The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-15 00:00:00

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Year. Fire Premiums. I Life Premiums. Invested Funds.
---___ -_____ ---
1851 £51,305 £27,157 £502,874
1856 222,279 72,781 821,081
1861 360.130 135,974 1,311,905
1862 416,065 13Q,703 1,417.808

The Fire Duty paid by this Company in England in 1862
Was £71,234.

SWINTON BOULT, See'ehry b the Company.
JOIIN ATKINS, Resident SeLretary, London.

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
LINT SURANCE COMPANY.

Established 1809.
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.
Accumulated and In Funds
Annual Revenue

FTP-7. DEPARTIIENT.
In suranoes 'ranted 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 r.ew Life business transacted in 1862 as follows :
P olicies. Amount Insured. Premiums.
1,037 £763,334 £23,641 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished
on application at the

14)1C12.0N OFFICES :
58, Threadneedle-street.
4, New Bank Buildings. Lothbury.
West-end Office B, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE
SOCIETY.
The business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000.
The
„ duty paid to Government for the year 1862 was
i,02, and the amount insured on farming' stock,
0,086,332.
A bonus of three-fifths of the profits periodically made to
Parties insuring who have. thus, from time to time, received
now amounting in the ae,gref.•,,ate to £440,000 ; and the Society
'ow holds a large llesreVe applizabla to a future Bonus.
chThe rates of premium area in no case higher than those
tha.gd by the other princip offices making no returns to
en. insurers.
Pe or
et, Norwich •
Prozpectus,s apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey-
"r and 6 Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars p ,

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY,
HEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal InEurance-
buildings, Liverpool.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds £500,010.
Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,000,000.

Chairman in Liverpool :
CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P.
Chairman in London :

WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq.

'EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR

1862.

The Directors of the Royal— Insurance Company are now
ealled upon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the
/Sleeting of its Shareholders.

BRA
The Directors have, asFIRE pleasinglyNCH. as unexpectedly, at the
close 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 Returnik et Duty is again fully maintained.
The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably-
Me amount realised in the preceding year, and in fact sur-
passes that of asiy year, with but two exceptions, sine,' the
commencement of this Office, the balance to the credit ou
account of BriV.sli and Foreign Insurances being £15,107 10s.
;id., and 4'f the North American business, which is kept sepa.
rately, £11,007' 16s. 30d.

LIFE BRANCH.
The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the, sum assured on TI,'W policies for the year 1i62
exceeds even that of the year 1801 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived
at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of
£701,4(.7.1 on 1493 new policies issued. Until within the last
few years it is believed that such a sum arsured as that cNhich
has just been announced as the result of one year's business
has all but unheard of.
This portion of the Company's busineas has been carefully
'lN:atched, and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the
liareholder, 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
afrorded by a ~tatement of the number rejected. These have
amounted, to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum
proposed for assuran^e s mounts to .E 143,281. Various degrees
of ineligibility have led to these lives being declined.
N 0 small number of the Assurance Companies of the day
l'ecord their accepted lives annually at a sum not much, if at
,„ all, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as in admis-
6iein a single year from deterioration of some kind or
another.
brie If, to complete their review, the Directors now advert
fiv to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that
Pre Business its progress has been undoubtedly more
raAid 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
eVldence needless.
The Directors conclude their present Report with the
l_uxpreseion of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal
tsuralleQ Company were never brighter, and of a consequent
heru
fi
e,e om
b
e, founded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that
future iinnarag unfold for it a sphere of still greater reap,ni-
Watinguished commercial success to the
Office with a lengthened career of usefulness and protection
to the public.

PFIRcy m. DOVE. Manager and Actuary.
j'°llN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in Loudon.

JROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.
Established 1840.

