The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-02 00:00:00

Offices-178, Great George-street, Westminster, corner of

Parliiiment-st re et.

ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS.
The Star and Garter at Richmond has a world-wide cele-
brity. This is due not only to its stuation, which is unsur-
passed, but also to its high reputation for tavern and enter-
tainment purposes.
The current business has outgrown the proportions of the
present building, and there is a great demand for increased
hotel bccornmodation in Connection with the establishment.
The object of this Company is to meet this difficulty, and,
having purchased the hotel and goodwill of the business, im-
prove and enlarge the present building.
The property will be conveyed to the rempany as freehold,
and upon terms such as the Directors, with competent profes-
sional advice, believe to be moderate. The furniture, stock-
in-trade, and wines, will be taken at a valuation.
In order to keep the present connection identified with the
house, arrangements have been made with Mr. George Ellis,
the present proprietor, to act as Managing Director of the
Company for a period of two years, if desired so to do. This
fact, aided to the presence of Mr. Staples on the board, will
ensure more than ordinary attention to the details of prac-
tical management.
The proposed improvements and additions—the construc-
tion of which will be so arranged as not to interfere for a
single day with the current business -will, it is estimated,
Cost .C 60,000. The additions, which will consist of additional
Whigs, and be more especially designed for hotel purposes,
With a distinct entrance, will be of a substantial character,
'Without needless decoration.
Startingns this company does with an hotel and business
already in existence, an immediate income will be forth-
"ming. Theprolits upon the current business are capable
of paying a fair dividend on the whole of the proposed capi-
tal ; and it is not too much to anticipate that when the con-
templated additions and improvements have been made, the
profits will be such as to ensure the payment of large divi-
de•ads upon that capital.
Mr. Coleman, of the firm of Coleman, Turquand, Youngs,
and Co., has satisfied himself of the merits of the project,
and will act personally as the company's auditor.
As the profits of the current business will allow of the
payment of interest upon sums received from shareholders,
*without entrenching upon capital, interest at £5 per cent. per
annum will be allowed all calls from the day of payment.
The same rate of interest will be allowed on shares paid in

No promotion money has been, or will be, paid.
The present proprietor has agreed to accept, in shares of
the Company, one-fourth part of his purchase-money, and
the greater part of the capital has already been otherwise
subscribed.
Applications for the remaining shares to be made in the
form annexed to the prospectus, with tne deposit of £1 per
share, to the Bankers, Me: sirs. Ransom, Bouverie, and Co.,
No. 1, Pail-mall East, or Messrs. Robarts, Lubbock, and
Co., 15, Lombard-str. et.
Prospectuses may be obtained at the offices of the Broker,
n. Bank Chambers, Lothbury, E.C.; at the offices of the
Company, 17, Great George-street, Westminster, S.W. Gor-
ber of Parliament-street ; and at the Star and Garter, at
Richmond.
The liability of each shareholder will be limited to the
amount of his subscription.
If no allotment be made the deposit will be returned in full.

THE STAR and GARTER HOTEL COMPANY
mited).
NO FICE IS HEREBY (LiGIVEN, That NO FURTHER
APPLICATIONS for SHARES in this Company will be
received after SATURDAY, the 3d day of October next.
Dated this 25th day of September, 1863.
By order. AUG'USTUS BROWNE, Secretary.

THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON FIRE
AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
Established in 1836.
Offices :-1, Dale-street, Liverpool ; 20 and 21, Poultry,
London, E.C.
PROGRESS OF THE COMPANY SINCE 1850

Year. Fire Premiums. Life Premiums. Invested Funds.
----- -------
16;1 £54,305 £27,157 £502,83
1856 222,279
1861 72,781 821,061
1862
___ 360,130 135.974 1,3,1,005
13R,703 436,065 1,417.808

The Fire Duty paid by this Company in England in 1862
Was £71,214.

SWINTON BOULT, Secretary t 3 the Company.
JOH ATKINS, R. sident Secretary, London.
Fire Policies falling due at MI haebnas should be renewed
by the 14th October.

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Insurance-
buildings, Liverpoel.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds £500,010.
Accumulated Funds 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.
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 maintained.
The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably
the amount realised in the preceding year, and in fact sur-
passes that of any year, with but two exceptions, since the
commencement of thi4 Office, the balance to the credit on
account of British and Foreign Insurances being £45,107 10s.
5d., end of the North American business, whichis kept sepa-
rately, £11,097165. 10d.

