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CoDTTISH WIDOWS' FUND
ANT) LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.

The FORTY-FIRSTAN37I7.7iL4FYERArathIT of MEM-
BERS of this SOCIETY was held within the Royal note!, Prince's-
street, Edinburgh, on Friday the 25th ultimo,—
The Very Reverend Dr. MacFARLAN, Principal of the University
of G!aszow, arid one of the Extraordinary Directors of the So-
ciety, in the chair.

The ailAlßMAK,after stating that he had been unexpectedly
called on t preside, in consequence of the Marquis of Twoeddale,
one of the Vice,elsresidents, and who had been requested to take the
ch ir, having been summoned to England, and after having craved
s
theo indulgetece of the meeting, commenced the business byn calling
the Secretary to read the Minutes of the last Special General
Court, held on Ist December last
These Miautes having been read and approved of by the Court, the
mA
tion during theup NAGLR read the Report of the Directors as to the Soelety's opera-
of 455,3771
byp the
past year, and from which there appear, inter alma,
the following results :
That during the year 1854 there had been 638 Policies passed and
taken
Ipirojo3dse.rs, representing Assurances to the ex-
tent That the Society's realised and A ccumulated Fund had increased
to the extent of 115,5541. 154. 10d, and amounted at 31st De-
cember last to 2,802,1401. Is. Id.
That the Annual Revenue had increased to the extent of
22,75 R
• OS. I Id, and amounted at 31st December last to
373,9011 13s. Bd.
That there had been 142 deaths during the year 1854, the claims
consequent on which (including Bonus Additions) amounted
to 204,088/. 17e, 4d.
The Crabs/ ex then rase and addressed the Meeting as fellows
Gentlemen,—l think I may very safely congratulate this Society, and
each one of its members, on the satisfactory Report which has now
been presented by the Ordinary Directors, and on theyery high state
of prosperity in which the affairs of the Company are shown to be at
Present. (Applause.) Forty years have now elapsed since this Triad-
lion was first founded ; for I understand that the first Policy was
issued at the end of the year 1814. It has certainly gone on very
steadily, and has .attained a magnitude far beyond what was antici-
pitted by its original founders. When we find that 15,000 Policies
have been issued during that period —that between 9,000 and 10,000
of these are still held by a'ont 8,000 persons —and that hundreds of fa-
milies have already enjoyed the heneflt of the prevision made through
the Society's agency, I think we may be satisfied that the Institution
has well fulfilled the purpo'e for which it was founded and called
into operation. (Applause.) But when we contemplate the magni-
tude which it has now reached, I think we can only look on it with
feelings of wonder and astonishment, combined with satisfaction.
(Hear, hear.) From the report which you have just heard, it 'ap-
pears that the Capital of the Society has received an increase during
the last vear of 115,5001., and that now it amounts to upwards of
2,810,000/..—ln short pressing very closely on a realised sum of Three
Millions sterling. (Loud anplause )
The Revenue has increased is
proportion; the increase during the last year has been 22,000/ , and
its total amount le DOW 374,000'. (Renewed applause.) Ad this has
been effected and accomplished under circumstances certainly by no
mean! nronitions. lt hse been effected during a period of war, and
under the pressure of a war taxation. bearing heavily on the means,
and substance, and income of all classes of the community;—and it
has also been effected in the face of an increasing and unexampled
competition on the part of various other Insurance Offices, whether
of older or more recent institution. Notwithstanding hese disad-
vantages, you have heard, and I hope with satisfaction, the progress
which has been made during the course of the year 1854. (Applause.)
There is, as TOR might notice, a statement in the report of the
number of deaths,—the lives which have lapsed,—and by which
additional burdens have been brought on the Society during the
course of the last year. In 1853 the number of deaths was '3l ; in
854 the number was 142. Now this is an increase which might na-
turally he expected in the progress of events ; for the more numerous
the members are there must of Ouse be additional mortality ;
and we must further bear in mind that many of our members have
been connected wtth the Society for a long period, and that as they
are becoming advanced in life there must necessarily be a greater
amount of mortality amongst them as a body. Each one now
present is a yea" older than he was twelve months ago, and conse-
quently the chances of his surviving have been diminished, and the
probability of death increased ; but what we have to look to is the
general result, stated in the Report, that the total number of deaths
