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London, England, 1863-09-17 00:00:00

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IVItTli BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Established 1860.
Incorporated by Royal Chrrter and Special Acts of
Parliament.
ccamulated and Invested Funds £2,122,828
'nolal Revenue
422,401
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
r Is
„ • Airan'es o-rante,=, both at Home and in Foreign Countries
"n the Most liberal terms.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
every facility offered to Insurers.
''tY per (lent. of the Profits divided among the Insurers
rsCD the particip-,ting principle.
.oew Life business .ran,:alted in 1862 as follows :
Policies. Aranint In ured. Premiums.
1,037 £703,334 £23.611 0 0
"Pn'Tog of Proposal and every inforx, ation will be furnished
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aPplication at the

I"bON Orricrs:
5S Threadnveale-strcet.
4, New Bank Building.s. Icthbury,
_ " West-end Office.. 8, Waterloo-Place, Pall-mall.

NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE
SOCIETY.
The business of t':e Company exceeds 470,000,000.
,R;he duty paid to Government for the year 1562 was
410'°62, and the amount insured ,on farming stock,
'056,322.
A bonus of three-fifths of the profi's periodically made to
parties insuring,, who have thus. from time to time, received
'„ll'rts amounting in the aggregate to £440,000 ; and the Society
"ew holds a large lies rve appli:able to a tuture
The rates of premium are in no case higher than those
iVarged by the other principal offices making no returns to
Surrey-
aeir insurers.
Vor prozpectuses apply at the Society's Offices,
street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street Black_
friars, E•C'

yr E ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES,
20, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Inturance-
buildings. Liverpool.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds £500,0,0.
Accumulated Funds in hand over 1 0:;0,000.

Chairman in Liverpool:
CHARLES TURNER, FN., ALP'
Chairman in London :
WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq.

ATTRACTS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR
• „„ 1862.
rif Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now
v,9led up; to make their accustomed periodical Report at the
Sleeting (.1 its Shareholders.
FIRE BRANCH.
ectors have. as p'easinglv
The D' •
li)rose o the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire
as unexpectedly. at the
have not only reached, but exceed £300,000.
The hi; h comparative position held by the Royal in the
`inverno-;( ,nt Returns of Duty is • fully mantanied.
pThe pre fit of the business of the year exceeds considerably
anaou nt realised in the precedsig• year, and In fazt sur-
r°"es th at of any year, with but two exceptions, sine- the
ra
4•lnienc ement of Office, the balance to the eredlitlosti
t'
telanSuritct of B
he rit North
and
si
Foreima Insurances bein V 5,10 0 .
American buness, which is kept sepa
Y, 4 11,097 16s. 10d.

The , LIFE BRANCH'.
state t'uerY gratifying, duty now falls upon the Directors tO,
sum assured on n w policies for The year y -
e7d_ even that of the yesr 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived
t7oVA,..almost unexampled amount for
.a si.ngle year of
few 011 1,498 new policies issued. Until within the last
ham ',„eal 'S it is believed that such a sum trsured as that which
Ivas'ZlTl3, en announced as the Jesuit of one year's business
Ti,_ but unheard of.
water, Portion of the Company's business has been carefully
share,`,l,, and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the
futrwlider, as well as no small encouragement for the
E 4 to the participating life assurer.
afford: 7lce of continued care in the selection of lives is amply
afneu by statement of the number rejected. These have
pre„) fed to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate s"m
ei 4L'ied for assuran"e • mounts to .£,41.281. Various degrees
xeeligibility have led to these lives being declined.
au ti their
reeer "all number of the Assurance t_ ompanies of theelay
accepted lives annually at a sum not much. if at
tie eeeding those which the Royal has declared as in a.drins-
e a single year from deterioration of some kind or
othq.
It t
briett 0 complete their review, the Directors now advert
to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that
ra,,: ire Business s progress has been undoubtedly more
thatt that of an other Company established either in
Alaedy
"a or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken
ate The returns of duty have prove this. In Lie, the
unt a New Policies already repord ted make all other
rrltence needless.
ex"'e Directors conclude their present Report with the
ink'? ession of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal
11-,,Uraaca Company were never brighter, and of a consequent
thr-' '°ollded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that
future may untold for it a sphere of still greater rnaeni-
-6,g, combining distinguished commercial success to the
tetitl„c with a le,g,thened career of usefulness and protection
Lae public.
PF.TICY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

pROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASOCIATION.

Established 1840.
TRUSTEES.

Thomas Barincr, Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
Thomson Sankey, hsq., M.P. I Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P.
Mutual Lif- Assurance for all classes.
This Association has now in existence 15,000 policies, for a
total sum of £1,500,000.
The Annual Income is ..
The Accumulated Fund exceeds
It has paid in Claims

.. £51,000
.. 2 o,' 00
.. 112,000

The whole of the profit. 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 1,400
.. 11,500
23 200
.. 53,500

Dee. 31, 1847 ..
„ )852
„ 1857 ..
,
18 2
tnakincr the total bonus additions, £90,600.
ti Pommes may be received in cash or applied to the ?edits
ionaddi
remiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an
to the ol.cy.
Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid-
Dolicies introduced by this Association, by which the
I,,,4er,ince so often submitted to on the relinquishment of
v-zy is wholly avoided.
'Pe balance-sheets of the Association are open to all,
'whether assurers or otherwise
Activo and influential agents will be appointed in unrepre•
''ented districts.

W3I. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary
Chi
Office, 15, Moorgate-street, E.C., Aug 1,1853.

A.D. 1720.
'ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION
(Eltablishe,a 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.
r'EORGE PEARICES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir Jomi HENRY PELLE, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
liTert DIRECTORS.
Pot,le7 Bainbridge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq.
10-11,r,,t taro ay Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville.
Ikt - "rarratt -dattlev, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
Irao Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq.
TI-1,,,1arn Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy.
Ale Dent, Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq.
Fre's,b_ancler Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
RW4,I, aos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
,4` sdale G renf William Soltau, Esq.
Amadeus Heath Esq Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P.
Jas.
n'Petlow Hibbert, Esq. William Wallace,q.
°tewart Hodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring Esq.
yr, tiedical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S.
Co and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this
Ott on advantageous terms.
tioiri,;4r Life Department, assurances are granted with par-
Partc°,l in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such
TheiPation.
rearievßeversionary Minis on British
sumoPlicies has averaged
Eqiii!P,er cent. per annum on the assured.
ravatan't.ent reductions have been made in the Premiums
"Y Persons who preferred that form of Bonus.
Any-'6visions of Profit take place every Five years.
Life. ata not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one

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Corporation affords to the Assured—
,
t,lberal participation in Profits—with exemption from
he liabilities of partnership.
A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual
sotonecekt.ies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital
The advantages of modern practice,—with the security
of a.n Office 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
e Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the
United Kingdom, free of charge.

ROYA.I. EXCHANGE, LONDON.

ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary.

ARMY CONTRACTS.
Commissariat Office,
Aldershot, 24 September, 1863.
TENDERS will be received nt this office, until
noon, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th September, 1863,
from persons who may be willing to enter into Contract for
the supply of