The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-26 00:00:00

ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY,
HEAD OFFICES,
29, LO HEAD
London, and Royal Imurance-
buildings, Liverpois .
Total Annual Revenue exceeds
Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,0)0,,060.
FIltE DEPARTMENT.
The Receipt of FIRE PREMIUMS has been as follows:-
1854 .. ........ .C 128,459 1858 .
1856 .......... 151,731 I
1860
78
While for 1862 they exceeded £3,0,(00.
The Fire Revenue has been enhanced, in four years, by the
years o
it has been dcubled.ous sum of more than £lOO,OOO, and during the last six
Al oreover, the latest Parliamentary Return of Insurance
Tax paid to the Inland Revenue Office (ordered to be pr nted
by the House of Commons, Bth July, 1862) exhts the
ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, as respects increase of
business, at the HEAD OF ALL the Insurance Offices. IFE
The rapid prooTt., Less andDEPARTMENT.
shown by the fol Positi )ii of this branch will be best
lowing statement of the New Life business
effected for the
Year.
....... Sum Assured. New Premiums.
1857 ...
1855
.......£20;,514 £5,90.) 18 7
1853 ... ........... :120,380 .... 10.270 8 6
1861 ... ........... 434,570 •• 13,086 8 5
........... 521,101
~1,627 18
While the 0
year sum assured by New Polices in the
amounts to more than Seven Hundred Thousand
otuilBcl62
Sterling s
r
Large Bonuses declared 1855 and 1850—X2 per Cent. per
declared
by
annum. The greatest Bonus ever continuously
any Company.

PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOAN B. JOIINSTON, Secretary in London

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Established 1809.
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.
Accumulated and Invested Funds £2,122,828
Annual Revenue 422,401
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Insuran'es 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 : I
Policies. Amount In 'ured,
1,037 £763,334Z23,641 0 0
Premiums.
Forms of Proposal and evermation will be furnished
on application at the ry info

L0ND0N...... OFFICES :
............ 58, Threadneedle-street.
~ . ..... . West-endOff .......ice.. ... 84, New Bank Buildings, Lothbnry.
, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.
Established 1810.

TRUSTEES.
Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
Thomson Rankey, Esq., M.P. 1 Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P.
Mutual Life Assurance for all classes.
This Association has now in existence 6,000 policies, for a
total Ulm of £1,500,000.
The Annual Income is .. • • £51,000
The Accumulated Fund exceeds • •
• • 2 o,eoo
It has paid in Claims .. • • • 112,00 0 The whole of the profits are divided quinquennially among
the Members Three divisions have already been made'
When the following sums have been added as bonuses to the
policies _
Dec. 31, 1847 .. . • .. .. • • £5•400
„ 1857 ..
1852 • • • • • .. .. 11,500
s. •• • • . 23 200
~ 1862 .. • • . • • . 56,500
Makin the total bonus additions, £96,600.
Bonuses may be received in cash or applied to the reduc-
tion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an
addition to the oitcy.
Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid-
nip policies introduced by this Association, by which the
Poll
so often submitted to on the relinquishment of a
po 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.

WM. T L, Secretary.
Chief Office, 15, Moorate-stHOS.E. reet, CINFORD., 3lay 1, 1863.

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C.
Established 1821.
Subscribed Capital, Two Millions.
DIRECTORS.
Sir MINTO FARQUITAB, Bart., M.P., Chairman.
CHARLES WILLIAM CURTIS, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Henry Hulse Berens, Esq.,
John Labouchere, Esq.
Henry Bonham Carter, Esq. G. Shaw Lefevre, Esq.
Charles F. Devas, Esq. John Martin, Esq.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. James Morris, Esq.
James Goodson, Esq. Henry Norman, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Esq., ALP Henry R. Refnolds, Esq.
John G. Hubbard, Esq., M.P. Abraham J. Robarts, Esq.
Fredk. H. Janson, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq.

