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

ARMY CONTRACTS.
ENDERS will be received at this Office until
ma 12 o'clock noon on the 3d of October, from persons who
Y be willing to enter into Contracts to supply
FORAGE AND PAILLASSE STRAW,
Anantities as may be required, for the use of Her
fro'`',Y Forces stationed in the following places,
la Ist November, 1863, to 31st October, 1861 :

FORAGE.
T. Tryde-patk, Kensington, Regent's-park, and Horse
,„ Guards.
Rounslow and Keller Hall.
'• Timm :don Court.
4. 'Windsor.
6. Brighton.
6. Sandhurst
7. Enfield.

PAILLASSE STRAW.
1. trom
Pton House. lip-le-park, and liensinzton.
,egent's-park, St. John s-wood, and Portman-street
Barracks.
Barracks, Chelsea.
,!.ellinrzton and St. George's Barracks,
0. -une Tower.
ou
l;
he
nslow and Kneller Hall.
"alnrifon Court.
• Windsor.
9.
Bri"-rhtml, with Coast Forts from Newhaven to Shore-
-10. ham.
Croydon. •
late Tenders must be made for FOrVe arrl for Pail-
r.7,sSfraw for each of the above-mentioned Stations or Bar-
'Llc as Prouped and numbered.
tarorms of Tender and Conditions of Contract ma. y be
between the " application at this office, by letter or in person,
Tenders
the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock.
on the printed forms must be properly filled up
81`-'ned, and no Tender will be noticed unless delivered
%t,le under-mentioned Office, under closed envelope (marked
F Lae outside " Tender for Commissariat Supplies"), before
O'clock noon on the 3d October next.
(Signed) W. T. POWER,
Comm' ssary- G eneral.
Deputy Commissary-General's Office,
5. New-street, Sprint-gardens,
London, S.W., 10th Sept., 1863.

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.

Established 1909.
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.
Accumnhted and Invested Funds .L2,122,82S
Annual Revenue.... ............................... 422,401
FIRE DEPARTMENT.

Insuran'es rrrante4:l;Othatli;;;;cl:liiForeignCountrie
oa the most liberal terms.

LIFE DEPARTMENT.
Every facility offered to Insurers.
Ninety per Cent. of the Profits divided among the Insurers
on the particip3ting principle.
The new Life business transacted in 1862 as follows:
Policies. Am^unt In=ured. Premiums.
1,037 £763,334 £23,641 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished
on application at the

LONDON OrrlcEs :
58, Threadneedle-street.
4 New Bank Butldinvs. Lothbury.
West-end Office.. 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-man.

NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE
The SOCIETY.
business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000.
duty paid to Government for the year 1862 was
4 '62,332. and the amount insured on farming stock,
A.°B6,
bonus of three-fifths of the profits periodically made to
sums
insuring, who have thus, from time to time, received
3:18 amounting in the aggregate to £440,000 ; and the Society
W holds a large" Reserve applicable to a future Bonus.
Char rattes of premium are in no case higher than those
their insurY ged the other principal offices making no returns to
et
t:or
;sandprospectues apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey-
,. y et, Norwich
arian

riE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Ineurance-
buildings, Liverpool.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds £soo,ono,
ACenntulated. Funds in hand over 1 OOO,OOO.

Chairman in Liverpool :
CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P.

Chairman in London :

WILLIAM IVAINWRIGIIT, Esq.

Xrpr. ------
----aers FROM TIIE REPORT FOR THE YEAR

1862.
rrhe Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now
tailed upon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the
lieeting of its Shareholders.

The Directors have, asFIRE pleasinglßßANCH.y as unexpectedly. at the
close 01 the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire
Premiums have not only reached, but exceed £300,000.
The high comr,arative position held 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 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, £11,007 16s. 10d.

LTFE BRANC IT.
The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the sum assured on new policies for the year IFG2
exceeds even that of the yesr 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
tow years it is believed that such a sum aosured 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
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 sum
proposed for as suran^e R mounts to X 141,2 R I . 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
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
rapid than that of any other Company established either in
•Lond3n 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
Ixpression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal
,uraneu 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 mmni-
tude, combining distinguished commercial success to the
()Mee with a lecgthened career of usefulness and protection
to the public.

PERCY M DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

FROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.
Established 1840.
TRUSTEES.
Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Esq., 11. P. I Baron L. de Rothschild, N.P.
?Intim' Life Assurance for all classes.
rhis, total sum As
of socia
I,tion has now in existence 6,000 policies, for a
£500,000.
The Annual Income is .. .. £61,000
The Accumulated Fund exceeds .. 2r0,1:'00
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 .. 45,400
~ 1852 11,500
~ 1857 23.200
, 1862 .. 50,500
Making the total bonus additions, £96,600.
Bonuses may be received in cash or applied to the redue
tion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an
addition to the policy._

Attention is eipecially invited to the system of free or paid-
lap 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.

WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary.
Chief Office, 15, Moorgate-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 PEARR:ES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir JOHE HE:SRY FELIX, Bart., Deputy-Governor.

DIRECTORS.
•
Henry Bat:otidge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esc'.
Robert rJarclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville.
John r'arratt Cattlei, Esq.
~ . . 1 " Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
7,-k Currie Close, Esq. # Henry Nelson, Esq.
„ itrilliam Davidson, Esq.
The Hon. Josceline W. Percy,
Thomas Dent, Esq Esq.
. Charles Robinson,Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Alexander Drum, Egg. Predk. Jos. Edlmann, E Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
N E.
Riversdale W. Grenfell, BSCI• William Soltau, Esq.
Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P.
.Robt. Amadeus Heath, Esq:
WM. Tetlow Hibbert, Egg-William Wallace, Esc.
s Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq,
Medical Referee,
SAMtrEL 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-
--
"ciPation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such
Participation.'
The Reversionary BMUS on British Policies has averaged
nearly 2 per cent, per annum on the sum assured.
Premiums
Equivalent reductions have been made in the
Payable by persons who
preferred that form of Bonus
The divisions of Profit take place every Five years.
Life,
Any sum not exceeding X 15,000 may be insured on one
This Corporation affords to the Assured—
Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from
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.
0 f Theoo
Office advantages
whose ofre resources
na
113aryacetheeice,n—wit
ex-
perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A nAe Lettrhe the
tested
bysecurity
la the Militia, Yeoman
The Corporation have alwaysallowed
~,s; the Assured to serve
olunteer Corps within the
the
United Kingdom, free ofYcharge.
R°YAL
ExcRiIOANBGT. EPL. °SNTI7I'.E, Secretary.

Stratford-upon-
N.
(oaf:which Sir Robert
OELEBRATION of th T
Ft EReE
k.) the BIRTH of SHARSPEARE NTENARy
to the
Avon. The Tercentenary Committee'
N. C. Hamilton, Bart., K.C.8., is Chaim,
ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they mayn
as Messrs
also re now reeelv-
aCcount of the Tercentenary Committee, at thee,:giudrbridge
or Messrs:
and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamino.,
Strati ord-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, ”AO,:, Banks,
or their London agent Greenway, Warwick; th, and
Smith, Payne, and Co , Messrs. Hanburys and C
Glyn and Co., bankers, London.
ti on
Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrin
Ilion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirer
i.e Shalcf!Peare for their aid and assistance. The
is
_ rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only
the tarth l
au adj) ace of Shakspeare. but the centre of attraction to
h^tne, 01' era of the great Poet's works, and that it was his
e tovrn he loved, and where he lived and died.

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