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

NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.

AGUA. A.NURELLA. restores the Human Hair
to its pristine hue, no matter at what ago.
JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid
of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect-
ing this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public
in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price.
Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. Gd., and 15s. each,
including brush.
Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-
street, London. E.C.

31-R. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52,
JL Fleet-street, has introduced an entirely now de-
scription of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without
springs, wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly resemble'
the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from the ori-
ginals by the closest observer ; they will never change
colour or decay, and will be found superior to any teeth
ever before used. This method does not require the
extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will
support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is gua-
ranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed
teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in masti-
cation.

52, Fleot-street. At home from 10 till 5.

RUPTURES.--BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.

WiIITE'S-AIO6ICaIN LEVER TRUSS
(Perfected and Exhibited in the Groat Exhibitions
of 1851 and 1862) is allowed by upwards of Five Hundred
Medical men to be the most effective invention in
the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel
spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided —a
soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requi-
site resisting power is supplied by the Hoc-Main Pad and
Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that
it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A.
descriptive circular may bo had, and the truss, which can-
cot fail to fit, forws.rdel by post, on the circumference of
the body, two inches below the hips, being seat to the
manufacturer,

Mr. JOHN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London.
A Single Truss, 165., 21s. 265. 6d., and 31s. 61 Postage,
Is. A Double Truss, 31s. dd., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage,
Is. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage,
Is. 10d.

Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White,
Post-office, Piccadilly.

NEW PATENT
I-ILASTIC STOCKINGS,
—I KNEE-CAPS, &0., for Varicose Veins and all cases
of Weakness and Swelling of the Logs, Sprains, &c. They
are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are
drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d.,
10s., and 16s. each. Postage, 6d.
JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly.

FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON
FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORIUTORY IN
STITUTION.

President—Rev. CANON DALE.

CONTRIBUTIONS forthe support of the Homes in 1868 are ear-
nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon-
quet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard-street, ; Francis Nicholls,
Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, E.C.
E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road, N.W.

GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL,
Caledonian-road, Islington, N.

Supported by Voluntary Contributions.
This Hospital has relieved 481,954 patients since it was
ostablisbeJ at King's-cross in 1856. Patients are admitted
free.

Bankers—Messrs. Barnet, Lloyds, and Co., GO, Lombard-
street, Messrs. Ransom and Bouverio, 1, Pall-mall.-llon.
Soc., / . Smith. Eso. GEO. REID, See.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
aro earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and
clothing for the
126 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship.
150 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street.
94 girls in the Refuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing

370 children.
£l5 will keep a boy or girl for one year.
Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank ,
214, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbury, E.C.; and by
WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Secretary.
No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in tho immediate vicinity of the Groat Northern
Railway Terminus, King's Cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN.
Vico-Patron—
His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G.
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PresichmtLllis trace the Duke of BUCCLEI'TCII, K.G.

This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to
establish the principle of free admission to the sick poor,
without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is
wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributions
and legacies.
It affords relief to a largo number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged be-
tween 3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the
benevolent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs.
Brown, llansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs.
Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co, ;
lierries and Co. ; hansom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and
Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Williams,
Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; end at
the Hospital, from 10 till .5.

110YAL 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 £460,553
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 £Bol,ooo
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 Loudon.
August, 1868.

TO THE ELECI'ORS OF THE BOROUGH
OF MARYLEBON E.

GENTLEMEN,—
Upwards of seven years since you did, me the honour to
elect me one of your Representatives, and for the third time I
come forward to solicit a renewal of the kind support I then and
have since received.
I appeal to my votes and conduct in Parliament during this
long period in proof of my having fulfilled the promises I then
made.
My best and most earnest attention has ever been, and shall
continue to be, devoted to your local interests. 1 have endea-
voured, on all occasions, to support the principle of local self-
government, and to keep down the burthen of local taxation.
I have given an undeviating support to every liberal and just
measure for the promotion of Reform in the Law; for the im-
provement of the Education of the People; for the Exercise of
dne Economy in our Public Establishments; for the Abolition of
compulsory Church Rates; and for the enactment of that mea-
sure of Representative Reform, .the first effect of which is, I am
happy to say, the great enlargement of the electoral body of the
Kingdom.
Many important subjects must coral before the next Parlia-
ment, and my conduct shall be animated by the same principles.
The question of the Irish Church must at once occupy the
serious attentionof the New Parliament. I gave, and shall con-
tinue to give, my cordial support to Mr. Gladstone on this great
question, the settlement of which will, I firmly believe, remove
a fruitful source of discontent in Ireland, and greatly tend to
promote the trust interests of Protestantism throughout the
United Kingdom.
I shall carefully watch the estimates of every department of
the Public Service, more especially that of the Admiralty, with
the view of obtaining increased efficiency, combined with greater
economy in the expenditure of the public money.
I believe it is of the utmost importance still further to extend
and improve the Education of the People, and that in the interest
of our m anufacturers more attention should be given to Technical
Instruction; and I shall zealously support any measures that
may be likely to effect so desirable an object.
I have the honour to be,
GENTLEMEN,
Your obedient Servant.
HARVEY LEWIS.
21, Grosvenor-street, Aug. 18, 1888.

