The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-07 00:00:00

BANK of ENGLAND, E.C., 3d Shpt., 1861.
THE Court of Directors of the Governor and
Company of the Bank of England give Notice :
That a GENER kL COURT will be held at the Bank on
T a
HURSDA.Y NEXT, the 10th inst. at Twelve o'clock pre-
cisely, to consider of Dividend. This will His) be one of
the Quarterly General Courts appointed by the Charter.
HAIIMOND CHUBB, Assistant Secretary.

kNCIES for MIDSHIPMEN land
APPRENTICES In a first-elass London shipping firm.
Premium moderate. Al.o a pprenti,es without premium.—
•Tmly to SIMNIONDS and Co., 38, St. Mary-at-hill, East-
"al), E.C. Third Officers and Stewards wanted.

NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE
SOCIETY.
The business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000.
.12.1ie duty mid to Government for the year 1862 was
4
--,4003,062, and the amount insured on farming stock,
c 86,932.
A bonus of three-fifths of the profi's periodically made to
Parties insuring, who have thus. from time to time, received
"mg amounting in the aggregate to £t40,000; and the Society
now holds a large Ilesrirve applLable to a future Bonus.
The rates of premium are in no case higher than those
tehbayged b the other principal offices
their insu. making no returns to
feet prospectuses apply at the Society's Offices,. Surrey-
street Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, _mac
friarsE.C.

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Insurance-
buildings, LiverpoeL
Total Annual Revenue exceeds £soo,o^o,
Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,030,000,

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

WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq.

EXTRACI'S FROM TIIE REPORT FOR TUE TEAR

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 agsin fully maintained.
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 £45,107 108.
td., and of the North American business, which is kept sepa-
rately, £11,097 16s. 10d.
LIFE BRANCH.
The ve gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the ry
sum assured on n w policies for fhe year 1F62
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 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
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 age-regate sum
proposed for assuraire amounts to £ 43,281. 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-
ethic 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
n Fire Business Us progress has been undoubtedly more
ral.id than that of any other Company established either In
London or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken
place. The returns Ol duty have proved this. In Life, the
amount of New Policies already reported make all other
tv,idence needless.
file Directors conclude their present Report with the
expression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal
Insurance Com any were never brighter, and of a consequent
hope, founded opn
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, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.

Established 1840.
TRUSTEES.

Thomas Buhr:, Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
1 Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. I Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P.
Mutual Lif. Assurance for all classes.
This Association has now in existence e,OOO policies, for a
total sum of £1,500,000.
The Annual Incoroe is
The Accumulated Fund exceeds
It has paid in Claims

• £51,000
▪ 2 0,, 00
.. 112,000

The whole of the profits are divided quinquennially among:
the Members. Three divisions have already been made'
when the following sums have been added as bonuses to the
policies
Dec. 31, 1847 ..
„ 1852
~ 1857 ..
„ 1862
making, the total bonus additions, £96,600.
Bonuses ma-i be received in clsh or applied to the v.duc
tion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an
addition to the t of cy.
Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid-
up policies introduced by this Association, by which the
sacrifice so often submitted to on the relinquishment of
pc icy is wholly avoided.
The balance-sheets of the Association are open to all,
whether assurers or otherwise.
Active and influential agents will be appointed in unrepre-
sented districts.

X%,400

• • 11:500
.. 23 200
.. 56,500

THOS. LINFORD, Secretary.
Chief Office, 15, 3loorgate-street, E.C., Aug 1,1863.

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 PEARRES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir JOHN HENRY BELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.
Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville.
rohnk
Garrett Cattlev, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
Mar Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy.
Thomas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Predk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq.
Robt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P.
Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.' William Wallace, Esq.
uas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq.
Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S.
Prim 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 place every Five years.
Any sum not exceeding £15,000 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 Dearly a CENTURY AND A HALF.

The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve
In the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the
United Kingdom, free of charge.

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

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSUELANCE COMPANY.

