The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-30 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.

ON AND AFTER IsT OCTOBER NEXT,
ADDITIONAL TRAINS
-Will run between Paddington and the City, calling at every
Station.
THROUG'II TRAINS will also run to and from the Great
Northern and Great Western Railways.

The Metropolitan Company's NEW CARRIAGES,
LIGHTED WITH GAS, will be ready in a few days.
MYLES FENTON, General Manager.
Paddington, Sept. 28, 1863.

IONDON TAVERN COMP ANY (Limited).
.4 Incorporated under the Companies' Act, with Limited
Liability.
Capital £120,000, in 12,000 Shares of £lO each.
First Issue 6,000 Shares.
Deposit on application £l, and £1 'los. on allotment, with a
further Call not exceeding £2 10s. within three months.
DIRECTORS.
Mr. Alderman ABBISS, Chairman.
.Tossph Causton, Esq., Eastcheap.
Sir Cusack P. Roney, 15, Langham-place.
J. W. Clutter, Esq., London Tavern, Manafzing Director.
(With power to add to their number.)
MANAGER.
Mr. John Fun ;c.
13AIVICERS.
The Bank of Londoli, Threadneedle-street ; and 450,
Strand, W.C.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Sole, Turners, and Hardwick, 3 and 4, Alderman-
bury, E.C.
BROKERS. r
Messrs. Eykyn Brothers, 22, Change-a-ley, E.C.
AUDITOR.
Ilenry Honey, Esq. (troney and Ilumphrys), 14, Ironmonger-
lane.
SECRETARY pro tern.
Mr. Reed.
Offices—The London Tavern, Bishops ate-street.
PROSPECTUS.

It is proposed to form a Company tO purchase the business
of the well-known London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street.
The Directors have entered into a provisional agreement
with Mr. Chater, which g yes them the cption of purchasing
the Freehold (within three years), or leasing the property at
a fair rental.
The stock in trade, good will, wines, plate, furniture, fit-
tings, &c., are estimated at £30,000, and the present Proprie-
tor guarantees a minimum dividend of 10 per cent. on that
amount for three years.
These estimates have been verified as to the furniture and
plant by Mr. Daniel Cronin ; as to the wines and spirits, by
Mr. R. C, Wilson, of 37, Drury-lane ; as to the fre hold, by
Mr. Pebenhara, of the firm of Debenham and Tewson, 80,
Cheapside ; and a report has been made on the profits of the
business by Mr. Henry Honey, of the firm of Honey and
Humphrys, Accountants.
The Company to take possession on the Ist October next,
and the profits will accrue as from that date. The option of
purchasing the freehold of constantly increasing va ue, and a
substantial guarantee of a minimum dividend of 10 per cent.,
are obviously great advantages.
In the formation of this Company no promotion-money has
been or will be paid, and with a view to avo;cl all unnecessary
expenses, the offices of the Company will be at the London
Tavern.
Upwards f two- third.mttlie'rettillgifF
issue has alroeady been subscribed for by Air. Choler, the
Lirectors, and their friends.
Forms of Application for Shares to be made in the form
annexed to the Prospectus, with deposit of £1 per Share, to
the Bankers, Tee Bank of London, Threadneedle-street, and
450, Strand.
The Articles of Association can be inspected at the offices
of the Company.
Prospectuses may be obtained at the office of the Brokers,
22, Change-alley, E C. ; at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-
street ; and at the Company's Bankers.
The liability of each shareholder will be limited to the
amount of his subscription, and if no allotment be made, the
deposit will be returned in full.

TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE LONDON TAVERN
COMPANY (Limited).
Registered as a Limited Company under the Joint-Stock
Companies' Act, 1862.
Gentlemen.—l request you to allot me Shares of £lO
each in the above Company, and I hereby agree to accept
Such Shares, or any less number that may be alioted to me,
and to pay the deposit of £1 10s. on allotment. and I further
authorise you to enter my name on the Register for the num-
ber of Shares so allotted.

