The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-28 00:00:00

_ONDON: TAVERN COMP ANY (L)mit o 41).
ALAI Taeoroorated under the Companies' Act, with Limited
Capital ,£:2c,0r,0. in 12,000 Shares of £lO each.
First l'Asue (I,' 00 shares.
oposit:ort application .X.l, and £1 10s. on allotment, with r.
further Call not excoedswr 10s. within three months.
ninFcTons.
Mr. Alderman ABEISS, Chirman.
Jos' ph Causton, Esq., Eastcheap.
Fir ( iiii3ek P. Roney, 15, Lam.rham-place.
J, W. chater, Epq,, London Tavern, Manar.incf Director.
(With power to add to their number.)
MANAGER.
Mr. John hung e.

The Bank of London, Threadneedle-street; and 450,
Strand, W.c.,
So t, iCIT
Messrs. Sole, Turners, and Hardwick, 3 and 4, Alderman-
bury, E.C.
BROKERS.
Mr sari. I-ykyn Brothers, 22, Change-alley, E.C.
AUDITOR.
henry Honey, Esq. (Lionel, and liumphrys!, 14, Ironmonger-
lane.
SECRETARY pro tern.
Mr. Reed.
Offices—The London Tavern, 13ishopsgate-strect.
PROSP CT US.
It is proposed to form a Company to purchase the business
of the well-known London Tavern, Bishowgate-street.
The Directors have ellercd into a provisional agreement
With Mr. Chater, which g ves them
or tee
leasingproperty
a fair rental.
The stock in trade. goad will, wines, plate, furniture, fit-
tings, &c., are estimated at £30,000, anti the present Proprihat
e-
tor guarantees a minimum dividend of 10 per cent. on t
amount for three years.
hese estimates have been verified as to the furniture and
;dant by Mr. Daniel Cronin ; as to the wines and spirits, by
air: R. C, Wilson, of 37, rrury-lane ; as to the fre hold, by
-febenham, of the firm of Debenham and Tewson, 80,
eheapside ; and a report has been made on therofits of the
lousiness by Mr. Henry Honey,
Tr of the firm of Honey and
4-tumphrys, Accountants.
The i ompany to take possession on the Ist October next,
and the profits will accrue as from that date. The option of
Purchasiwr the freehold f
aof constantly increasing va ue, and
Pubstautial guarantee o minimum dividend of 10 per cent.,a
Are obviously great advantages.
In the formation of this Company no promotion-money has
IVen or will be paid, and with a view to avo d a 1 unnecessary
expenses, the offices of the Company will be at the London
Ta-vern.
Upwards of two-third> of the requisite Capital for the first
issue has already been tubscribed for by Mr. Chater, the
.Liree tors, and their friends.
Fortns of Application for Shares to be made in the form
annexed to the Prospectus, with dep,sit cf £1 per Share, to
the Bankers, Tne Bank of London, Threadneedle-street, and
450, Strand.
The Articles of Association can be inspected at the offices
of the Company.
Prospectuses may be obtained at the office of the Brokers,
t 2, Change-alley, E C. ; at the London Tavern, Bishopegate-
stre,'t ; and at the Company's Bankers.
The liability of each shareholder will be limited to the
amount of his subscription, and if no allotment be made, the
deposit will be returned in full.

TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE LONDON TAVERN
COMPANY (Limited).
Registered as a Limited Company under the Joint-Stock
Companies' Act, 1E62.
Gentlemen,—l request y,,u to allot me Shares of £lO
each in the above Company, and I hereby agree to accept
such Shares, or any less number that may be alloted to me,
and to pay the deposit of £1 10s. on allotment, and I further
authorise you to enter my name on the Register for the num-
ber of Shares so allotted.
Signature
Address in full
Date

THE LIVEEPOOL AND LONDON FIRE
AND LIFE INAURANCE .COMPANY.
Established in 1836.
et.ffices :-1, Dale-street, Liverpool ; 20 and 21, Poultry,
London. E.C.
PROGRESS OF THE COMPANY SINCE 1850 :

Tear. I Fire Premiums. I Life Premiums. 1 Invested Funds.

£54,305
222,279
v 0.130
416,065

£27,157
72,781
J 25.974
13',703

L 502,824
821,061
1,3'1,90.5
1,417,808

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The Fire Duty paid by this Company in England in 1862
Ivas X71,V,4.
SWINTON BOULT, Fee et,ry t 3 the Company.
JOll N ATKINS, R. sident e retary, London.
Fire Policies falling due at 31i haelmas should be renewed
13Y the 14th October.

