The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-18 00:00:00

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Prontnade Concerts.

ViDINBURGI-1 (It from Trnm.r,t'-
--2---1 Wha4, Tower.• Saion, 20s ; tore cabin, 15s die'c
(soldiers and sailors on is Ad; return tickets (available for
a month), 30s and 2•:: cd. The cheapest and qu,ckest sea
route by the s;-,:end.d new sT oi the LONDON
and EDINBURGH. SHIPPING COMPANY, sailing every
Wednesday and :Saturday, ar :0 morning. Apply at the
Spread Eagle, Regent-circus; or at Iron ate-wharf.

CONTRACT FOlt PROVISIONS.
Royal Hospital, Chelsea,
14t1, Aug., If 0 t.
IrEIF, RIGHT NONOURkBLE the LORDS
and OTHERS, COM VIS -TONERS of this HOS-
PITAL, do hereby give NOTICE, That they are ready to
receive TENDERS from and to treat with sech persons as
M3Y be wiling to Contract for yictuailin, the in-pernicners
of the said Hospital, from the tat October, 1803, to the 30th
September, 1860, both days inclusive, with the following
articles of provisions, &c., viz.:—Beef and Mutton, Bread,
Cheese, liner, Petalne,, Salt, Oatmea,, Barley or Rice,
Pepper, Flour, Suet, Coc,a, Black Tea, Suoar, Milk, Onions
or Leeks, Carrots, Celery, 'rhyme, Marjoram, Winter Savory
and Parsley, daily, at per head per diem for the whole
ration a:,,cording, to the established allowances of the house, as
specified is the form of'f'ender, which rosy be obtained at the
office of the Secretary any clay between the hours of 10 and 3
o'clock, which 'fender must be filled up and delivered, sealed,
at the Board-room of the said Hospital by the party or
parties tendering, or by an agent appointed on his or their
hahalt, on Tuesday, the Ist of septen.ber, at 12 o'clock. at
which time their Lordships will be prepared to take the same
consideration.
It is to he observed that the Contractors wi'l be required
to find Security to the Crown for the due perform
an
and that no Tender will be received afteran e e
thet tdayhe
and hour cbuve mentioned.
The Commissioners do net pledge themselves to accept the
lowest Tender.

A. J. MOORHEAD,
Secretary and Registrar.

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,(56,332.
A bonus of three-fifths of the profi s periodically made to
parties insuring, who have thus, from time to time, received
sums amounting in the aggregate to £410,000; and the Society
now holds a large lies rye appli•able 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 pro .pectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey-
street, 'Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars, E.C.

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 pro,erty, should apply
for redress and compensation at the above Offices ; established
to render prompt assistance to all classes upon the most ad-
vantageous 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 £loo,o n.
Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,000,000.

Chairman in Liverpcol.:
CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.?.

Chairman in London :

WILLIA.M WAINWRIGHT, Esq,

EXTRACTS FROM THE. jatEPORT 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 veasin.c,,ly as unexpectedly, at the
close o the year, to announce, fo,- 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 mantained.
The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably
the amount realised in the preced.ng year, and in fact sur-
passes that of any year, with but two exceptions, sine- the
commencement of thi Office, the balance t, the credit on
account of British and Foreign Insurance, being £45,101 10s.
5d., and of the North American business, whichis kept sepa
rately, £11,097 16s. ltd.

LIFE BRANC IT.
The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the sum assured on n w policies for fhe year 162
exceeds even that of the ye4r 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived
at the almost unexampled amount for a simile year of
£701,427 on 1,498 new policies issued. Until within the last
few years it is believed that such a sum a, sured as that which
has just be en announced as the zesult 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
futare 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 as suran'e ',mounts to £ 43,281. Various degrees
of ineligibility have led to these lives being declined.
No small number of the Assurance t ompanies of the day
record their accepted lives annually at s sum not much, if at
all, exceeding, those which the Royal has declared as inadmis-
sit le in a single year from deterioration of some kind or
tooth

If, to complete their review, the Directors now advert
briefly to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that
in Fire Business is progress has been undoubtedly more
rac,id than that of any other Companv established either in
Lond,)n 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 untold for it a sphere of still greater rnaoni-
tude, combiniog distinguished commercial success to
the-
Office with a le: gthened career of usefulness and protection
to the pubic.

PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Established 1809.
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.
Accumulated and Invested Funds . Z2,122,828
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 Iransacted in 1862 as follows :
Policies. Am- tint In -ured.• Premiums.
1,037 £763,334 £23,641 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every infor nation will be furnished
on application at the

OFFICES :
58,
W Threß clnpedle-street.
. ............... 4, New Bank Buildings.
West-end Office 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mallLothbury.

LONDON..

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 PEARKES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir JOHN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.

nenry Bainbridge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville.
John Garratt Cattle!, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy.
Thomas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq.
P obt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P.
Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq. William Wallace, Esq.
Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, 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 Bonus on British Policies has averaged
nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured.
Eq_uivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums
y.ayable 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.
. 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 HALF.
Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve
'ne Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the
nited lEingdom, free of charge.
ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary.

GUARDIAN. FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
No. 11, Lombard-street London, E.C.
Established 1821.
Subscribe,: Capital, Two Millions.
virtZCTORS.
Sir MINT() FARQUHAR, 11,1 t., M.P., Chairman.
CHARLES WILLIAM CURTIS, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Henry Hulse Berens,
john Labouchere, Esq.
Henry Bonham Carter, Esq. ;G. Shaw Lefevre, Esq.
Charles F. Devas, Esq. John Martin, Esq.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. James Morris, Esq.
James Goodson, Esq. I Henry Norman, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Esq., 11l'Alenrry R. Reynolds, Esq.
John G. llubbard, Esq., M.P.l' b aham J. Robarts, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq.
Fredk. H. Janson, E: q•
'ORS.
Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
Noel 'Whiting, Esq.
I Sand. Brown, Esq„ Actuary

AIM:

Lewis Loyd, Esq.
Cornelius Paine, jun., Esq.
Thos. Tallemach, Esq., Secretly

LIFE DEPA RTMENT.—I7NnEn TnE Pnovlstons of AN
ACT OF PARLIA3IENT, this Company now offers to new In-
,urers EIGHTY PER CENT. of the Profits, at Quinquennial
Divisions, or a Low Ratt, of Premium without participation of
Profits.
Since the establishment of the Company in 1821, the
Amount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in
cash value £590,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary
lionuses of £1,058,000.
4.4 After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the Life
with existin, Bonuses thereon,
araonrances in force, wi- ono, the Income from the Life
l'ra:cnied to upwards of .£-1,..30,
the Life Assurance Fund,
.ndepe 4207,000 per annum,
ndent of the capital, andexceeded .i1,T,,000.
At d voLuNTLER CORPS.—No
Extra Pv.-1)
MILITIA an
LOAN ,...um is required for service therein.
vilues,ifBngranted on Life cis
£5O.
the extent of their
mt,,,(..,N. ch value be not less than
oeivea a'n'd—ZgEhi,tTerSed
MEL) . ICAL PER
OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, re-
co- I,,,ficy stamps. S paid by the Company, and no charge
FIRE DEPARTI's insurances are effected upon
71:Is:essecraipus
ieoan of prrEoNpeTri—y at moderate rates.
.oLapsay. by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this