The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1868.

NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF ST. OLAVE'S.
Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
JEANIE'S QUIET LIFE.
By the Author of "St. Olave's," "Alec's Bride," &c.
llurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF
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No. LXX., for December, price 2s.
CONTENTS.
Mr. J. Hill Williams—On Briggs's Method of Interpolation.
Mr. A. De Morgan—On Fourier's Statistical Tables.
Mr. Peter Gray—On the Rate of Interest in Loans Repayable by

Instalments. •
Conditions of Assurance.
The Sales of Reversions Act, 1867;
By Professor De Morgan—A Budget of Paradoxes (continued).
Home and Foreign Intelligence :—Bonus Reports of the Scottish
Widows', the London• Life, the Clerical, the Legal and Gene-
ral, and the Crown Life Assurance Companies.
Practical Questions.
Institute of Actuaries.—Solutions of the Second Year's Exami-
nation Questions for 1864, 1865, and 1866.
Correspondence.
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CIALEDONIAN RAILWAY.—See the
NJ COMMERCIAL REVIEW, No. 2, published
this day, Price 3d. East Temple Chambers, Fleet-street.

OOMMERCIAL • REVIEW ANALYSIS OF
'kJ REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CALEDONIAN
FINANCE,- see the COMMERCIAL REVIEW, No.' 2,
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gives the following:—Of American cotton goods a
small lot for consumption, and continued unfavour-
able advices from the Entharts. Buyers of drills are
with little disposition for transactions of any mag-
nitude, and deliveries, including those re-exported
by foreign holders, do not aggregate over 100,000
pieces. There is a slight demand for Tien-tsin, but at
low values. Freights dull to New York at £3 per ton.
The following tea ships have left here for New
York :—Wild Gazelle, Resolute, Burnside,Silomo,
Fairleader, Madura, Ensign, Dilphusand, Royal
Berkshire, and Etha Ruthmers. Five other vessels
are still loading.
" ST. PETERSBURG, DEC. 28.—Official advices to
gr. Cassius M. Clay, the United States Minister to
Russia, and dated Pekin, November 23, 1867, an-
nounce that the Chinese Emperor has determined
to send a special embassy to the treaty Powers. It
is presumed that the purpose of the embassy is to
revise the treaties between the great Powers and
the empire of China, and to settle the many com-
plicated and delicate questions which have arisen
under said treaties during several years past. Au
Imperial decree, dated November 21, 1867, an-
nounces that the Imperial Government has selected
as its special ambassador for that purpose the
United States' Minister to Pekin, Mr. Anson Bur-
lingame, and the acceptance by the latter of the
appointment. The several foreign Ministers
resident near Pekin, with whom Mr. Burlingame
is very popillar; all cordially approve his selection.
He leaves immediately, and proceeds via San
Francisco."