The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-27 00:00:00

LIFE BRANCH.

The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the sum assured on new policies for fhe year 1i62
exceeds even that of the yesr 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived
at the almost unexampled amount for a sinexle year of
£701,427 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
futPre 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 assuran^e mount to £ 43,28!. Various degrees
of ineligibility have led to these lives being declined.
No small number of the Assurance ( ompanies of the day
record their accepted lives annually at a sum not much, if at
all, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as in admis-
chile in a single year from deterioration of some kind or
another.

If, to complete thrir review, the Directors now advert
briefly to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that
in Fire Business ii s progress has been undoubtedly more
ra•.id than that of any other Company established either in
London or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken
place. The returns 01 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
Insuranca Company were never brighter, and of a consequent
hope, to aided on a grateful remembrance of the past, that
the future may unfold for it a sphere of still greater magni-
tude, combiniag distinguished commercial success to the
Office with a leDgthened career of usefulness and protection
to the public.
PERCY M. DOVE, Manager 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
£85,662, and the amount insured on farming stock,
£10,086,332.

A bonus of three-fifths of the profits periodically made to
parties insuring, who have thus. from time to time. received
sums amounting in the am Tgate to £110,000; and the Society
now holds a large Reserve applicable to a future Bonus.
The rates of premium are In no case higher than those
charged by the other principal offices making no returns to
their insurers.

For pro zpectnses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey-
street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars, E.C.

DROVIDENT CLER:
Associ,

KS' MUTUAL LIFE
ATION.

Established 1840.
TRUSTEES.
Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Esq., 31. P. I Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P.
Mutual Lifi. Assurance for all classes.
This Association has now in existence 6,000 policies, for a
total sum of £1,500,000.
Tile Annual Income is .. •• £51,000
he Accumulated Fund exceeds
.. 2 0,1 00
It has paid in Claims • • • • 112,000
The whole of the profits are divided quinquennially amen the Members. Three divisions have already been made'
when the following sums have been added as bonuses to the
politics
Dec. 31, 1847 .. .• • • .. £,,400
„ 1852 .. . • • • • • 11.503
„ 1857 • • • . 23 200
„ 1862 • • . • • • • • 56,500
making the total bonus additions, £06,600.
Bonuses may be received in cash or applied to the veluc
tion of premiums at the option of the assured, in hell of an
addition to the r acy.
Attention is especially invited to the system of free orpaid-
np policies introduced by this Association, by which the
sacrifice so often submitted to on the relinquishment of
po icy is wholly avoided.
The balance-sheets of the Association are open to all,
whether assurers or otherwise.
Active
sented districts and influential agents will be appointed in unrepre-
.

"WM. TFIOS. Chief Office, 15,LEN-FRD, iltoorgate-street, E.C., Aug 1, 1863Seeretaiy..

A.D. 1720.
ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION
(Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First)
FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES.
Offices, Royal Exchange, London.
Branch Office, 20, Pall-mall.
OCTAVIITS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor.
GEORGE PEARKES TiAnctAy, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir Jon's HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.

Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville.
I olin Garratt Cattlev, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Rsq. 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. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Erie Carrington Smith, Esq.
Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq.
Vobt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P.
Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.' William Wallace, Esq.
Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq.
Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S.
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 placo every Five years.
Life.
Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one

This Corporation affords to the Assured—
Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from
the liabilities of partnership.
A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual
Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital
Stock.
The advantages of modern practice,—with the security
of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex-
Porience of nearly a CENTURY AND A TIALF.
inT
Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve
ngdom
u,"'"ed lii „e MMtia, Yeo
f reme of charge, or Volunteer Corps within the
,

ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
ROBT. P. STEELE. Secretary.

CONTRACT FOR PROVISIONS,

Royal Hospital, Chelsea,
14th Aug., 1163*
and OTHERS, COMMISSIONERS_
THE RTGHT HONOURABE tohfethisOßHDosS-
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if-,,,r pi hereby
from aiNn'OdTtleC
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withthey
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at to
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regieBaid nospital, from the Ist Octobe
treatE ThaThat
artie4rotr, 1864, both4,dea,y.gitsviziint..
:c—luisaietveme.eal,
with the followim;
Per. Per. Plour .8
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'Sugar, 11111, On o
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or Leeks, cariotmuet, Cocoa, B ac
and Parsley, 0 if
tor the whole
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ration accordina 3,, at per hea
Celery, Thyme, Maijoram, Winter Savory
office of the Secreta of lender, between ay
specified in the 70t0 the ??tablish ed allowancebes
eobtttahienhedouastet. as
o'clock, which Tend "Y
sealed,
at the Boardroornertinust be filled up and delivered,_
parties tendering-, °= by b the party or
day the hours of 10 and 3
the said Hospital y
behalf, on Tuesday
which time their
onnt traacp
L0id..,p13:3t ot Beptember, at 12 o'clock, at
It is to be observedl,lfa nt
thaegCe
into consideration. 'nl will be prepared to take the same
Ptoormstewid
loinbheis,oerohlr_
required
to find Security to the Crow, t Contract, and that no Tender or the due performan
the
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and hour hbove mentioned. 1
'Pa 11 be received after h day
The Commissioners do not
lowest Tender. pledge themselves to accept the

seAtJ. IMO:RHEA D,
RUPTURES.—BY RoyAL
the most eff ti
cry and Registrar.
WHITE'S moc-mAtill'i;"Rs PATENT.
huritti 1"
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(PERFECTED AND RxßTnii, E ' -.2,1t TRUSS
EXHIBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1862)- i--. 13 IN T ,9 B allowod ,RE GREAT
Two Unwired Medical t4entlemen to he - "Y 'upwards ol
nvention in the curative treatment eo .ve
N I A.
The use of a steel spring, so often
Es here avoided—a soft bandage being. Wornits
mtund the
Moe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting. with PnVied bY the
and closeness that it cannot be detected, and oulnuon came
during sleep. A descriptive circular may t,e hull, be worn
truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on V 4 the
ounaference of the body, two inches below the hip, "be
Bent to the manufacturer, . pang
Mr. WHITE, 22E, Piccadilly.
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Single TrussTles. 218., 2es. ed., and 31s. ed. Poet
A..-- Double Truss 31s. 'ed., 425., and 525. 6d. Postageage, , 15
Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. ed. Postage, ls. 10d. d'
otiee('''t-cfnee Orders to be made payable to John White Post.
NEW PATENT
LASTIC STOCKINGS,
A'tza. 1.(- Afs &e. for 'ari.,:ose Veins cud all eases ot
:torotTaBe 7 ..NtEO
and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are
Fq alre 'Kul; texfure and inexpensive, and are drawn on
ordinary stocking'. Price 4s. ed., 7s. ed., les., to les.
aod 6d.
'l°l°lll'll'TE, t rA? FicQadius; 114 n r. 4 arer,

R
OYAL NATIONAL
LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION
(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
li.G., E.R.S.
CIIAIRMAY—Thos, Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., v.?.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.s., V.P.