during the past year is greagy within the calculation upon which
all our regulations are based, and upon which the institution was first
put into operation. The increased number of deaths is thus easily
'accounted for, without causing any unnecessary alarm, and I may
say, comparatively small; and, when viewed in connection with
the original calculations, hears ample testimony to the great care
and prudence which have bsen shown in the selection of lives, and,
at the same time, to the sound judgment and safe principles upon
high the Institution was o• igin ally established and founded. (Ap •
please.) will only say further, in behalf of some gentlemen, who,
like myself. have been for many years contributors to this Fund,
that I hope we are not weak enough to grudge the additional pay-
ment which each year has brought upon as. We have not only to
thank Him by whom our lives have been graclously spared, that
our ability to pay our premium has been continued to us, but also
that we have been receiving, through the excellent management of
this Fund, a very considerable compensation for our extended con-
tributions, in the shape:of bonuses regularly assigeed to us —(hear,
hear)—and surely not less in the prospective return which has
been realised for us through the exertions of the Officers of the
Institution. in the benefits which will be conferred on ear families
and relatives, and those who may have claims upon us. I would
even say that the security, the constant tranquillity of thought
which is produced by the knowledge that we are thus secured, to a
certain extent, against that ordinary contingency to which we are
every day liable, may have contributed not a little to raise the
value of the lives of the members of this society above the average
of what had been before expected. (Hear, hear.) I do not in-
tend to detain the meeting by entering into a general eulogiam upon
'he advantazee of Life Insurance. They are now extensively known.
Thep have been in this room repeatedly illustrated, with great elo-
quence and great power, by these gentlemen who have occupied this
chair; but I would merely recal your thoughts to the fact of the
actual deaths in reference to what was expected from the calcula-
tions end say, that while much is due to the carend selection of
these lives aeon which insurances have been effected, much, I am
quite confident, is also due to that serenity of mind reacting on the
bodily health which such a position as that occupied by a member
of an institution like this is calculated to inspire. ( Applause ) After
the exeerience of 35 years, I feel perfectly confident that there are
hundreds, I would say thousands, that are members of this Society,
who, like myeelf, have laid down their heads contentedly and tran-
wilily on their pillow by night, and could nevee have done so hut
for the kno sledge that, if called away, the obligations which lay
anon them from the -ties of parental affection, or those which they
might hisve contracted in the course of business, would be fully,
comnletely, and honourably met, and that they would descend to
the dust, leaving characters unimpeaehed, and endeared in the recol-
lection of those who were related to them, or to whom they had in-
curred obligations, by the thought that towards all they had dis-
charged the duties that devolved on them. (Loud applause.) Now,
all this is accomplished by a small deduction annually from their
ordinary income—a deduction ashlth it was the duty of every one to
make whether his life was .nsured or not ; but which was more com-
lete, more t ertain, and less liable to fluctuation, in consequence of
having such an institution as this to be the guarantee of his •ulfllling
his obligations. ( A pplituie.) I have, therefore, in closing, merely to
repeat my congratulations to the members of this Society upon the
satisfactory character of the report which his now been read, and
would remark that the warmest gratitude is due to our Ordinary
Directors for the perfect fidelity, accuracy, and judgment with which
they have conducted your affairs ; and I will sit down after moving
that therepert now read be -pproved of by the meeting. (Applause.)
The approval of the report having been carried by acclamation,
the Honourablo Lord IsTEAvES proposed a vote of tha,,ks to the
Director, and Office-Bearers of the Siocietv for th ir services durinz
the past year, and the motion having been seconded by Jenx HUNTER
Esq Auditor of the Court of Session, was unanimously termed to.
On the motion of the Rev. Dr. COOK, St. Andrews, seconded by
JAMES WRIGHT, Esq., Secretary of the Royal Bank of Scotland, the
Courts of Directlon were appointed for the next year.
A vote of thanks having, on the motion of HENRY CITEYNE, Esq.,
Writer to the Signet, been given to the very reverend Chairman, the
meeting adjourned .—Edinburgh, 2d June, 1855.

