The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-26 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON FIRE
AND LIFE IN6UtIANCE (..OMPANY.

Established in 1836.
—l, Dale-street, Liverpool • 20 and 21, Poultry,
London, E.C'
PROGRESS OF THE COMPANY SINCE 1850 :
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Offices

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

1851 £51,305
1856 222,279
1861 30,130
1862 436,065

£27,157
72,781
135,974
13 ',703

£s' 2,8 A
821,0111
1,31,905
1,417,808

The Fire Duty paid by this Company in England in 16
was £71,234.
SWINTON BOULT, Fee- et,.ry tl the Company,
JOIN ATKINS, IL.sident :Feeretary, London.

THE QUEEN INSURANCE COMPANY.
156, Leadenhall-street, Loudon, E.C.
Queen Insurance-buildings, Liverpool.
Capital ONE MILLION STERLING.
At the Annual Meeting of the Proprietors, held at Liver-
pool, on the 21st October, 1863, BERNARD HALL, Esq.,
Chairman of the Company, in the Chair, the Directors'
Report for the year stated—
That the Fire Premiums for the year amounted to .... £70,300
being an increase over the preceding year of .... 22,680
That the Life Premium Receipts for the first three
years were
and for the past three years
' - latter triennial period

being an increase in the
over the former of
That the amount accumulated since last Meeting, as
a Fire Reserve Fund, was. ... 23,427
and the amount added to Life Fund was
That during the past five years the Company had paid
for Claims
the Actuary reported that the Life Liabilities had been
valued on the soundest principles, viz., Net Premiums at 3
per cent. interest, and that the Bonus to participating Policy-
holders averaged as much as 46 per cent. per annum of the
Premiums paid, while in some instances it was as high as 65,
70, and even 75 per cent.
A dividend was declared to proprietors at the rate of 8 per
cent. per annum.
J. MONCRIEFF WILSON, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN E. LEYLAND, Secretary.

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

Mr. J. Stansfeld, M.P., the Junior Lord of the Admi-
ralty, has for the present concluded his labours at Ports-
mouth dockyard. The last part of Mr. Stansfeld's work
there was a minute inspection of the steam reserve afloat—
the ships composing the reserve in their different classes, the
engineers, stokers and others employed on board or at Has-
lar, with the particular nature of their duties past and pre
sent, and other details in connection with this important
baanch of the service. As a part result of Mr. Stansfeld's
inquiry at Portsmouth yard, a commission, of which Adrui
rat Sir Houston Stewart, K.C.8., naval commander-in-
chief at Devonport, and Vice-Admiral the Hon. G. Grey,
late Admiral Superintendent of Portsmouth yard, era mem-
bers, has been formed to report upon the steam reserve of
the different yards.
The Columbine, 6, screw, Commander Ward, was in-
spected at Spithead on Saturday by Vice-Admiral Sir M.
Seymour, G.C.8., and afterwards sailed for the Pacific.
The Emerald, 35, screw frigate, Capt. A.Cumming, sailed
from Spithead on Saturday evening for Sheerness, where
she is ordered to dismantle and pay out of commission.
The line. of- battle ship Bombay, 2,782 tons, built in the
East Indies, and the last of the 80 gun sailing ships con-
verted at Chathana dockyard to a screw steamer, is ordered
to be placed in dock at Chatham to undergo a thorough
overhaul and refit, and to be brought forward by the com-
mencement of next year for commission. She will probably
succeed the Nile as the flagship on the North American
station. Since her conversion the armament of the Bombay
has been reduced from 80 to 67 guns. She is to be fitted to
carry a complement of 650 officers and men, including ma •
rin es.

The Chesapeake, 39, 2,377 tons, 400 horse power, attached
to the third division of the Chatham steam reserve, is to be
placed in the first dock which becomes vacant at Chatham
to have her hull examined, and to undergo a thorough
overhaul. It is probable that she will be selected to suc-
ceed the Narcissus, 39, 400 horse po'wer, as the flag ship at
the Cape of Good Hope, the Chesapeake, one of the last of
the 50-gun sailing frigates converted to screw, not having
aeon any secv.e.) for some length of time.
The lighter Aid, with stores from Chatham, arrived at
Plymouth on Saturday.
The screw steam frigate Liverpool, 30, Capt. Rowley
Lambert, at Devonport, has discharged her powder, and
will to-day be placed in dock to be repaired, refitted, and
stored for foreign service.
The screw steam gun:vessel Speedwell, 4, Commander
Cotton, has left Plymouth for the West Coast of Africa.
The screw steam corvette Scylla, 21, having been exa-
mined at Devonport, was removed on Saturday into the
basin to complete defects incurred when in collision with
the merchant ship Duke of Wellington in the Bay of Bis-
cay. On this occasion the corvette was on the starboard,
and not on the port tack as first stated. The Wellington
was on the port tack.
The screw steam sloop Alert, 17, Capt. Majendie, left
Plymouth on Saturday for her station in the Pacific.
His Prussian Majesty's frigate Niobe, 28, Capt. Luber,
and the Mosquito, 14, Capt, Hassentein, both from Dantsic,
*waved in Plymouth Sound on Saturday. These ships,
with the Rover, which arrived there on Wednesday, are
bound to the island of Madeira. _ .

The following appointments were made on Saturday at
the Admiralty :—Commander W. T. F. Jackson, to be an
inspecting commander of the Coastguard, vice Murray, su-
perseded at his own request : Sub-Lieut. John Hope, to the
Esk; Henry H. Jauncey, nominated to a naval cadetship;
John Watson (A.), of the Espoir, promoted to acting first-
class assist-engineer.