The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-16 00:00:00

Lyons and 'Mediterranean.

SOuthern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian .
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS,

The Delhi, from Calcutta, December 23, reached
Suez on the 15th instant., at 11 a.m.

OXFORD, Jan. 15.
In a congregation held this day the following degrees
were 'conferred:— ,

M.A.—Andrew Hannam, Merton ; Charles L. Shadwell,
Oriel ; Rev. George Augustus M. How, Rev. Fitzherbert
Astley Cave-Browne-Cave, Bmsenose College.
B.C.L.—Rev. Edgar D. Whitmarsh, Worcester.
B.A.—Richard Robinson (Fellow), Queen's ; Edmund M.
Sneyd Kynnersley (Fellow), St. John's ; John A. Creed,
Corpus; John Jones and William James Price, Jesus ;
Henry Edward Hodson, Worcester.

MARKETS—This Day.

HAY

SMITHFIELD.—Ifeadow hay, £4 4s to £5 8s; clover.
£5 5s to £6 158 Od ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 2s per load,
A slow trade.

CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £slos Od; clover,
£5 5s to £6 15s Od ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 2s per load,
Trade heavy.

WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay £4 4s to £5 8s ; clove;
£5 5s to £6 15s Od ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 2s per load.
Demand inactive.

COLONIAL.

among these are of Miltonic or Martinesque subli-
mity—more particularly the very last of all, the
engraving delineative of the Asiatic Deluge, a pic-
ture presenting to view a spectacle of appalling
UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. I magnificence.

Warne's Picture Book—with upwards of Five
Hundred Illustrations (Frederick Warne and Co.)
—is a very El Dorado or Tom Tiddler's ground of
amusement for childhood ! A glorious treasury of
pictorial fun, frolic, grace, and grotesquerie ! A
whole library of illustrations in a single volume--
the opening of which, at any moment, anywhere,
haphazard, is for the little-ones like the sitting cross-
legged upon the famous Turkish carpet. For, Hey !
Presto !—they are away—upon the wings of thewind
—into the true realms of fairy-land, the fields of the
imagination ! As the title-page of this handsome
five shilling volume says quite accurately—there are
here collected together between cover and cover
upwards of FIVE HUNDRED Illustrations by every
Artist of Eminence within the Last Twenty Years
Enough, that surely in all conscience, for the most
insatiable of juveniles hungering and thirsting after
the pleasures of the eye in the shape of comical and
capital illustrations of every imaginable kind.
Another delightful addition to the Nursery Library
is provided by Routledge's New Toy Books, printed
in colours. Old friends, such as Cinderella, and
the Five Little Pigs, and the Three Kittens, and
Nursery Rhymes, and new ones such as the Cats'
Tea Party, and Tom Thumb's Alphabet, and the
Alphabet of Trades, are here presented to us,
all of them glowing and gorgeous in colour-
ing, and some of them singularly grotesque
in character. Some of the illustrations to
Tom Thumb's Alphabet, by M'Connell, are exqui-
sitely humorous and ridiculous. Of a kindred
spirit is the amazing collection of Great Fun, pub-
lished by Sampson Low, which gives us the veracious
history of Hop-Skip-and-Jump, Phemie and the
Fern Fairy, Dolly Dowsey, and the Live Rock-
ing-horse, the Cherry-Coloured Cat, and others
equally marvellous in conception, and all of them
'most brilliant in colouring.

THE SURGEON CHARGED WITH FRAUD ON INSUR-
ANCE COMPANIES.—Mr. T. Walley, the surgeon who
was found guilty at the Leeds Assizes on Tuesday of ob-
taining an insurance policy by false pretences, was indicted
on Saturday at the same assizes for a similar fraud on the
British Prudential Assurance Company, the person whose
life was insured in this case being a young woman named
Hepworth. The deceased was suffering at the time of the
insurance from an incurable cancer, and the prisoner, who
professionally knew her state, represented her life to be a
good one to the insurance company, managing at the same
time to secure for himself the prospective bye& in the
case of death. The papers relative to the insurance acci-
dentally fell from his pocket in the public road, and being
shown to the friends of the young woman—who were en-
tirely ignorant of the proceedings of the prisoner—led to
the discovery of the fraud. The prisoner pleaded Guilty,
and was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment—to com-
mence on the termination of his previous sentence of six
months.

We cordially recommend all who are in any way
interested in the subject of insurance to procure a copy of
the Royal Assurance Company's Book-Almanac for 1866,
which can be obtained on application at the head offices or
from any of the company's agents. Besides explaining
candidly the principles upon which the vast business of
the " Royal " is so successfully conducted, and giving the
rules which must be observed to insure stability in insur-
ance transactions, the pamphlet contains other matter of
interest to the general reader, independently of the princi-
pal topics to which it is devoted. It appears from the
latest statistics that the " Royal " is now very nearly the
largest insurance office in the world, a distinction of en-
hanced value when considered as the result of 20 years'
operations only. In the fire branch the premiums during
1864 alone amounted to over £406,000; and in the same
year the new life assurances completed exceeded one mil-
lion sterling, notwithstanding the large number (i)f pro
posalo rejected on the score of ineligibility,