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

EXTRACrS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR
12.

The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now
called upon to make their accustomed periodical 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 £45,107105.
5d., and of the North American business, which is kept sepa-
rately, £11,097165. 10d.

LIFE BRANCH.
Tile rev gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the 'fiLira assured on new policies for fhe year 1862
exceeds even ti at of the year 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived
at the almost tine-sampled 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 aosured 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 X14k281. 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, exceed:_ag those which the Royal has declared as inadmis-
sible in a sinjle year from deterioration of some kind or
another. _ . _ _

If, to complete th cir review, the Directors now advert
briefly to the United K:Tlg,dom, they have to announce that
in Fire Business its proL7ess has been undoubtedly more
rapid than that of any other fompanv established either in
Loud= or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken
place. The returns of duty have preyed 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-
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.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, at King's-cross.
Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, E.G.
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.

This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free
and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for-
mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom-
panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient
magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered
capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of
the carpal sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the
funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover,
it gratuitously affords 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
EARNEST 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
Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Contts and
Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ransom and
Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.;Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn
and Co. ; Jones Loyd and CO. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison
WV imams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend. Gurney, and
and C
Co. ;Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool
and st the Hospital
STANFORD S. SMITH. Secretary.