LIFE BRANCH.
The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the sum assured on new policies for fhe year 1562
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 acquired 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
Int' ,re 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 assurance amounts to £ X 43,281. Various degrees
of ineligibility have led to theca lives being declined.
re cor
No small number of the Assurance Companies of the dad 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
Loud3n 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 lengthened career of usefulness and protection
to the public.

PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

V.R.--TOWER.
ALE OF STORES.—Bv Order of the
S SPAIRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR, Mr. GEORGE
SPILLMAN Will SELL, by Public Auction, in the Tower,
on THURSDAY, the Bth of October 1863, at Eleven o'clock
in the Forenoon precisely, the following
Bed Cases and Blankets. Stores :
Small Arms of various de-
Grey Clothing and
Ca. Woollen
sc
rip tions.
Hammpsock Rugs. Armourees Pack-saddle
Forges.
20 Gal. Coppers. Sets of Ironwork for do.
Mangea complete, with Ovens I Files, various.
and Boilers.
May be viewed at the Tower from 10 to 4 o'clock the three
• and Royal Arsenal,
days previous to the day of sale, and catalogues may be had
at the War-office, Pall-Mall; the Tower;
WoolwiLh.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION
(Inoorporated by Royal Chrter).
PATRONESS —Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
PREsinmlT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,

• -- -
K.G., F.A.S.
CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, FN., V.F.
utt,u'rr-CllAurstAx—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.A.S., V.P.
APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have Nationalat, since e beginning of the year 1860, the RoyaLifeboat
institution has expended Z 32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab-
lishments on the Coasts of Eng' and, Scotland, and Ireland.
rrilc number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the
rociety and other means, since its formation, is 12,800;
I?.r_ which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and
i 16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
iurli_ has also expended X 67,000 on Life-boats, Life-boat
-carriages,Ta:prtg and Boat-houses.
tisxl Coliamittee desire to express their grateful sense of
ii'A,enerous support which they have received from the
114"elsh Public durina• the past few years a support which
12T:1,abled them to establish their resent magnificent fleet
lifeboats on the shores ot the United Kingdom
reas4;l_,,e_nsible, however, of the great responsibility that
Z,t
ate, to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient
ts, s Crews practised in the managemext of their
annual i;:rri can only he effected by a large and permanent
cousrarlijntne they earnestly appeal to all classes of their
rreilt aT,dTruto aid them in upholding and perpetuating so
national a work.
tribulio%Z....-'l44tYee gratefully acknowledge the following con-

Tier Mtkiest,„
£ S. d
Campbeil, ti,a'n,,e Queen
Clerk, Colonel Mrs. G. .... 0 0
Coutts and Co Ar* •••• ...
annualaual 505 0 0
Currie, Wm. i 44.--es
0. sra:Bank.e.rs .. .. annnullaall
101
01.
00
Frle, Lord C'hiei:enati,.• • • ..'. .. 4atnh don.lo 0 0
Panshawe, Viee-Admi;`, r. • • _ . don. 10 10 0
Fenwiek, G. J., Es q., -4i'ir A•LK:C.B. ... 2d don. 25 0 0
sporting Carriaze or a _Lifeboat and Tran-
Harvey, Rev. G. G. and. kra • • .. ~,, „ „ 250 0 0
ITartin, Sir Henry, Bart. ' •• • . don. 3 0 0
Moore, Rev. G. B. .. • • • • .. 7th don. 10 0 0
Smith, Mrs. George, Greermiik ••• .. don. 15 15 0
Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, Kcal. • • : ..,
.. 3 0 0
Thomas,
Ladyship • • • • • • %colleetedby her *Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .. ': , 16 16 0
Donations and Annual Su'.seriptionm. annual 5 0 0
re:sYed by the Bankers of the Inbti jibe thankfully re-
erei.ral, and Co., :6, Lombard-street ; Vii, Messrs. Willis,
C., Strand; Aessrs. 'ferries, Faranharessrs. Coutts and
lames's-street, London ; by a'l the Collebet:rnsdoefoduls6iomSts.
and Bankers In the United Kingdom ; and
Richard Lewis, Es q., at the Office of the Y the Secretary
4041-street, A.delphi, Logdo, W.t.../.
,: luatitution, 14,

OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
kto in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, at King's-cross.
Pal ron—Th c QUEEN.
President—The Puke of BUCCLEUCTT.
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.

This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free
and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for-
mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom-
pLnied 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 sdmit and relieve the distressing cases that
daily present themselves.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward
Mas[erman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; hansom and
CO. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Giyn
and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison
and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and
Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool
and at the HospitaL
STANFORD MITH Secretazy,