The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 25, 1868.

COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSAT-
LANTIQUE.
4, Rue de la Pala, Paris.
FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS.
NEW YORK.
Leave every 14 days, from Havre and Brest, for New York.
RATES OF PASSAGE.
From HAVRE or BREST to NEW YORK.
First Mass 7OO fr.
Second Class 425 fr.
Third C!ass
From Paris to New York, via [Lyre or Brest, including
railway ticket, 7251 r. ; second class, 440 fr. ; third class,
283 fr.

EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament.
For Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity in
Situations of Trust.
Chairman— General Sir Faxogara Shfrrn, S.A., F.R.S.
Policies payable daring 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.

ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY,
ROYAL INSURANCE BUILDINGS,
Lombard-street, London, and Liverpool.
EPITOME of ANNUAL REPORT for 1867.
The " ROYAL" has never had a larger body of Constituents
than now.
FIRE BRANCH.

PREMIUMS in 1867 £160,553
being a larger revenue than in any preceding
year.
LOSSES by Fire in 1867 £292,125
NET PROFITS, after paying all losses and ex-
penses £56,373
LIFE BRANCH.
Annual Average of new business in 1865-6-7 .. ;
Do. during previous Quinquennium £688,000
Amount added to Life Reserves in 1867 £128,583
LIFE PROPOSALS now effected will participate in the
increased share of Profits recently conceded to Policy-
holders.

PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.
August, 1868.

JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY
TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth
powder; gives the teeth a 'pearl whiteness, protects the
enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to
the breath. Price ls. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 83, Upper
Thames- street, London.

FOR CH ARGES.-
DI A. DOCK COMPANY hereby
mdry Parcels of
Brazil Wood,
Braziletto Wuod,
Red Saunders Wood,
Hard and Unraked Wood,
Ebony,
Crocus Ebony,
Lignum
Box Wood,
Quassia Wood,
Logwood,
Fustic,
Lancewood Spars,
Imported prior to Ist January, 18 1, lying at the West India
Dock Wood Wharves, that it is their intention to SELL the
SA lIE for Charges unless the amounts due thereon are paid on
or before the let day of October next.
Lists of the Goods may be inspected at this House.
By order of the Court of Directors.
GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary.
East and West India Dock House, Billiter-
square, Aug. 19, 1868.

ALE OF GOODS
The E %ST and WEST IN
Give Notice to the Holders of ER
Mahogany,
Cedar,
Rosewood,
Walnut Wood,
Maple Wood,
Tulip Wood,
Palm Wood,
Myall Wood,
Sapan Wood,
Satin Wood,
Zebra Wood,

ANFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per-
t
YJIL fectly pure and uncoloured. To be bad of all dealers,
and wholesale of JO LIN BURGESS and SON, 107,
Strand (corner of Savoy-steps), London.

MR. ESKELL, SURGEON DENTIST, the Author
of "PURE DENTISTRY, and What it Does for Us,"
"PAINLESS TOOTH EXTRACTION, or Anesthesia Locally
Applied," "DENTAL SURGERY—a practical Treatise," &c., etc.,
may be. Consulted Daily as hitherto from 10 to 4 o'clock, at his
ONLY Residence, 8, GROSVENOR-BTBEET, GROSVENOR-SQUARE (a
few doors from Bond-street).

p ARTRID GE AND C OPE R.
MANUFACTURING STATIONERS,
192, FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON (E.C.)

THE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES.

CARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20s.
per ream. s. d.
Fine Cream Laid Note ; a cheap paper 3 0
Superfiae Cream Laid Note; much approved 4 0
SupetilneThiek Cream Laid Note; especially recommended 5 6
Extra superfine Double Thick Cream Laid Note 7 0
Straw Paper, " Patent;" adapted for rapid writing 2 6
Large Commercial Note Papers 35., 45., 55., and 6 0
Foolscap Papers, blue or cream........ 105. 6d., 12s. 6d., and 14 6
Outsides Foolscap ......................................................... 6 6
Letter Paper for scribbling plain, 4s. • ruled ditto, 4 6
Tinted Lined Note five quires for ls. 6d., or 5 6
Double Thick Cream Wove "Club House" A ote, five quires for
2s. 6d.

