The Sun. — 1869-01-02 (London, England)

INSURANCE OFFICES. I It is stated _that the income_ eleVen insult& offices is over £13,700,000, that the invested funds in 110 arc nearly L 87,000,000, and that the 4unls assured in 107 offices are over .-C338,000,000, or a little less than half of the national debt. There are six offices which decline to make any return to parliament: the London Assurance, the Royal Exchange, the Sun, the United Kent, the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, and the Royal Farmers.' Eight others have neglected' to: make any return during:the last few years. The Government Registry costs £2,000 a year, and has published once during twelve years the accounts of twenty-six offices doing business, 3s. 2d. being charged for each copy. Rather a costly department this, considering that a private publisher brings out a register every quarter at the price of id.  (From the Anglo-American Times.)  The Java arrived yesterday at Queenstown with intelligence from New York to the 23d December as follows :—Mr. Sumner has presented to the Senate a' memorial asking that the word << white" be struck out of the naturalization laws. A special Congressional Committee has arrived in New York to investigate the alleged election fraud. The Arkansas refugees allege that the State Militia pamper the negroes and murder and plunder the whites. General Upham, Commanding the Militia, asserta that the Militia only enforce the laws, and quell rebellious demonstrations. Martial law continues in several counties: Mr. M'Culloch has instructed the Collector of New Orleans not to 'seize or detain Peruvian ironclads, as their transfer to the Peruvian flag had been properly made. Mr. Raasloff, the Danish Minister of War, has arrived at Washington, and has been cordially received. The Governor of British Columbia has announced to the Legislature that the confederation project will be held in abeyance pending the settlement of the Hudson's Bay question. The Canadian Assembly has adjourned until the 6th. of Ja nuary. The Toronto Court of Queen's Bench has refused to grant Whelan a new trial. Anti-Confederation leagues are being organized in Nova Scotia. General La Tree .and General Esping, with Spanish reinforcemenis. have arrived at Havana.  It is reported that Mr. Caleb Cushing has Jeft for New Granada to negotiate on behalf of the United States GoverUment for a grant of the right of way for the purpose of making an interoceanic canal. General Grant has sent two members of the staff to investigate the late disturbances in Louisiana and Arkansas. From Alexico the news is that President Juarez has vetoed the bill permitting the free exportation of Mexican ores. The news from Cuba is that the Spanish troops arriving at Havana are immediately despatched to insurrectionary districts.  We are happy to say • that the Columbia has safely arrived at Queenstown with her hundred cabin and siecrage passengers, wbom she forwarded to their- destination. She bad a full cargo o merchandise, none of which appears to be injured, 'tior was any discharged while undergoing th'e necessary repairs on the bank opposite Spike Island. These were so promptly executed  that the vessel proceeded to her destination on Wednesdays 'or' Thursday. A very high testimony is borne to the conduct of Captain Carnaghau as the same accident happened to the Columbia as to the Hibernia, and probably in the same gale. The immense strength of the vessel resisted the heavy blows struck upon her stern by the propeller. The captain seems to have been more favoured by the woittlicrila the delicate operation by which the three.