The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-12 00:00:00

ItEMEMP,F,R WE SUP AT EVANS'
EVE ERY EVENING TIIIS WEEK after Allred
Diellon's Promenade Concerts.

BANK of ENGLAND, Sept. 10, ISO 3.
HE GOVERNOR and COMPANY of th©
BANK of ENGLAND GIVE NOTICE, That the
!yrtNERAL COURT held at the Bank This Day is.A.D-
-u°IIRNE U till TUESDAY NEXT, the 15th inst., at Eleven
o'clock in the Forenoon, for the purpose of taking the de-
tormination by vote, in print or writing., of the question on
the following. Resolution, proposed at the Court for a Divi-
dend, viz.: -
That a Half-ye's Dividend of Interest and Profits be
hiade on the 10th October next of £4 10s. per cent., without
deduction on account of income tax.
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at fh omg will commence at eleven o'clock, and terminate
our.
JAMES STEWAET, Secy.

ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN
It AIIWAY (Penns, Ivanla Division).—Coupons due
October Ist will be aid in London at the Consolidated Bank
vv()lonnted), Na 4, Lompbard-street, London (late 'Messrs. Iley-
o,f;oe, kennards, and Co.), at the Exchange of 18. to the
..uollar.h
Coupons will be requi,ed to be lodged at the Office
the Company two days previously for examination.
London, 2, Old Broad-street,
September 10, 1863.

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE Collll'liN Y.
Established 1809.
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.

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Ceumulated and invested Funds £2,122,M
Annual Revenue.... 422,401

FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Insuratres granted both at home and in Foreign Countries
on the most liberal terms.

LIFE DEPARTMENT.
Every facility offered to Insurers.
Ninety per Cen. oft the Profits divided among the Insurers
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On the participating principle.
The new Life business transacted 111 1862 as follows :
Amrunt Inured. Premiums.
1,037 1763,334 £23,641 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished
on application at the

OFFICES:
LONDON.
SS, Threndneedle-street.
4, New Bank Butldinv,l4. Lothbury.
„ West-end Office S
Waterloo-place,

VORAVICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE
SOCIETY.

The business of tie Company exceeds £70,000,000.
The duty paid to Government for the year 1862 was
85,062, and the amount insured on farming stock,
X 10,05.6,332. _ .

A bonus of three-fifths of the prat! s periodically made to
.Parties insuring, who have thus, from time to time, received
minis amounting in the (I,(gregate to £140,000, and the Society
now holds a large deserve applicable to a future Bonus.
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The rates of premium are in no case higher than those
har.-,
their dby the other principal offices making no returns to
insurers.
l' °r Pro-pectuses apply
at the Society's Offices, Surrey-
s.
et, Norwich • d 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-
tr( , an
friars, I'IC

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
nEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Insurance-
buildings. Liverpool.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds Csoo,o^o,
Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,000,000.

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

Chairman in London

MILLI A.M WAINWRIGHT, Esq.

E-ITRAwrs FROM THE REPORT FOR TIIE YEAR

1862.

The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now
railed
upon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the
Reefing of its Shareholders.

The Directors have,F asIRE pleasinglyßßANCH. as unexpectedly, at the
close 01 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
insconiderably
!Po amount realised in the preceding year, and tact sur-
Pas@cs that of any year, with but two exceptions, since the
commencement of thia Office, the balance to the credit on
,account of British and Foreign Insurances being £45,107 10s.
(1., and of the North American business, whichis kept sepa-
rately, £11,097 16s. 10d.

LIFE BRANCH.
The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
Mate 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
K 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 or.
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

s, 2 .2 • d
afforded by a statement of the number rejected. These have
amounted to 311 for the year, on which the agfrregate sum
proposed for assuran7e amounts to 143,28 I. 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 Itoyal has declared as in admis-
sicle in a single year from deterioration of some kind or
anoth-r.
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
rancid than that of any other Company established either in
lend 3n 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
Insurancw Company were never brighter, and aft consequent
hope, founded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that
the future may unfold for it a sphere of still greater magni-
floe, combining distinguished commercial success to the
Office with a lengthened career of usefulness and protection
to the public. .

PERCY M. POVE, Manner and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

pItOVID ENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.

Establisl►ed 1510.
TRUSTEES.

Thomas Bating, 'Esq. M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
Thomson Ilankey, E 4 I,
M.P. 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

L 51,000
2:,0,G00
.. 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

.. X 5,400
.. 11.500
.. 23.200
.. 56,500

Dec. 31, 1847 ..
9, 1852
~ 1857 ..
1862 • • • • •
making the total bonus additions, £98,600•
Bonuses may be received in wish or applied to the reduc
Lion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an
addition to the voltcy.
Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid-
"ti policies introduced by this Association, by which the
crifice 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
rented districts.

WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary,
Chief Moe, 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 PEARECES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir JOHN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.
Wiimot 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 Soltan, Esq.
Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P.
William Wallace, Esq,
Chas. Baring Young, Esq.
TEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S.
NCES may be effected with this
terms.
surances are granted with par-
lower Premiums, without such

nenry Bainbridge, Esq.
Robert Barclay, Esq.
john Garrett Cattley, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq.
Thomas Dent, Esq
Alexander Druce,-ksq.
Fredk. Jos. Edlmaun, Esq.
Riversdale W. Greniell, Esq.
If obt. Amadeus Heath, Esq.
Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.:
Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq.
Medical Referee, SAM
FIRE and LIFE ASSURA
Corporation on advantageous
In the Life Department, as
ticipation in Profits, or, at
participation.
The Reversionary Banns 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 have
the security
of an (Mice 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
in the Militia, Yeomanry, or volunteer Corps within the
United Kingdom, free of charge.
ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, at King's-cross. 's
-inn-road,
Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCII,
N.G.
Treasurer—Edward Maaterman, Esq.
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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-
panied
by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient
magnitude that, with adequate surport, 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 MO beds available for the reception of
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover,
it c,ratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, -
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on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week.
The Weekly Board feel it their imperativeiluty to make an
EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support,
to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing eases that
daily present themselves.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer. Edward
Mas term an,
j. ~ esq Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. (butts and
Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and
Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. : Glyn.
Loydand Barclay and Co. ; Denison
, and Co. ;Jones
and Co. ; W 11Iams, Deacon, and Co. ; OGurney, verend, and
Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool
and Co.;
Co. ; Nisbet •
and at the Hospital
STANFORD S. SMITH Secrets.?

Y-invented
SPEOTACLI3S.—The Patent Newl
wevFbated Speetaeles are patronised by the majority extra-
minuatY, including' Viscount Palmerston. They afford
di co, and defective vision.—S. and l 3
SOLsrinremlief to weak,
--s."4S, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.

ONEY PROMPTLY ADVANCED by a
FURNITURE (without
rem aril) Tvate Gentleman
tte., 7„, ,easehold and Freehold3r.or Reversions,
street, eshners -tr°l3,:k 420 to £540.—Mr. 18, Queen-
pudupon_
Property,iloivar