The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-05 00:00:00

Offices

Year. I Fire Premiums. I Life Premiums. I Invested Funds.

1851 £51,305
1856 222,279
1881 380.130
1862 436,065

£27,157
72,781
135.974
13'4,703

£502,8".24
821,061
1,311,905
1,417.808

The Fire Duty paid by this Company in England in 1862
Was £71,2!.4.
SWINTON BOUM`, Fec-etlry t 3 the Company.
JOAN ATKINS, Resident Secretary, London.
Piro Policies falling due at Mi haelmas should be renewed
by the 14th October.

NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE
SOCIETY.
The business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000.
The duty paid to Government for the year 1862 was
£85,062, and the amount insured on farming stock,
£10,086,332.
A bonus of three-fifths of the proflis periodic!illy 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 Reserve 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 prcopectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey-
street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars, E.C.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.
Established 1840.
TRUSTEE S.

Thomas Baring*, Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. I Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P.
Mutual Life Assurance for all classes.
This Association has now in existence 6,000 policies, for a
total sum of £1,500,000,
The Annual Income is
The Accumulated Fund exceeds
It has paid in Claims

.. £51,000
200,000
.. 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 ..
Tasking the total bonus additions, £98,600.
Bonuses may be received in crush or applied to the reduc
llou of -premlimtS It the option of the assured, iu lieu ot ai
addition to the policy.
Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid-
tip policies introduced by this Association, by which the
sacrifice so often submitted to on the relinquishment of
po 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.

.. £5,400
.. 11,500
.. 23.200
.. 56,500

WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary.
Chief Office, 15, Moorgate-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 PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor.

Henry Bainbridge, Esq.
Robert Barclay, Esq.
John Garrett Cattley, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq.
Thomas Dent, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq.
Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq.
Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq.
ROA Amadeus Heath, Esq.
Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.:
Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq.

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.
Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
William Soltau, Esq.
Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P.
William Wallace, Esq.
Chas. Baring Young, Esq.

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Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLT, Esq., F.R.S.

NOTICE.— l'he usual fifteen days allowed for payment of
FIRE PREMIUMS falling due at Michaelmas will expire
on 14th October.

FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this
Corporation on advantageous terms.
The Reversionary Bonus on British Life Policies has ave-
raged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured.
Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums
ayable 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 nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF.
SPECIAL NOTICE.

Policies on the participating system, granted on or before
the 31st December, 1863, and in force at the close of the year
1865, will be entitled to share in the next division of profits

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

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Insurance-
buildings, Liverpool.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds £500,010.
Accumulated Funds in hand over 1 OOO,OOO.

Chairman in Liverpool:
CHARLES TURNER, Esq.,

Chairman in London

IVILLI ear 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 this Office, the balance to the credit on
account of British and Foreign Insurances being £45,107 105.
td., and of the North American business, which is kept sepa-
rately, £11,097 16s. lOd.

LIFE BRANCH'.
The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the sum assured on new policies for the year 1862
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 business has been carefully
Watched, and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the
shareholder, as well as no small encouragement for the
lutnre 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 as suraroe s mounts to Xi 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-
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
Londan 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 untold for it a sphere of still greater magni-
tude, combining distinguished commercial success to the
Oflace 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 OP STORES._Bv Order of the
SECRETARY 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 tne Forenoon precisely, the following Stores :
Bed Cases and Blankets. Small Arms of various de-
Grey Clothing and Woollen scriptions.
Caps. Armonrer's rack saddle
Hammock Rugs. Forges.
20 Gal. Coppers. Sets of Ironwork for do.
Mani-Ns complete, with Ovens I Files, various.
and Boilers.
May be viewed at the Tower
days previous to the day of sal
at the War-office, Pall- Stall; t
*Woolwich.

r from 10 to 4 o'clock the three
le, and oatalocrues may be had
:he Tower ; and Royal Arsenal,

ROYAL NATIONAL LIF E-B OAT
INSTITUTION
(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
K.G., F.R.S.
CnAramAw—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P. F.R.S., V.P.
DEPUTY-CECAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, ES q., F.R.S., V.P.
APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state that, since
the beginning of' the year 1867, the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution has expended £28,550 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 13,220;
for
which services 82 Gold Medals, 733 Silver Medals, and
17,200 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
-4011 has also expended X 75,380 on Life-boats, Life-boat
'r,!)lsporting-carliages, and Boat-houses.
thkene Committee desire to express their grateful sense of
tritgrpeurnse support
un which they have received frombas w the
a I'l the p f w years, a support h
Denabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet
eeply Lifeboats however shores of the United Kingdom.
rests onsteirilsible, ,of the great responsibility that
state, and them
to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient
boats, Crews practised in the management of their
annual in— can earnestly dby a large and permanent
countryni`eucc'e, theyappeal to all classes of their
n to aid them
ational a work.
great and t in upholding and perpetuating so
The Coranlift,4
e Fateful;tributions: Y seknowledge the following con-

