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JUNE 16, _1855. PALLADIUM LIFE ASSUItANCE SOCIETY , 7, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL, LONDON. (Et:atomising') 1844.) Undoubted security, guaranteed by a large capital; an influen tial proprietary; the long standing of the Office, and the satis factory results of its business. Facility in settlement of claims. Liberty to travel in any part of Europe, without extra premium, in time of pease. Loans equivalent to the value of the Policies. To those who desire to secure the advantages of a prospective bonus, by a email additional outlay, the deed of settlement assigns tour-fifths of the profits. Bonuses may be commuted for equivalent reductions of Pre mium at the option of the Miura, by which arrangement the amount originally assured may be kept up at a continually tie creasing cost. _ . lusurances effected on Joint as well as on single lives, for short wins or otherwise, Slid to meet any specified contingency. The age of the life assured is admitted on the Policy at the time of effecting the Assurance, or at any other time, on produc. }ion of satisfactory proof. Every information and assistance will be given to Assurers, either at the Offices, No. 7, Waterloo-place, London ; or by the Society', Agents, established in all principal towns. JEREMI ttfri LODGE, A. 8., Resident Actuary and Secretary. PELICAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, ESTABLISHED IN 1797. 70, LOMBARD-STREET, CITY, and 17, CHAR ING CROSS, WESTMINSTER. DIRECTORS Robert Gurney Barclay, Esq., Thomas Hodgson, Esq. Wil tern Cotton, Esq., F.R.S. Henry Lancelot Holland, Esq. Jo'm Davis, Esq. J. Petty Muepratt, Esq. Jas. A. Gordon, M.D., F.A.S. C. Hemp. Turner, Esq. F.R.S. Henry Grace, Esq. Matthew Whiting, Esq. Kirkman D. Hodgson, Esq. Wyvill,Jun., Esq., M.P. The Company offers:— Complete Security. Moderate Rates of Premium with) participation in Profits. Low Rates without Profits. BONUS. Four-fifths or Eighty per Cent. of the Praia are divide 4 amongst the Policy-holders. LOANS in connection with Life Assurance on approved Security. ANNUAL PREMIUM required for the Assurance of £lOO for the whole term of life.-- Age Without Profits C 1 11 0 1 13 10 2 4 0 With Protiti C 1 15 0 1 19 3 2 10 4 Without rrottu, £4 18 10 4 0 9 1 0 With Protitii 6 5 For Prospectuses and Forms of Proposal apply at the Officeq shove, or to any of the Company's Agents. R. TUCKER, Secretary. KENT MUTUAL LIFE AND FIRE 11 ASSURANCE SOCIETIES. Chief OHIees—QUEEN-STREET PLACE, NEW CANNON STREET, London. BRANCH OFFICES: II igh-street, Rochester I Sloane-street, Chelsea Market-terrace, Hanley New.street, Birmingham Bond street, Wolverhampton. N.B. Both these Societies are constituted upon the pure and tried System of Mutuality ; accumulating all their Funds for the benefit of the Policy-holders; dividing, triennially, their whole Profits among them, and large returns have been lately made; conferring upon them the Control and Management of the Societies; anti all Policies are Indisputable. LIFE. TRUSTEES. Alexander Bramwell Bremner, Esq., MU:ter-square, and West hall, Mortlake Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P. and Alderman, Portland-place Wm. Squire Plane, Esq., Gravesend The great success of this Society since its institution will b seen in the following statement of BONUSES added and of BUS IN ES:3 done in four yenta of actual operations : EXAMPLES OF BONUS. • i en .5 = a 'a 4 .; at g:l .0. 0) . • E 1.. 4 ' _, a 0;1 0 0 a B _, ~ t.O 1 ti? P . :?. 2 E: g .." § 4 kll O a. .... g t a ' A 2 . F.' 4 v -'• 4 1 E - 1.2 t Li to .6 o c..) ~ r e , A e A' . 0 • C , 14 ,a7l -4 , 1 A £ s. d. £ S. d. £ s. d. A. a. d. £ s. 4. 25 1,000 3 59 17 611 19 630 16 019 19 2,15 15 $ 85 1,000 3 79 12 615 18 634180 26 10 1020 18 4 45 1,400 3 112 12 622 10 642 3 087 10 10129 11 10 55 1.000 3 171 12 684 6 6 4 6 057 4 2,44 19 2 60 i 1,000 3 216 15 0;43 7 062 12 072 5 0'56 12 0 BUSINESS. Number of Annual Pre- Period. Policies Amounts assured issued. iniums. May, 1854.... 988 £11,934 10 8 £311,911 8 4 May, 1851 .... 509 6.05 19 5 178,265 5 6 Total .... 1,497 £lB.l* 010 1 £520,176 14 4 Total .... 1,497 £lB.l 0 10 1 FIRE. TRUSTEES. Isaac Belsey, Rochester William Squire Plane, Esq., Gravesend John Saddington, Esq., Gravesend. Upwards of 11,000 Policies have been issued. Policies Issued for small sums and short periods. Guarantee Fun i, 1100,000. Policies may be effected daily; and Prospectuses, Annual Reports, Proposal Forms, and all other informalon, will be supplied upon application at the thief Offices, the Branches, or at any of the numerous Agencies throughout the United King dom and Foreign Countries, personally or by letter. GEORGE CUMMING, Manager. A gents Wanted in some 'mat Locilitio. THE PRESS. NORWICH UNIOI4 LIFE INSURANCE SOCIETY. ESTABLISHED 1808. PRESlDENT—Lieut.