The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-18 00:00:00

CONTRACT FOR PROVISIONS.

Royal hospital, Chelsea,
14th Aug.,
FIE RIGHT HONOURABLE the LORDS
T and OTHERS, COMMISsIONERS of this HOS-
PITAL, do hereby give NOTICE, That they are ready to
receive TENDERS from and to treat with such persons as
may be willing to Contract for victualling the in-pensioners
9t the said Hospital, from the Ist October, 1863, to the 30th
Z-4eptembcr, 1860, both days inclusive, with the following
articles of provisions, &c., viz. :—Beef and Mutton, Bread,
Cheese, Butter, Potatoes, Salt, Oatmeal, Barley or Rice,
Pepper, Flour, Suet, Cocoa, Black Tea, Sus,rar, Milk, Onions
or Leeks, Carrots, Celery, Thyme, Marjoram, Winter Savory
and Parsley, daily, at per head per diem for the whole
ration according to the established allowances of the house, as
specified in the form of'f'ender, which may be obtained at the
office of the Secretary any day between the hours of 10 awl 3
O'clock, which Tender must be filled up and delivered, scaled,
at the Board-room of the said Hospital by the party or
cr
Parties tendering, or by an agent appointed on nis or their
bahalt. on Tue;day the Ist of September. ,at 12 o'clock. at
Which time their Lordships will be prepared, to take the same
into consideration.
It is to be observed that the Contractors will be required
to find Security to the Crown for the due performan e of the
Contract, and that no Tender will be received after the day
and hour above mentioned.
The Commissioners do not pledge themselves to accept the
lowest Tender.

A. J. MOORHEAD,
Secretary and Registrar.

NORWICH UNION
ETY FIRE INSURANCE
SOCI.
The business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000.
The duty paid to Government for the year 1862 was
£8%,062, 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 aggregate to £410,000; and the Society
now holds a large Res:rve applimble 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-pectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey-
street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars, F,,0.

A SSENGE RS AND TRAVELLERS
A_ PROTECTION AND COMPENSATION OFFICES,
16, Craven-street, Strand, London, W.C.
Passengers by Rail, Road, or Water, and others suffering
from loss or injury to themselves or property, should apply
for redress and compensation at the above Offices ; established
to render prompt assistance to all classes upon the most ad-
vantageous terms.

Advice on application gratis. Letters must be addressed
to " The Manager," enclosing a stamp for reply.

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICE 2,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Imurance-
buildings. liverpoel.
Total Annual Revers
1:e exceeds £500,0,0,
Accumulated Fun's in hand over
1,000,000,

rkhairman 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.

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 msintained.
The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably
the amount realised in the preced.ng year, and in fact sur-
passes that of any year, with but two exceptions, since the
commencement of this Office, the balance to the credit on
account of British and Foreign Insurances being £45,107 les.
5d., and of the North American business, which is kept sepa-
rately, £11,097 16s. 10d.
The very gratifying duty BRANCH..
state the sum ayissLlFE
now falls upon the Directors to
.Ured on new olicies for fhe ear 1F62
exceeds even that of the year 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and hays arrived
at the
27 nla on
unexampled amount for a single year of
4701,4,498 new policies issued. Until within the last
fe w
as years it is believed that such a sum acsured as that which
hjust 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
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 assuranse 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.
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 maßni-
tude, combining distinguished commercial success to the
Office with a lengthened career of usefulness and protection
to the public.
PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, secretary in London.

NORTH BRIT ISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY,
Established 1809.
Incorpora.ted by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.
Accumulated and Invested Funds .
Annual Revenue..,,, £2,122,828
422,401
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Insurances zrante,l 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 rausacted in 1862 as follows :
Policies. Amount Insured. Premiums.
1,037 £763,334 £23,641 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished
on application at the

LoNoox. ...... OrricEs:
........... 58, Threadneedle-street.
• ........... , Waterloo-placeank uiings. Lothbury.
West-end (Mae.. 8, Pall-rnall.
91

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, 29, Pall-mall.
OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor.
GEORGE PEARKES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir JOHN lIENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.
Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Earl of Leven and Melville.
Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
Henry Nelson, Esq.
The Hon. Josceline W. Percy.
Charles Robinson, Esq.
Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Erie Carrington Smith, Esq.
William Soltau, Esq.
Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P.
William Wallace, Esq.
Chas. Baring Young, Esq.
CrEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S.
NCES may be effected with this
terms.
surances are granted with par-
lower Premiums, without such

