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London, England, 1863-08-15 00:00:00

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SHIPPING -COMPANY, sailing every
IVednesday and Saturday, at 10 morning. Apply at the
Spread agle, Regent-circus ;or at Irongate-wharf.

SALEV.R.—TOWER.
0 P STORES.—By Order of the
by Public ALE OP STORES.._.B Orler of the
V.R._TOWER
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR, to be Sold,
o hfe A
ys Auction, in the Tower, on THURSDAY, the 20th
tfuoznuoswt,ig.o3,t at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon precisely,
Stores :
Largie Assortment of Grey Itaiwes complete, with Ovens
..
and other Clothing. Bu 1111,A. and Boilers.
swick Rifles,
Accoutrements.
Brun
Tents and Marquees.
20 Gal. Coppers, Gres' Coats.
iSsecveenraanlelo,uostsAorftiFclierse .
.wood

Old Iron, Steel, and
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THE ORIENTAL HOTELS COMPANY
(imited).
Incorporated under the C Lom.,anies' Act, 1802, by which the
Liability of each Shareholder is strictly limited tothe amount
Of his Shares.
Capital £750,000, in 25,000 Shares of £lO each.
(With power to increase to line Million Sterling.)
First Issue 12,500 Shares, whereof a portion will be reserved
r nic
Denosit £1 per Share fo
apl Ition, and £1 on allotment.
Calls not to exceed £2 per Shp lare, with an interval of not less
three months between each call.

DIRECTORS.
Fir John Peter Grant, K.C.8., Chairman, late Lieutenant-
Gore
rt Bengal.
k.olonel enderson, C.B• , Director of the Eastern Bengal Rail-
, Iva.), Company.
George Constable, Esq., Firm of Henderson and Constable,
Cannon-street, C.
Sir Frederick Currie, Bart . Member of the Council of India.
Colonel French, Chairman of the Bombay and Baroda Rail-
way Company.
Colonel Holland, Director of the Agra and United Service

Bank: -
John Stewart, Esq., Director of the Marine Insurance Com-

any. John Robert Thomson, Esq., Chairman of the London and
South African Bank.
James Henry Young, Esq., late of the Bengal Civil Service,

AUDITORS.
T. It. Walker, Esq., 21, Hanover-square, and
A Shareholder, to be elected at the First Gencral Meeting.

BANKERS IN LONDON.
The Agra and United Service Bank (Limited), 27, Cannon-
street, E.C.
The London and County Bank, Hraover-square, W.

RANKERS INDIA.
The Ara and United, Service Bank (Limited).
80:LICITORS.
Atessrs. Uptons, Johnson, and Upton, 20, Austin-'riars, E.C.

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BROKER.
Francis Burnand, lAsq., 78, Lombard-street, and 13 and 11,
Countv-chambere, Cornhill, E.C.
gECRETART (pro tern.)
Macdonald Yates, Esq.
Temporary Offices :-36, Cannon-street, E.C., and 5, Parli-
ment-street, Westminster.
ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS.

This Company is formed for the purpose of introducing a
system of efficient Hotel accommodation into India, China,
and other places in the East.

In. CalcUtta a joiat-stock company has lately purchased
and undertaken the management of a Hotel, and the pro-
spects of the enter,rise may be inferred from the very high
premium at which their shares are quoted in the Calcutta
market, see "Times" July 17, the "Englishman's Weekly
Mail" of June 8, 1863, and " Allen's Indian Mail," of August
4—viz., £25 paid. present value, £45 ex div., equal to 80 per
cent. prem., and the payment of a dividend of 10 per cent. for
the half-year ending 30th April last, equal to 20 per cent, per
annum.
It is proposed, in the first instance, to supply the urgent
requirements of Bombay and Point de Galle.
In the event of two-thirds of the first issue of shares not
being subscribed for, no allotment will take place, and the
deposits will be returned to the subscribers, without deduc-
tion.
Tt is proposed to pay to shareholders 5 per cent, interest
upon the capital as paid up, until the first dividend is de-
clared.
Detailed prospectuses and forms of application for shares
may be obtained of the Secretary, Bankers, and Broker.

ORIENTAL HOTELS COMPANY (Limited).
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, That NO APPLICA-
TION for SHARES in the Oriental Hotels Company
(Limited) WILL BE RECEIVED after THIS DAY
(SATURDAY), the 15th August current; and AppliPations
from the Country must be posted not later than MONDAY
Evening.

