The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-14 00:00:00

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advise Alfred Mellon's Concerts, afterwards to
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or their capital chops and magnificent potatoes, and that
le best advice I. can give you.

FINAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC

L BRANDY.
his celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest
BRANDY,

is Pure Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome.

Ad in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail !louses in London ; by
Agents in the prinoipal towns in England ; or wholesale

8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W.
bserve the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded
inahan's LL Whisky."

TL ANTI C TELEGRAPII COMPANY.
L NOTICE OF REMOVAL FROM 22, OLD

BROAD-STREET.
'he Offices of the Atlantic Telegraph Company are NOW
:MOVED to N 0.12, ST. lIELEN'S-PLACE, Bishopsgate-
eet Within, E.C., which place all communications are
uture to be addressed.

GEORGE SAWARD,
Secretary and General Superintendent
a, St. Helen's-place, Bishopsgate-street,
September, 1864.

TO R ICH UNION FIRE OFFICE,
THE BONUS YEAR.
llitEE-FIFTIIS of the Profits of the Company are
iodically distributed as a Bonus to parties insuring, who
ve thus from time to time received from the Society sums
counting in the aggregate to nearly £140,000.

k FURTHER BONUS of £52,027 has now been declared,
d will be paid on the renewal of existinf, insurances at
chaelmas, 1864, and the three following Quarters.'
EXAMPLES OP PREMIUMS REDUCED BY THIS BONUS.

). Of Policy.lSum Insured. Annual Premium Reduced Pre-
mium for 1864.
1141,411 £12,540 £222 4 4 £lOl9 2
450,156 12,000 63 0 0 35 0 0
484,173 6,800 3.114 0 1916 8
506,075 5,000 7 10 0 4 6 4

The R &TES of PREMIUM are in no case HIGHER than
ose charged by the other principal offices giving no Bonus
their Insurers.

No charge is made for the Policy or Stamp when the In-
ranee exceeds £BOO, or for Insurances transferred from
her Offices.

The Business of the Company exceeds Seventy Millions,
id, owing to the liberality with which its engagements have
;en performed, is rapidly increasing. The duty paid to
overnment for the year 1863 was £84,152 lls. Od. ; the
fount insured on Farming Stock was £10,203,275.
The Norwich Union Fire Office is the LARGEST OFFICE
ialdng a return to its Insurers.
For prospectuses apply to the Society's Offices, 29, Fleet-
;red, ; and Surrey-street, Norwich.

,HE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY,
29, Lombard-street, London; and

Royal Innsurance•buildings, LiverpooL

At the Annual Meeting, on:the sth inst., the following were
ome of the leading results disclosed in the Report to the
hareholders.

FIRE 'BRANCH.
The Premiums of the year 1863 reached the sum
of . ..... £341,668
Being an advance of 40,977
rlou)ver 1862 year; an amount of increase exceeding that of any pre.
s.
The Revenue from Fire Premiums has been en-
hanced in four years by the large sum of £113,353

The Duty paid to Government in 1862 was
Ditto ditto, 1863 88,966

Showing an Increase In one year of ...... £12,973
Among the incidents which have tended to the advance-
ment of the Royal within the last few months may be reckoned
its action with respect to the losses sustained by the explo-
sion of the Lotty Sleigh, which although only consistent with
the general tenor of the conduct of the Company, and ulti-
mately proved to be no more than what had been done in for-
mer times by the oldest and most proverbially honourable
among its contemporaries, yet attracted attention and public favour by its unhesitating promptness.
As the largest total of Revenue and the largest ratio of
progression have been attained in the present year, so it
Happens that the largest Profit which it has ever fallen to the
Directors to record has likewise on this occasion to be an-
nounced. The balance of net profit on the year has amounted
to .C 83,515 ; of which sum £34, MO only has been appropriated
to Dividend and Bonus, and the large balance of 5.49,444 been
carried to Reserve.

BRANC.
The progress of theLIFE Life Branch, H
as shown by the New
Business transacted in the last year, is most promising, and
the advances made, year by year, in the amount of New In-
surances effected, show clearly the estimation in which the
Company is held. The following is a statement for the last
five years :
Net Sum Assured on New Policies
after deducting Guarantees. Net Premiums,
1859
1860
1861
1862
1863 . 752,546 18 10
This rapid growth, amounting to 73 per cent. on the Sum
Assured, and upwards of 80 per cent. on the Premium re-
ceived in the course of five years, may justly be considered as
larger than any which could have been reasonably expected.
The first half of the current year 1864, however, far outstrips
the ratio of increase indicated by the figures just quoted, as
the sum assured for that period of six months only actually
exceeds Half-a-Milton sterling.
The rate of Mortality, likewise, still presents highly favour-
able features, and augurs well for the result to be shown by
the quinquennial investigation, which is to take place when
the present year is concluded.
PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.
August, 1864.

BUSINESSE S.-Mr. ANDREW HIND'S
SEPTEMBER LIST,
Containing 500 Businesses, Premises, Partnerships, &0.,
Gratis.
Letters, enclose stamp.—Particulars entered free.
OFFICES—CIRNER OF LITTLE CARTER-LANE, ST. PAUL'S.