The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 15,

TAIRENCII GALLERY, 120, PALL-MALL.—
The FOLiIM:ENTII ANNEAL EMU RITION
of
RES, the Contributions of Artists of the French and
Flemish Schools, IS INOW OPEN:
Admission, Is. Cahloglie,

ENTRANTS IN, 1867 PARTICIPATE IN FIFTH DIVISION OF
PROFITS.
MUTUAL ASSURANCE WITHOUT MUTUAL LIABILITY.
PROFITS APPLIED SO AS TO MAKE POLICIES PAYABLE IN
LIFETIME.
AND SO AS TO RAISE SECOND CLASS LIVES, AFTER A
DEFINED PERIOD, TO FIRST CLASS RATES.
BRITISH. EQUITABLE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
4, Queen-street-place, Southwark-bridge, London, E.C.
DIRECTORS.
George Thomas Dale, Esq., Bayswater.
Edmund Dunn, Esq., Croydon.
William Gover, Esq., Blackheath.
William Sutton Gover, Esq., 4, Queen-street-place.
John Middleton Hare, Esq., Forest Hill.
Fountain John Hartley, Esq., Dalston.
John Smither, Esq., Wellclose-square.
Joseph Warmington, Esq., Lee-grove, Blackheath.
MANAGING DIRECTOR AND ACTUARY.
'W Mien Sutton Gover, Esq., F.I.A.
AUDITORS.
Mr. Deputy Obbard, Blackheath.
Charles Brown, Esq., Waddon.
William George Lemon, Esq., Blackheath-
BANKERS.
The London and Westminster Bank.
PHYSICIAN.
William Munk, Esq., M.D., F.S.A. (Fellow of the Royal
College of Physicians of London), 40, Finsbury-square.
SURGEON.
Thomas Carr Jackson, Esq. (Fellow of the Royal College
of Surgeons, Surgeon to the Groat Northern Hospital,
King's-cross), 3, Weymouth-street, Portland-place.

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, £5C1,175. Total Number,
6,568, amounting to £1,125,611.
The Now Annual Premiums of past year, £15,818.
In the Four Triennial Periods the New Policies issued
were—First Three Years, 3,196, for £507,063; 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 Nine
Hundred and Seventy-Eight Pounds, and now amounts to
One Hundred and Twenty-seven Thousand Nino Hundred
and Seventy-eight Pounds Sterling. The Accumulated
Fund has thus been nearly doubled at the end of each
triennial period. •
A Reversionary Bonus of 11 per Cent. per annum on
SuinS 'Assured under Participating: Policies w•assdec'li{t'od.

DEAFNESS.—The ORGANIC .VIBRATOR.—
It fits into the ear, not perceptible; the unpleasant
sensation of singing noties in the is entirely rem heed.
It affords immediate rel:ef to deal pe,sons, and enable, them
to hear distinctly at church and public assembles. Every
other kind of hearing instrument. -31esars. SOLOXION, 39,
Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.

Railway and other Companies.

GREAT NORTHERN.
This company's extension from Lincoln to Hon-
ington was opened for traffic on Friday. The
contractors, Messrs. Kirk and Parry, in conjunc-
tion with the directors, made liberal arrangements
to celebrate the event, and a dinner for that pur-
pose was given in the afternoon at the Caythorpe
station.

EAST NORFOLK.
This line, which is to establish railway communi-
cation between Norwich and North Walsham, has
been commenced after long delay. The contractor
for the works is Mr. W. S. Simpson, and the
Great Eastern arc to subscribe one-third of the
share capital.

KEIGHLEY AND WORTH VALLEY.
This short line of railway, five miles in length,
was opened for public traffic on Saturday. Some
unexpected difficulties having occurred in the con-
struction of the line the time of completion was
unavoidably delayed. The line will unite a popu-
lous manufacturing valley with the Midland line at
Keighley. The event was celebrated at Haworth,
where a public dinner was given.

CARLISLE AND SILLOTIL
The directors in their report for the past half-
year regret their inability to recommend any divi-
dend even upon the preference stock. Although the
accounts show an apparent surplus, there may turn
out to be, iu reality, a considerable deficiency ; for,
of the fixed rent of £l,OOO, less income tax, due on

the 31st of January, 1867, only £l5B 12s. 2d. has
yet been received; the North British Company hav-
ing not only deducted ftom the rent the £Bll ss.
paid in October last as contingent rent (alleging
that this sum was paid in error), but they have also
charged the Silloth Company £l3 9s. 6d. as inte-
rest upon it from the 2d of October, 1866, to the
Ist of February, 1867. The £Bll ss. was distri-
buted among the holders of the preference stock of
the company in October last.

to. 4 per cent. fOr at least three years, and to allow
tithe for its gradual extinction. At least £40,000
of the pre-preference stock would be taken by the
creditors in reduction of their claims, conditionally
on the other portions of the arrangement being
carried out. This, with the produce of the sale of
the Deeside shares, would reduce the balance due to
the banks to little over £200,000, which the direc-
tors hoped might ultimately be entirely liquidated
by the disposal of the pre-preference stock to be
created under the bill. The total expenditure on the
main line and brancheg amounted to £2,873,332.

