The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-21 00:00:00

OCTAVIUS WIGRAM,
JAMES STEWART lIIDGSON, E,
CHARLES JOHN MANNING, E
DIREC

Robert. Barclay, Esq.
John Garratt Cattley, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq.
Edward James Daniell, Esq.
William Davidson,

Lancelot William Dent, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq.
Fredk. Joseph Edlinann, Esq.
Charles Hermann Goschen,
Esq.
Riversdale Wm. Grenfell,
Esq.
Francis Alex. Hamilton, Esq.
Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq.
Medical Referee, Sarni

NOTICE.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment
of FIRE PREMIUMS falling duo at Christmas will
expire on the 9tb of January.
FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected on
advantageous terms.
The Duty on Fire Assurances has been reduced to the
uniform rate of ls. Gd. per cent. per annum.
No charge is made by this Corporation for Fire Policy
or Stamp, however small the Assurance may be.
F.A MENG STOCK.— No Extra Charge is made for the
use of Steam Thrashing Machines.
The Rever,ionary Bonus on British LIFE POLICIES
has averaged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum
assured.

Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums
payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus.
The Divisions of Profit take place every Five Years.
Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may bo insured on one
Life.

This Corporation agords to the AsFured
Liberal participation in Profits, with the guarantee
•of a large invested Capital Stock, and exemption
under Royal Charter from the liabilities of part-
nership.
The advantages of modern practice, with the secu-
rity of an Office whose resources have been tested
by the experience of nearly a CENTURY AND A
HALF.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
ROBERT P. STEELE, Secretary.

EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament.
For Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity in
Situations of Trust.
Chairman— General Sir FREDERIC Surrrt,
Policies payable during Life—lndisputable—Not liable to
Forfeiture.
Annual Income exceeds Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Pounds.
The Annuity Tables, offering special advantages to Annuitants,
and full particulars of the popular Principles of this Society, will
be found in the New Prospectus, which will be forwarded to
applicants post free.

HENRY LAKE, General Manager.
316, Regent-street, and 17, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.

THE MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY.—Every Policy effected with this Society by the
31st inst. will have the advantage of one year in every Annual
Bonus._

The Directors give notice that the Policies of the Society be-
come Indisputable, and are relieved of all conditions (except
payment of the annual premiums), when they have remained
unchallenged for five years, and the life assured has completed
his 30th year.

The bcinus additions allotted by the Society are highly satisfac-
tory. In a recent claim the addition to a £l,OOO assurance, dated
1845, amounted to £l,OlO, making the total payment £2,010.
CHARLES INGALL, Actuary.
No. 39, King-street, Cheapside,
London, December, 1868.

NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS are confi-
dently recommended as a simple but certain
Remedy for Indigestion, which is the cause of nearly all
the diseases to which we are subject, being a medicine so
uniformly grateful and beneficial that it is with justice
railed the " Natural Strengthener of the Human Stomach."
" Norton's Pills" act as a powerful tonic and gentle ape-
rient; are mild in their operation, safe under any cir-
cumstances, and thousands of persons can now boar testi-
mony to the benefits to be derived from their use, as they
have been a never-failing Family Friend for upwards of
20 years.
Sold in bottles at ls. lid., 2s. 9d., and 11. s. each, in
every town in the kingdom.
CAUTION.
Be sure to ask for " NORTON'S PILLS," and do not
be persuaded to purchase any of the various imitations
which have sprung up in consequence of the success of
" Norton's Camomile Pills."

HOBBS, HART, and CO., No. 76, Cheapside,
London.
LOCKS—for Houses, Hotels, and Railway Offices. from 2s. to
165.; for Mansions and Banks, Bs. to 50s.—adapted for all pur-
poses.

- FIRE-RESISTING SAFES, for private use, 20 to 36 inch, £4
to XlO Offices, 24 to 72 inch, £lO to £l2O.

H , H., au dCo. solicit an examination (especially by engineers)
of their three entirely NEW PRINCIPLES of construction for
security Safes and Doors.—See Report in List of Prices.

111E7 ROPOLITAN GOSSIP--Saturday.

Mr. Cardwell and Lord Northbrook are duly installed
at the War Office, and the Under Secretary is already dis-
playing that keen appetite for " returns " which distin-
guished him when he was Mr. Baring. Sir John raking-
ton and Earl Longford seem to have been so assured
of their speedy exit from office, that they did
not attempt to frame the estimates. Nevertheless, they
somehow obtained the reputation of being in an economical
mood, and it was even reported that they intended to
reduce the estimates by £2,000,000. Some persons are so
sanguine as to believe that the present Ministers will be
able to accomplish this, and the rumour at the War Office
is that the large sum above mentioned will be saved
through reducing every regiment by one company, and
by getting rid of the honorary colonels. But I need
hardly say that it takes more than a few months to effect
such a prodigious reduction in one department. If
Mr. Cardwell and his confreres see their way to saving
a fourth part of the amount by next February, they will
have done well.

I believe that the persistent rumours respecting Bishop
Jackson's refusal of the see of London are untrue—l will
not say unfounded, for at one time the bishop did hesitate.
But I am assured that he hesitates no longer, and
already a day has been fixed for the Lincolnshire clergy to
present an address to their departing diocesan.
It is fully expected that Lord Shaftesbury will make
another attempt next session to legislate against Ritual.
If the " advanced" clergy should make any unusual
demonstrations at Christmas, as is not unlikely, his lord-
ship's intention will be strengthened. Such a measure as
he would introduce would cause a good deal of confusion
of parties. Low Church Liberals, like Mr. Kinnaird, and
Low Church Conservatives, like Mr. Newdegate, would be
found in the same lobby. The Conservative party would
be divided on the question, and men like Mr. Hardy and
Mr. Mowbray would hardly vote for such a bill as is con-
templated. The Liberals, too, would be divided, because,
while many of them have pledged themselves to legisla-
tion, others have a great dislike to anything which looks
like an infringement of religious liberty. A moderate
measure, such as is really needed to prevent every
man from doing that which is right in his own eyes,