Established 1809.
Incorporated by itoyal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.
ACCUMULATED AND INVESTED FUNDS, .£2,12?,828.
ANNUAL REVENUE, £422,401.
LONDON BOARD.
John White Cater, Esq., P. du Pre Grenfell, Esq.
Chairman. A. Klockmann. Esq.
Charle . Morrison, Esq., De- John Mollett, Esq
puty r hairman. I J.,nius S. Morgan, Esq.
A. De A rrovave, Esq. G. Garden Nicol, Esq
Edward Cohen, Esq. John 11. Wm. Schroder, Esq.
James du Buisson, Esq. George Young, Esq.
Ex-DlREcrous.
A. IL Campbell, Esq. 1 Robert Sulith, Esq.
P. C. Cavan, Esq. Frederic Somes, Esq.
P. P. Ralli, Esq.

Manager of Fire Department —Gcorg,, li. Whyting,.
Manager of Life Department—W. F. Birkmyre.

Superintendent cf Foreign Department—G. H. Burnett.
Secretary—F. W. Lance.
General Manager—David Smith.
FIRE DE PARTMEN

The Company grthts Insurances against Fire in the United
Rin,gdom, and all foreign countries.
Mercantile Ris'as in the Port of London accepted at re-
duced rates.
Losses promptly sill liberally settled.
• Foreign Risks.—The Director,, having a practical know-
Foreign
of foreign countries, are prepared to issue Policies on
toe most tavourai)le terms. In all cases a discount will be
allowed to Merchants and others effecting such Insurances,

t effected
The following Statement exhibits the i
LIFE DEPART
daring the las - few years :
No. of Policies MEN'mTprovemen
Premiums.
Issued. Sums. 12 565 18 8
' ... £ , 0 1 6
1851 455 ........ £377,425 ... 14 07
assuring Thus,rb.ein:ttliifilirenve
18 I 9 (rs ....... 449,913 ...... 14,071 17 7
18 0 ...... 741 . 4-5 649 ..... •
,V 5 3 2 9
1811
781 ......... 5276'6 ...... 0';'241 0 0
1862 ....... 1,(37 .............. 768,334 ...... •,. ',---
ezl a Yze :e rt
sumlc ofof 4th2e92Boffi.9e7e. are:— ,
the number of Policies issued was 3,623,
21. E l . q.e'urity to Assurers.
The large Bonus additions already declared, and the
tiprospect of a further Bonus at the next investiga-
on.
3. The advantages afforded by varied Tables of premiums
—unrestr'eted conditions; of Policies—and general
Forms; of Pro
liberality in dealing with the Assured.
pt
the
and every information will be furnished
on application a
HEAD OFFICER : .... LONDON 58, Threadneedle-street.
4, New Bank Buildings.
Princes-street.
-__._________
N" E D I N nunG rt -.64,

ORTII BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
WEST-END OFFICE :
8, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL.
Secretary—ALEX. J. RUSSELL.
_ _

',LEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
Ayr the BIRTH of SHA.KSPE ARE, at Stratford-upon-
Stratford
lq. Zia: The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert
big o.lll3arnilton, Bart., i.C.I is Chairman) are now reedy-
ci-tney may also be paid to the
aaeZ,,BSCRIPTIONN
and iidlethe Tercentenary Committee. at the Stourbridge
Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and
rniinster or Wvk and Leamington.
_Banks,
Greeiov, -oPon-Avon
raty, 1,, Warwick ; or th London agents, Messrs.
tilya kmaThc. and Co , Messrs Hanburys and Co., or Messrs.
The Tehanket Commit
rest their s
the btrthel
ti" list :;?`..n..tenttry ee, in submitting the subscriP:-
of shak,,,--4reuetnation, most earnestly. appe.al to the admire'
clai or their aid and assistance The Committee
attraction to
- ace of Sh ' but the centre of
his
all admirers of akspeare,
nu' neon the ground that Stratford is not only
hMe) the tov.,, great Poet's works, and that i was
"m hetiTed, and where be lived arid died.