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

EMEMBER, WE SUP AT 'EVENS'
VNERY EVENING THIS WEEK watt' Alfred
kellon's Promenaq Concerts.

BANK of ENGLAND, E.C,, 3d Sept., 1861.
THF,' Court of Directors of the Governor and
Company of the Bank of England give Notice :
That a GEN ER AL COURT will be held at the Bank on
THURSDAY NEXT, the 10th inst., at Twelve o'clock pre-
cisely, to consider of a Dividend. This will also be one of
the Quarterly General Courts appointed by the Charter.
HA 31310 N D CHUBB . A ssistant Fecretary.

EA.—VACANCIES for MIDSHIPMEN and
1.3 APPRENTICES in a first-class London hipping firm.
Premium moderate. Alpo apprentices without premium.—
Apply to SIMMONDS and Co.. 38. St. Mary-at-hill, East-
cheap, E.C. Third officers and Stewards wanted.

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.

Established 1809.
Incorporated by Royal Chrrter and Special Acts of
Parliament.
Accumulated and Invested Funds
Annual Revenue.... 422,401
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
_ . .

Insuran-es granted both at Home and in 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 Ininred. Premiums.
1,037 £763,334 £23,641 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished
on application at the

OFFICES :
LONDON .................. 58, Threadneedle-street.
4, New Bank Buildings. Lothbury,
West-end Office.. 8. Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

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 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 Reserve 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.

For prospectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey-
street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars, E.C.

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Insurance-
buildings, LiverpoeL
Total Annual Revenue exceeds £500,0n0.
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 agsin 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 thi' Office, the balance to the credit on
account of British and Foreign Insurances being £45,107 10s.
ficl., and of the North American business, which is kept sepa-
rately, £11,097 169* j°cl‘
LIFE BRANCH.
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 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 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 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 forassuranse amounts to £143,281. 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
Lon dan 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.
JOIIN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.

Established 1840.
TRUSTEES.
Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. I Wm. Ceo. Prescott, Esq.
Thomson Ilankey, 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 .. .. £51,000
The Accumulated Fund exceeds .. 200,e00
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

£5,400
11,500

Dec. 31, 1847 ..
1852 ..
1857 ..
makinz the total bonus additions, £96,600.
Bonuses may be received in cash or applied to the reduc
tion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an
addition to the policy.
Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid-
-111) 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.

.. 23.200
56,500

WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary,
Chief Office, 15, Moorgate-street, E.C., Aug 1, 1863.

A.D. 1720.

10 YAL 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 PEARKES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir JonN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.
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.

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

. .
Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S.
FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this
Corporation on advantageous terms.
In the Life Department, assurances are granted with par-
ticipation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such
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 practice,—with the security,
of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex-
perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A ITALY.
Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve
in the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the
United _liingdom, free of charge.
ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary.

OYAL FREE lIOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity
f the Great Northern Rail-
wayicini ty o
Terminus, at King's-, SS.
Patron—
The QUEEN.
f BUCCLEUCIT, K.G.
President—The Duke o
Treasurer—Edward liasterman, Esq.
the prillell3
• le of fre
This was the first hospital to introduce
sick, without the foreand instant admission to the destitute
devoted to rnality of nvernors' letters. It is entirely
i that which is ae,com.
desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—v.Z' A is now of sufficient
pcnied by sickness and disease, and it may be rendered
magnitude that, with adequate support,
large proportion of
capable of admitting into its wards a very
but the
the casual sick of this ,great metropolis. It requires
of
funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception
Moreover,
these the most wretched of creatures.
more,
it gratuitously affords medicaloil. fellow•a-n _
d medicine to
on the average, than 3,000 out-
The advice
week.
The w patients a
duty to make an
Weekly [bard feel it their Imperative
EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support,
to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that
daily present themselves.
Co
rd
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, 'Edwa _ mas r rrrnart, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ransoni,r
co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; k3r.Yn
and Co. ; `ones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison
and Co lllams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend. Gurney, and
Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool
and at the Hospital.

STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary.

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they may be seen in operation daily.

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