The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-11 00:00:00

BANK OF BRHISH NORTH AMERICA.
Incorporated by Royal Charter.
NTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That a GENERAL
MEOETING of the Proprietors of the Bank of British North
Ame,:ica will be held on TUESDAY, the Bth day of Decem-
ber next, at the Office of the Corporation, 7, St. Helen's-
Pia ce , Bishopsgate-street, at One o'clock precisely, to'receive
a Report from. the Directors.
And, at the conclusion of the business of that Meeting, an
EXTRA 0Y GENERAL MEETING will be held
for the purpose of Electing Two Directors to supply the
vacancies caused by the retirement of Henry Barnewall, Esq.,
and IVl:iliam Chapman, EE q.

By order of the Court.
7, St. Helen's-place,
London, 10th Nov., 1863.

C. M`NAB, Secretary.

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the recent
heavy gales some of the boats of the National Lifeboat
institution saved 67 persons from different wrecks. The
Committee of the Institution earnestly APPEAL to the
Public for ASSISTANuE to enable them to meet the con-
tinued hea. y demands on the Institution's 125 Web at estab-
lishments. Contributions are received by all the London
and country bankers ; and by the Secretary, 'Richard Lewis,
at the Institution, 1-1, John-street, Ade'phi, W.C.

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANtE COMPANY.

Established 1801
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.

Accumulated and Inyeatediund; £2,122,828
Annual Revenue
422,401
FIRE DEPARTMENT.

Insurances (*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 new Life business transacted in 1862 as follows :
Policies.
Amount Insured,
1,037 £768,334 Premiums.
L 23,641 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every information will be
on application at the furnished

LON;)0N OrrxcEs :
„ ........... . ...... 58, Threadneedle-street.
............... , New Bank Buildings, Lothbnry.
si West-end Office.. 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall
By order.

F. W. LANCE, Secretary.
LIVERPOOL AND LONDON FIRE AND
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
At the ANNUAL MEETING of the Proprietors in tlfis
Company, held on Thursday, 25th of ieeltruary, 1863,
JAMES ASPINALL TOBIN, Esq., in the Chair,
the Report of the Directors for the year 1862 was read ; it
Showed :
That the Fire Premiums of the year were.... £136.005 0 0
Against those in 1361, which were 360131 0 0
(living an increase in 1862 of £75,931 0 0
That the new Life business comprised the
issue of 785 Policies, insuring.--
467,331 0
13,935 7
On which the annual premiums were 0
'.I bat there was added to the life reserve 79,277 11 1
4
Thar the balance of undivided profit was in-
creased 25,725 9 7
That the invested funds of the Company
amounted to 1,417,808 8 4
In reference to the very large increase of £76,000 in the
Fire premiums of the year, it was remarked in the Report,
"The premiums paid to a company are the measure of that
company's business of all mss;ki the Directors, therefore,
prefer that test of progress any the duty collected may
afford, as that applies to only- a part of a company's business,
and a large share of that part may be, and often is, re-insured
with other offices. In this view the yearly addition to the
Fire premiums of the Liverpool and London Company must
be very gratifying to the proprietors"
SWINTON ROULT, Secretary to the Company.
JOHN ATKINS, Resident aSi7ecretary, London.

THE QUEEN INSURANCE COMPANY.
156, Leadenhall-street, London, E.C.
Queen Insurance-buildings, Liverpool. Capital ONE MILLION STERLING.
At the Annual Meeting of the Proprietors, held at Liver-
pool, on the 21st October, 1863, BERNARD HALL, Esq..
Chairman of the Company, in the Chair, the Directors'
Report for the year stated—
That the Fire Premiums for the year amounted to £70,300
That the
being an increase over the precedinm year of 22,880
Life Premium Receipts for the first three
years were
and for the past three years 15,24943,557
being an increase in the latter triennial
period
over the former of
That the amount accumulated since2B,3oB
last Meeting, as
a Fire Reserve Fund, was
and the amount added to Life Fund was 21,427
That during the past five years the Company had paid 13,743
for Claims
106,
The Actuary reported that the Life Liabilities had beeslsn
valued on the soundest principles, viz., Net Premiums at 3
per cent. interest, and that the Bonus to part cipating Policy.
holders averaged as much as 46 per cent. per annum of the
Premiums paid, while in some instances it was as high as 65,
70, and even 75 per cent.
A slividend was declared to proprietors at the rate of 8 per
cent. per annum.
J. MONC,IIIEFF WILSON, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN E. LEYLAND, Secretary.

