The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-11 00:00:00

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BANK of ENGLAND, Sept. 10, 18G'.
OVEHNOR and P ANY ..•f the
T rfrBANK of EL,.GLAND Nr'kTICE, That the
GE,, BANK
C01771T tell at the Bank This Day is AD-
RNE ,k till -I` t:ESDAY `iF.XT, the 15th inst., at Eleven
9'cloc‘k in the Poren)on, for the purisise of taking the de-
Termination by vote, in pr nt or vrriting, of the question on
the tollonino-EesolL ion, proposed at the Court for a Divi-
dend viz.: 6
Tnat Half-year's Dividend of Interest and Profits ba
Ittade on the 10th October next of Li Os, per ce,t., without
deducti:n on account of income tax.
at fhe vothr.3; will commence at eleven o'clock, and terminate
3nr.

JAMES STEWART, Secy.

ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN
(Penns lvani a Division).—Coupons due
Doi,ber fr,t will be paid in London at The Consolidated Bank
(limited). No. 4, Lombard-street, London (late Messrs. Hey-
Wood, Kenuards, and Co.), at the Excuange of 4s. to the
Dollar.
The Coupons will be requi ed to be lodged at the Office
of the Company two days previously fi.r examination.
London, 2, Old Broad-street,
September 10, 1864.

SEA.--VACANCIES —VAC kNCIES MIDSI-iIPMEN And
t.--/ APPRENTICES hi a first-class London shipping firm.
Premium moderate. Al. o ftpprentices without premium.-
41)P1y to SIMNIONDS and Co.. 38, St. Mary-at-hill, East-
eneaP, E.C. Third v,fficers and Stewards wanted.

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Established 1869.
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.
Aezumulated and Invested Funds
Annual Revenue • • 422,401
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Insuran es Flrante,: both at Home and in Foreign Countries
on the most liberal terms.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
Every facility offered to Insurers.
Ninety per Cent. of the Profits divided among the Insurers
on the participating principle.
The new Life business ransacted in 1862 as follows :
Policies. Am,unt Inured. Premiums.
1,037 £163,334 £23,611 0 0
Forme of Proposal and every infor.nation will be furnished
on application at the

OFFICES :
LONDON 5B, Threadneedle-street.
4, New Bank Buildings. Lothbury.
West-end Office B, Waterloo-Place, Pall-mall.

NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE
SOCIETY.
The business of t'.e Company exceeds £70,000,000.
The duty paid to Government for the year 1862 was
£81,062, and the amount insured on farming stock,
410,C86,332.
A bonus of three-fifths of the profifs periodically made to
Parties insuring, who have thus. from time to time, received
'urns amounting in the aggregate to £410,000 ; and the Society
now holds a large Res'rve appli .able to a future Bonus.
....The rates of premium are in no case higher thareturnsn thoto
se
y,na.rgred by the other principal offices making no
their insurers.
For pro-pectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey-
street, Norwich • and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars, E.C.

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES,
29, Lo r.bard-street, London, and Royal Ineurance-
buildings, Liverpoel.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds Z500,0 0,
Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,000,000.

Chairman in Liverpool :
CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P.
Chairman in London :
WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq.

FATRACFS FROM THE REPORF FOR THE YEAR
1862.

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The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now
called upon to make their'awustomed periodical Report at the
Meeting of its Shareholders.
FIRE BRANCH.
The Directors have, as pleasingly as unexpectedly, at the
close o the year, to announce, for ate first time, that the Fire
Premiums have not only reached, but exceed £300,000.
The high comparative position held by the Royal in the
qovernment Returns of Duty is ag-in fully maintained.
The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably
the amount realised in the preceding year, and in fact sur-
passes that of any year, with but two exceptions, since the
commencement of this Office, the balance to the credit on
account of British and Foreign Insurances being £45,107 10s.
5d., and of the North American business, which is kept sepa•
rately, £11,097 16s. 10d.
LIFE BRANC Fr.
The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the sum of on n w policies for the year 1862
exceeds even that of the year 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived
at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of
£701,427 on 1,498 new policies issued. Until within the last
few years it is be ieved that such a sum assured as that which
has just been announced as the result of one year's business
was all but unheard of.
This portion of the Company's business has been carefully
watched, and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the
shareholder, as well as no small encouragement for the
futrre to the participating life assurer.
Evidence of continued care in the selection of lives is amply
afforded by a statement of the Number rejected. These have
amounted to 311 for the year, on which the agfregate sum
proposed for assurarre mounts to £ 43,281. Various degrees
of ineligibility have led to these lives being declined.
No small number of the Assurance f:ompanies of the day
record their accepted lives annually at 8 sum not much, if at
all, exceedinc those which the Royal has declared as inadmis-
Bird(' in a single year from deterioration of some kind or
another.
If, to complete their review, the Directors now advert
'briefly to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that
in Fire Business its progress has been undoubtedly more
ta-,id than that of any other Company established either in
London or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken
Place. The returns of duty have proved this. In Life, the
amount of New Policies already reported make all other
evidence needless.
The Directors conclude their present Report with the
expression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal
-:.nsuranca Company were never brighter, and of a consequent
to,nded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that
future may unfold for it a sphrre of still greater re, aoli-
combiniag distinguished commercial success to the
`;Mires with a le, gthened career of usefulness and protection
lo the pubic.
PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

IFOYIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
AS6OCIATION.

