The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-21 00:00:00

REMEMBER, WE SUP AT EVANS'
rVERT EVENING THIS WEEK after Alfred
Mellon's Promenade Concerts.

QEA.—VACkNCIES for MIDSRIPMF,N end
APPRENTICES in a first-class London shipping firm.
Premium mod rate. Al-o apprentices without premium.—
Apply to SIMMONDS and Co.. 38, St. Mary-at-hill, East-
cheap, E.C. Third Officers and Stewards wanted.

SEA. --FirFA-class APPRENTICES required
in an East In dianian. —For premium, name cf ship, fie..
aPply to Messrs Lain°. and Co., A 7, Coleman-street, Bank.
/So control over or interference in the outfitting exercised.

EDINBURGH (Reduced Farea), from Irongnte-
Wharf, Tower.—Saloon, 20s ; fore cabin, 15s; deck
(soldiers and sailars ortiy),7B Ad; return tickets (available for
a month), 30s and 2ls fd. The cheapest and quickest sea
Mite by the splendid new STEAMSHIPS of the LONDON
and EDINBURGH SHIPPING COMPANY, sailing every
Wednesday and Saturda , at 10 morning. Apply at the
Spread Eagle, Regent-cirius ; or at Irongate-wharf.

ASSENGERS AND TRAVELLERS
.L PROTECTION AND COMPENSATION OFFICES,

Passengers by
16, Craven-street, Strand, London, W.C. •
Passent,
form redress and l Rail, Road, or Water. and others suffering
from
ions or injury to themselves or pro.,erty, should apply
Advice compensation at the above Offices; established
to render
prompt assistance to all classes upon the most ad-
Yaniacreous terms.
on application gratis. Letters must be addressed
to "The Manager," enclosing a stamp for reply.

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Established 1809.
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament
Accumulated and Invested Funds Z2,122,m
422,401
Annual Revenue....
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
In suratres eranted both at Home and in Foreign Countries
Ott 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 i ransacted in 1862 as follows :
Policies. Amr tint 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.
19
„ West-end Office B, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Inturance-
buildings. Liverpool.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds £soo,ono.
Accumulated Funds M hand over 1,010,000.

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

Chairman in London :

WILLIA3I WAINWRIGHT, Esq.

EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR

1862.

The Directors of the Royal Inaursnce Company are now
called upon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the
Meeting of its Shareholders.

FIRE BRANCH.
The Directors have. as p'easingly as unexpectedly, at the
close o' the year, to announce, fort he first time, that the Fire
Premiums have not only reached, but exceed £.300,000.
The high comparative position held by the Royal in the
Government Returns of Duty is ag,in fully maintained.
The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably
the amount realised in the preced,ng year, and in tact sur-
passes that of any wear, with but two exceptions, sine, the
commencement of thi, Office, the balance tf, the credit on
account of British and Foreign Insurances being I:15,10i 108.
5d., and of the North American business, whichis kept sepa
rately, £11,007105. 10d.
LIFE BRANCH.

The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the sum assured on new policies for fhe year 14,2
exceeds even that of the yesr 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived
at the almost unexampled amount for a sinule year of
£701,427 on 1,498 new policies issued. Until within the last
few years it is believed that such a sum acsured as that which
has just been announced as the result of one year's business
was all but unheard of.

Tis 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
futere 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 amounts to £143,281. Various deg, tes
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. it at
all, exceedinc, those which the Royal has declared as in admis-
stole 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 il s progress has been undoubtedly more
rapid than that of any other Company established either in
Londrn 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
InsurancQ Company were never brighter, and of a consequent
hope, founded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that
the future may untold for it a sphere of still greater multi-
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. JOHNSTO.N, secretary in London.

NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE
SOCIETY.

The business of Vie Company exceeds £70,000,000.
The duty paid to Government for the year 1862 was
.£85,06?, 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, front time to time, received
sums amounting in the aggregate to £440,000 ; and the Society
now holds a large Res rye appli able to a future tionus.
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•peetuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey-
street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars, E.C.