The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-15 00:00:00

I)EMEMBER, WE SUP AT EVANS'
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siricito Ye na de EVENonse?rt,THIS WEEK after Alfred

EDINBURGH (RNiuteed Fares), from Irongate-
wharf, Tower•_Saloon, 20s ; fore cabin, 15s ; deck
(soldiers and sailors only), 75 M • return tickets (available for
a month), 30s and 22s ed. The cheapest and quickest sea
route by the spiend,d new STEAMSHIPS of the LONDON
and EDINBURGH SHIPPING COMPANY, sailing every
Wednesday and Saturday, at 10 morning. Apply at the
spread Eagle, Regent-circus ;or at Irongate-wharf.

SALE V.R.—TOWER.
OF STORES.—By 07, iter of the
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR "WAR, to be Sold,
by Public Auction, in the Tower, on' HURSDAY, the 20th
of AuZust, 1863, at Eleven o'clock tae Forenoon precisely,
the following Stores :
Large Assortment of GreY
and other Clothing.
and Boiiers.
Ranges complete, with Ovens
Hammock Rugs,Brunswick Rifles. Accoutrements.
Tents and Marquees. 20 Gal. Coppers.
Great Coats.
Several Lots of Firewood.
Tiscellaneous Articles.

Old iron, Steel, and Al
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HE ORIENTAL HOTELS COMPANY
nl.flaubility . (Limited).
Incorporated under •
the Corn Janies' Act. 1802, by which the
of eaCh Shareholder is strictly limited to the amount
s" "IS Shares.
Capital £ )50,000, in 25,000 Shares of £lO each.
—, (With power to increase to One Million Sterli)
First Issue 12,500 Shares, whereof a portion will bens served
Deposit D •xi for India. on allotment.
per Share on applicdion, and £1 l
Calls not to exceed £2 per Share, with' an interval of notless
three Months between each calL

Si Peter Gover
r John DIRECTORS.
CotterßeGn7alt., R.C.B, Chairman, late Lieutenant-
Colonel rn
Anderson, CB , Director of the Eastern Bengal Rail-
, way Company.
""eorge Constable, Esq., Firm of Henderson and Constable,
Cannon-street, E.C.
Sir Frederick Currie, Bart Member of the Council of India.
Colonel French, Chairman of the Bombay and Baroda Rail-
way Company.
Colonel Holland, Director of the Agra and United Service

Bank.
John Stewart, Esq., Director of the Marine Insurance Com-

pang.
John Robert Thomson, Esq., Chairman of the London and
South African Bank.
James Henry Young, Esq., late of the Bengal Civil Service.

AUDITORS.
T. R. Walker, Esq., 21, Hanover-square, and
A Shareholder, to be elected at the First General Meeting.

BANKERS IN LONDON.
The Ara and United Service Bank (Limited), 27, Cannon-
street, E.C.
The London and County Hank, Ilanover-r,quare, W.

BANKERS IN INDIA.
The Agra and United Service Bank (Limited).
SOLICITrjgs.

Messrs. Uptons, Johnson, any, Upton, 20, Austin-'riars, E.C.
1:311.01(ER.
Francis Burnand, Esq., 78, Lombard-street, and 13 and 14,
County-'..;nambers, Cornhill, E.C.
SECRETARY (pro tem.)
Macdonald Yates, Esq.

Temporary Offices :-36, Cannon-street, E.C., and 5, Parli-
ment-street, Westminster.
ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS.

This Company is formed for the purpose of introducing a
system of efficient Hotel accommodation into India, China,
and other places in the Last.

In Calctitta a joist-stock company has lately purchased
and undertaken the management of a Hotel, and the pro-
spects of the enteruriae may be inferred from the very high
premium at which their shares are quoted in the Calcutta
market, see "Times" July 17, the "Englishman's Weekly
Mail" of June 8, 1863, and "Allen's Indian Mail," of August
4—viz., £25 paid, present value, £45 ex div., equal to 80 per
cent. prem., and the payment of a dividend of 10 per cent. for
the half-year ending 30th April last, equal to 20 per cent. per
annum.

It is proposed, in the first instance, to supply the urgent
requirements of Bombay and Point de Galle.
In the event of two-thirds of the first issue of shares not
belly; subscribed for, no allotment will take place, and the
deposits will be returned to the subscrib ,rs, without deduc-
tion.

It is proposed to pay to shareholders 5 per cent. interest
upon the capital as paid up, until the first dividend is de-
clared.

Detailed prospectuses and forms of application for shares
may be obtained of the Secretary, Bankers, and Broker.