TRUSTEES.
Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott,
Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. I Baron L. de Rothschild,Es
Mutual Life Assurance for all classes. • •
This Association has now in existence 6,000 PollClcs '
for arl N.P.
total sum of £1,500,000.
The Annual Income is
•• • • £51,000
The Am 2^0,( 00
mulated Fund exceeds • •
It has paid in Claims
•• •• •• 112,000
The whole of the profits are divided quinquennially among
the Members. Three divisions have already been made
when the following sums have been added as bonuses to the
policies
Dec. 31, 1847 ..
„ 1852 ..
~ 1857 ..
1862

• • .. £5,400
11,500
• • 23.200
• • 56,500

7naking the total bonus additions,-£91,G00.
Bonuses ma-, be received in cash or applied to the reduc
Von of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an
addition to the policy.
Attention is especially invited tone system of Tree or paid-
-1,I) policies introduced by this Association, by which the
sacrifice so often submitted to on the relinquishment of
1)0 icy is wholly avoided.
The balance-sheets of the Association arc open to all,
Ivhether assurers or otherwise.
Active and influential agents will be appointed in unrepre-
Sented districts.

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

A.D. 1720.
ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
(Established b CORPORATION
y Charter of his Majesty George the First)
FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES.
Offices, Royal Exchange, London.
Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall.
OCTAVIUS IVIGRAM, Esq., Governor.
GEORGE PEARKES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir Joini HENRY PELLE, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.
Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville.
.i ohn Garratt Cattley, Esq. 1 Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
-.nark Currie Close, Esq. , lie Nelson, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Per Cy.
Thomas Dent, Esq.
Schuster,tonSmi
thEsq.
Charles Robinson, Esq. *
}SarricucealniLenosz Alexander Druce, Esq.
Fredk..Tos. Edlmann, Esq.
Joseph
William o au, Esq.
ll- Slt ' Esq.
RiversdaleW. Grenfell. Esq.
Somes, Esq.,M.P
Vobt. Amadeus Heath, Esq:
Wm. Tetlow Ilibbert, Esq. William Wallace, Esq.
Jas, Stewart Hodgson, Esq. ~ Chas. Baring Young, Esq.
Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq..e,clPte.Rd with.S. um,
'FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected
,2orporation on advantageous terms.
In the Life Department, assurances are ^,ranted with par-
tidPation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such
Pa rticipation. averaged
,„ The Reversionary Bonus on British Policies has
.t".,_arly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured.
-Equivalent reductions have been made in tie Premiums
ratable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus.
The divisions of Profit take place every Five years.
Lite.
AnY sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one

Tills Corporation allcords to the Assured—
Liberal
participation in Profits—with exemption from
the liabilities of partnership.
A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual
Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital
The advantarres of modern practice,—with the ecurity
of an Office whose resources have been • tested by the ex-
perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF.
in .
tih - Corporation have always allowed the A',4sured to serve
t,.le Militia Yeomanry. or Volunteer Corps within the
&died. ingd'om, free of charge.

ROYAL EXCILt.NOF., LONDON.
ROBT. I'. STEELE, Secretary.

CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
the BIRTH of SIINKSPEARE, at Stratford-upon-
The TercentenaTy Committee (of which Sir Robert
in,y.,l-lamilton, Hart-, K.C.8., is Chairman) are now receiv-
n__', SUBSCRIPTION'S, and they may also be paid to the
Stof the Terceutenary Committee, at the -Stourbridge
Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks,
Geoatiord-npon-ltvon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith. and
Bn% tip,. way, Warwick ; or their Loudon agents, Messrs.
tilyn.l;„?,,anle, and Co , Messrs. Ranburys and Co„ or Messrs,
lion list centenary
-`" Cr) and o, London.
The Ter " ommittee, in submitting the subscrip-
yip!, the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers
ti:'„,t,tlaei:e„,are for their aid and assistance. The Committee
astilrihaallus upon the ground that Stratford is not. only
130biro4lretlee,ef Shakspea.re. but the centre of attraction to
late the treat Poet's works, and that it was hls
rgo, 6
•,«bye loved, and where he lived and died.