Established 1840.
TRUSTEES.

°Mos Baring', Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
Thomson Hankey; Esq., M.P. I Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P.
,11utual Life Assurance for all classes.
!hls Association has now in existence 6,000 policies, for a
total sum of £1,500,000.
The Annual Income is • • • • • • £51,000
The Accumulated Fund exceeds Z1),o00
It has paid in Claims • • • • • • 112,000
The whole of the profits are divided quinquennially among
the Members. Three divisions have already been made'
`vnen the following sums have been added as bonuses to the
Policies -
Dec. 31, 1847 .• • • •" • .. £5,400
, 1852 .. 11,500
187 23.200
. •• ••
1862 .. 56,500
Io• nakin the total bonus additions, X 95,600.
Honuses may be received in cash or applied to the reduc
ton of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an
addition to the acY•
Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid-
policies introduced by this Association, by which the
I.4acrifice so often submitted to on the relinquishment of
To icy is wholly avoided.
TI ,e balance-sheets of the Association are open to all,
whether assurers or otherwise
Active and influential agents will be appointed in unrepre-
sented districts.

WM. THOS. LINFOED, Secretary,
Chief Office, 15, goorgate-street, E.C., Aug 1, 1863.

A.D. 1720.

RO YAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION
(Established by Charter of his 3ift,iesty George the First)
FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, A/CD ANNUITIES.
Offices, Royal Exchange, London.
Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall.
OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor.
GEORGE PEARRES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir JOHN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.
Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Earl of Leven and Melville.
Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
Henry Nelson, Esq.
The Hon. Josceline W. Percy.
Charles Robinson, Esq.
Samuel Leo Schuster:Esq.
Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
William Soltau, Esq.
Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P.
William Wallace, Esq.
Chas. Baring Young, Esq.
tL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S.

ITenry Bainbridge, Esq..
Rohert Barclay, Esq.
;ohn Garratt Cattley, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq.
Thomas Dent, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq.
Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq.
Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq.
!'obt. Amadeus Heath, Esq.
Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.
Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq.
Medical Referee, SAM'

VIBE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this
("ra-poration on advantageous terms.
~ In the Life Department, assurances are ~nTanted with par-
"tine-ion in Profits, or, at, lower Premiums, without such
Pnrticip,?tion.
The Recersionary Bonus on British Policies has averaged
l'` arlY 2 ner cent. per annum on the sum assured.
1'74141va-tent :eductions have been made in the Premiums
insured
nyable by persons who preferred that form of Boneaus.
The divisions of Front take plat© every
Fbeive on one
lAtl7 sum not exceeding £15,000 may
This Corporation affords to the Assured—
Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from
the liabilities of partnership.
A rate of Bonus equal to the
Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital
e returns of Mutual
The advantages of modern practice,—with the security
of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex-
perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A BALI'
The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve
n the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the
United Kingdom, free of charge.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
ROBT. P. STEELE, SecretarY•

OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
!LE, in th! immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, at Icing's-ernes.

Patron—The QUEEN.
President--The Duke of BUCCLE UCH, K.G.
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esql priueiple of free
.
This was the first hospital to introduce
and instant admission to the destitutesicik,evithout the
to for-
malitydean-
of aovernors' letters. It is entirely
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which devoted
is accom-
panied by sickness and disease, and is now of
sufficient
mag:nitude that, with adequate suriport, it may be su
capable of admitting into its wards a very largeprop° rendered
proportion
of
the
the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but
funds in order to have 500 heds available for the reception
of
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover,
it gratuitously affords medical advice aud medicine
• to more,
42.11 the average, than :-,„0(,0 out) advice
a week.
The Weekly Hoard feel it their Imperative duty to make an
%A.RNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support,
1° 'r. able them to ,dmit and relieve the distressing cases that
daily present themselves.
Contributions received by the Treasurer, Edward
AT _ utions are
As.(:rrnan, I,:sq Nicholas-lane; also by . Messrs Coutts and
~,,n• ; Drummond;
' and Co. ; gerries and Co. ; Ransom and
t12,-,' ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn
Co. ;Jo ' Co. Barclay and Co. ; Denison
and co. , „. ,)ones Loyd and Co. ,
Co.verend, Gurney, and
co.. N.!, v, Mains, Deacon, and ,o.;
' i.net and Co., Liverpool
and at th, nand Co. ; Messrs. J. Barred
—°BPitai.

STANFORD S. S3IITIT Secretary

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SOAp
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labour p lin, tvfo third of Soap, and tiree lOnn
Iced° atentee- Ist 3
u• Sold by izi. arPer Twelvetrees, Broml_ey•by-Bow,
roctra, Druggists, and Oilmen.