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LIFE DEPARTMENT,

1853. 1854.
£0,918
Annuities Immediate and Deferred.
Bonuses guaranteed when the Policy is issued.
No Stamp Duty charged.
Prospectuses and further information may be obtained at the
Offices of the Company, or from any of the Agents.
Persons whose Fire Policies with this Company expire on the
94th instant are respectfully reminded that receipts for the re•
newel of the same will be found at the Head Offices in Liverpool,
London, and Manchester, and in the hands of the Agents.
SWINTON BOU LT, Secretary to the Company.
BENJAMIN HENDERSON, Resident Secretary,
June, 1855. London.

INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY
COMPANY, 72, LOMBARD-STREET, 21, CONNAUGHT-
TERRACE, and 38, DENBIGH-STREET, BELGRAYE-
ROAD.

♦t ihe Seventh Annual Genaral Meeting, held at the London
Tavern on the 15th instant,
Lord Viscount TORRINGTON iu the Chair,
the following Report was received and unanimously approved:—
In submitting their Annual Report to your consideration, the
Board are enabled again to present a statement showing a
highly satisfactory advance in the business of the Company.
At the last Annual Meeting it was seen that the progress of
the Company had been greater in that than in any previous
year ; and it is gratifying to observe that the new business of
154 has again exceeded that of the previous year, while the
business of the current year exceeds that of the corresponding
months of 1851. This large and steadily progressive amount of
business has been obtained notwithstanding the obstacles to
the extension of Life Assurance, arising from the pressure of •
war taxation bearing heavily upon the means of all classes of
the community. While the premiums of the new business of
1e54 exceed those of 1853, the expenses have been less.
At the close of the year embraced in the accounts now pre-
sented the revenue of the Company was a little under, and now
considerably exceeds. 20,0001. per annum.
At the last Annual Meeting a reduction of Twenty-five per
Cent. was made upon the premiums of all particippati❑g policies
of five years' standing. and it is recommended that the same
rule of reduction shall be continued, which will embrace all the
participating policies on Which five annual premiums have been
paid prior to this date.
The claims of last year have been greater, as was to have been
expected, than in the preceding year, but considerably under
what the expectancy upon which the calculations of the Office
are founded would have warranted us to anticipate.
Great as the success of this Association has hitherto been, the
Directors would again remind the Members that their own inte-
rests as well as the general benefit of the community may be
greatly promoted by the exercise of their individual influence.
TORRINGTON, Chairman.
London, 72, I.ombard•street, June 15, 1855.

CITY OF LONDON LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY, for General, Accumulative, and Self-protecting
Assurances.
Head Officea, 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 lion. Corn. West I 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.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT INSURANCE.
£16,221 be. have already been paid as compensation for Fatal and
other Railway Accidents, by the
RAILWAY PASSENGERS' ASSURANCE
COMPANY.

Mllll6llr.a.as.
£l,OOO was paid to the Widow of J. 0., killed on the 24th Feb.,
1852, secured by a payment of £1; OM was paid to H.C.ILJ.,
who had his leg broken on the 31st August, 1:453, 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 Lusted Kingdom only.
To Insure 21,040 at an Annual Premium of 20s.
Ditto £2OO ditto ss.
A new class of Insurance has also been established in cue of
Death by Railway Accident alone, without compensation for
fnjury.
To Insure £l,OOO at an Annual Premium of ....5s
Ditto, any sum not exceeding £l,OOO for the whole
of life by a single payment of 6s. per cent.: thus
one psymer.t of £3 will secure £l,OOO.
The premiums charged include the Stamp Duty, which is paid
by the Company under its special Act of Parliament.
WILLIAM J. VIA S, Secretary.
Railway Passengers' Assurance Office, 3, Old Broad-at., London.

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