The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-12 00:00:00

ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS.

This Company is formed for the purpose of introducing a
system of efficient Hotel accommodation into India, China,
and other places in the East.
In Calcutta a j& it-stock company has lately purchased
and undertaken the management of a Hotel, and the pro-
spects of the enter rise may be infer red from the very high
prem um at which their shares are quoted in the Calcutta
market, see "Times" Ju'y 17, the "Englishman's Weekly
Mail" of June 8, 1863, and "Allen's Indian Mail," of August
4—viz., L 25 paid. present value, £45 ex div., equal to 80 per
cent. prem., and the payment of a dividend of 10 per cent. for
the half-year ending 30th April last, equal to 20 per cent. per
annum.

It is proposed, in the first instance, to supply the urgent
requirements of Bombay and Point de Galle.
In the event of two-thirds of the first issue of shares not
beintr subscribed for, no allotment will take place, and the
deposits will be returned to the subscrib.rs, without deduc-
tion.

It is proposed to pay to shareholders 5 per cent. interest
upon the capital as paid up, until the first dividend is de-
clared.
Detailed prospectuses and forms of Application for shares
may be obtained of the Secretary, Bankers, and Broker.

ORTENTAL HOTELS COMPANY (Limited).
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, That NO APPLICA-
TION for SHARES in the Oriental Hotels Company
(Limited) WILL BE RECEIVED after SATURDAY, the
15th August current.
MACDONALD YATES, Secretary pro tern.
August 6, 1863.

PASSENGERS AND TRAVELLERS
PROTECTION AND COMPENSATION OFFICES,
16, Craven-street, Strand, London, W.C.
Passengers by Rail, Road, or Water, and others suffering
from loss or injury to themselves or property, should apply
for redress and compensat:on at the above Offices ; established
to render prompt assistance to all classes upon the most ad-
• van tageous terms.
Advice on application gratis. Letters must be addressed
to " The Manager," enclosing a stamp for reply.

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Imurance-
buildings, Liverpoel.
'Total Annual Revenue exceeds £500,010,
Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,030,000.

EXTRAWS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR
1862.
The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now
called upon to make their acctuitomedperiodical Report at the
Meeting of its Shareholders.

FIRE BRANCH.
The Directors have, as pleasing% as unexpeetedly, at the
close oi the year, to announce, for t e 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 £45,107105.
lid., and of the North American business, whichis kept sepa-
rately, £11,007 16s. 10d.

LIFE BRANC IT.
The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
State the sum assured on new policies for fhe year 1862
exceeds even that of the yeßr 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 tail 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 sum
proposed for assuran^e amounts to £143,281. Various degrees
<of ineligibility have led to these lives being declined.
No small number of the Assurance Comnies of the da
record their accepted lives annually at a sum not much, if at all, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as inadmis-
stole 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
London 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, combiniag distinguished commercial success to the
Office with a le, gthened 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 £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 proflts 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 'rve applimble 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.
flFor prospectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey-
irareest:
E.C.Norwi ch ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.
Established 1840.
TlitraTEr s.
Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. I Win. Geo. Prescott, Esq
Thomson Hankey, Es q., M.P. I Baron L. de Rothschild,
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 ..
.. £51,000
The Accumulated Fund exceeds
.. 2r0,c00
It has paid in Claims .. • • • • 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 .. .. . • • • • • X. 5,400
1852
..
..
.. •• .. 11,500
•, 1857 .. .. ~ .. .. 23.200
.• 1862 .. .. .. • • • • 56 500
,
making the total bonusadditions, .£96 600.
tion non
pr ma; be received in clsh
P'31"1BeB
in lieu of an
addition t:,nh'ulns at the option of the assured,
Attention Ise
id-
up policies on es- e
11061211 y invited to the system of free or pa
flacrifice so Zoduced by this Association, by which the
oided.
po icy is wholly nv submitted to on the relinquishment of a
The balance3r-st
whether assurers oeretmtof the Association are open to all,
Active and entialinflu
Rented districts. dents will be appointed in unrepre-
WM. Trios Secretary.
Chief Office, 15, moo . LINFORD,
Mate-street, E.C., Aug 1, 1863.

ROYAL FREE H
in the immediate vie?oSttyPinTtzthTi, Gray's-inn-road,
way Terminus, at King's_orom ec L Greatt; Northernti:ogri:,,:iricopt.Gs
n.tffinl:,l9ot
unavetmiehnloor--etif,
Patron—The or,—
President—The Duk --"'"•
rd Btrc
Treasu7erEdwkra
This was the first hondtal to introatdeortn, Inh,eEpsl.l._,
and instant admission to the destituentli-pseetek:htichliFitlse of free
mality of governors' letters. It is
desti-
tution in its most pitiable form— I
v_z , that which
devoted ttoachdeefsotri--
panted by sickness and disease, ailt! is
that, with adequate support.
capable of admitting, into its wards a very la,"`a)' be rendered
the casual sick of this great metropolis. It:
funds in order to have 500 beds available for itlcielecer-z3spbtu.
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures.
it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicinebitco more,
on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week,
The Weekly iioard feel it their imperative duty to air
EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued rnun—e an
to enable them to 2+ dinit and relieve the distressing elig)t°rt,
daily present themselves. that
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward
Mae errnan, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutta and
Co.; Drummond and Co.: Iferries and Co. ; Hansom and
Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Gl
and co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ;Denison
icI;;;.W Mares, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and
Co.;, isoet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool
and at the HospitaL

STANFORD S. SDLITII. Secretary.

VIIIISTOLGRAMS of BABIES (Guinea Jewellery
t, Portraits), with album enlargements therefrom, taken
4,27, at SKAIFE'S Pistolgraph Depot, 32, Sussex-place, Re-
'il'eussc_s_.-park, N.u-
- ~ where a clao3ification of children's like-
-1-0 irom the day of birth may now be seen. Invalids and
-.wins attended.