The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-08 00:00:00

THE ONLY OFFICE WHOSE PONDS AND POLICIES OF GUA-
RANTEE ARE ACCEPTED BY THE TREASURY, CUSTOMS,
INLAND REVENUE GENERAL POST-OFFICE, WAR, ADMI-
RALTY, HOME, COLONIAL, INDIA, AND OTHER GOVERN-
MENT DEPARTMENTS.
THE EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
DIRECTORS IN LONDON.
HENRY WICKHAM WICKHAM, Esq., M.P., Chairman,
John Cheetham, Esq., Stalybridge.
John Field, Esq., Warnford Court, City.
Charles Forster, Esq., M.P. for Walsall.
Richard Francis George, Esq , Bath.
Henry IL Harrison, Esq., Hamilton-place, St. John's-wood.
Thomas C. Hayward, Esq., Minories and Highbury.
John Hedgine, Esq., Cavendish Club.
James Edward M'connell, Esq., Wolverton.
C, W. Reynolds, Esq., Eaton-place, Belgravia.
Richard Spooner, Esq., late her Majesty's Commissioner of
Custnrns, Bomb
H. Wickham Wickham, Esq., M.P. for Bradford.
Thqrnas Winkworth, Esq., Gresham Club, and Canonbury.
J. P. Bros n-Westhead, Esq., M.P. for York.
Security is provided in approved cases for Officers of Bank-
ing and Commercial Establishments, Public Companies,
Municipal Corporations, and for other places of trust.
Life Assurance may be combined with Guarantee on ad-
vantageous terms.
Prospectuses, Forms of. Proposal, and every' information
Pay be obtained from the Chief Offices, 2, Waterloo-place,
11-mall, London; and 39, George-street, Edinburgh.

WESTERN MANCHESTER and LONDON
LIFE ASSURANCE and ANNUITY SOCIETY.

Established 1842.
Chief Offices-3, Parliament-street, London, and
77, King:street, Manchester.

ACTUARY—Arthur Sciatchley, Esq., M.A.
SPECIMENS OF BONUS ALLOTTED. —E. G. has paid
£lB3 lls. 3d. in Premiums towards his Policy for £1,600 ;
£106125. ld. Bonus has already (1860) been allotted to him.
R. S. has paid L 7 Os. in Premiums towards his Policy for
£lO ; £6 2s. 11d. Bonus has already (1860) been allotted to
him.

ANNUITIES AND ENDOWMENTS GRANTED.
Full Prospectuses, Proposals, and every information may
be obtained from the Actuary in London, the Local Secretary
in Manchester, or any of the Society's Agents.

AGENCY DEPARTMENT.
This Society, always desirous of extending its operations
and connections, offers to influential residents in the towns and
villages of the United Kingdom liberal allowances on business
which they may be able to introduce. 'rhe services of Soli-
citors, Medical Men, Surveyors, Auctioneers, or Tradesmen
of good local standing, are invited In the capacity of Pri-
vate or Public Agents. All applications to the Offices are
treated as confidential. Prospectuses, Forms of Proposal,
Almanacks, &c., forwarded post free.

ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Insurance-
buildings, Liverpoel.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds £500,010.
Accumulated Funds In hand over 1,000,000.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The Receipt of FIRE PREMIUMS has been as follows :-
1854 £128,459 I 1858 £196,148
1856
"While for 1862 they exceeded .000,C00.
The Fire Revenue has been enhanced, in four years, by the
enormous sum of more than £lOO,OOO, and during the last six
years it has been doubled.
151 oreover, the latest Parliamentary Return of Insurance
Tax paid to the Inland Revenue Office (ordered to be prnted
by the House of Commons, Bth July, 1862) exhibits the
ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, as respects increase of
business, at the HEAD OF ALL the Insurance Offices.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
The rapid progress and position of this branch will be best
shown by the following statement of the New Life business
. effected for the
Tear. Sum Assured. New Premiums.
1855 £206,514 .. £5,904 18 7
1857 129,380 10.270 8 6
1859 434,170 .. 13,086 8 5
1661 521,101 .. 16,627 18 0
While the sum assured by New Polices in the year 1862
amounts to more than Seven Hundred Thousand Pounds
Sterling.
Large Bonuses declared 1855 and 18f.0—£2 per Cent. per
annum. The greatest Bonus ever continuously declared by
any Company.

PERCY M. bOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOUNS'rON, Secretary in London

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.

Established 1840.
TRUSTEES.

Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
I Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P.
. Mutual Lif, 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 .. • • .. .C 51,000
The Accumulated Fund exceeds .. 2 o,' 00
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

Dec. 31, 1847 •
.. £5,400
)852
.. 11,500
~ 1857 23 200
1862 .. • : ‘▪ •
•• • •
making tne total bonus addition; •.£960
60— . • • 56,500
Bonuses ma:-, be received in c'l3ll or appliei to the reduc-
tion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an
addition to the I ()Fey.
Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid-
up policies introduced by this Association, by which the
sacrifice so often submitted to on the relingaishment of a
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
rented districts.

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

ItOYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, at King's-cross.
Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCII, K.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 for-
mality of governors' letters. It is devoted to desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom-
panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient
very
large may pbr
proportion
p ortrenderedion ol
magnitude that, with adequate
capable of admitting into its wardsu support,
requires but the
the casual sick of this great metropolis.
funds in order to have 500 beds available for t receptioni of
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures.e
it gratuitously aflords medical advice and medicine tooreover' 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 cases that
daily present themselves.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward
Masterman, Esq. Nicholas-lane; also by ITessrs. Coutts and
Drummond and Co.;lletTies and Co. ; Ransom and
;Prescott, Grote, and eo. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn
Sufi
and COCo.;, ones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co.; Denison
co.. W lliams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and
and'afibet and Co. ; Messrs. J. named and Co., Liverpool
Lee Hospital.

STAB FORD S. SMITH., Secretary.

WRUPTITRES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
RITE'S MO LEVER TRUSS
MOO-MAIN LEVER RE GREAT
(PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED
FXHIBITIONR or 1851 AND 1862), is allowedl
Two hundred Aledical Gentlemen to
invention in the curative treatment of .
r,e the
its effects,
The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in
bmiLyTouisip:f upwards
fNredelst 1
Avo et.
the
is here avoidcd—a soft b'andage being worn round
body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fittin.g with so much ea
and closeness that it cannot be detected, and
and the
during slee cannerescriptive circular may he had,
truss, whichfail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir-
may be worn
eumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being
sent to the manufacturer,
Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly.
A single Trues, 165., 218.,265. cei.,_ Postage, le.
and 318. 6d.
A Doublo Truss,
Ms. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage,
An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, le. 10d. le Bd.
Post-office
Orders to be made payable to John White, Post-
office, Piccadilly.
-_-_

NEW PATENT
ELAST IC sTOCKINGS
KNEE-CAPS, Arc.. for Varicose Veins and all easesoi
Weakness and Swelling of he Legs, Sprains, &c. They
arp
porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on
lit ean ordinary stocking. Price 4e. n. 30®, to 164.
euh. Postage 6d.

JOHN WRITE, Manufacturer, 228, PiceadiUy.