The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-13 00:00:00

EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR
1862.
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 o precedent; yar exceeds considerably
the amount realised in the year, and in fact sur-
passes that of any Year, with but two exceptions, sine:- the
commencement of this 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-
ratrAy, £11,097165. 10d.
LIFE BRANCH.
The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the sum assured on new policies for the 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
£701427 on 1,498 new policies issued. "Until last
few years it is believed that such a sum acsuredwithin as thatthe which
has just been announced as the result of one year's business
was all but unheard of.
This portion of the Company's bnsine4s has been carefully
watched,
and cannot
aswell failas
no sto give much satisfaction to the
sh,
suture to the participating mall encouragement for the
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 agz,regate RUM
Proposed for assurance amounts to £ 149,281. Various degrees
of ineligibility have led tb 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-
stole 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-
tude, combining distinguished commercial success to the
Office with a lengthened career of usefulness and protection
to the public.
PERCY M. DOVE, 11Ianagor and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, 'Secretary in London.

NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE
SOCIETY.
The business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000.
The duty paid to Government for the year 1862 was
414
'54V86,, ,062332. and the amount insured on farming stock,
A bonus of three-filths of the profits periodically made to
Parties insuring, who have thus, from time to time, received
n sums amouning, i
en. the aggregate to £440,000; and the Society
ow holds a larg Reserve applicable to a future Bonus.
The rates of premium are in no case higher than those
eharo insurerse other principal offices making no returns to
their',
For pyoApectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey-
street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars, E.C.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.
Established 1840.
TRUSTEES.
Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. I Win. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
Thomson ilankey, Esq., M.P. 1 Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P.
Mutual LIP Assurance for all classes.
This Association has now in existence 6,000 policies, for a
total sum of £1,500,000.
The Annual income is .. • • .. £51,000
The Accubinlated Fund exceeds .. 2r0,r00
It has Wald in Claims .. • • •• 112,000
the he of the profits are divided quinquennially among
wheenill.e,..m_iers. Three divisions have already been made'
polluter-, following sums have been added as bonuses to the
:Dec. 31, 1847
~ .. £5,400
i 852 • • • • • • • : .. 11,500
1857 • - • • • 6 • 23 200
inakinZ tli'emtoallsBl.”2l3on't; .. .. .. .. • •
Bonuses additions,£o6,6oo. • • 56,500
lion of premiu.trnbe received m cash or applied to the reduc-
additiun to the vsoliti t the option of the assured, in lieu of an
Attention is espec7.7
up policies introduce* Invited to the system of free or paid-
sacrifice so often g b by this Association, by which the
po icy is wholly avollden4itted to on the relinquishment of a
whethebr
The alassurersore ance-s
wi he other the Association are open to all,
Active and influential agents will be appointed in unrepre-
sented districts.
"cni• Tilos. LINFORD, Secretary.
Chief Office, 15, Moorgate-street, EX., Aug 1, 1863.
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R OOYAL FREE 110spITA Gray's
in the immediate vicinity t the'Great Northern
-inn-road,
way Terminus, at King's-cross.
Rail-
Patron—The QuEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCLE pr K.G.reasurer—Edward MastermanUeß ' -".
This was the first hospital to sick,-'-,',8%
and instant admission to the destitutealriPlo of free
mality of governors' letters. It is entirely without tu
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that
rawahytlcrarteetfahlladeiefesr;trid:t
milled by sickness and disease,
panoilds.
magnitude that, with adequate support, it
Moreover,
capable of admitting into its wards a very large prop
the casual sick of this great metro iSI::::::::::::
funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception but the
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. of
it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine t° more,
on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week.
The Veekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an
EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued Ruppert,
to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that
daily present themselves.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward
m 141erman, Esq Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
C 0 • ; Drummond' and Co. ,• Herries and Co. ; Ransom and
t 3.; Prescott, Grote, and Co.;Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn
and Co. ; Jones Lod and Co'. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison
and Co.;W lli
Co. ' ---ams, Deacon, and Co.: Overend, Gurney, and
o. ; Nisbet and Co. ;
and at the Hoe Messrs. J. Barred and Co., Liverpool
STANFORD S. SAIITH, Secretary.