Superfine Cream or Blue Envelopes, 4s 6d, Cs 6d, & 6s 6d
Large Blue Wove Commercial Envelopes, 4s 61 per 1,000
Cheap Buff Colour, for circulars, &c., 3s
COLOUR STA YIPING (Relief) reduced to Is. per 100. Polished
steel dies sunk by the best artists in the trade at about half the
prices charged by the retail houses.
An ILLU ITR A TED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip-
tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying Presses, Inkstands,
Stationery, Cabinets, Postage Scales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling
Writing Cases, Desks, and Bags, &c , post free.

AMORNING and EVENING DRAUGHT.
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and efficacious, preventing and cuFmg fevers, skin complaints,
and inflammation. it instantly relieves the most iptense head
ache and thirst, and if given with lime-juice syrup is a specific in
gout and rheumatism.-113, Holborn-hill, London, E.C.

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Brighton 3B; North-street,
ATTENDANCE DAILY.

than that of wheat or of bullion—namely,
$30,000,000 a year. A country so productive
must of course carry on an extensive commerce.
Nearly 40 steamships ply from San Francisco, and
130 to 150 vessels are now on their way to that
port for the new harvest. She wants little from
abroad, as the necessaries of life are provided in the
State, therefore her imports consist of fine goods
and luxuries only. The balance, then, of trade
is vastly in her favour, and with such prospects it
is not surprising that California draws a large and
increasing emigration. From the Atlantic States
alone it is calculated that this year from 20,000 to
25,000 persons will permanently settle, down in the
State, and from China the immigration is probably
nearly half as much more. On a single day last
June over 1,500 Chinamen landed and the means
are so good for bringing the employer and the em-
ployed together that labour is quickly utilized and
absorbed. Within two months over 3,000 people,
chiefly immigrants, were provided with employ-
ment, through the machinery of the Labour Ex-
change; and although the season approaches when
no work will be procurable, many mines, &c.,
knocking off for the winter, yet the capacity of the
country to absorb the immigrants is so great that it
presents on the whole the best field for mechanics
and labourers, for it answers the two great require-
ments of high wages paid in specie, and compara-
tively cheap food. During June 1,670 orders for
labourers were received by the Secretary of the
Labour Exchange as follows :—House carpenters
187, farm hands 193, labourers 392, wood choppers
75, blacksmiths 40, boys 39, bricklayers 42, cabinet
makes 27, canvassers 24, cooks 63, lumbermen 72,
milkers 31, miners 53, house painters 27, teamsters
52, men and wives 19, shoemakers 11, wheelwrights
12, clerks 8, miscellaneous 306. • The orders filled
during the month were only 1,238, showing a de-
ficiency of labourers, of the kind wanted, to the
extent of 432. Of the number employed 324 were
married, 914 single; 293 were American bora, the
balance foreign. The Secretary, in his monthly
report for June, says :—" It is scarcely possible to
over-estimate the demand for female labour on this
coast. Ineffectual offers have been made as high
$3O per month in gold, for persons to do plain
cooking, washing and ironing; and this when the
same class of labour can be had in New York for
from $8 to $l2 in currency. We may also add the
fact thac there is not a man in the almshouse of
city (nor need there be) able to perform any
kind of labour." The railroads and the farms
pay the common labourer from six to eight
shillings a day, and skilled mechanics are em-
ployed at from twelve to twenty shillings.
A country accumulating capital at such a rate
as California, has large means for investment,
and the market is now abundantly supplied with
money at one per cent. per month, the lowest rate
of interest yet taken. But that money can be in-
vested so as to return such interest and still be
employed with profit, may be gathered from the
rise of real estate in San Francisco, which was worth
$14,000,000 in 1860, and $58,000,000 in 1867,
while the increase in the property of the city within
the last eight years is nearly 400 per cent. " Cheap
food, cheap labour, and cheap fuel," says the San
Francisco Mining and Scientific Press," are and ever
must be concentrated here. We occupy a position
unrivalled in natural advantages, and we of the
present day will soon be witnesses to the fact that
civilization and enterprise have completed the circle
of the earth, and that the Pacific Ocean has become
the Mediterranean sea of the world !"