The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-23 00:00:00

SPECIAL NOTICE.

THE BOORS OF THE
NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY,
For the Year 1863, close on 31st December.
Life Policies effected on or before that date will rink for an
4uditional Year's Bonus in comparison to later entrants.

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During the Four Years preceding last Division of
Profits (1858), the iompany issued 1,595 Life
Policies, assuring L1,221,603
During the Four suc-eeding Years the number of
Li!e Polices issued amounted to 3,168, and the
Sums assured to £2,22 ',52
BEING AN INCREASE OF 82 PER CENT.

,The SIXTH SEPTENNIAL DIVISION of the COM-
r4NY'S PROFITS will take place on 31st December, 1865.
WHOLE PROFITS WHICH HAVE ACCUMIT-
.\
SATED SINCE n IST DECEMBER, 1858, WILL THEN
.4 DIVIDED, AND NINETY PER CENT. A LLO 7/I.I‘ED
ANON;G THE ASSURED ON THE PARTICIPATING
.

CERTIFICATES of INDISPITTABILI l'Y granted,
and every facility offered to Itiaurera.

FIRE DEPARTMENT.
liberal
granted both at Home and Abroad on the most
liberal terms.
thlThring of Proposal and every information will be given at
e Read Office, or any of the Company's Agents.
By order.
F. IV. LANCE, Secretary.

L ondcn, November, 186.3.
HEAD OFFICES:
LONDON 5B, Threadneedle-street.
11
west-end Office B. Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.
LDINIIUEGII 6l, Princes-street.

Now ready, in magnificent Emblematic Cover, desicrned by
John Leighton, F.S.A., price 21s. ; morocco, 31s. 6d.,
THE IL L USTR ATED INGOLDSBY
LEGENDS, from Sixty Original Drawings by
Cruikshank, Leech, and Tenniel.
" For Christmas there could not be found a more pleasant
book than ' The In9:oldsby Legends.' A series of humorous
legends, illustrated by three such men as Leech, Cruik,hank,
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*,* Also, an Edition without illustrations, small Bvo., Is.
Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.

A GIFT BOOK FOR ALL SEASONS AND FOR ALL

TIMES.

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Now ready, a quaint little Vol., square 12m0., containing
Nine Photographic Illustrations and various Ornamenta-
tions to each page, in binding of an Elizabethan stamp,
price Five Shillings,
THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN.
Described by WILLIAM SIIARESPEA.RE.
Depicted by ROBERT SMIRBE.
L. Booth, 307, Regent-street, W.

TEMPLE BAR MAGAZINE.
In the January Number (now ready) commences a New
Novel, to be continued Monthly, entitled—
THE DOCTOR'S WIFE.
By Author of "John Marchmont's Legacy," "Lady
Audley's Secret," &c., &c.
Office of Temple Bar, 12?, Fleet-street, London.

NEW NOVEL BY AUTIIOR OF " SACKTILLE CHAtIE."
In the January Number (now ready) of the
ST. JAMES'S MAGAZINE commences
THE MAN IN CHAINS.
By C. J. COLLINS.
London : Kent and Co., Paternoster-row.

UNIFORM WITH " THE PRIVATE DETECTIVE."
This day, Never before Published, price 25.,
SECRET SERVICE;
Or, The It/collections of a City Detective.
London : Ward and Lock, 158, Fleet-street.

LAND IN VICTORIA.
Price 2d. with, and ld. without Map ; postage, ld. extra,
THE LAND LAW of VICTORIA (Australia).
By the lion. GPVAN DUFFYLands, Minister of
üblic .
London : W. IL Smith and Son, 185, Strand, and 21, Lower
Sackville-street, Dublin ; to be had at all their Railway
Book Stalls ; and at Mr. G. Street's Colonial Newspaper
Office, 30, Cornhill, E.C.

THE TEETH, as Supplied by NATURE and
Preserved by ART.
By M. C. ROGERS, M.R.C.S., Surgeon-Dentist.
London : 18, New Burlington-street, W.

BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER.

MADAME RACHEL ON "FEMALE GRACE AND BEAUTY.'
Just published,

ABOOK (51' BEAUTY,
By Madame RACHEL.
To be had at 47A, New Bond-street. Price 2s. Gd.

Just published, gratis,
THE REPORT of thee Bituris H. COLLEGE of
HEALTH. LONDON, for 1F64. It contains a signifi-
cant remark on the excess of 23,000 in the mortality during
the three healthiest months of the year. May be had of all
the llygeian agents throughout the world.