SCHOOL OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE, 3/.3.
ADMIRALTY, Bth August, 1868.
TIRE LORDS COMMISSIONERS of the AD-
MIRALTY HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that the
arrangements for the ADMISSION of persona, not already
in the Government service, to the Royal School of Naval
Architecture and Marine Engineering as ADMIRALTY
PUPILS, will, for the present year, be as follows :
Candidates must not be less than 18 or more than 21
years of age, and must have served at least two years in
private shipbuilding or engineering establishments, or
must give satisfactory proof that they have in some way
been so connected wall shipbuilding or engineering opera-
tions as to become well-grounded in the elementary prin-
ciples and practice thereof.
The pupils will be selected by competitive examination,
the subjects for which, and autnbers of marks assigned for
each, are as follows :

Marks.
Pure mathematics, including arithmetic, mensura-
tion, geometry (plain and descriptive), plane tri-
gonometry, and the elements of the differential
and integral calculus . 2,500
Applied mathematics, including mechanics and
hydrostatics ... 1,000
Practical shipbuilding, including laying-off (for
shipwright's candidates only) 2,500
Practical marine engineering (for engineer candi-
dates only) 2,500
French ... „. 500
Elements of physic and chymistry 750
English grammar and composition ... 750
Geography and History 750

No candidate will be admitted who does not obtain at
least two-thirds of the full number of marks in the two
first-named subjects, and three-fifths of the full number,
either for practical shipbuilding or marine engineering.
The last four subjects, although counting in the compe-
tition, will not be considered obligatory.
The candidates who may be selected will be treated,
while attached to the School, in all respects as the Admi-
ralty pupils; they will recaive wages the same as dock-
yard apprentices, commencing at is. 6d. per day for six
days per week for first year, and increasing yearly 3d. per
day till it reaches 2s. per day ; and in addition a subsist-
ence allowance of 3s. par day for seven days per week
while away from their homes, either at the S,:hool or in
the dockyards.

Seven months of each year—viz., from October till May
—will bo devoted to study at the School, and tho remaining
five months to actual work and the acquirement of practi-
cal knowledge in the dockyards.
It is to be understood that the Admiralty make no en-
gagements to employ these pupils after the completion of
their course of study; and they must rely on their own
worth as educated naval architects for obtaining employ-
ment in theirsubsequent career. The number of such pupils
to be selected this year is one shipwright and one engineer.
Persons desirous of competing must forward their names,
with a certificate of birth, and of the grounds on which
they consider themselves practically qualified, enclosing
proper certificates to that effect, to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, not later than the Ist September.
The candidates should also state whether they wish to
be examined as engineers or shipwrights.
The examination will take place on the 28th September
and three following days.

By command of their Lordships,
HENRY GORDON LENNOX.

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The Printing and Machining of Newspapers, &c., done
on exceedingly favourable terms. Use of Editorial and
Publishing Offices, if required. Estimates forwarded on
receipt of particulars, with stamped directed envelope for
reply. Address—The Manager, "Sun" Printing Offices,
3, Church-row, Savoy, Strand, W.C.

NATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common,
Richmond, Surrey. Founded 1849. Enlarged 1861.
Under the patronage of H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, KG' ,
whereby a home has been afforded for 280 Destitute Orphan
Girls of all ages, classes, and denominations, from all parts of
the kingdom.
The object of the Charity is to give orphan girls a plain Eng-
lish education, and practical instruction in the kitchen, house,
and laundry, to fit them for domestic service; and, If not other
wise provided for when they attain 15 years of age, to obtain
suitable situations for them.
The Committee earnestly appeal for support. The Charity is
entirely sustained by deflations and subscriptions.
HENRY Kniascon, Treasurer
W H. WAPwieic Secretary.

Office, 121, Pall-mall, S

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
.tre as follows :
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, Hamp- I 150, New Kent-road.
stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland. street. wich.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, Honstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's-street, Dover.
Temporary Homo-85, Queen-street, Cheapside.
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three homes for servants of good
character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The committee ate deeply anxious to
open another house for this pitiable class.
The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young
women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 524 appli-
cants, whose histories are recorded in the applicant's book.
The Society's Report(of which a contributor writes, "I
never read a report of any charitable institution which so
entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my
sympathy") may be had on application.
The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of
Shaftesbury. Its bankers aro Messrs. Barclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent. DANL. CO X'ER, See,
85 Queen-street. Cheapside.