MIDLAND AND GLASGOW AND SOUTH-
WESTERN.
At a recent meeting of shareholders in the latter
company support was accorded to a proposal made
by Mr. J. Burns, to the effect that in amalgamating
with the Midland the South-Western Company
should be allowed to retain a lien on their own line.
Mr. Burns had since been in communication with
the two boardsof directors on the subject, and they
have agreed to the proposed lien in the following
modified form :—" If the amalgamated lines shall
not yield a dividend equal to what the Glasgow and
South-Western by itself has produced, the share-
holders of the latter shall have a lien on the pro-
duce of their own line up to but not exceeding four
per cent. ; such arrangement to terminate at the
expiry of 10 years from the date of opening the
amalgamated railway throughout from Glasgow to
London.

into consideration the small uunztb.;:r of troops at each post.
it would be an easy matter to cApturz and massacre every

TERRIBLE PANIC IN A CIL:MTS.—AI furious horse
was brought to the "Coliseum" in Chicago, where a horse-
tamer was exhibiting. The building was densely crowded
with spectators. The Norse-tauter was about to comm.-mei;
to manipulato the irritable brute, but before any result

could be achieved the latter made a sudden bound from the
hands of his owner, who let go the bridle, and sprang
wildly into the circle among the audience. A scream of

terror rose from every part of the house, and this had tho
effect of still further maddening the infuriated animal, who

struggled and pranced from one circle of seats to another
among the thickest of the spectators, till he reached nearly
to the roof of the circus. At this point the flooring gave
way right above the cages where the lions are kept, and
the horse fell through, carrying with him a nutubar of the

spectators who could not get out of the way A cry was
_ _ _ . . _ _

raised that he had fallen directly into the lion's den. Some
inconsiderate person shouted at the top of his voice, " The
lions are loose !" which produced an unparalleled sensation

among the audience. The portion of them who were
nearest to the dreaded spot made a rush for the other side
of the house in the direction of the dress circle, and the
fear that the flooring there was about to give way, together
with the knowledge that the black lioness and the leopard
were immediately beneath, caused an excitement wild be-
yond all description. The doors were at last thrown open
and the crowd escaped with few injuries. The alarm about
the lions proved untrue, and when the excitement had sub-
sided the professor tamed the horse, which had also escaped
serious injury.—Boston Advertiser.
It seems not unlikely that an attempt will soon
be made to " flank" Bringb.am Young, and dispose satis-
factorily of the troublesome question of polygamy, which
for some years has loomed large and demanded settlement.
The Nevada Legislature has been informed by Senator
Stewart that ho had good reasons for believing that Con-
gress would be found quite ready, if Nevada would say
she was willing, to snake the Territory of Utah a part of
the State of Nevada. Nevada appears to be willing ; and
on Feb. 6 the State Senate, by a vote of 14 to 2, ordered and
engrossed a resolution favourable to accepting Utah, or the
'State of Deseret ;" for it is true, though not very well
known, that the Mormons have a shadowy sort of State
Government, with Young as governor, and other Mormons
as senators and members of assembly, who annually go
through the form of ratifying the acts of the Territorial
and National governments. It was, of course, to be ex-
pected that the citizens of Nevada should entertain a ro-
bust self-coufidenca in their ability to "handle" any num-
ber of Morns ms and "to clean out Brigham," if need be
within a brief period of time. Bat still it looks very mach
as if Nevada, when she gets Utah, will find that she has
been swall.y.ved instead of swallowing. There are, per-
haps, says the Salt Lake City 17,14:d.z Vedette, 3,000 legal
voters in Utah. But there were in 1860 about 20,000 mak
inhabitants, and although a great majority of these are
foreigners their disabilities could soon be removed, and
they be made voters. The estimated population of Nevada
is:6O,OOQ-souls, of whom, to be'sure, fewer are women and
'Children than in an equal number of Mormons ; but yet
the voters in Nevada could be outnumbered, it is likely, by
those in the Territory. So it is not wonderful that, Young
expresses his satisfaction with the proposed measure, de-
clines to send money to Nevada to defeat it, and only stipu-
lates that the new State shall be called the State of
Deseret.—The Nation.
The time occupied in a trip from the Missouri
River to Salt Lake City now is only eight days. Three
of them aro occupied on the trip from Omaha to Denver,
and the remaining five from Denver to Salt Lake. In
this eight days' travel there are 300 miles of railroad
and 900 of staging.
At a recent meeting of the Academy of Natural
Sciences of California Professor Blake exhibited about 20
fossil vertebrae of what he believes to have been a great
marine saurian, or crocodile. These bones aro each about
four inches long and three in diameter, and, together with
teeth of sharks and other remains, were found in Tulare
Valley, 1,500 feet above the ocean.
Ben Wade is 67 years old, George William Curtis
is 48 years, and Horace Greeley 56.

David Johnson, who has had charge of the Go-
vernment coal fleet at the Mound City (Illinois) navy yard
for several years, has committed suicide, because, through
a mistake of his in measuring, the Government lost four
hundred bushels of coal. On this the Watchman and
Reflector remarks :—"lf all officers who have voluntarily
or involuntarily defrauded the Government possessed like
tender consciences what a scene of hari-kari the ranks of
Government officials would present."
Mr. Henry John Lewis, first saloon, embarked
at Falmouth on Thursday, in the Mississippi, for New
York. •

The Round Table, of the 23d ult., says :—" 1)r.
Samuel G. Howe and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe sailed
last week for Europe. Dr. Howe will leave his
family in Italy while he proceeds to Greece to
superintend the distribution of the Cretan relief
fund ; he will act during his absence as correspon-
dent of the Boston Advertiser and the Chicago
Tribune. Mrs. Howe's departure will have the
effect, it is said, of causing the removal to New York
and publication in newspaper form of Northern
Lights, the weekly magazine to which the news-
papers have given a singularly unpleasant recep-
tion, partly probably because it was a new thing
and.they didn't understand it, partly because they
dislike " Edmund Kirke," which is quite intelli-
gible.
In this week's number of The Galaxy i§ com-
menced " Steven Lawrence, Yeoman," the new
story of Mrs. Edwards, author of " Archie Lovell."
published in the same magazine. The Galaxy will
print the story from advance MS. somewhat ahead
of its appearance in England.