Lewis Loyd, Esq. AUDITORS.
Cornelius Paine, jun., Es Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
q. Noel Whiting, Esq.
Thos. Tallemach, Esq., Secretary I Saml. Brown, Esq., Actuary

LIFE DEPA RTMENT.—UNDER THE PROVISIONS
OF AN
ACT OF PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to new In-
Fiirern EIGHTY PER CENT. of the Profits, at Quinquennial
Divisions, Or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of
Profits.
Since the establishment of the Company in 1821, the
;Amount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in
rash value £660,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary
Bonuses of £1,058,000.
After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the Life
Assurances in force, with existing Bonuses thereon,
amounted to upwards of £4,730,000, the Income from the Llie
Branch £207,000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund,
independent of the capital, exceeded £1,618,000.
LOCAL MILITIA and VOLUNTEER CORPS.--No
Extra Premium is required for service therein.
LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their
values, if such value be not less than £5O.
ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.--Written Notices of, re-
ceived and registered.MEDl FEES paid by the Company, and no charge
or Policy Stamps.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.—Insurances are effected upon
every descrip•ion of property at moderate rates.
, Losses caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this
tompany.
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A.D. 1720. OYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION
FOR S
(Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First)
EA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES.
Offices, Royal Exchange, London.
Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall.
OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor.
GEORGE PEARKES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir Joim HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.
Henry Bainbridge Esq Wiimot Holland, ESCI.
Robert Barclay Esq .
John Garratt eattlev-., Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville.
Iyrark Cur ie Cl Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq,
William Lavid7.9san aci. Henry Nelson, Esq.
Thomas Dent, xati.' tBtl. The Icon. Josceline W. Percy.
Alexander Druce,E'sq. Charles Robinson, W...
Per Edlmann, Es damnel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Williamrton Smith, Esq.
Riversdale W. Grenfell, Eficifiq.
Jos Soltau, Esq.
Vat. Amadeus Heath, Es
Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.: WirlrilNTng Wall'sci;' "
Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring
iin lel
Medical Referee, SAMUEL SoLLY, EN., le.ks. q.
NOTICE.— fhe usual fifteen days allowed for Payment of
!FIRE PREMIUMS falling due at Lady Day will expire
on Oth April.
FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this
Corporation on advantageous terms.
In the Life Department, assurances are granted with
par-
ticipation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without
such
participation.
The Reversionary Bonus on British Policies has averaged
nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured.
Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums
payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus.
The divisions of Profit take place every Five years.
Life
Any sum not exceeding* £15,000 may be insured on one
ce
This Corporation affords to the Assured
Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from
the liabilities of partnership.
A rate of onus equal to the average returns of Mutual
Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital
Stock.
The advantages of modern practioe,—with the rit
of an Office whose resources have been tested by the exy-
perlence of nearly a CENTURY AND A rukr.r.
The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve
in the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the
United Kingdom, free of charge.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.

ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary.

TEA.—MOORE BROTHERS respectfully
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;neology recommend their improved Family Tea, reduced
h`;ic4B. 2d. ; Souchonn• reduced to 30. ed. ; mixed Assam, re-
to _ed to 3s. Bd.; and the finest Assam, reduced from is. 4d.
48.11 d. per lb.
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CI ,
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THE best TROUSFRS for
are those Made by ELSTOB, of CO, New Bond-street.
.
They are neither SO low in prisows to necessitate their being
gentlemen to wear
carelessly put toether, nor ear as to gain only the
wealthy as to
"In media via tutissimus ibis."
ELSTOB'S TROUSERS, TWENTY-ONE SHILLINGS
PER PAIR.

ANEVER FAILING REMEDY._
Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER _PILLS, pre-
pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr.
cott, of Bromley, lient,.'will be found invaluable to all who
Huffer from bilious and liver complaints, indigestion, wind,
spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, dro. r 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 appetie, pro-
mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervotla system.
King William-street, Chaing-moss.
Sold by W. Lambert, 8, London, and by most drugglBts, in boxes is. lid., and three
times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Beli s ask for Dr,
Scots Bilious and Liver Pills. The gene netsar a square
greet, Package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the
'tarot).

ANNUITIES AND ENDOWMENTS GRANTED.
Full Prospectuses, Proposals, and every information may
be obtained from the Actuary in London, the Local Secretary
in Manchester, or any of the Society's Agents.
AGENCY DEPARTMENT.
This Socie'y, always desirous of extending its operations
and connections, offers to influential residents in the towns and
villages of the United kingdom liberal allowances on business
which they may be able to introduce. The services of So:1-
citors, Medical Men, Surveyors, Auctioneers. or Tradesmen
ot good local standing, are invited in the cipacity of Pri.
vate or Public Agents. All applications to the Offices are
treated as confidential. Prospectuses
Forms of Proposal,
Almanacas, &a, forwarded post free.