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

SEA.-VAC 4NCIES for MIDSHIPMEN end
APPRENTICES in a first-class London shipping firm.
Premium mod Prate. Also apprentices without premium.—
APply to SIMMONDS and Co.. 38, St. Mary-at-hill, East-
cheap, E.C. Third Officers and Stewards wanted.

NORTH BRITISH AND ATERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Established 1800.
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
A Parliament.
conrnulated and Invested Funds
. L 2,122,828
Annual Revenue ..„ ............................... 422,401
. ..........
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Insuran'es granted both at Rome 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 transacted in 1862 as follows :
Policies. Amount Inured. Premiums.
1,037 £763,334 £23,641 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished
" application at the

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OFFICES :
LON rioN ......58, Threadneedle-street.
4, New Bank Buildings. Lothbury.
West-end Office B, Waterloo-plate, Pall-mall.

NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE
SOCIETY.

The business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000.

The duty paid to Government for the year 1662 was
6:85,062, and the amount insured on tarmfing stock,
.E 10,086,332.

A bonus of three-fifths of the profits perioically made to
parties insuring, who have thus, from time to time, received
sums amounting in the aggregate to £410,900; and the Society
now holds a large Reserve applimble td a future Bonus.
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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, Surrey-
street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars, E.C.

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
DEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-FAreet, London, and Royal Insurance-
buildings, Liverpool.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds £500,010.
Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,000,000.

Chairman in Liverpool:
CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P.

Chairman in London :

WILLIA.M WAINWRIGHT, Esq.

EXI
---.:RA.crs FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR

1862.
The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now
Tailed upon to make their accustomed periodical .Report at the
Meeting of its Shareholders.

The Directors have, as pleasingly as unexpectedly, at the
close
of the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire
Premiums have not only reached, but exceed £300,000.
_eThe high com y Returns
p osition held by the Royal in the
ernment Returns of Duty is again fully mslntained.
the
he profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably
amount realised in the preceding year, and in tact sur-
passes that of any year, with but two exceptions, since the
ly
commencement of thi4 Office, the balance to the credit on
Peo Unt of British and Foreimi Insurances being £15,107 10s.
rate
and of the North American business, whichis kept sepa-
, £11,007 16s. 10d.

LIFE BRA.NC IT.
The ye—
.l, gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the sum assured on new policies for fhe year 1862
exceeds even that of the year 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived
at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of
£701,427 on 1,498 new policies issued. Until within the last
few years it is believed that such a sum aesured as that which
as Just been announced as the result of one year's business
Was all but unheard of.
Ibis 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
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 aggregate sum
proposed for assurance mounts to £143,281. 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
'di, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as inadmis-
sible in a single year from deterioration of some kind or
another.

If, to complete their review, the Directors now advert
briefly to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that
in Fire Business its progress has been undoubtedly more
rapid than that of any other Company 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, toonded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that
the future may untold for it a sphere of still greater magni-
tude, combining distinguished commercial success to the
Office with a lengthened career of usefulness and protection
to the public.
PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOAN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.

Established 1840.
TRITSTEES.
Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
I Thomson Ilankey, Esq., M.P. Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P.
Mutual Life 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 £51,000
The Accumulated Fund exceeds .. 2,'0,(J00
It has paid in Claims .. .. 112,000
The whole of the profits are divided quinquennially among
the ]Stembers. Three divisions have already been made'
when the following sums have been added as bonuses to the
Policies _

• . 0,400
.. 11,500

Dec. 31, 1847
„ 1852
„ 1857
1862 ..
'Making* the total bonus additions, £96,600.
Bonuses ma-j- be received in cash or applied to the reduc
tion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an
addition to the Toltcy.
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 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 unrepre-
sented districts.

.. 23.200
.. 56,500

W3l. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary.
Chid Office, 15, Moorgate-street, E.C., Aug 1, 1863.

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 PE ARSES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir JOAN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.
WiiMOt Holland, Esq.
Earl of Leven and Melville.
Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
Henry Nelson, Esq.
The lion. Josceline W. Percy.
Charles Robinson, Esq.
Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
William Soltau, Esq.
Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P.
Wilham Wallace, Esq.
Chas. Baring Young, Esq.

Henry Bainbridge, Esq.
Robert Barclay, Esq.
John Garratt Cattley, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq.
Thomas Den., Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq.
Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq.
RiversdaleW. Greniell, Esq.
obt. Amadeus Heath, Esq.
Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.:
Jas. Stewart Hodgson, 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.
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 X 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 nALF.
The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve
In the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the
United Kingdom, free of charge.
ROYAL EXCHANGT:,, LONDON.
Rola. P. STEELE, Secretary.

'ROYAL FREE IfOSPI Gray's-inn-road,
lit the immedtate vicinity of '
thelj
way Terminus, at T.ering's-cross. f
QUEEN.
GreatlJEEN. Northern Rail-
Patron—The sc K.G.
President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH,
Esc.
Treasurer—Edward Masterman,
This was the first hospital to introduce thep_rin
and instant admission to the destitute sick,
without
for-
mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is ACCOM-
--- i) et
the free
Pealed by sickness and disease, and is now
beof sufficient
magnitude that, with adequate support, it may
proportion of
capable of admitting' into its wards a very large
reception of
the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the
funds in order to have 500 beds available for the
over,
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. "ore ore,
on the a.verage,
It_gir.atuitously affords medical advice and medicine to m
than 3,000 out-patients a week.
?t, The lyeekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an
o.ARNI,..ST APPEAL to the public for continued support,
_ enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that
daily present themselves.
_ Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward
Masterman, I''s are
Niel:1018.8_1=e. also by Messrs. Coutts and
Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries: and Co. ; Ransom and
Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn
and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison
and Co. ; W lliaras, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and
Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool
and at the Hospital.

STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary.

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