The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-20 00:00:00

ENTEMTIER, WE SUP AT F,VANS'
Mellon'sVEßT EVENING THIS WEEK after Alfred
Promenade Concerts.

,T)T-;NBURGT-1 (Reduced Fares), from IronzatP-
' wharf, Tower.—Saloon. 20s ; fore cabin, 15s ; deck
(soldiers and sail3rs onl), 76 td ; return tickets (available for
a month), 303 and 2fs I'd. The cheanest and quickest sea
route by the solend d new sT KAMSIIIPS of the LONDON
!ad EDINBURGH SHIPPING COMPANY, sailing- every
Wednesday and Saturday, at :0 morning. Apply at the
Spread Egle, Regent-circus; or at Irongate-wharf.

\ORTH BRITISH ANT) MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Established 1809.
Incorporated by Royal CliErter and Special Acts of
Parliament.
Ae,lutilnlited and Invested Fundc
421222,578
,401

FIRE DEPARTMENT.
irsuran-es frrantei both at Home and in Foreign Countries
"the most liberal terms.
1 LIFE DEPARTMENT.
:I'.erY facility offe,ed to Insurers.
, n
ty
the Per Cent, of the Profits divided among the Insurers
partieip,ting principle.
ahe new Life business 7ransacted in 1862 as follows:
Policies. Am-unt In • ured. l'remiums.
1,037 £763,334 V 3.641 0 0
ou
a° f P
'ins of and every information will be furnished
pplication at the

LOND Orncrs:
uN. ................. 58, Thresdneerlle-street.
............... 4, New Bank Buildings_Lothbury.
West-end Office.. 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
MEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Inc urance-
buildings. Liverpool
Total Annual Revenue exceeds .£50n,0-n.
Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,0".0,000.

Chnirmin In Liverpool:
CHARLES TURNER, Ysq., 31. P.

Chairman in London

WILLLIM WAINWRIGHT, Esq.

XXTRACIS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR

1862.

The Directors of the Royal Imurance company are now
Called upon to make th dr accustomed periodical Report at the
31eeting of its Shareholders.

The Directors hays.lßE BRANCH.
Fas p easinzly as unexpectedly, at the
close o the year, to announce, fo, the first time, that the Fire
Premiums hnve not only reached, but exceed £300,000.
The high comnaratiie position held by the Royal in the
Grwernment Returns of Duty is again fully in,inta,ned.
The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably
the amount, realised in the priced rig year, and in tact 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 Insurances being £15,101 10s.
54, and of the North American business, which is kept sepa.
rately, £11,097 16s. 10d.

LIFE BRANCif.
The very grratifyinz duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the sum assured on n w rolicice for the year 1,,G2
.exceeds even that of the ye.r 1801 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived
at the almost unexampled amount for a stride year of
470 t,497 on 1,498 new policies issued. Until within the last
few years it is believed that such a sum frsured as that which
has jntt 1-Ken announced as the result of one year's business
'ag nl l 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
Int,.r, to the participating life assuri-r.
Evidence of continued care in the selection of lives is amply
afford,!d by a statement of the number rejected. These have
amounted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum
proposed forassuraroc -mounts to £ 43,28 t. Various degrees
ofilityhave led to these lives being declined.
No small number of the Assurance ompanies of the da record their accepted lives annually at a sum not much, if at all, exci,edin, those which the Royal has declared as inadmis-
sible in a single year from deterioration of some kind cr
anothi- r.
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
ratdd than that of any other Company established either in
_Lou d..ni or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken
Place. The returns ol el,ity have proved this. In Life, the
amount of New Policies already reported make all other
evirtence needless.
The Directors conclude their present Report with the
e:rpression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal
Insurancia 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 nuallni-
bade, combining distinguished commercial success to the
Ofti‘!e with a leogthened career of usefulness and protection
to the pubic.
PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

_ _ •
NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE
SOCIETY.
' The business of t'le Company exceeds £70,000,000.
Tie duty paid to Government for the year 1862 was
10
5,062, and the amount insured on farming stock,
4,(86,:332.
part
A bonus of three-fifths of the profl's periodically made to
parties insuring, who have thus. from time to time, received
u
rns amounting in the aggregate to £440,000. and the Society
now
The holds a large Res rye appli 'able to a future limns.
rates of premium are in no case higher than those
eharrred by the other principal offices making no returns to
theit insurers.
For
",, , Pro-pectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey-
---' eeL, Norwich • and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars, E.e. '
—________

QUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C.
Established 1821.
Subscribed Capital, Two Millions.
DIRECTORS.
......_ sir MIN TO FARQUHAR, Bart., M.P., Chairman.
vIIARLES WILLIAM CURTIS, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
henry Hulse Berens, Esq., , Shawb Esq.
henry Bonham Carter, Esq. G. Letevre, Esq.
Charles F. Devas, Esq. John Martin, Esq.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. James Morris, Esq.
-lames Goodson, Esq. Henry Norman, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Esq. M.P Henry R. Reynolds, Esq.
zohn Gr. Hubbard, Esq., 'M.P. Abraham J. Robarts, Esq.
Fredk. H. Janson, Esq. i Henry Vigne, Esq.
AUDITORS.
Lewin Loyd, Esq. I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
Corn,3lius Paine, inn., Esq. Noel Whiting. Esq.
ThOS.Tallemach, Esq., Secretary I Sarni. Brown, Esq., Actuary
----
LIFE DEPA RTMENT.—UNDER THE PROVISIONS OP AN
ACT OF PARLIA.3IENT, this Company now offers to new In-
surers EIGIITY PER CENT.
Divisions, or a Low Rate of Premi of the Profits, at Quinquennial
Profits, um without participation of
Since the establishment of the Company in 1821, the
Amount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in
ea sh value £ilfio,ooo, which represents e Bonuses of £1,058,000. quivalent Reversionary
After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1850, the Life
Assurances in force
amounted to upwards o, f
£4,730,00 with eoxistintheg Bonuses thereon.
, Income from Lite
Branch £207,000 per annum, and
the Life Assurancethe Fund,
independent of the capital, exceeded £1,618,000.
LOCAL Extra Premium MILITIA and VOLUNTEER CORPS.—No
is required for service therein.
LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their
values, if such value be not less than £5O.
ASSIGNMENTS OF. POLlClES.—Virritten Notices of, re-
ceived and registered.
MEDICAL PEES paid bor Policy Stamps. y the Company, and no charge
every Drip slon ot property at moderate rates.
Company.
Losses caused by Explosiori of Gas are admitted by this

A.D. 1720.
ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION
(Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First
Fort SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. )
Offices, Royal :Exchange, London.
Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall.
_ OCTAVIUS WIGRA3T, Esq., Governor.
GEORGE PEARKES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub_Govenior,
Sir JORN HENRY PELLY, Batt, Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.
"Ml' 'Bainbridge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Pohert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville.
John-Garratt Cattlev, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
liark Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq The rion. Josceline W. Percy.
Thomas Dent F q • Charles Robinson, Esq.
Alexander Druce, -Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
:Predlc. Jos Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrineton Smith, Esq.
RiversdaleW Greniell, Esq. William Soltau, M.P.
WmPat. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Sorties, Esq., M.P.
. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.' William Wallace, Esq.
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 limns on British Policies has averaged
nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum
assurteht
Premiums
Equivalent reductions have been made in
payable by persons who preferred that forprvofeßoensruss.
'the divisions of Profit take placa e
Any sum not exceeding X 15,00 may bei insured on one
Life,

This Corporation affords to the Assured—
Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from
the liabilities of partnership.
sA rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual
oeieties—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital
tnck.
_with the security
°t an of modern practice,
'Lk)tilee whose resources have been tested by the ex-
The Co ot nearly a CENTURY AND A nALF.
In the mßiTration have always allowed the Assured to serve
United IkinugVeemanry, or Volunteer Corps within the
free of charge.
110TAL ExcßANcx, LONDON.
LL ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary.

rfELEBRATION of
1,,-..) the BIRTH of sip,-
'-''''..SPF ARE, at Stratford-upon-
. Avon. The Tercentenary C
the TERCENTENARY of
c. Hamilton. Bart , li.c.n°..raim' letii".
(of
Tv
are now receiv-
ing SUBSCRIPTION's,
account of the Tercenten :rnp,tocneinv ialre ny 1.1.11..)
.ee
._ th Stourhridge
hich Sir Robert
and Kidderminster or Warwick and eLaet ' tpoanid itloankjea,
Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenwaanivings ith, and
Warwick ; or their 1 ondon ' ' mRI 's
sGrrncitnh,wilYtv. ne. and 430 ,ltenors fl
d
Co.,alio en essi .
or Icaa ' TB.
cilyn and *Co . banker e, London.
The Tern( ntenary Comornoiitee, in submit"
fia_istlisattaisetera
t,To!I.,:iCs onmotmiotntelye
witting- the subscrip-
tion list to the
fora ft:l°lne i rtr' aid 'aenatrl a "til Y appeal to the admirers
' iiie !iron
of shakspeare
birthplace of Shakenea.e. 111 the centre ot attraction to
trhesettlicir claims nil,
all admirers of the great Po^t'a works, and that it NV a his
home, the town he lived, and ‘where he lived and died,

IIONE) E. It',
PROMPTLYet AFTIURVIMLICIP bV
a l'e,rnoval`. Le,agehold Imo Freehold Property nr Rescwerigthout
'''''' , in sums from £2O to £300.-21r. lioWard, 18, 61:en::
ctreet, Ceeapside.
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ri:o Ppr Eons in WANT of MONEY (in To,
Auvp!Country).—A. w
GEN7TLEHAN is willinzin
NaI,,—NCES of CAS tl, without delay, to resocctsVo person,
csa ieroale), on their own security. The fittest secrecy
7it 'ltedecl cn.—Anply (it by letter enclose tour stall:Ts) to
Lt;ad -It Robert Accountant, 40. Kfmr. Wilrn-street,
esu-brid, ' •
be, lt.C.—Movey advanced on Deck Warrants.

r"4I)TATE CASH ADVANCES.—PPrEnris
..,,,. requiring ca .
instalmellts, to canble
II '2l to incra,4 lmt-al, repa,yablc by.
..- or for any other
" r 1)", can r,e (?r commence burin-tB,
1,1 9rll.lcation at the
I'll'es of t. 1,0 ‘,.„(1,1Y obtain Advances c
- -L ,114, p , A ,
CLITION's . -•-• cicoPCP WVAINCe.
Prospectus aria forms sent free.
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