The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-28 00:00:00

REMEMBER, WE SUP AT EVANS'
EVERY EVENING Tills WEEK alter Allred
Ilellon's Promenade Concerts.

SEA.—VAC iNCIES for MIDSHIPMEN end
APPRENTICES in a first-class London shipping. fir,n.
Premium moderate. Al.o apprentices without premium.—
Apply to SIMNIONDS and Co., 38, St. Mary-at-hill, East-
Cheap, E.C. Third officers and Stewards wanted.

EDINBURGH (Reduced Fares), from Iron gate-
wharf, Tower.—Saloon, 20s ; fore cabin, 15s ; deck
(soldiers and sailors only), 78 Ad; return tickets (available for
a month), 305 and 22s Fd. The cheanest and quickest sea
route by the solendid new STEAMSHIPS of the LONDON
and EDINBURC,II SHIPPING COMPANY, sailing every
Wednesday and Saturday, at 10 morning. Apply at the
Spread Eagle, Regent-circus ; or at Irongate-wharf.

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.

Established 1809.
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.
Accumulated and Invested Funds £2,122,898
Annual Revenue..
FIRE DEPARTMENT.

Insuran'es granted both at Ilome and m 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 Insured. Premiums.
1,037 £763,334 £23,641 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished
on application at the

OTTICES :
LONDON SS, Threadneedle-street.
4, New Bank Butldinga. Lothbury.
If
West-end Office S. Waterloo-place,

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
nEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Insurance-
buildings, LiverpoeL
Total Annual Revenue exceeds £sol,o'n.
Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,000,000.

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

Chairman in London

WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq.

ExTracrs FROM THIS: REPORT FOR THE YEAR
1862.

The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now
called upon to make their accustomed periodkal 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 .C 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 feet sur-
passes that of any year, with but two exceptions, since the
commencement of thi• Office, the balance to the credit ou
account of British and Foreign Insurances being £15,107 10s.
5d., and of the North American business, which is kept sepa.
ratcly, £11,097 les. 10d.
LIFE BRANCH..
The very gratifying duty now I ails upon the Directors to
state the sum assured on new policies for fbe year 156.1
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 1,408 ew olics issued. Until within the last few years it is belnievedp 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 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 stink
proposed for assurances mounts 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-
sick in a single year from deterioration of some kind cr
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
rauid than that of any other Company established either in
Londm 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 i
Dictrs conclude ther resent Reort wih the
expression ofo 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.

NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE
SOCIETY.
The business of the Company exceeds 470,000,000.
The duty paid to Government for the year 1562 was
£85,062, 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 £440,000 ; and the Society
now holds a large Res rrve applicable 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 ipectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey-
street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars, E.C.

A.D. 1720.
ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
Co RPORATION
(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 IVIGRAM, Esq., Governor.
GEORGE PEARKER BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir Jonx HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.
Es
Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Wiimot Holland, Es Robert Barclay, q. Earl of Leven and Me q.
lville.
John Garratt Cattley, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy.
Thomas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq.
Alexander Deuce, -Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq.
Pobt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq.,
Win. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.: 'William Wallace, Esq. M.P.
Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. s Chas. Baring Young, Esq.
Medical Referee, SAratiEt. Soma-, Esq., F.R.S.
FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this
Corporation on advantageous terms.
In the Lite Department, assurances arc granted with par-
ticipation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such
participation.
The Reversionary Bails on British Policies has averaged
nearly 2 per cent, per annum on the sum assured.
• F,quivalent 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
Life. not exceeding; £15,000 may be insured on one
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
Stock,So ieties—with the guarantee of a liirge invested Capital
The advantages of modern Practice,—with the security
of an Office whom resources have been tested by the ex-
perience of nearly 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. STELE, Secretary.

CONTRACT FOR PROVISIONS.
Royal Hospital, Chelsea
14th Aug., 1663.
THE RTGTIT HONOURABLE the LORDS
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
of the said Hospital, from the Ist October, 1863, to the 30th
Septernbar, 1861, 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. Sugar, Milk, Onions
or Leeks, Carrots, Celery, Thyme, Marjoram, Winter Savory
;Ind 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 Tender, which may be obtained at the
Once of the Secretary any day between the hours of 10 and 3
O'clock, which Tender must be filled up and delivered, sealed,
aarhe Board-room of the said Hospital by the party or
ties tendering, or by an agent appointed on his or their
bPlialt. on Tuesday, 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
_lO find Security to the Crown for the due performan e of the
‘-nntract, and that no Tender will be received after the day
and hour above mentioned.
lov v
The Commissioners do not pledge themselves to accept the
est Tender.
A. J. MOORHEAD,
Secretary and Registrar.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION

(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
-O,'YATUONzss--Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
.-1"::"I'vr —Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
K.G., F.R.S.
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I)Etet,,,--•,umAN—Thoa Baring, FM., 111• P" P.R.S., V.P.
Esq., F.R.S., V.P.
--`jiIAtIMAN--21'homas Chapman,
The Ca APPEAL.
itii:ehmbe,eztutliara_rnittee of Ma 0- ent have to state that, since
Instittitialls °V the yearrtemth Royal National Lifeboat
Then ^n 48th :1 te riteua ed t £ 372,000 one variousLifanebdolarteElasntdab. -
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g, arld 00 on Life-boats,' Life-boat
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