Si mature •••

Address in lull
Date

ONDON TAVERN COMPANY (Limited).
-m!_.l NO APPLICATIONS for SHARES will be received
ftr Twelve o'clock on FRIDAY next, the 2d of October, on
Which day the Directors will meet to allot.

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.
In surairea ?ranted 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 :
Policies. Amount In=ured. Premiums.
1,037 £763,334 £23.641 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished
on application at the

OFFICES :
LONDON 58, Threndneedle-street.
91
„ West-end Office B, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Inburanee-
buildings, Liverpoel.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds £soo,o^o.
Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,000,000.

Chairman in Liverpool:
CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P.

Chairr.mn 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.
FIRE BRANCH.
The Directors, have, as pleasingly as unexpectedly, at the
close of the year, to announce, for the first time, thatthe 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 mhintained.
The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably
the aruount realised in the preceding year, and in fact sur-
passes that of any year, 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 North American business, which is kept sepa-
rately, £11,097 16s. 10d.
LIFE BRANCA.
The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the sum assured on new policies for the year IS'62.
exceeds even that of the year 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived
at the almost unexampled 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 aesured 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 lonsine.s 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 assuranne amounts to £143,281. 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
all, 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. _ .

—Theiii7eefOiSconoluele their present Report with the
expression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal
Insuranca Company were never brizliter, 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, Manazer and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTOS, Secretary in London.

CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
the TARTU of SHAKSPEARE, at Stratford-upon-
Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert
N. 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 Stourbridge
and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks,
Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, 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 appeal to the admirers
of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee
rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only
the birthplace of Shakspeare, but the centre of attraction to
all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his
home, the town he loved, and where he lived and died.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION
(rmorporated by Royal Charter).
PATRorrEss—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
K.G., F.R.S.
CuAlßMAll—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., v.p.
DEPU"iy-CIIAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P.
APPEAL.

9:be Committee of Management have to state that, since
the beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab-
lishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the
Society,. and other means, since its formation, is 12,800;
tor' which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and
£16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion has also expended £67,e00 on Life-boats, Lite-boat
Transporting-Carl iages, and Boat-houses.
The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of
the generous support which they have received from the
British public during the past few years, a support which
has enab'ed them to establish their present magnificent fleet
123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom.
Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that
rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient
state, and Crews practised in the management of their
boats, whi,l-. can only be effected by a large and
permanent
annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their
countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so
great and truly national a work.
The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con-
tributions :

s. d
11er Majesty the Queen .• .. annual 50 0 0
Campbell, the Iron. Mrs. (1, • • • • .. annual 50 0
Clerk, Colonel, B.A. •• •• •• .. annual 1 1 0
Coutts and Co., Messrs., Bankers .. annual 10 0 0
Currie, Wm., Esq., • • • • • . .. 4th don 10 0 0
Erie, Lord id Justice .• . .. don. 10 10 0
Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A.. Ii • .. 2a don. 23 0 0
Fenwick, G. J., Esq., cost of a Lifeboat and Tran-
---

sporting Carriage • • • • • • • • • • 250 0 0
Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .. .. don. 30 0
Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. • • • . .. 7th don. 10 0 0
Moore, Rev. G. B. .. • • •• .. don. 15 15 0
Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich .. ..
.. 3 0 0
Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, 1i.C.8. .. .. annual 20 0
Thom h s Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collected by her

Ladyship • • • • • • • • • • • • 16 16 0
Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .. .. annual 5 0 0
Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re-
ceived by the ]tankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis,
Percival. and Co., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and
Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. Berries, Farouhar, and Co., 16, St.
James's-street, Loudon; by ail the Collectors of Customs
and Bankers in the Unitedltlngdom ; and by the Secretary
Richard Lewis. Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 14,
Jolupstroot, Adolph', London, ry,/".