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

1-1 PM ENT TIER, WE SUP AT F,VANS'
VNRY EVENING THIS WEEK after Alfred
Mellon's Pronnade Concerts.

BANK of ENGLAND, Sept. 10, 180%
GOVERN )R and COMPANY of the
BANK of E:\ GLAND GIVE NOTICE, That the
LiENERAL COURT held at the Bank This Day is AD-
JOURNE ;/ till TUESDAY NEXT, the 15th inst., at Eleven
o'clock in the Forenoon, for the purpose of taking the de-
lerraination by vote, in print or writing, of the question on
the following Resolution, proposed at the Court for a Divi-
dend, viz. :

That a Iralf-year's Dividend of Interest and Profits be
Made on the 10th October next of £1 10s. per ce.,t., without
deducti ,n on account of income tax.
The voting will commence at eleven o'clock, and terminate
at f.mr.

JAMES STEWART, Secy.

ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN
-RAILWAY (Penns' lvania Divisior.).—Coupons due
October Ist will be paid in London at the Consolidated Bank
(limited), No. 4, Lombard-street, London (late Messrs. Hey-
Wood, Kennards, and Co.), at the Exchange of 45. to the
Dollar.
The Coupons will be requi•ed to be lodged at the Office
of the Company two days previously for examination.
London, 2, Old Broad-street,
September 10, 1.86 t.

SEA.—VAC eiNCIES for MIDSI-4IPMEN
firm.
end
APPRENTICES in a first-class London shipping
remiurn moderate. Al.° apprentices without premium.—
Apply to SIMNIONDS and Co.. 38, St. 31ary-at-hill. East-
cheap, E.C. Third ullicers and Stewards wanted.

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Established 1809.
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.
Accumulated and Invested Funds L2,122422,,401
828
Annual Revenue
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Insoranees aranted both at Home and in Foreign Countries
011 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 transacted In 1862 as follows :
Policies. Amrunt In ured. Premiums.
1,037 £703,334 £23.041 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every infori,ation will be furnished
on application at the

OFFICES:
.58; Threadneedle-street.
4, New Bank Buildings. Lotlibury.
„ West-end Office.. 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

LONDON • •

NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE
SOCIETY.
The business of tt,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,
£10,086,332.
A bonus of three-fifths of the profi's periodically made to
parties insuring, who have thus. from time to time, received
Sams amounting in the aggregate to £440,000; and the Society
now holds a large lies aye applinable to a future Bonus.
The rates of premium are in no case higher than those
charged by the other principal offices making no returns to
their insurers.
}'or pro.pectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey-
street, Icorwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars, E.C.

„______-
THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Insurance-
building,s, Liverpool.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds ........ L 500,0,0.
Accumulated Funds in hand over 1 OOO,OOO.

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

EXTR&CIS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR
1862.
The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now
called upon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the
Meeting of its Shareholders.
FIRE BRANCH.
The Directors have. as pleasingly as unexpectedly, at the
close 0. the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire
Premiums have not only reached, but exceed Z. 300,000.
The high comparative position ld by the Royal in the
Government Returns of Duty is again 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 thi4 Office, the balance to the credit on
account of British and Foreign Insurances being L 45,107 10s.
Sd., and of the North American business, which is kept sepa-
rately, £11,097 16s. 10d.
LIFE BRANC R.
The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors
Bto
state the sum assured on new policies for the year 162
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
h y
ears it is believed that such a sum as hat which
as just been announced as the result ofassured 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
future 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 aggregate slim
proposed for assurance amounts to .Z • 43,28 . Various degrees
of ineligibility have led to the,e lives being declined.
No small number of the Assurance Companies of the day
record their accepted lives annually at a sum not much. if at
all, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as inadmis-
shde in a single year from deterioration of some kind cr
another.
If, to complete their review, the Directors now advert
briefly to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that
in Fire Business ins progress has been undoubtedly more
rapid 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
Insurance Company were never brighter, and of a consequent
hope, founded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that
the future may unfold for it a sphere of still greater magni-
tude, combining distinguished commercial success to the
Office with a lengthened career of usefulness and protection
to the public.
PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.