A.D. 1720.
ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION
(Eats CORPORATION
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 PEARKES BARCL AY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir Join.? HENRY Pla.t,v, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.
Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville.
lohn G'arratt Cattley, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
Mark 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.
Fredk.Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrineton Smith, Esq.
Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq. Pobt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P.
rm. Tetlow Ffibbert, Esq.' William Wallace, Esq.
"as- Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, sq.
Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S.
c.PIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this
The
_orporation on e.dvantageous terms.
Reversirinary Bonus on British Life Policies has aye-
l'af-red early '2 per cent, per annum on the sum assured.
Rquivalo.it reductions have been made in the Premiums
alylable by
,„ persons who preferred that form of Bonus.
„ .I.visions of Profit take place every Five years.
.any
Life. 50Iu. not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one
"F, Corporation affords to the Assured—
Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from
the liabilities of partnership.
SA rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual
ocieties—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital
tock.

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.
tLl'°Heies on the participating system, granted on or before
3Lst 'December, 1863, and in force at the close of the year
1865, Will be entitled to share in the next division of profits
ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary.
A

GREAT DRAWING OF PRIZES
WILL TAKE PLACE AT
ST. JOSEPH'S RE TREAT, HIGHGATE, LONDON, N.,
liquiOn
dat THURSDAY, the 261 h of NOVEMBER,
ing 1863, to aid in
the Debt still remaining on the New Church and
Organ 3 and to assist in establishing the English Mission of
St. Nichola.s in Paris, now under the charge of the Passionist
Fathers.
The mizes of the first catalogue consist principally of
Objects of art and other precious articles, presented by His
Holiness, several Cardinals, Princes, and other persons of
distip.ction in Rome.
TICKETS ONE SHILLING EACH.
'The amount realised will be disposed of as follows :—That
r4eising- from the sale of tickets in England will be applied to
Ft. Joseph's, and that from the sale of tickets in France to
St. Nicholas', in Paris.
THE DRAWING OF PRIZES WILL BE ON THE
PRINCIPLE OF THE ART UNION.
entitled to
Any one purchasing or aiding in selling 25 tickets will be
a large Engraving, either of the Death of St.
Joseph, or large
Blessed Paul of the Cross
forwarded b , Which will be
5' post upon receipt of 4 postage stamps.
St. Joseph's
Catal°Mies aa well as tickets may be had on application at
Retreat, Highgate, and at 39, Rue de Berri, Paris.

Q PECTACLEi S -The Patent Newlv-invented
), Tinte,d spectspare atronised b maorit of th
Nobility, including Viscount Pahnerston.y the
They afford extra-
reilef to Weak, dim, and detective vision.—S. and Be
ordinar
ysOLWiONS, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.

l) A. SCOTT'S 'BILIOUS AND LIVER
PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING RESTEDY.—Pre-
PAY erl without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr.
Z-`f Ail, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who
t.miTer from bilious and fiver complaints, indigestion, wind.
sr aims, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &a For habitual
costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier
of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera-
tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite., pro-
mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system.
Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross.
London, and by most druggists, in boxea,ls. led., and three
brae') the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr.
Scott's Bilious and Liver rills. The genuine are a square
green package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the
atanio.

CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
the BIRTH of SHAKSPEARE, at Stratford-upon-
Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert
N. C. Hamilton, Bart., X.C.8.. is Chairman) are now receiv-
ing' SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the
account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge
and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks,
Stratford-upon-Aron ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and
Greenway, Warwick; or their London agents, Messrs.
Smith, Payne, tin d Co , Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or Messrs.
txlyn and Co., brAnkers, London.
The Tercen.t,2nary Committee, in submitting the subscrip-
tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers
of Shakspe wee for their aid and assistance. The Committee
St their &auras upon the ground that Stratford is not only
the birtkplace of Shakspeare. but the centre of attraction to
,alt adir:trers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his
'ionle. the town he lived, and where he lived and died.

OYAI. FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
J in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
Terminus, at King's-cross.

Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH,
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.
This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free
Rnd instant admission to the destitute sick, without the f or-
lity of troverners' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom-
Ptnied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient
Inagnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered
Capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of
/ casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the
finds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Dioreover,
It gratuitously allords medical advice and medicine to more,
On the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week.
The Weekly Board feel it their Imperative duty to make an
EA.RNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support,
to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that
daily present themselves.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward
Mas erman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and
; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Givn
and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison
and Co. ; lliares,Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and
Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool
ahtl at the Hospital.
STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary