The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-24 00:00:00

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EVENING THIS WEEK aft,r Alfred
Promentute Concerts.
ORIVICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE
socnyrr.

The business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000.
'Pile
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nuts, paid to Government for the year 1802 was
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and the amount insured on fanning stock,
10,;3(5,332. _ .

A bonus of three..? `flis of the profi . s periodically made to
Darties insuring', who have tints, from time to time, received
sums amounting in the arrgTegate to .£110,000: and the Society
not' holds a large Ilesrve appli able to a future Bonus.
1111 e rates of premium are in no case higher than those
charted, by the other principal offices making uo returns to
wit insurers.
For -
Surrey-
street Norwich • and 6, Crescent, prospectuses apply at the
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1111 E ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.

MEAD OrncEa,
29, Loraard-street, London, and Royal Inturancc-
buildings, Liverpool.
Total Annual Revenueexceeds ........
Accumulated Funds in hand over ...... 1,000,000.

Chairman In Liverpool :
CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P.
Ch airman in London :
WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq.

RXTRU.I F S FRO3I THE REPORT FOR TILE YEAR
1862.
The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now
Called upon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the
?Sleeting- of its Shareholders.
FIRE BRANCH.
The Directors have, as p,easingly as unexpectedly, at the
close of the year, to announce, for the 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.dn fully mhintamed.
The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably,
the amount realised in the preceding year, and in fact sur-
passes that of any year, 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.
Sel., and of the North American business, which is kept sepa•
rately, £11,007 16s. 10d.
LIFE BRANCH.
The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the sum assured on ty-w policies for the year 1862
exceeds even that of the year 1561 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
Ni's.llll 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
lutnre 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 s mounts to £143,281. Various degrees
of ineligibility have led to these lives being declined.
No small number of the Assurance Companies of the clay
tecord their accepted lives annually at a sum not much, if at
all, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as inadmis-
elf& 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 its prog,ress has been undoubtedly more
rapid than that of any other Con3pqnv established either in
zonclm 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 magni-
li'de, combining distinguished commercial success ption the
Office with a le- gthened career of usefulness and prot
to the pubic.
PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and .Actuar.
JOAN B. JOIINSTON,
Secretary Lonydon.

A.D. 1720.
ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION
(Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First)
FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES.
Offices, Royal Exchange, London.
Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall.
OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor.
GEORGE PtaRRES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir .101 IN HENRY PELLE, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
DIRE

liehrp
Bainbridge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville.
Garratt Cattley, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
dark Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy.
Thomas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Predk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq.
Lobt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P.
tvm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.: William Wallace, Esq.
Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. g Chas. Baring Young, Esq.
Jas.
Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S.
NOTICE.— [he usual fifteen days allowed for payment of
FIRE PREMIUMS falling due at Michaelmas will expire
on 14th October.
FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this
Corporation on advantageous terms.
The Reversionary Bonus on British Life Policies has ave-
raged r early 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured.
Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums
ayable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus.
The divisions of Profit take place every Five years.
Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one
Life.
This Corporation affords 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
Stock.
The advantages of modern practice,—with the security
of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex-
perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Poilci,a on the participating system, granted on or before
the 31st December, IS'3, and in force at fly- close of the year
1665, will be entitled to share in the next division of profits

ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
ROBT. E. STEELE, Secretary.

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Established ISC9.
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.
Accumulated and Invested Funds £2,122,828
Annual Revenue

FIRE DEPARTMENT.
In snrarres qranted 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. Ameunt Inured. Premiums.
1,037 £763,334 £23,641 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished
1311 application at the

OFFICES:
58, ThreminPedle-street.
4, New Bank Buildings. Lothbury,
West-end Office B, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.