The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-30 00:00:00

TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE LONDON TAVERN
COMPANY (Limited).
Registered as a Limited Company under the Joint-Stock
Companies' Act, 1862.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares of £lO
eachin the above Company, and I hereby agree to accept
such Shares, or any less number that may be alloted to me,
qu'd to pay the deposit of £1 10s. on allotment, and I further
athorise you to enter my name on the Register for the num-
ber of Shares so allotted.

Siolature

Address in full
Date

ONDON TAVERN COMPANY (Limited).
NO APPLICATIONS for SHARES will be received
.•ir Twelve o'clock on FRIDAY next, the 2d of October, on
winch day the Directors will meet to allot.

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.

Established 1800.
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.
lt,, _ecutnulated and Invested Funds
"1-unnal Revenue.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.

Insuran-es zranted both at Home and in Foreign Countries
on the most liberal terms.

LIFE DEPART3IENT.
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. Amount Insured. Premiums.
1,037 £763,331 £23,641 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished
tn application at the

OFFICES :
LONDON 58 Threadneedle-street.
4, New Bank Buddinzs, Lothbury,
West-end Office.. 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY,
HEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Insurance-
" buildings, Liverpool.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds L'5OO,O `O.
Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,000,000.

Chairman in Liverpool:
CHARLES TURNER, Esq.. MX.

Chairman in London:

WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Req.

RXTRACI'S 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
alerting of its Shareholders.
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BRAN.
The Directors have, asFIRE pleasinglyC aHs unexpectedly, at the
lose or the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire
?remiums have not only reached, but exceed £300,000.
The high comparative position held by the Royal in the
Government Returns of Duty is agiin fully maintained.
, The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably
the amount realised in the preced.ng year, and in fact sur-
passes that of any Tear, with but two exceptions, since the
commencement of thi4 Office, the balance to the credit on
account of British and Foreign Insurances being £45,107 10s.
50, a.nd of the North American business, whichis kept sepa-
rately, £11,097165. 10d.

LIFE BRANCH.
The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
Mate the sum assured on new policies for fhe year 1862
exceeds even that of the yegr 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived
at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of
P 01427 on 1,498 new policies issued. Until within the last
JAY years it is believed that such a sum acsured as that which
Jim just been announced as the result of one year's business
U'as 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
tuti.re 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 snm
Proposed for assuran^e P mounts to £141.281. 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-
stele in a single year from deterioration of some kind or
an oth or.
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 comiude their present Report with the
,sxpression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal
Insuranca Company were never brighter, and of a consequent
hope, tounded 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.

CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
the BIRTH of SHAKSPEARE, at Stratford-upon-
Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert
N. C. Hamilton. Bart, K.C.8.. is Chairman) are now receiv-
ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the
account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge
and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks,
Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and
Greenway, -Warwick ; or their London agents, Messrs.
Smith, Payne, and Co , Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or Messrs.
Glyn and Co., bankers, London.
The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip-
tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers
of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee
rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only
the birthplace of Shakspeare. but the centre of attraction to
all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his
home, the town he loved, and where he lived and died.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION
(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PAThonsa—Ber Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
rnESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
K.G.,
CirmitmAlsT—Thos. Baring, ESQ., M.P., F.R.S., V.P.
DErUTY-CHAIRDIAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P.
APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state that, since
the beginning of the year 1860, the Roy
ai National Lifeboat
Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab-
lishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and e
land..lrl.•
The number of lives saved by the Life-boats
Fociety, and other means, since its formation, is 12,800;
for which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and
£16,480 i cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion hasn also expended X.. 67,000 on Life-boats, Life boat
Transporting-earl 'ages, and Boat-houses.
The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of
the generous support which they have received from the
British public during the past few years, a support which
has enabled them to establish their present magnificent' fleet
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 thoroughly efficient
state, and !Crews practised in the managetneet of their
boats, whi i 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
tributiona

X s. d
Tier Majesty the Queen • • • • .. annual 60 0 0
Campbell. the lion. Mrs. G. • • .. .. annual 50 0
Clerk, Colonel, R.A. • • ......annual 1 1 0
Coutts and Co. Messrs., Rankers anuoaalo 0 (
Currie, Wm. 1%m1.,4th dlO 0())
Erle, Lord Cl .. • .
iet Justice • • . .• don. 10 10 0
loanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., E.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0
Fenwick, G. J.. Esq., cost of a Lifeboat and Tran-
sportin2: Carrisf_fe .. • . • • • • • • 250 0 0
Tlarvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .• .. don. 30 0
Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. .. •• .. 7th don. 10 0 0
Moore, Rev. G. B. . • • • •• • • don. 15 15 0
Smith, Mrs. Georg-e, Greenwich .. 3 0 0
Stirling', Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. annual 2 0 0
Thom %s, Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collectedby her
Ladyship • • •• .. 16 16 0
Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord •
.. annual 6 0 0
Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re-
ceived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis,
Percival, and Co., 76, Loinbard,treet ; Messrs. Coutts and
Co., 50, Strand; Messrs. lierries, Farouhar, and Co., 16, St.
James's-street, London ; by ail the Collectors of Customs
and Bankers in the TJnitedliirgdom ; and by the Secretary
Richard Lewis, Esq., at the ()dice of the Institution, 14,
John-street, ddelphi, London, -II