The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-26 00:00:00

The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the sum assured on n •w policies for fhe year lio2
exceeds even that of the yesr 1801 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
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 satisfact,on 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 assuran.e ',mounts 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, exceedin, those which the Royal has declared as inadmis-
sible in a single year from deterioration of some kind cr
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
expression 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 rrtac2ri-
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

NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE
SOCIETY.

The business of tie Company exceeds £70,000,000.
The duty paid to Government for the year 1862 was
£85,062, and the amount insured on farming stock,
£10,086,332.

A bonus of three-fifths of the profi's periodically made to
parties insuring, who have thus, from time to time, received
sums amounting in the agg,regate to ztio,ono and the SocieLy
now holds a large Res 'rye 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 pro-pectuses apply nt the Society's Offices, Surrey-
street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars, E.C.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.

Established 1840.
TRUSTEES.
Thomas Baling Esq., M.P. I Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. Baron L. de Rothschild, 31. P.
Mutual Life Assurance for all classes.
This Association hai now in existence (,000 policies, for a
total sum of £1,500,000.
The Annual Income is £51,000
The Accumulated Fund exceeds .. 2 0,, 00
It has paid in Claims 112,000
The whole of the profits are divided quinquennially among
the Members Three GiVitiiotlB have already been made*
when the following sums have been added as bonuses to the
policies -

Dec. 31, 1847 .. . £5,400
„ 1832 11,500
„ 1857 23 200
„ 1862 . • .. .. 56,500
cr makin the total bonus additions, £98,600.
Ponuses may be received in ctsh or applied to the reduc
tion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an
addition to the of ey.
• 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
po icy is wholly avoided.
The balance-sheets of the Association are open to all,
whether assurers or others ise.
Active and influential agents will be appointed in unrepre-
sented districts.

W3l. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary.
Chief Office, 15, Moorgate-street, E.C., Aug 1,1863.

NORTH BRITISH ANTI MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.

Established 1809.
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.

Accumulated and Invested Funds
Annual Revenue
422,401
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Insuran'es vranted both at Home and in Foreign Countries
on the most liberal terms.

LIFE DEPARTMENT.
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. AmPunt Inured. Premiums.
1,037 £763,334 £23.641 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished
on application at the

OFFICES :
LONDON. 5B, Threadneedle-street.
•+
, West-end Office.. 8. Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
the BIRTH of SHAKSPE ARE, at Stratford-upon-
Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (ot which Sir Robert
N. C. Hamilton, Bart , K.C.R. 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 Shakspeate but the centre of attraction to
all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that It was his
the town he loved, and where he lived and died.