ORIENTAL HOTELS COMPANY (Limited).
NOTICE is GIVEN, Th NO APPLICA-
TION for SHARES inHEREB tY he Orientalat Hotels Company
(Limited) WILL BE RECEIVED after THIS DAY
(SATURDAY), the 15th August current ; and Applications
from the Country must be posted not later than MONDAY
Evening.

MACDONALD YATES, Secretary pro tem.

CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
the BIRTH of SHAKSPEARE at Stratford-upon-
Avon. The Tercentenary Committee, (of which Sir Robert
W. C. Hamilton, Bart, K.C.8.. is Chairman) are now receiv-
ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the
Recount of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge
and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks,
Strati ord-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and
Greenway, Warwick ; or their London agents, Messrs.
Smith, Payne, and Co , Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or Messrs.
Glyn and Co., bankers, London.
The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip-
tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers
of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee
rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only
the birthplace of Shakspeare, but the centre of attraction to
all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his
home, the town he loved, and where he lived and died.

THE ROYAL INSTJRANCE COMPANY,
r[Ema OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Inaurance-
buildings, Liverpoel.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds £soo,o'o.
Accumulated Pun& 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
called upon to make their accustomed periodicl:4lßeport 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, rut exceed £300,000.
The high comparative positicr4 held by the Royal in the
Government Returns of Duty ir., again fully maintained.
The profit of the
finerbusn 01. the year exceeds considerably
the amount realised e preceding year, and in fact sur-
passes that of any Year. With but two exceptions, since the
commencement of Olt:, Office, the balance to the credit on
account of British ar.d Foreign Insurances being £45,107 10s.
5d., and of the Norih American business, which is kept sepa-
rately, £11,09716. /od.
The ve LIFE BRANCH.
state the ry 't,rratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
RUM assured on new policies for fhe year 1862
exceeds Wen that of the year 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived
at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of
£7Ol/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 as suranee amounts to £148,281. Various degrees
of ineligibility have led to these lives being declined.
No small number of the Assurance Companies of th da
record their accepted lives annually at a
sum not much,e if at all, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as inadmis-
sinle 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
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
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-
tudfi e, combining distinguished commercial success to the
Ofce with a lebgthened career of usefulness and protection
to the public.
PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Established 1809.
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.
Accumulated and Invested Funds Z
Annual Revenue.
422,401
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Insurances granted 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. Amount Inured. Premiums.
1,037 £763,334 £23.641 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished
on application at the

Lorw r,O
.
—.
• ........ OFFIcEs
58, Threadneedle-street.
•• 4, New Bank Buildings. Lothbury,
22_ West-end Office 8. Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

NORWICII UNION FIRE INSURANCE
SOCIETY. The business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000.
The duty paid to Government for the year 1862 was
£85,062, 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, from time to time, received
sums amounngin the aggregate to 2440,000 ; and the Society
The rates
ns a largeßese
premium ar applimble to a future Bonus.
of e in no ease higher than those
charged by the other principal offices making their insurers. no returns to
For pro,pectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey,-
friars,
street,
E Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge street, 131.sek- .C.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.
Established 1840.
TRUSTEE S.

Thomas Barinz Esq., M.P. 1 Wm. Geo. Pr
Thomson Ilankey, Esq., M.P. Baron L. de ...Ticott, Esq.
Mutual Life Assurance for all classes. nothschild, M.P.
This Association has now in existence 6,000 Policies, for a
total sum of X 1,500,000.
The Annual Income is • • •• • • £51,000
The Accumulated Fund exceeds • . 200,000
It has paid in Claims • • • • • - 112,000
The whole of the profits are divided quinquennially among
the Members. Three divisions have already been mad:.
When the following sums have been added as bonuses to the
Policies

.. L.q,400
.. 11,500
.. 23.200
.. 56,500

Dec. 31, 1847 .•
~ 3852 .. • •
•• 1857 . • • •
..
maki ~ 1862 .. • •
n.'?: the total bonus additions,
Bonuses maybe received in cash or applied to the reduc-
tion of
addit Jo Premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an
11 to the Lacy
i n ?,
Attention is eipecially invited to the system of free or paid-
up policies introduced by this Association • b which the
sacrifice so often
po icy is wholly shment of a
The balance-sheets of the Association ar
lY avosiudbemd.itted to on the relinga
whether assurers or otherwise.
e open to all,
Active and influential agents will be appointed in unrepre-
sented districts.

WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary.
Chief MN+ 1K
..1 Jaoorgate•street, E.C., Aug 1, 1863.