•geuenl Sir R. J. HARVEY, C.B. SECRETARY —Si r SAMUEL BIGNOLD, M.P. LONDON AGENT—C. J. RUNYON, Esq. • - The Capital of this Society amounts to 8,200,6521., with a Reserved Fund td . :408,5701. It has paid upwards of 8,000,0901. to the Representatives of Deceased Members, and assigned by way of Bonus a Million and a Quarter Sterling. It is a purely Mutual OAlae, and the Pratte are divided quingueuniallv. The Premiums are Ten per Cent. below the usual rates for ages under forty.rive years. One•half of the tint rive years' Premium may remain as a charge upon the Policy. Annuities are grauteo on favourable terms. New IIUeIINESS FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE, 1854: Policies 609, insuring for Annual Premiums, 318,5671. 7s. ad. Annuities ss, securing 4,6411. 13s. 4d. New Premiums, being the consideration for granting the same 28,1941.4 a. For Prospectuses apply to the Society's 011icee, Surrey-street, and 6, Creacent, New Bridge•street, Blackfriars. THE ASYLUM LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE, 72, CORNI4ILL, London. Established 1824. CHAIRMAN—JOHN CLARMONT WHITEMAN, Esq. Policies on Healthy and Diseased Lives, at Home and Abroad, for Civil, Military, and Naval Employments. The only Office on purely Proprietary principles, involving therefore no Partnership among Policy-holders. For Prospectuses, Proposal Papers, Ac., apply to MANLEY HOPKINti, Resident Director. IMPERIAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 1, OLD BROAD-STREET, LONDON. INSTITUTZD 1820. WILLIAM R. ROBINSON, Esq., Chairman. HENRY DAVIDSON, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. The Scale of Premiums adopted by this Office will be found of a verymoderate character, but at the same time quite adequate to the risk incurred. Fou r-fifths, or $0 per cent. of the Profits, are assigned to Po licies every fifth year, and may be applied to increase the sum in sured, to an immediate payment in cash, or to the reduction and ultimate extinction of future Premiums. One-third of the Premium on Insuriunes of 5001. and upwards, for the whole term Of life, may remain as a debt upon the Policy, to be paid off at convenience; or the Directors will loud sums of NI. and upwards, on the security of Policies effected with this Company for the whole term of life, when they have acquired an adequate value. Smunirv.—Those who effect Insurances with this Company are protected by its subscribed capital of :50,00(1., of which 140,0001. is invested, from, the risk incurred by members ofliutual Societies. The satisfactory financial condition of the Company, exclusive of the Subscribed and Invested Capital, will be seen by the fol lowing statement: — At the close of the last Financial Year, the sums Assured, including Bonus added, amounted to 112,500,000 The Premium Fund to more than And the Annual Income, from the same source, to 109,00 C Insurances, without participation in Profits, may be effected at reduced rates. SAMUEL INGALL Actuary. RAILWAY ACCIDENT INSURANCE. 416,221 sa. have already been paid se compensation for Fatal and other Railway Accidents, by the RAILWAY PASSENGERS' ASSURANCE COMPANY. EXAMPLES. £l,OOO was paid to the Widow of J.G., killed on the 24th Feb., 1852, secured by a payment of £1 ; £350 was paid to H.C.11.J., who bad his leg broken on the 31st August, 1853, secured by a payment of £l. For the convenience of frequent travellers, Periodical In surances are granted, which now cover the risk of Fatal Acci• dents while travelling in any class carriage on any Railway in the United Kingdom or on the Continent of Europe, and insure Compensation for Personal Injury in any Railway Accident in the United Kingdom only. To insure £l,OOO at an Annual Premium of 20s. Ditto £2llO ditto ss. A new class of Insurance has also been established in case of Death by Railway Accident alone, without compensation for Injury. To Insure SLOOS at an Annual Premium of ....be Ditto, any sum not exceeding £1,0130 for the whole of life by a single payment of Os. per cent.: thus one payment of £3 will secure SLtiO. The premiums charged include the S'amp Duty, which is paid by the Company under its special Act of Parliament. WILLIAM J VIA g, Secretary. Railway Passengers' Assurance 011 ice, 3, Old Broaci•st., London. 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Rein ,loB, Strand , nearly opposite Exeter hall. where the Instrument ran be tried, and numerous tegtimocials seen, amongst many one from the Right limp. Sir John Pattesun, one of her Mxlerty's Privy Conmillect CITY OF LONDON LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, for General, Accumulative, and Self-protecting Assurances. Head Offices, 2, Royal Exchange-buildings, London. Capital, a Quarter of a Million. TRUSTEES. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor I The Hon. W. F. Campbell The Hon. Com. West John Thomas, Esq. This Society, guaranteed by a capital fully adequate to every contingency, and not injuriously large, offers the advantages of the mutual system without the liabilities of copartnership. EDWARD FREDERICK LEEKS, Secretary.