MACDONALD YATES, Secretary pro tern.

CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
NJ the BIRTH of SITA.KSPE ARE, at Stratford-upon-
Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert
IT. C. Hamilton, Bart., K.C.8., is Chairman) are now receiv-
ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the
account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridri; e
and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks,
Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smitl', and
Greenway, Warwick ; or their London agents, Messrs.
Smith, Payne, and Co , Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or Messrs.
Glyn and Co., bankers, London.
The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip-
tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeP.i to the admirers
of Shakspeare for their aid and assistanc:, The Committee
rest their claims upon the ground that `,..itrattord is not only
the birthplace of Shakspeare. but th`l. centre of attraction to
all admirers of the great Poet's vp-Jrks, and that it was his
home, the town he loved, and wh ere he lived and died.
THE ROYAL IY.SURANCE COMPANY.
lIF,AD OFFICES, •
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Insurance-
-IPadding,s, Liverpool.

Total Annual Revenue exceeds £soo,o'o.
Accumulated Fluids in hand over 1,000,000.

Chairman in Liverpool :
CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P.
Chairman in London :
WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq.

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.

B
The Directors have, asFIRE pleasißnglyANCH. 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 to the preceding year, and in fact sur-
passes that of any ?ear, with but two exceptions, since the
commencement of thi. Office, the balance to the credit on
account of British and Foreign Insurances being £45,107 10s.
5d., and of the ?'forth American business, whichis kept sepa-
rately, £11,097 16s. 10d.

LIFE BRANCH.
The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the sum assured on new policies for fhe year 1862
exceeds even that of the year 1861 by 4180,000, and has arrived
at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of
4701,427 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, a'Ad cannot fail to ge much satistion to the
shareholder as well as no small for the
future to, the participating life assurer.
Evid.ence of continued care in the selection of lives is amply
afforCted by a statement of the number rejected. These have
am•Junted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum
Proposed for assurance 'mounts to 4145.281. 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
exceeding those which the Royal has declared as Inadmis-
sible 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 lei, gthened career of usefulness and protection
to the public.
PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Established 1809.
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.
Accumulated and Invested Funds Annual Revenue £2,122,828
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 I ransacted in 1862 as follows :
Policies. Amount In'nred. Premiums.
1 037
. I £763,334 £23.641 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished
on application at the

OFFICES :
01sT bow
58, Threadneedle-street.
4, New Bank Buildings. Lothbury.
West-end Office B, Waterloo-plate, Pall-mall.

NORWICH. UNION FIRE INSURANCE
The busine SOCIETY.
The dut ss of
the Company exceeds £70,000,000.
y paid to Go rnment for the year 1862 was
£85,062, and the amo,vaent insured on farming stock,
£10,086,332.
A bonus of three-fifths of the profi's periodically made to
parties insuring, who have thus, from time to time, received
sums amounting in the
now holds a large Resorveg appllmblereZate to future Bonus.
ag to Z 440, a
000 and the Society
The rates of premium are in no case higher than those
their insurers.
charged by the other Principal offices making no returns to
For prozpectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey-
street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent New Bricl,,cre-street, Black-
friars, E.C.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.
Established 1840.
TRUSTEES.

Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. I WM. Geo. pr,„„,
Thomson llankey, Esq., M.P. Baron L. de '"tf, Esq.
Mutual Life Assurance for all classes. -dothschild, M.P.
This Association hag now in existence 0_
total sum of £1,500,000. Policies, for a
The Annual Income is .. ..
The Accumulated Fund exceeds Z5l
2,000
It has paid in Claims .. .. ; : 0 100
112,000
The whole of the profits are divided quinquenniall
the Members Three divisions have already beh Tong
when the following sums have been added as bonuses toatda
policies

Dec. 31, 1847 ..
~ 3852 . • • •
~ 1857 . • • • ''
1862 . • • . • • ..
making the total bonus addition'
s, £96,600.
menli'lito the reduc.
Bonuses a-be received in cash or app
tion of
Attention is
addition to the
premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an
1 of cy.
Pe ly invited to the system of free orpaid-
uP policies i4rsoduciaeld by this Association, by which the
The balance h
pgrieifiyeeis B° "ten submitted to on the relinquishment of a
wholly avoided.
vthethe -. eets of the Association
Active and infiaentixl fg will
r assurers or otherwise. are open to all,
unrepre-
sented districts. - ag6n—
be appointed in

. • £5,400

.. 11,500
• . 23.200
56,500

W3I. THOS. LDTFORD, Secretary.
Chief °Moe, 15, hioorgate-fitreet, E. 0., Aug 1,1863.

