The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-11 00:00:00

EXTRACTS FROM REPORT.

In the past three years the New Policies effected were—
Reported in 1865, 1,650, amounting to £270,736 ; 1866,
2,073, £353,700; 1867, 2,845, £511,175. Total Number,
6,568, amounting to £1,125,611.
The New Annual Premiums of past year, £15,318.
In the Four Triennial Periods the New Policies issued
were—First Three. Years, 3,196, for £507,06J; Second
Three Years, 2,926, for £494,066 ; Third Three Years,
3,941, for £629,547 ; Fourth Three Years, 6,568, for
£1,125,611. Total, 16,631, for £2,756,284.
So that the New Business of the last Three Years has
been greater than that of the preceding Six Years.
The Policies in force this day are 11,637 in Number,
amounting to £1,980,258.
The Death Claims and Bonuses paid in the year under
67 polices amounted to £14,199.
The amount paid for Death Claims, and Bonuses paid
since the establishment of the Company, under 399 Policies,
is £64,447.
The ACCUMULATED FUND has been increased
during the Year by no less than Twenty-eight Thousand
Nine Hundred and Nine Pounds, making the amount laid
by in the last three years, Sixty-five Thousand Niue
Hundred and Seventy-Eight Pounds,and now amounts to
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One Hundred and Twenty-seven Thousand Nine Hundred
Bonus
Participatingo f per Cent. Policies perwas
declared.an v
triennialars nAldmu Fund
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TEA IS CHEAPER THAN EVER.
is, 61., 25., 28 6 t. per lb. arc thc prices at which
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Tea Merchants, 8, King William-street, City, London. E.C..
are selling good and fine
BLACK TEA.
A price current post free. 40s worth carriage free to any
Railway St ition or Market Town in the United Kingdom.
All goods carriage free to all parts of London.
Observe— PitiLLirs and Co. have no Agents.
Sugars are supplied at market prices.

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most usetul invention of the day, AGIJA aMA KELL A.
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gradually restores tna human hair to its pristine hue--no
matter at what age. The Ague Amarella has none of the
properties of dyes ' • it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the
system, and when the hair is once restored one application
bormonth will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per
ttle. or in half bottles. 108. 61. Testimonials from artistes
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MIDDLESEX ELECTION. CENTRAL
_OIL COMMITTEE for PROMOTING the ELEC-
TION of Ur. LABOUCHERE.