COURT OF DIRECTION-1855-66.
Those marked thus * are new appointments.
PRESIDENT.

The Right Honourable the Earl of Rosebery, K.T.

VICE-PRESIDENTS.
HIS Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, K.G.
The Most Honourable the Marquis of Tweeddale, K.T., and C.B.
The Right Honourable the Earl of Ellesmere.
*Robert Dundas, Esq., of Arniston.
EXTRAORDINARY DIRECTORS.

The Very Rev. Principal Macfar-
lan, Glasgow
John North, Esq., Dock Solicitor.
Liverpo,d
The Right Hon. Lord John Frede-
rick Goqi,m Hallyburton
The Right Hen. the Earl of Stair
Henry Bury, Esq., banker, Man
cheater
Sir John S. Richardson of Pitfour.
Bart.
Tie Right Rev. the Lord Bishop
of Lincoln
John Amery, Esq., banker, Stour-
bridge
The Hon. Lord Benholme
Joseph James Welch, F.sq.,Cbeap-
side, London

ORDINARY
Thomas 0. Mackay, Esq., W.S.
John Cadell, Esq., of Tranent
Alexander Dunsmure, Esq., mer-

chant, Leith
Thomas Beveridge, Esq., D.C.S.
William James Duncan, banker,

Alexander Blatt; Esq., banker,
Edinburgh
William B. Watkins, Esq., Alder-
man, Nfanche,ter
William E. Aytoun, Esq., Profes-
sor of Rhetoric in the Univer-
sity of Edinburgh
iohtt RAve”hill, Esq., banker,
Warminster
William WilsNl,Esql., C.S., Edinr.
J. Y. Simpson, Esq.. Professor or
Midwifery in the University of
Edinburgh
*Sir James Russell of Asbiesteil
*George Tod, Esq., Cheltenham
*Henry Cheyne,Esq.,W.S.,Edlnr.
*Frederick Thynne, Esq., land
agent, George• at., Westminster
DIRECTORS.

Edinburgh
Lewis A. Wallace, Esq., archi-

tect
Anthony Murray, Esq., of Dol-
lerie, W.S.

George Dundas, Esq., Sheriff of
Selkirkshlre
Christopher Wood, jun., Esq.,
merchant, Leith
Archibald Davidson, Esq., Sher fr
of Aberdeenshire
Charles f, orbe., Esq., of Canaan
Park, Edinburgh
Isaac Bayley, Esq.. of Manuel
*Jas. Mylne, Esq., W.S., Edinr.
*John Jopp. Esq.. W.S. Edinr.
*Jas.Tytler,Esq.,of Woodhouselee
;TEES.

The Bin. Bouverie F. Primrose

Edward Loyd, Esq., banker, Man-
chester
The Hon. 13onverie F. Primrose
A lexr. Pringle, Esq., ofWkytbank
MEDICAL OFFICER—James Begbie, M.D:
AUDITOR—DonaId Lindsay. MANAGER —John Mackenzie.
SECRETARY—WiIIiam Lindesay.

TRI7S'
William Mitchell Lines, Esq., of

Parsonsgreen
James Balfour, Esq., of Pilrig,
N.S.

LONDON HONORARY BOARD.
George Young, Beg., Mark-lane
Charles Edward Pollock, Esq., Barrister, Temple
David Hill, Esq., East India House
John Murray, Esq., publisher, Albemarle-street
Samuel Laing. Esq.. Chairman of Brighton Railway
Sir John Thomas Briggs, Admiralty
Leonard Horner, Esq., Home-office
John Taylor, Jun., Esq., C.E., Queen-street-place
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