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CALIFOILVIA: -

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(From the Anglo-American Ti.)mes

All the great American newspapers utilize their
staff during the travelling season when taking their
recreation. Those who now read through the
American journals will find scattered here and there
papers of great value from various parts of the
Union, and will learn a trait characteristic of Ame-
ricans who delight to combine business with plea-
sure. In the ,Springfield Republican of August 1;
there is one of the articles to which we allude " On
the Growth of California," evidently from a prac-
tis2d writer making notes on the spot. What first
strikes him is the great change wrought by the de-
pression of -tainiug as an itrst, and the rise of
agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, which
in its effect on the wealth, character, and morals of
the inhabitants is revolutionary—re-creative. It
seems as if the people had been acting on the state-
ment of the Rev. Horatio Stebbins, made three
years ago from a San Francisco pulpit, " that no
high civiliz %lion was ever built over a gold mine."
The chief source of Californian wealth is now the
grain crop, the value of which this year in wheat
alone is equal to the gold and silver produce, or
#25,000,000. To the estimated wheat crop, of
3,000,000 quarters, of which 2,000,000 will be
available for export, may be added ten million
bushels of barley, two and a half million
bushels of oats, half a million tons of hay,'
without calculating the enormous returns of
fruits and vegetables, with wine and other yields
therefrom, the agricultural products samming up in
value fully double the extract of bullion. This is
the third year in succession of harvests so abundant
that California has been able, at a gratifying -profit,
largely to export grain. In 1866 she sent away
5,000,000 bushels of wheat ; in 1867, 10,000,000 ;
and it is calculated that this year the export will
not be far short, if it does not exceed, 15,000,000
bushels. The profits made have stimulated culti-
vation, which is conducted on a grand scale by
men of capital. The farms employ large forces
of men and horses, and during these last years the
profits have been counted in tens of thousands of
dollars. The rush for land is becoming speculative,
and all the finest valleys in the State have been
bought, generally at a small advance on Govern-
ment prices. Labourers and speculators have coin-
bined to settle new localities; one in Fresno county
being for 80,000 acres, and another combination
has bought three-fourths of the famous Capon
Rancho, near San Diego, getting 30,000 acres to
build the settlement, at one dollar an acre. The
prices of bread stuffs are at about half those in the
Atlantic cities ; the best flour ranging from 265. to
30s. —eight shillings per 100 lb. for wheat and six
shillings for barley. The average yield is twenty
bushels of wheat to the acre, but some fertile lands
carefully cultivated turn out three times that.
amount. The climate is almost perfection for
the growing and harvesting of grain, and nature
has favoured the State with other facilities
scarcely less valuable. Those who look at
the formation of the country will see that California
is a long strip, with mountains running parallel to
the coast till they reach the towering summits of
the Sierra Nevada. Between that range and the
coast is another of lesser magnitude with a magni-
ficent valley between. Through these valleys to the
North and South of San Francisco flow rivers which
derive an abundant supply of water from the great
ranges, the main stream of the Southern country
flowing North, and of the Northern country flow-
ing South till they meet in the estuary, whereon
' stands San Francisco. The spurs of the Sierra
Nevada form minor valleys, each of which sends its
stream to the West till it reaches the great river.
Thus the facilities of water carriage are abundant,
enabling the farmers to carry their grain to the
wharves of San Francisco.

With so great a mining interest, with so profit-
able and increasing an agricultural interest, manu-
factures in a country so isolated from civilization
rapidly go a head. California may be said now to
make all her own machinery and all her own
woollen goods. She imports, but refines her sugars,
and it is probable, from the extraordinary success of
the experiments with beet, that instead of importing
she may soon export the raw material_ She makes
4,000,000 cigars a month. The 2,000 kegs of
gunpowder each week used by the Pacific Railroad
are made in the State. Cotton and silk are both
being successfully manufactured, and the cultiva-
tion of the silk-worm, as also that of beetroot, pro-
mises to be far more profitable than in France.
Captain 'William Haynie, of Sacramento, feeds
about a million silkworms, and will sell from
800 to 1,000 ounces of eggs, most of which
will go to Europe, where the California eggs
are in great demand, as the best known.
Roughly estimating the value of the manufac-
tures, the Springfield Republican puts it higher

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 34, 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 born, 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 ad I the
fact that 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 s) 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 he 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 !"