The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-13 00:00:00

BANKERS IN LO, NDON.

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The Agra and United Se.rviceAuk (Limited), 27, Cannon-
street, E.C•
The London and County Banks 'Hanover-square, W.

.BANKERS. IN INDIA.
The Agra and Unire,d Service Bank (Limited).
SOLICITORS.

Messrs. T.lptous, Johnson, and Upton, 20, Austin-'riars, E.O

BROKER.
Francis Burnrtnd, Esq. 78, Lombard-street, and 13 and 14,
County Cornhill, E.C.
SECRETARY (pro tem.)
Macdonald Yates, Esq.
Temporary Offices :-35, Cannon-street, E.C., and 5, Parli-
ment-street, Westminster.
ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS.
This Company is formed for the purpose of introducing a
sys4tem of efficient Hotel accommodation into India, China,
an d other places in the East.
In Calcutta a joint-stock company has lately purchased
and undertaken the management of a Ho'cel, and the pro-
spects of the enter,,rise may be inferred from the very high
premium at which their shares are quo'ced in the Calcutta
market, see "Times" Ju'y 17, the "En.glishman's Weekly
Mail" of June 8, 1863, and "Allen's Ituljan of August
4—viz., £25 paid. present value, £l5 fnc div., equal to 80 per
cent. prem., and the payment of a div'idend of 10 per cent. for
the half-year ending 30th April last, equal to 20 per cent. per
ar,num.

It is proposed, in the first in'iance, to supply the urgent
rr quirements of Bombay and Po'int de Galle.
In the event of two-thirds o'f the first issue of shares not
beim- subscribed for, no allotment will take place, and the
deposits will be returned to the subscrib rs, without deduc-
tion.

It is proposed to pay to rb areholders 5 per cent. interest
upon the capital as paid rAr„ until the first dividend is de-
clared.

Detailed prospectuses F .nd forms of application for shares
may be obtained of the Fleeretary, Bankers, and Broker.

nffiENTAL HI)TELS COMPANY (Limited).
V.l NOTICE is II'e,REBY GIVEN, That NO APPLICA-
TION for SHARF,S in the Oriental Hotels Company
(Limited) WILL 13 f: RECEIVED after SATURDAY, the
15th August current.
MA August 6, 1863 .CDONALD YATES, Secretary pro tern.
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NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.

Established 1809.
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acte of
Parliament.
Accunwllated and Invested Fund 4 £2,122,828
Annual Revenue
422,401
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Irlsuran'es granted both at Home and in Foreign Countries
on the most liberal terms,

LIFE DEPARTMENT.
Every facility offereel to Insurers.
Ninety per Cent. oh Vac Profits divided among the Insurers
on the participating principle.
The new Life bustness transacted in 1862 as follows :
Policies. Amount Inßured. Premiums.
1,037 £763,334 £23.641 0 0
Forms of P roposal and every information will be furnished
on applicati'm at the

OFFICES :
LONDON.
58, Threadneedle-street
~ • . 4, New Bank Buildings. Lothbury.
•• West-end Office.. 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.
TriF_!; ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES,
`29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Insurance-
buildings, Liverpoel.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds £soo,o'o,
Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,000,000.

EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR
1862.
The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now
callen upon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the
litee.ting of its Shareholders.
FIRE BRANCH.
The Directors have, as pleasingly as unexpectedl at the
dose of the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire
Premiums have not only reached, but exceed £.100,000.
The high comparative position held by the Royal in the
Government Returns of Duty is aglin 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 thi 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 BRANCH.
The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the sum assured on n,-tv 'policies for the year 1862
exceeds even that of the yesr 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived
at the almost unexampled arrAount for a single year of
£701,427 on 1,498 new policies I,,sued. Until within the last
few years it is believed that se.ch a sum assured as that which
has just been announced as P.m result of one year's business
was all but unheard of.
This portion of the Com`pany'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 assurance amounts to £'43,281. 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-
Mule 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
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
ee in
to agtnht-
e•
hope, founded or,. a grateful remembrance of the past, that
the future may unfold for ita
commercialsphere of greatersu
tude, combini ag distinguished
Office with a lee gthened career of usefulness and protection
to the public,.
PERCY M. DOVE,
Managerreatnardy in London.Actuar.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, sec

Established 1840.
TRUSTEES.

X 5,400

11,500

.. 23.200
.. 56,500

NORWICH UNION FIRE LATSURANCE
SOCIETY.
The business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000.
T'zie duty paid to Government for the year 1862 was
„8.C),062, and the amount insured on farming stock,
£10,086,332.
A bonus of three-fifths of the profits periodically made to
parties insuring, who have thus. from time to time, received
.tims amounting in the aggregate to L 440,000 ; and the Society
now holds a large Reserve applicable 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.

For propectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey.
street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black•
friars, E.C.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.

Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, 1i5q.,31.P. I Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P.
Mutual Lif, Assurance for all classes.
This 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 .. 200,000
It has paid in Claims .. .. 112,000
hThe whole of the profits are divided quinquennially among
KMembers. Three divisions have already been made'
he Members. the tollowtn* g sums have been added as bonuses to the
policies

Dec. 31, 1847 •
" 1852
1857 ..
the 1882 ..
making* the total bonus additions, £96,600'
lieu of an
tion of premiums at the option of the assured, ill
Bonuses Ina; be received in wish or applied to the reduc.
addition to the - Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid-
up policies introduced by this Association, by which the
sacrifice so often submitted to on the relinquishment of a
pc) icy is wholly avoided.
The balance-sheets
whether assurers or othof the Association are open to all,
e
Active and influential rwise
sented districts. agents will be appointed in unrepre-

WM. Trios. LINFORD, Secretary.
Chief Office, 15, 11loorgatc-street, E.C., Aug 1, 1863.