N°. 22,194.

Nov ready,
BL IN R E V I E W.
New Series. No, 1. Price 65., post free.

CDNTENTS.
I. PopulAr Devotion in Spain.
IL The Abvssinian Schism.
L intrinsic End of Civil Government.
IV. Ro4a Femme'.
V. Catholic church in England.
VI. The Tractariau Movement.
VII. The French Elections.
VIII. Notices of Books.
IX. Foreign Periodical Literature.
London : Burns and Lambert, 17 and 18, Portman-street,
and 63, Paternoster-row, to whom all Works for Review and
Advertisements should be sent.

TOURISTS' FADE DIECUM.—PRICE ONE SHILLING.
NO one should cross the Channel without this
useful companion, which comprises in a form for the
waistcoat pocket every necessary phrase for Railways,
Hot Pis, Shops, Cabs, Money, &c, &0., and not a word super-
fluous.

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and at all Booksellers and Railways.

CRITIQUES on the NEWSPAPER PRESS in
the LITERARY TIMES, every week.

T " X F O R D,
C, OXFORD STREET, W.
THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections
from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE and Haleyy's
MUSKETEERS (first time in England).
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ellison, Messrs.
Green, Bernardi, Huish, &c., with full band and chorus.

Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Flute Solos by Drew Dean &c.
Comic, by UNSWORTII (" or any other man"), Eugene,
W. Randall, E. Righton, and A. Lloyd.
Also, a Pei formance by Herr SCHALKENBACH on his
wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHESTRE, contain-
ing a full baud of 40 instruments.
The HALL has just been newly Decorated and Ventilated,
and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis.
Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, is. ;
private boxes, 10s. 6d.

NOTICE.—The GHOST! GHOST!! GHOST!!!
AT CANTERBURY HALL.
Two representations of Professor Pepper's startling Illusion
will be given on Mondays. Wednesdays, and Saturdays, at
Nine and a quarter. past Eleven o'clock; other Evenings at
Eleven only; and produced with all the newest improve.
ments by Mr. A. Silvester, which can be seen only at this
establishment.
Dramatic Readings by Mr. Graham, in addition to Grand
Operatic Selections, Cantatas, Glees, Songs, Comic and
Sentimental, and UNSWORTH, the Stump Orator.
Open every Evening at half past Seven.
Admission, Sixpence.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The
FAIRY FOUNTAIN.—The Risarelis (last week pre-
vious to their departure for the Continent)—The Brothers
Conrad—Les Petit Monstres—The Francesco Family, from
La Scala, Milan, tcc. Grand Operatic Selection :—Miss
M`Gregor. Albert, Georgini, supported by Chorus and Band
of Sixty Performers.
Notice.—The Proprietor has much pleasure to announce
that he has an eng ,gement with Mdlle. Taccani, from Her
Majesty's Theatre, who will appear every evening.

ESTABLISHED 1833.
BOWDEN'S lERATED GINGER BEER, in
glass or stone bottles, warranted to keep good twelve
months. Lemonade, Soda-water, Potass, Seltzer, and every
description of Mineral Waters.—Manufactory, No. 3, White
Hart-street, Drury-lane, W.C.

THE LAUNDRESSES to her IQte !Majesty
Queen Adelaide say, that " BRIGGS' AUSTRALIAN
S rAitca needs but to be tried to be approved." Sole
Wholesale Agent, Harper Twelvetrees, Bromley-by Bow,
London, E.

CARD PLATES ENGRAVED.
An--/ Pattern
5.".) BEST CARDS, Printed from Plate
REAL MOROCCO CARD CASES
1,000 BUSINESS ENVELOPES, gummed 3s.
NEWSPAPER ENVELOPES, 4 doz..- 6d.
F. ARNOLD, Manufacturing Stationer, 86, Fleet-street, E.C.

TEA.—MOORE BROTHERS respectfully inti-
mate that their New Prospectus is now ready. They
especially recommend their improved Family Tea, reduced
to 35. 2d. ; Souchonr, reduced to 38. ed. ; mixed Assam, re-
duced to 3s. Bd. ; and the finest Assam, reduced from 48. 4d.
to 3s. lid. per lb.