Irenry Bainbridge, Esq.
Robert Barclay, Esq.
4ohn Garratt Cattley, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Rsq.
William Davidson, Esq.
Thomas Dent, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq.
Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq.
Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq.
Pobt. Amadeus Heath, Esq.
Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.'
s. Stewart Hodgson, Esq.
Medical Referee, SAsli
FIRE and LIFE ASSURA
f,orporation on advantageous
In the Life Department ast
ticipation In Profits, or, at
participation.
The Reversionary Lulus 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 persona who preferred that form of Bonus.
The divisions of Profit take place every Five years.
Any sum not exceeding X15,0q0 may be insured on one
Life.
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-
perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF.
The corporation•have always allowed the Assured to serve
the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the
united Kingdom, free of charge.

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

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
No. 11, Lombard-street; London, E.C.
Established 1821.
Subscribed Capital, Two Millions. •
DIRECTORS.
Sir
CHARLES WILL MINTO FARQUHAR, Bart , M.P., Chairman.
lAM CURTIS
E•sq , Deputy Chairman.
Henry Hulse Berens, Esq., John
aLaw b
Henry Bonham Carter, Enci. G. Sh E ouchere, Esq.
etevre, Esq.
Charles F. Devas, Esq.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. John Martin., Esq.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart, J Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
ames Morris, Esq.
.Tames Goodson, Esq.
nenr Norman,' Esq.
'1 homson Hankey, Esq., ALP Henry R. Reynolds, Esq.
john G. Hubbard, Esq., M.P. Abraham J. Robarts, Esq.
Fredk. H. Janson, Esq. Henry -vine, Esq.
AUDITORS.
Esq.. I Henry _Sykes Thornton, Fsq
Lewis Loyd,
Esq. I Noel Whitt
Cornelius Paine, Jun., ng. Esq.
Esq., Secretary I Sarni. Brown, Esq Actuary
~
Thos.Tallemanli,

LIFE
ACT OF PARLIAMENT, this Co ENT.—UNDER
mi anylow e THE PROV
ers
AN
H PFIRIONS OP A. thei
nrers EIGHTY PER R CENT. or Profits, at Qt
to new In_
Divisions, or a Low Rate of Premium witho u-quennial
Profits. t*
utparcip on of
a i
Since the establis • litnent of the Company in
Amount of Profits allotted to the Assured
has 1821, the
exceeded in
cash value £660,000, wh'e
• li represents equivalent Reversionary
Bonuses of £1,058,000.
After the Division of Profits
at Christmas, 1859, the Life
Assurances in force
Assura with existing
Bonuses thereon
ftm,nted to upwards of X
a , 4 ,
730,000, the Income from the Lite
anch £207,000 per annum, andnd the Life Assurance Fund,
£1,618,000.
ePendent of the capital, exceeded
Loc, A ~.VOLUNTEER CORPS.—No
Ext ---.-, MILITIA and .
ra premium is required for service therein.
10AN. m
Values granted on Life
Policies to the extent of their
11 P
s
sliell value be not less than £5O.
.-A• 6GNATI.., 'ems —Written Notices of, re-
ceived and ANTS OF POL • •
re,,,istered.
31N1C2A1C FPpaid the Company, no charge
and
ES by
ei.• ..,....cy stairn '
FIRM; .r.,,., Ps.
upon
--rPAItT I suratres are effected
desc •
every rip MENT.— ti, -
10r1 of property at moderate rates.
Losses by this
~, caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted
vompany

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, at King's-cross.

Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.

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mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom-
penied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient
magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered
capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of
the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the
funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover,
it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more,
on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week.
The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an
EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support,
to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that
daily present themselves.
m. Contributionserinansq are,N ichroeraZeadn e
:b
stoh
bye Treasurer,
Messrs. c 0
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tEdwardsan and
Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co.;Ransom and
Cu. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, Co.; Giyn
and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison
and Co. ; W lliaras, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney,and
and Co. ;
at Nisbet
Hospita and Co L
. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool
the
STANFORD S. SMITH, Secretary.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIF E-80.A.T
INSTITUTION

(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
E.G., F.R.S.
CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P.