Established 1840.
TRUSTEES.

Thomas Baring', Es q., M.P. I Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
Thomson Flankey, Esq., M.P. Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P.
Mutual Lif. ABSUTNIC,P for all classes.
This Association has uoW in existence 6,000 policies, for a
total sum of £1,500,000.
The Annual Income is • • £51,000
The Accumulated Fund exceeds .. 200,000
It has paid in Claims • • • • •112,000
The whole of the profits are divided quinquennially among
the Members. Three divisions have already been made•
when the following sums have been added as bonuses to the
policies -

Dec. 31, 1847 ..
1852 ..
1857 ..
1862 • • •
making the total bonus additions, £96,600.
Bonuses may be received in wish or applied to the redue
tion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an
addition to the ol:cy.
Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid-
up policies introduced by this relinquishmenty which the
sacrifice so often submitted to on the of
he
icy is wholly avoided.
The balance-sheets of the Association are open to all
whether assurers or otherwise.
Active and influential agents will be appointed in unrepre
Bolted districts

£5,400
11,500

.. 23.200
.. 56,500

W3I. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary
Chief Office, 15, Moorgate-street, E.C., Aug 1,1863.

A.D. 1720.

RO YAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION
(Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First)
FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES.
Offices, Royal Exchange, London.
Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall.
OCTAVIUS WIGRAg, Esq., Governor.
GEORGE PEARRES, BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir JOHN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.
Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Wiimot Holland, Esq.
Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville.
ohn Garret Cattley, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Joseeline W. Percy.
Thomas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Fredk. ,Jos. Edimann, Esq. Eric Carrinzton Smith, Esq.
Riversdale W. Grenf ell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq.
Pobt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. I Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P.
Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.' I William Wallace, Esq.
Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. " Chas. Baring Young, Esq.
Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S.

FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this
t.7x,rporation on advantageous terms.
in the Lite Department, assurances are granted with par-
ticipation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such
participation.
The -Reversionary Banns on British Policies has averaged
nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured.
Equivalent reductions raver e
made in the Premiums
)Thvable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus..
The divisions of Profit take place every Five years.
ArlY sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one
Lire.
This Corporation affords to the Assured—
Lion from
Liberal participation in Profits—with exemp
the liabilities of partnership.
A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual
Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital
Stock,
The advantages of modern practice,—with the security
The a:o:fiorcaetiwhoseCENTUßY resources have been tested by the ex-
the Militia, Yeomanry,
United Kingdom, f'rnlanrY' Volunteer Corps v.
have always allowed the Assured to serve
Or Rhin. the
iri
ee of charge.
ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary.

TTI OYAL FRFE HOSPITAL, Grav's-m---rog d
•
way Terminus, in the immediatd vicinity
of the Great Northern Rail
at Ring's-cron.

Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCIT,
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.
This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free
andittiistant admission to the destitute sick, without the 10r-
Y governors' letters. it is entirely devoted to desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—liz•, that which is aecom-
rna
Pnled by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient
magnitude that, with adequate support., it May be rendered
capable of admitting Into its wards a very large proportion of
the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requiresbuf the
'finds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover,
it gratuitously affords medical advice and med,thine to more,
onthe average, than 3,000 out-patients a week.
~The Weekly Itoard feel it their imperative duty to make an
to enable
APPEAL to the public for continued support,
„.'
'Zenable them to &dmit and relieve the distressing cases that
""IIY present. themselves.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward
...
'email, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutta and
.
; D,'-unimand and Co. ; Berries and Co, ; Ransom and
Al;
Ire stt Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn
" L AsO Co.; Barclay Denison
4,11 d (irs• ; acme; and Co.; Overend, Gurney, and
". • tv—,' w d and Co Liverpool
41nt' A4Qdrin, illarne
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