The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-12 00:00:00

IrtEMENII3EI.I, WE SUP AT EVANS'
Mellon'sVEßY EVENING TIIIS WEEK after Alfred
Promenade Concerts.

BANK of ENGLAND, Sept. 10, 1851.
riP, GOVERNOR and COMPANY of the
LANK of ENGLAND GIVE NOTICE, That the
A.L COURT held at the Bank This Day is AD-
opITRNE ti till TUI4]SDAY NEXT, the 15th inst., at Eleven
clock in the Forenoon, for the purpose of takingthe de-
-4rll!inittion by vote, in print or writinz, of the question on
' vollowino- Resolution, proposed at the Court for a Divi-
den6l, viz.
Ti ,at Half-year's Dividend of Interest and Profits be
rfial on the 10th October next of £1 10s. per cent., without
tteduethrt on account of income tax.
The voting will commence at eleven o'clock, and terminate
at four.

JAMES STEWART, Secy.

ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN
-RAILWAY (Penns, lvania Division).—Coupons due
lst will be psid in London at the Consolidated Bank
v o_o
tnitinil, No. 4, Lombard-street, London (late Messrs. Hey-
-n Kenuards, and Co.), at the Exchange of 4s. to the
The Coupons will beeuired to be loilg.ed at the Office
of th
• c Company two days previously
fur examination.
London, 2, old Broad-street,
September 10, 186'1.
•

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.

Established 1SGO•
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.

Aetui,
_ ..n.ated and Invested Funds
lunua Revenue L') Ir)2 q.)
422,401
FIRE DEPARTMENT.

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Instuatres ,ranted both at Rome and in Foreign Countries
ou 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 Insured. Premiums.
1,037 £763,334 £23,641 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every infor.nation will be furnished
on application at the

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

NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE
SOCIETY.
The business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000.
,Zhe duty paid to Government for the year 1862 was
5,0(12, and the amount insured on farming stock,
£10,086,132.
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
few 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' curreY -
street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars, E C . .

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
READ OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Insurance-
Liverpoel.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds ........ Lsoo,o^n,
Accumulated Funds in hand over 1000,000.

Chairman in Liverpool:
CHARLES TURNER, Esq., MP.

Chairman in London :
WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq.

XTT? A
FROM TIDE REPORT FOR THE YEA'

-
1862.
1,0 Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now
calledi, upon to make their accustomedperiodical Report at the
106 of its Shareholders.
FIRE BRANCH.
ectedly
The Directors have, as pleasingly as unexp,
ri at the
1;°8e 0, the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire
retritnms 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.
ihThe mounth realised in the precedg year, and ins fat Bury
that of any rear, with but two exceptions, since the
'°oltriencoment of thin Office, the balance to the credit on
account of British and Foreign Insurances being £15,107 10s.
and of t he North American business, which is kept sepa-
rately, £11,097 16s. 10d.
LIFE BRANCIT.
The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
`tate the sum assured on n-iv policies for the year 1P62
vxceeds even that of the year 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived
at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of
17'701,427 on 1,498 new policies issued. Until within the last
few Years it is believed that such a sum assured as that ishich
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
Pliar,holdor, 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 agf,rre,gete Bum
proposed or assuran^e A mounts to i 41,28 I. 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
eyeeeding those which the Royal has declared as inadmis-
',filo in a single year from deterioration of some kind or

If, to complete their review, the Directors now advert
briefly to the United Kinv,dom, they have to announce that
in Fire Business its pro.,zreNs has been undoubtedly more
rapid than that of any other Company established either in
tond in or elsewhere, except when arnal2-amations have taken
place. The returns of duty have proved this. In Life, the
amount or New Policies already reported make all other
evidence needless.

ThCT)i;eetOWconelnde their present Report with the
expression of an opinion thac the prospects of the Royal
Insuranc4 Company were never brighter, and of a consequent
hope, fo,nded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that
the future may untold for it a sphere of still greater manni-
t!'de, eombiniug, distingnished commercial success to the
,-
'ffv.e with a leLsgthenecl career of usefulness and protection
to the public.