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FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn road,
way Terminus, at Kin,g's-croas: of
the Great Northern- il
Patron—The QUEFN
President—The Duke of BIJCC4LE
Treasurer—Edward Masterman
UCH, R.G.
This was the first hospital to introduce th'eBq.
and instantt gdmission to the destitute sick, rilnciple of free
mality vorrs' letters. It is that
de._ bout the for-
tulion in its most pitiable torm—viz., that wivfiect.,!ii to desti-
tution
by sickness and disease, and is now "of's accom_
maomitude that, with adequate support, it may b sufficient
, e• into its wards a very , e rendered
capable of admitting large dered
pro
the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires of
funds in order to have 500 beds available for the receptiona Ilut the
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures, Idor of
it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to eover,
on the averai-re, than 3,000 out p
- a.tients a week. more,
The "Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to n.,„,,,,
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111ARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued alls
rn.i.
to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing caserr%.
clan that
Y present themselves.
.. Contributions arc received by the Treasurer, Edward
nlacernian. Esp. Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
Co. ;
• Drummond and Co.; Berries and Co. Ransom and
Co. ; Prescott, Grote, Co.;mith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn
and Co.and o.;
o. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison
and Co. ; Nv 11. and Co.Overend, Gurney, and
Co. ; Nisb , lams, Deacon, O. ,
et and co ; Messrs. J. Bartle and Co., Liverpool
and at the Hospital:
STANFORD 8. SMITH Seeretary.
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CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
account of
at Kidd the BIRTH of SHAKSPEARE, at Stratford-upon-
Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert
N L• Hamilton, Bart., K.C.8., is Chairman) are now receiv-
ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the
tion listeto tu,
the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge
"nd Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks,
The T Co, bankers, London.
-aPwen-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and
smeiettrlty, arwick ; or their London agents, Messrs.
rest theil'claT
Glyn
dad Co,,
and Co , Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or Messrs.
the birth
all admirers of the of shakB e “e natio-
piacetenofast:C:mmittee, in submitting the subscrip_
home, the town nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers
tor their aid and assistance. The Committee
MB
uPcin the ground that Stratford is not only
a ePeare, but the centre of attraction to
, ~i,),,reat Poet's works, and that it was his
te L. 711, and where he lived and died.

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ROYAL 1, •
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INSTIINSTITUTIONFATRONESS—Iierrporatea by Royal Charter). 1108
PRESIDENT—Vice_ • - Majesty the Queen.
rtaiGrael°us -a-atcr
,te Duke of Northumberland,
CHAIRMAN—Thos. R . 12. pF'R'S,a. u ..... UTY-01A111111AN—Tho -' -----.. "...", F.R.S..tr P
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas' cha ~ . .
APPEAL Pman, Req., F.R.S., V.P.
The Committee of Management
the beginning of the year 1860, the have to state that, since
Institution has expended £32,000 ont°Y...''' National Lifeboat
lishments on the Coasts of England.
.4'` Louis Lifeboat Estab-
The number of lives saved by
teatland, and Ireland.
Society, and other means, since its ter!'ile-boats of the
tor' which services 82 Gold Medals, 718—
siation, is 12,800;
E 16,480 in cash have been paid in rewarZer Medals, and
tion has also expended £67,000 on Lite-bixt•The Institu-
Transporting-carziages, and Boat-houses. ' . Life-boat
The Committee desire to express their grateful -
the generous support which they have received f sense of
British public during the past few years, a sup __rpm. the
has enabled them to establish their present magnSZplech
of 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom,
Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that
rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughlr ancient
actised la the ag of their
state, and its Crews prman emen
boats, which can only be effected by a large and permanent
annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their
countrymen to aid them in upholding
and perpetuating so
great and truly national a work.
The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con
tributions:—

£ a. d
Her Majesty the Queen • •• • . annual 50 0 0
Campbell, the Hon. Mrs. G. .. .. ... annual 50 0
Clerk, Colonel, R.A. .. • • • • '
Coutts and Co., Messrs., Bankers .. •..
4a
tnbr i
duoa n
.1 1010 00 00
Currie, Wm., Esq., .. • • •• •
Erle, Lord Chiet Justice .. • • .. don. 10 10 0
Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A. K.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0
Fenwick, G. J., Esq., cost of a Lifeboat and Tran-
sporting Carriage .. .. .. ..
70 d0n.).,i0n2.510g0 000
000
Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. •• •
••
Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. • • •• .• ..4
Moore, Rev. G. B. • • •• .. don. 15 15 0
Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich .. .. .. 30 0
Stirling, CoL Sir Anthony, K.C.B. _ .. annual 20 0
Thomas, Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collected by her
Ladyship .. .. •• •• •• 16 16 0
••
Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .. .. .. annual 50 0

Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re-
dived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis,
Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and
Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. Berries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St.
James's-street, London; by al the Collectors of Customs
and Bankers in the Unitediiingdom; and by the Secretary
Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Office of the institution, 14,
John-street, Adelphi, London, W.C.

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