Chairman—PASCOE GRENFELL, Esq.
Berkeley, the Hon. F. H. F., M.P.
Brand, the Right Hon. H. B. W., M.P.
Buxton, Charles, Eeq., M.P.
Chambers, Montagu, Esq., Q.C., M.P.
Chambers, Thomas, Esq., M.P.
Clay, James, Esq., M.P.
Cogan, the Right Hon. W. H. F., M.P.
Edwards, Charles, Esq., M.P.
Eykyn, Roger, Esq.,
Forster, W. E. Esq., M.P.
Gibson, the Right non. T. M., M.P.
Goschen, the Right Hon. G. J., M.P.
Grenfell, H. R., Esq., M.P.
Gridley, G. H., Esq., M.P.
Grosvenor, Captain the Hon. R. W., M.P.
Hayter, Captain A. D., M.P.
Hodgson, Kirkman D., Esq., M.P.
Hogarth, J. R., Esq.
Hugesson, E. H. Knatchbull, Esq., M.P.
Hughes, Thomas, Esq.. M.P.
Kinuaird, Hon. A. F., M.P.
Lawrence, Alderman W.. M.P.
Leeman; George, Esq., M.P.
Lefevre, George J. S.' Esq., M.P.
Lewis, Harvey, Esq., M.P.
Locke, John, Esq., M.P.
Lusk, Alderman Andrew. M.P.
Marjoribanks, Sir D. C., Bart., M.P.
Neate, Charles, Esq., M.P.
O'Donoghuti, The, M.P.
O'Beirne, J. L., Esq., M.P.
O'Brien, Sir P., Bart., M.P.
Osborne, R. Bernal, Esq., M.P.
Potter, Edmund, Esq., I'd-LS., M.P.
Rothschild, Baron Lionel N. de, M.P.
Stausfeld, James, Esq., M.P.
Torrens, W. T. M‘C., Esq., M.P.
Trevelyan, G. 0., Esq., M.P.
White, James, Esq., M.P.
Breton, P. H. Le, Esq.
Brewer, W., Esq., M.D.
Bruce, A. S., Esq.
Busk, E. T., Esq., J.P.
Clarke, Joseph, Esq.
Churchill, Lord Alfred
Delapryme, Charles, Esq.
Davenport, George, Esq.
Edwards, Henry, Esq., J.P.
Freeman, IL, Esq.
Godrich, F., Esq.
Gardiner, NV., Esq.
Griffith, Wm., Esq., M.D.
Humphreys, John, Esq., Coroner
Jenkins, Henry, Esq.
Lubbock, Sir John, Bart.
Newton, Wm., Esq.
Monson, the Hon. E. J.
Michael, W. H., Esq.
Porter, Colonel
Pignet, Charles, Esq.
• Richards, J. G., Esq.
Rough, Robert, Esq.
Snell, Charles, Esq.
Walden, W., Esq.
Walker, W., Esq.
Weguelin, Christopher, Esq.
Wilkins, John, Esq.
WTerrott, Charles, Esq.
Wosterton, Charles, Esq.
Younger, Henry J., Esq.
THOMAS GILBERT, Jun., Secretary.
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"The humble petition of the undersigned,
showeth,—That your petitioners fulfil the conditions
of property or rental prescribed by law as the qua-
lification of the electoral franchise, and exercise in
their own names the right pertaining to such con-
ditions. That the principles on which the govern-
ment of the United Kingdom is based imply the re-
presentation of all classes and interests in the State.
That the reasons alleged for withholding the exer-
cise of the franchise from certain classes of her
Majesty's subjects do not apply to your petitioners.
Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray your
honourable House to grant to such persons as fulfil
all the conditions which entitle to a vote in the
election of members of Parliament, excepting only
that of sex, the privilege of taking part in the choice
of fit persons to represent the people in your honour..
able House. And your petitioners will ever pray.
" MARY CHARLOTTE LLOYD.
" HARRIET MARTINEAU.
" ANNA SIVANIVICK,"
'''-"Tire brit/IWO petition of thelindeisignerinwerh,
the exclusion of freeholders, householders, and rate-
payers legally qualified in every respect but that of
sex from the power of voting in the election of mem-
bers of your honourable house, by depriving a con-
siderable portion of the property, the industry, and
the intelligence of the country of all direct repre-
sentation, is injurious both to the persons excluded
and to the community at large. That women are
competent both by law and in fact to carry on a
business, to administer an estate, and to fill other
positions which, both by investing them with in-
terests requiring political representation and by
affording tests of fitness, are usually considered to
give a claim to the suffrage. That the admission of
such persons to the privilege of the franchise would
be a measure in harmony with the principles of our ,
representative system, while its beneficial effects
would not be attended by any possibility of dan-
gerous political consequences. Your petitioners,
therefore, humbly pray that any act for the Reform
of Parliament hereafter to be passed may contain
.provisions 'for granting. the suffrage to women on
the Barrie conditions of property, rating, rental, or
any other qttalifications not dependent on such value
on which it is or may be granted to men. And your
petitioners will ever pray.

" EMMA WINKWORTH.
" LYDIA E. BECKER.
" JACOB BRIGHT," &C.

The Eastern Question.

