The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-29 00:00:00

EM EMBER, WE SUP AT EVANS'
RITEEY EVENING THIS WEEK after Alfred
fellon's Promenade Concerts.

IDDINBURGH (Reduced Fares), from Irongate-
Ali wharf, Tower.--Saloon, 20s ; fore cabin, I.Ss ; deck
(soldiers and sailors only),7s return e for
a month), 30s and 228 rd. The cheapestands quickest sea
route by the splendid new STEAMSHIPS of the LONDON
and. EDINBURGH SHIPPING COMPANY, sailing every
Wednesday and Saturday, at i 0 morning. Apply at the
Spread ENgle, Regent-circus; or at Irongate-whart.

pROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.
Established 1840.

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TRUSTEES.
Thom,
Thomsonls Barinz, Esq., M.P. 1 wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
rankey, Esq., M.P. I Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P.
Mutual Lif, Assurance for all classes.
's Association
£1,500,000. has w .
no in existence 6,000
total sum of
policies, for a
The Annual Income is£sl,ooo
The Accumulated Fund exceeds • • 2 "
It has paid in Claims
112,000
The whole of the profits are divided quinquennially amamy.
Policies to 4
the
en t Members m
Three divisions have already been
Whhe following sums have been added as bonuses the

Dec. 31, 1847 ..
o 1852
Making the totallBs 2b7onus additions, :095,800. -
Bonuses nisi, be received in Irish or applied to the reduc
additi
ti" of pr
to hems at the option of the assured, in lieu of an
on pol.cy.
Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid-
uP policies introduced by this Association, by which the
Bacriflue so often submitted to on the relinquishment of
pc icy is wholly avoided.
The balance-sheets of the Association are open to all,
Whether assurers or otherwise.
Active and influential agents will be appointed in unrepre•
sented districts.

0,400
11,600
23.200
56,500

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

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY
HEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Insurance-
buildings, LiverpoeL
Total Annual Revenue exceeds zson,o
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 Insnrange Company are now
tilledap-on to make their accustomed p`cVaclical Report at the
Meeting of its Shareholders.
FIRE BRANCH.
The Directors have, as pleasingly 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 again fully maintained.
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.
5d., and of the North American business, which is kept sepa-
rately, £11,097 16s. 10d.
LIFE BRANCA.
The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the sum assured on new policies for fhe year 1862
exceeds even that of the year 1861 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 satisfaction 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 assurance amounts to £ 43,28!. 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, exceeding, those which the Royal has declared as inadmis-
sible 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 progress has been undoubtedly more
rapid than that of any other Company established either in
Lond.in 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.
expression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal
.nsuratica 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-
tude, combining distinguished commercial success to the
Office with a let gthened career of usefulness and protection
to the public.
PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London

ORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE
SOCIETY.
The business of the Comp any exceeds £70,000,000.
The duty paid to Government for the year 1862 was
£85,082, and the amount insured on farming stock,
£10,086,332.
A bonus of three-fifths of the profits periodically made to
parties insuring, who have thus, from time to time, received
sums amounting in the aggregate to Z 440000; and the Society
now holds a large Res, rve applimbis 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 at the Society's Offices, Surrey-
street, Norwich ; and 8, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars, B.C.