-
sesses an income of £215,000 a year. Its position is un-
questionable, and it obtains the largest amount of new
business of any office in the Kingdom. SPECIAL
AGENTS WARTED.

HENRY HARBEN, Secretary.

CANCER, HOSPITAL (Free) : founded 1851.
—Brompton, S.W., and 167, Piccadilly.—Over 8,000
cases treated since foundation. Remedies and diet very
expensive. Over 40 in hospital, and many cases unable
to be admitted for want of FUNDS ; at present over 300
out-patients.
Treasurer—Geo. T. Hertslet, Esq., Lord Chamberlain's
Office, St. James's Palace.

Bankers—Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand.
By order, H. J. JUPP.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern
Railway Terminus, King's Cross.
Patron--Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUBBN.
Vice-Patron—
His Royal Highness the Prince of Weixs, B.G.
President--His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.
This Hospital, founded in 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 Ter 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 8,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the
benevolent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.

Coniributions are received by their bankers, Messrs.
Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs.
Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ;
Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and
Co.; Smith, Paykia, and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Williams,
Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co.,:Berners-street ; and at
the Hospital fromllo till 5.

Chief Justice Chase, according to the New York
Sun, wrote as follows to Mr. Briggs :—" Narragansett,
Aug. 14, 1869. My dear Mr. Briggs—Your note of the
29th, after a rather long journey, reached me here yester-
day. I should be very glad to see you and talk with you
on any subject but politics. Dr. Bailey used to say that of
Bunyan's Pilgrims he represented Christian and I Hopeful.
lam still hopeful. When I was younger, and thought
that if largely trusted by the people I could do good ser-
vice to the country, I should have been glad to have been
so trusted. Now lam older, and not at all satisfied that
if in a higher place, I could do any better than those now
executing executive functions do. lam more content to
let aspiration alone. My hopes aro in others. It amuses
me to hear of Chase movements here and there. I don't
believe there are any such. As far as locality is given to
them, in Maryland I know there are none, for I spent two
or three days in Frederick this week, and should have
heard of them if any existed. I don't believe a bit in
them elsewhere. If I can only perform with reasonable
satisfaction to my own conscience, and to the opinions of
those best qualified to judge, the duties of my present po-
sition, I shall fill the largest measure of my present ambi-
tion. I want nothing whatever of a political character,
and desire that my name may be disassociated hereafter in
men's minds with all political action. If this is too much to
expect, let me hope, at least, that no friend of mine will
lend any countenance to such absurd nonsense as that to
which I have referred.—Sincerely your friend, S. P. CuAsE.
—James A. Briggs, Esq."
We are advised that several citizens of the United
States have been refused permission to land a cable on the
shores of France from the United States. The reason
given by the Minister of the Interior being that a mono-
poly had already been granted to Messrs. Erlinger and
Reuter for twenty years. The applicants have taken
.nn-
mediate steps to notify to their Government this decision ;
and there can be but ono result in the action of Congress
in December—an immediate withdrawal of the provisional
permission now granted to work the existing French
cable. This appears to be only fair, the refusal represented
standing in strong contrast to the reception given to
French concessioni.sts by Mr. Fish, Secretary of State.