£ s. d
Ff er Majesty the Queen
ounpbell, the nen. kr • . .. .. annual 50 0 0
rs. G. .. .. .. annual 50 0
Clerk, Colonel, R.A.
Coutts and Co. Messrs ~.Banie•rs annual 1 1 0
Currie, Wm., i:Sq., ..
Erie, Lord Chief Justice' • • .. ..
... :: annual 10 0 0
4th don.lo 0
don. 10 10 0
Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir :4 it • • • •
Fenwick, G. J., Esq., cost of a; .C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0
.Lifeboat and Train-
.sporting• Carriage ..
Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. • • 250 0 0
Martin, Sir Henry, Bart.
• 7th don. 10 0 0
.. ...... don. 30 0
Palmer, Sir Roundel], M.P., 11.M.'; solid-
tor-General .. .. ..
..
annual 2 2 0
Royal Yacht Squadron
Steel, Michael, Esq. .. ..
don. 100 0 0
:: :: annual 10 0 0
Thomas, Lady, Weston-suPer•Mare• collected by her
Ladyship .. .. • • • • .. . 16 1 0
Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .. .. • • annual 50 0
Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re-
ceived by the Rankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis,
Cordial, nd Co., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and
Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. Rendes, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St.
James's-street, London ; by a'l the Collectors of Customs
and Bankers in the Dnitedlllngdom; and by the SecretarY, Richard Lewis. Esq., at the office of the inetitntio ,
, 14
Joamitreet, Adolph', undo, ii.ci:

NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and
most useful invention of the day, AGUA AMARELLA.
Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL'and CO., 3, King-court, Lombard-
street, London, Perfumers to her Majesty, respectfully offer
to the public this truly marvellous fluid, which gradually
restores the human hair to its pristine hue—no matter at
what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the properties of
dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and
when the hair is once restored one application per month
will keep it in perfect colour. Price one 2uinea per bottle, or
in half bottles, 10s. 6d. Testimonials from artistes of the
highest order, and from individuals of undoubted respecta-
bility. may be seen on application. Messrs. John Gosnell
and co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal High-
ness the Princess of Wales.

DR. SCOTT'S BILIOUS AND LIVER
PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REMEDY.—Pre-
,,ared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr.
Scott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who
suffer from bilious and Liver complaints, indigestion, wind,
spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, azo. For habitual
costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier
of the blood, they are truly excellent ; mild in their opera-
tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro-
mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system.
Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross.
London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three
times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr.
Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square
greaen package, with." William Lambert," engraved on the
stmp.

N..) the BIRTH of SRA,
Kets_..PEARE, at Stratford-upon-
.
CELEBRATION of
,t4eChai
Avon. The Tercenteny the
K:cinwittee (of which Sir Robert
TERCENTENARY of
N. C. Hamilton, Bart.,
ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and. Chairman) are now receiv-
ing
of the Tercentenary corn= also be paid to the
and Kidderminster or Warwick and e Committee. the Stourbridge
Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenweamington Banks,
Greenway, Warwick ; or their London aY, Smith, and
Smith, Payne, and Co., Messrs. Hanburys ___ssvits, Messrs.
and
Glyn and Co , bankers, London. Co., or Messrs.
The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the
min
Ribs
;ion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirer:
of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee
rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only
the bh'iliplace of Shakspeare, but the centre of attraction to
all admirOrs of the great Poet's works, and that it was his
home, the town he loved, and where he lived and died.

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.
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 acc9m-
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.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward
Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and
Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn
and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison
and Co. ; W Mame, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and
Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool
and at the Hospital
STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary.

PAGANINI'S VIOLIN sold for £6OO, and for a violin
now in possession of Mr. Johnstone of Alva House, at the
foot of the °chile, £l,OOO has been offered and refused.
THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER is re-
ported to have become a convert to the dolma, rotem,
tv44 LQ intend iiatzolitaps it ;ant solusicgl.