The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-16 00:00:00

LIFE BRANCA.

The very zratifyinv, duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the sum assured on now policies for fhe year 1862
exceeds even that of the year ISGI by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived
at the almost unexampled amount for a sinzle year of
£701,427 on 1,408 new policies Issued. Until within the last
few years it is believed 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
lutare 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 sum
proposed for assuraroe amounts to :£111,281. Various degrees
of ineligibility have led to these 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-
sible in a single year from deterioration of some kind or
mother.

If; to complete their review, the Directors now advert
briefly to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that
lii Fire Business its progress has been undoubtedly more
rapid than that of any other Company established either in
Lond)n 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
tapression 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 mtu.,,ni-
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

bROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.

Established 1840.
TRUSTEES.

Thomas Bating, Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. I Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P.
Mutual LifP Assurance for all classes.
This Association has now in existence 0,000 policies, for a
total sum of X 1,500,000.
The Annual Income is
The Accumulated Fund exceeds
It has paid in Claims

.. £51,000
2P0,P00
.. 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
~ 3852
1857
„ 1862
Triakia, the total bonus additions, £98,600,
Bonuses ma:,, be received hi elsh or applied to the recite
Von of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an
addition to the Tolley.
Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid-
np policies introduced by this Association, by which the
sacrifice so often submitted to on the relinquishment of
po 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-
sented districts.

.. £c,400
.. 11,500
.. 25,200
.. 56,500

WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary.
Chief Office, 15, Moorgrate-street, E.C., Aug 1, 1863.

A.D. 1720.

ROYAL 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 WIGRAM, Esq., Governor.
GEORGE PEARKES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir Jonri HENRY PEr.rx, Bait, Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.

Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville.
John Garratt Cattle y, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy.
'Thomas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrinzton Smith, Esq.
Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq.
Robt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq.,
Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.! William Wallace, Esq.
Jas. Stewart llodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq.
Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S.
FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this
Corporation on advantageous terms.
In the Life Department, assurances are granted with par-
ticipation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such
participation.'
The Reversionary Bonus on British Policies has averaged
nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured.
Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums
payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus.
The divisions of Profit take placa every Five years.
Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one
Life.

This Corporation affords to the Assured—.
Liberal participation in Profits—with
exemption from
the liabilities of partnership.
A rate of Bonus equal to the averae:e returns 0f Mutual
Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital
Stock.
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 HALF.
in the he CorpMtiaora.tion have always allowed the Assured to serve
United Kingdom, free of charge Yeomanr, olunteer Corps within the
ROYAL EXCITANCE, LONDON.
ItOBT. I'. STEELE. Secretary.

Stratford-op_ no
CELEBRATION of the T
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of
Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (oaft
to the
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N. C. Hamilton, Bart, K,c,13.. is chairmalnioh Sir Rober-t
_esars.
lug SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may sis(:), ;',ree now reeelv-
account of the Tercentenary Committee. at the
and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamin„,
Stratford-upon-Avon ;
orMetshserisr.
London agents
Creenway, Warwick; iyi and
Smith, Payne, and Co , Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or
BIM and Co , hankers, atesers.
London.
The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip
"pi list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers
I. Shokspeare for their aid and assistarme, The Committee
re their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only
bh 1 h k tote airt P ace of S a speare, but the centre of attraction to
ilt)roi V'ers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his
--e town he loved, and where lie Bred and died.

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