PERCY M. POV?, Manafzer and Actuary.
JOHN E. JOIINSTO.N, secretary in Loudon.

pROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.

Established 1840.
TRUSTEES.
Thomas Baring, Esq., 31. P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
"mason Hankey, Esq P.. I 31 Baron L. de Rothschild, 31. P.
toraittial Life Assurance for all classes.
nAmsosocif
z'altsioconohoaos now in existence 6,000 policies, for a
• , •
WheAnnual Income is £51,000
he Accumulated Fund exceeds 2,'0,100
It has paid in Claims .. 112,000
the The whole of the profits are divided quinquennially among
Members. Three divisions have already been made'
when the following sums have been added as bonuses to the
Policies
Dec. 31, 1847 • • • • •• • •
~ 1852 .. • •
~ 1857 •• • •
_•• 1882
... . • • •
ztking the total bonus additions, £96,000.
llonnses may be received hi cash or applied to the reduc •
xion .premiums at the option of the assured, in lien of an
addition to the rol.cy.
Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid-
oP policies introduced by this Association, by which the
sserifice 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 nnrepre-
iented districts.

XN,400

.. 11,503
.. 23 200
.. 56,500

WM. TILOS. LINFORD, Secretary.
Chief Office, 15, bfoorgate-street, E.C., Aug 1,1563.

A.D. 1720.

OYAL EXCH—A—NG—E ASSURANCE
CORPORATION
(Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First)

FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES.
Offices, Royal Exchange, London.
Branch, Office, 29, Pail-malL
OCTAVIUS WIGRAX Esq., Governor.
GEORGE PEARKES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir Joan HENRY TELLY, Bart, Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.

henry Bainbridge, Esq.
Xobert Barclay, Esq.
John Garratt Cattley, Esq.
31ark Currie Close, Esq. ,
William Davidson, Esq.
Thomas Dent, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq.
Predk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq.
itiversdaleW. Greniell, Esq.
Robt. Amadeus Heath, Esq.
Win. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.•
Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. V

Wiimot Holland, Esq.
Earl of Leven and Melville.
Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
Henry Nelson, Esq.
The Hon. Joseeline 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.

Medical Referee, SAMIIEL SOMA', Esq., F.R:S.

FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this
Corporation on advantageous terms.

hi the Life Department, assurances are granted with par-
ticipation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such
participation.
The Reversionary BAUM 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 DALE.
The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve
itnuitedthe Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the
'kingdom, free of charge.

ROYAL EXCDANGE, LONDON.
ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Grads-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rai'--
Way Terminus, at King's-cross.

Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of DUCCLEUCIT, N•G'
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.
This was the first hospital to introduce the
principle of free
and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the 10r.
mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to
desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom-
pcnied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient
magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered
capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of
the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the
funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover,
it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine' to more,
on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a Week.
The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an
EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support.
to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing eases that
daily present themselves.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward
mns term", Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
Co. ; Drummond and Co.; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and
Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. Smith, Payne. and (o. ; Glyn
and Co. ; Jones Loydan dCo. ; Barclay and Co. ;Denison
and lliaras, Deacon,
.and Co.; Overend, Gurney, and
Co.;•
Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Earned and Co., Liverpool
and at the Hospital.
.—__ STANFORD S. SMITH Secretar

SPECTACLES.—The Patent Newly-invented
NobilTinted Spectacles are patronised by the majority of the
o ineludincrViscount Palmerston. They afford extra.
Bro'alvv relief Optwek, dip, and detective vision.—S. and B
"NS, icians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.

PROMPTLY ADVANCED by a
Zniovai,lve Gentleman upon FITRNETURA (without
in a —asellold an Freehold Property', or Rversions,
Klee (mums
"eaPside— 420 to £500.-11r. iioWitrcl, IS, Quen-