The Journal de St. Petersburgh, of the 23d March
(April 4), publishes the following :
" A telegram from Constantinople, dated yester-
day, announces that the Sublime Porte has not
accepted the advice to cede the Isle of Candia to
Greece. Below will be found, under the head of
Great 'Britain, the passage of the speech delivered
by Lord Derby last Thursday in . the House of
Lords, in which he explained the motives which have
prevented the Queen's Government from giving, at
Constantinople, like the other powers, the advice
that it would be desirable that this cession should
take place. Lord Derby, moreover, declared that
if the Sultan voluntary consented to this annexation
England would not have any objection to Make.
The Christians of Caudia will certainly be touched
by this condescension, but the Sublime Porte will
not be less so by the solicitude eiinced by the
Foreign Office for the absolute independence of its
authority and the pre-occupAion of Lord Derby
for the condition in which the Mussulman minority
would be placed in Crete if the governing power
should be Christian. There are countries in which
the title of honoriary citizen is conferred by the
people on those to whom ' they wish to show their
gratitude; this is not, that we know of, the custom
in Turkey, but perhaps it might not there be con-
sidered a dangerous reform, or one requiring much
time to parry out, to confer the dignity of honorary
Mussulman, and in that case the candidature of the
English statesman would be a matter of course, and
his success could not fail to be triumphant.
• " But we must speak seriously on grave matters.
We ask ourselves by reason of what strange illusion
advice given to Turkey can be construed into an
attack upon her rights ; how there can be anything
contrary to the well-understood interests of the
Ottoman Empire in a step which has for its object
to prevent the continuance of sanguinary catas-
trophes, to worthily repair the past, and to prevent
a domination already so much shaken and so odious
from breaking down under an effort which would
scatter the debris far beyond the coasts of the in-
surgent isle?
There are three points too much lost sight
in London—first/ that the Christians have risen in
consequence of a long and intolerable oppression ;
secondly, that they have been cradled in hopes which
have all turned out mere deceptions ; lastly, that
they form a majority which the governing minority
keep under a heavy yoke because they dread its
emancipation, and because the prejudices of fana-
ticism add to this fear.

" The British Cabinet says it is not convinced
that the proposed annexation would be definitively
favourable to the prosperity, the satisfaction, or the
well-being of the Cretan population. Would it be
more favourable to those interests of which it shows
itself so generously uneasy, notwithstanding the ex-
pressed wishes of the population ; would it be more
favourable if there remained but the Mussulmans
with the women and children after all the rest had
fallen under the blows of the Turks ?

" England, according to Lord Derby, wishes to
treat Turkey as a friend. Is she quite certain that
the rigorously-reserved attitude which she main-
tains is dictated by an intelligent and provident
friendship—by that friendship which knows how to
tell the truth at the risk of displeasing, which is the
only friendship worthy of the name ; and not by a
friendship which, putting carefully aside its respon-
sibility, spares its egotism the trouble of all advice,
holds. itself apart in evil days while professing a
sympathy that remains sterile, and confines itself to
reserving for the morrow of accidents or misfor-
tunes its sincere condolence.
" What the friendship of England is most par-
ticularly careful of is, not to oppose Turkey in any-
thing. This will certainly please Turkey for the
moment ; but, since the Orientals are fond of apolo-
gues, may we be allowed to transport them for a
moment under the torrid sky of the equatorial re-
gions ? A planter--we are in a country in which
slavery still exists—walks across his domains in
company with his friend, who is the English consul,
a man of influence, whom he likes to consult, and
regards as a model, and of whom he respectfully
envies the high position, the knowledge, and the
capacity. The planter walksab9ut smoking with 21011-
chalance. He beats his negroes according to custom,
and ill-treats them in every way. llis friend smiles
whilst asking himself, in petto, if the planter is not
a little too sharp. Meanwhile, as the brutal fanta-
sies of this capricious proprietor have been long con-
tinued, his negroes at length revolt. The planter
calls the police. The friend retires into a pavilion
close by and looks on. The struggle continues and
the planter falls. The friend retires, recommend-
ing his people to bury him decently, and sheds a tear
to the memory of one whose individual liberty he
would not cross even by advice.
" What will be thought at Constantinople of this
friend? Will it not be considered that the indivi-
dual liberty of the planter was too much respected,
and that wise counsel given in time would not have
done him any great harm, and perhaps might have
pointed out to him the means of still exercising for
a long time his free will if this prudent advice had