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Inturance-
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.

laTRACrS FROM THE REPORT 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 pleasingly as unexpectedly, at the
close ot the year, to announce, for 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 again fully maintained.
The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably
the amount realised in the preceding year, and In fact sur-
passes that of any year. with but two exceptions, since the
commencement of this Office, the balance to the credit on
account of British and Foreign Insurances being £45,107 10s.
6c1., and of the North American business, whichis kept sepa-
rately, £11,097165. 10d.
LIFE IMANC FT.
The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
Mate the sum assured on ri,.‘v policies for fhe year 1t62
exceeds even that of the ye,lr 18,61 by £189,000, and has arrived
at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of
£701,427 on 1,49 S new policies issued. Until within the last
11evr years it is believed that such a sum assured as that which
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
shareholder, as well as no small encouragement for the
lutrre 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 assuranPe amounts to £!41,281. Various degrees
of ineligibility have led to these lives being declined.
No small number of the Assurance Companies of the day
Illeord their accepted lives annually at a sum not much, if at
all, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as in admis-
tittle in a single year from deterioration of some kind or
another.
If, to complete their review, the Directors now advert
;lien), to the 'United Kingdom, they have to announce that
in Fire Business its progress has been undoubtedly more
raid than that of any other Company established either in
T.ond)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 unfold for it a sphere of still greater magni-
tude, combining distinguished commercial success to the
Office with a ler gthcned career of usefulness and protection
to the public.
PERCY M. DOVE. Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London:

A,/fINERALOGY—King's Collevr, London.—
Prrfessor TENNANT, F.G.S., will commence a
COURSE OF LECTURES en MINERALOGY, with a view
to facilitate the study of Geology, and of the application of
mineral substances in the Arts.
The Lectures will begin on FRIDAY, October 2, at Nine
o'clock, a.m. They will be continued on each succeeding
Wednesday and Friday at the same hour. Fee, £2 2s.
R. W. JELF, D.D., Principal.

CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
ttJl the BIRTH of SHA.KSPE ARE, at Stratford-upon-
Avon. Th, Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert
N. C. Tramiltori. Bart , K.C.8.. is Chairman) are now receiv-
ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the
account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge
and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks,
Stratford-upon-Avon; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and
Greenway, Warwick ; or their London agents, Messrs.
Smith, Payne. and Co , Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or Messrs.
Glyn and Co bankers, London.
The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip-
tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers
of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee
rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only
the birthplace of ShakspeaTe. but the centre of attraction to
all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his
lime, the tcwn he loved, and where he lived and died.

1r) OVAL 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 BUCCLEUCIt, R.G.
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.
This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free
end instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for-
mality of governors letters. It is entirely devoted to desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom-
panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient
meenitude 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 3,0e0 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
Mas ter m an, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
Co. ; Drummond and Co.; Berries andpa
yCnoe. ;
anlldancsoo.m;
;Glyn
co
Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and . ; Smith,
and Co. ; .tones Loyd and Co. ;_ Barclay and Co. ; Denison
and Co. ; W Warns,, Deacon, and Co. ;
dOverend,andco Gurney,Lverpooi and
31e- J. Barne
Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ;
l
and at the Hospital.
STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary.

ARMY CONTRACTS.
TENDERS will be received at this Office until
12 o'clock noon on the 3d of October, from persons who
may be willing to enter into Contracts to supply
FORAGE AND PAILLASSE STRAW,
in such quantities as may he required, for the use of Her
Majesty's Land Forces stationed in the following places,
from Ist November, 1863, to 31st October, 1861 :
FORAGE.

1. Hyde.palc, Kensington, Regent's-park, and gorse
Guards.
2. Hounslow and Kneller
8. 'Hampton Court.
4. Windsor.
5. Brighton.
6. Sandhurst.
7. Enfield.
PAILLASSE STRAW.
1. Brompton House. Hyde-park, and Kensington.
2—Regent's-park, St. John's-wood, and Portman-street
Barracks.
3. New Barracks, Chelsea.
4. Wellington and St. George's Barracks.
5. The Tower.
6. Hounslow and Kneller
7. Frampton Court.
S. Windsor.
9. Brighton, with Coast Forts from Newhaven to Shore-
ham.
10. Croydon.
separate Tenders must be made for Forage and for Pail-
asse Straw for each of the above-mentioned Stations or Bar-
racks as grouped and numbered.
Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob-
tained on application at this office, by letter or in person,
between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock.
Tenders on the printed forms must be properly filled np
and signed, and no Tender will be noticed unless delivered
at the under-mentioned Office, under closed envelope (marked
on the outside " Tender for Commissariat Supplies "), before
12 o'clock noon on the 3d October next.
(Signed) W. T. POWER,
Commissary-General.
Deputy Commissary-General's Office,
5. New-street, Spring lardens,
Undo, OM. loth 401*/ 1863.