The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-13 00:00:00

ItEITEMBER, WE SUP AT EVANS'
EVERY EVENING THIS WEEK aft,r Alfred
3lellon's Promenade Concerts.

EA. el ass APPRENTICES required
kl in an East Indiaman.—}Thr premium, name 4-,f ship, &c..
apply to Messrs. Lain.' and Co., 27, Coleman-street, Bank.
No control over or interference in the outfitting exercised.

EDINBURGH (Reduced. Fares), from Irongate-
wharf, Tower.--Saloon, 20s ; fore tabin, deck
(soldiers aud sailors only), 7s (id ; return, tickets (available for
a month), aos and 2?s ed. The cheapest and quickest sea
route by the splendid new ST AnSIIIPS of the LONDON
and EDINBURGH SIIIPPING COMPANY, sailing every
Wednesday and Saturday, at 10 morning. Apply at the
spread Eagle, Regent-circus ;or at Iroftgate-wharf.

THE ORIENTAL HOTELS COMPANY
(Limited).
Incorporated under the Comoanies' Act, 1862, by which the
lability of each Shareholder is strictly limited to the amount
of his Shares,

Capital .V5q,000, in 25,000 Shares of £lO each.
First I With power to increase to One
.31illion Sterling.)
ssue 12,500 Shares; whereof a portion will be reserved.
for India.
Deposit .£1 per Share on application, and £1 on allotment.
Calla not to exceed £2 per Share, with an interval of not less
three months between each call.
DIRECTORS.
(Sir John Peter Grant, K.C.8., Chairman, late Lieutenant-
Governor ol Bengal.
Colonel Anderson, CIB., Director of the Eastern Bengal Rail-
waY Company.
Geore Constable, Esq , Firm of Henderson and Constable,
Cannon-street, E C. •
Sir Frederick Currie,• Bart Member of the Council of India.
Colonel French, Chairman of the Bombay xnd Baroda Rail-
way Company.
Colonel Holland, Director of the Al.rra and United Service
Bank.
John Stewart, Esq., Director of the Marine Insurance Com-
pan
Johny. Robert Thomson, Esq., Chairman of the London and
South African Bank.
James Henry Young, Esq., late of the Bengal Civil Service.

A urn Torts.
T. R. Walker, Esq., 21, Hanover-square, and
A Shareholder, to be elected at the First General Meeting.

:SA.NKERS IN LONDON.
The Ara and H'Aited Service Bank (Limit2d), 27, Cannon-
street, E.C.
The London aud County Bank, Hanover-square, W.

BANKERS IN INDIA.
The Aura and Uni red Service Bank (Limited).
SOLICITORS.

Messrs. Uptons, Johnson, and Upton, 20, Austin- triars, E.O

FrancisßßOKEß.
BROKER.
cis Eurnand, Esq., 78' Lombard-street, and 13 and 14,
County-chimbers, Cornhill, E.C.
SECRETARY (pro tern.)
Macdonald Yates, Esq.
Temporary Offices :-36, Cannon-street, E.C., and 5, Parii-

ment-street, Westminster.
ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS.

This Company is formed for the purpose of introducing a
system of efficient Hotel accommodation into India, China,
and other places in the East.
In Calcutta a joi.at-stock company has lately purchased
and undertaken the management of a Hotel, and the pro-
spects of the enter, rise may be inferred from the very high
premium at which their shares are quoted in the Calcutta
market, see "Times" Ju'y 17, the "Englishman's Weekly
Mail" of June 8, 1863, and " Allen's Indian Mail," of August
4—viz., £25 paid. present value, £45 ex div., equal to 80 per
cent. prem., and the payment of a dividend of 10 per cent. for
the halt-year ending 30th April last, equal to 20 per cent. per
annum.

It is proposed, in the first instance, to supply the urgent
requirements of Bombay and Point de Galle.
In the event of two-thirds of the first issue of shares not
being, subscribed for, no allotment will take place, and the
deposits will be returned to the subscrib rs, without deduc-
tion.

It is proposed to pay to shareholders 5 per cent. interest
upon the capital as paid up, until the first dividend is de-
clared.

Detailed prospectuses and forms of application for shares
May be obtained of the Secretary, Bankers, and Broker.

ORIENTAL HOTELS COMPANY (Limited).
V 7 NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, That NO APPLICA-
TION for SHARES in the Oriental Hotels Company
(Limited) WILL BE RECEIVED after SATURDAY, the
15th August current.
MACDONALD YATES, Secretary pro tem.
August 6, 1563.

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.

Established 1809.
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.

Accumulated and Invested Funds . £2,122,828
Annual Revenue .
FIRE DEPARTMENT.

Insurances granted both at home 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 Insured, Premiums.
1,037 £763,334 £23,641 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished
on application at the

OFFICES :
LONtoON •.58, Threadneedle-street.
~
West-end ................ 4, New Bank Buildings. Lothbury.
„ Office.. 8. Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

. .
THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
READ OFFICES
29, Lombard-street, London, mid, Royal Inturance-
buildings, Liverpool.
Total AnnwAl Revenue exceeds £soo,o'o,
Accumulat,,td Funds in hand over 1,000,000.

EXTRAC ES FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR
1862.
The Direttors of the Royal Insurance Company are now
called upu-n to make their accustomed periodical Report at the
Meeting 'of its Shareholders.
FIRE BRANCH.
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.
r.Che 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.
5d., and of the North American business, 'which is kept sepa.
rately, £11,097165. 10d.

LIFE BRANCH.
The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the sum assured on new policies for fhe year if 62
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 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
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 amounts to £148,281. 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
all, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as inadmis-
siole 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
London 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 tuture 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.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE
SOCIETY.

-- - •
The business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000.
The duty paid to Government for the year 1862 was
-.1:85,062, and the amount insured on farming stock,
£10,086,332.

£5,400

.. 11,500
„ 23.200
.. 56,500

Chief Office, 15, Val THOS. LINFORD, Secretary.
Moorgate-street, R. 0., Aug 1,1863.

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 agp•egate to £410,000 ; and the Society
now holds a large Res .rve applicable to a future Bonus.
The rates of premiam are In no case higher than those
charged by the other principal offices making no returns to
their insurers.
For prospectus es apply at the Society's Offices. Surrey-
street, Norwich and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars, E.C.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.
Established 1840.
TRUSTEES.
Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. I 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 • . 0,600
It has paid in Claims .. .. 112,000
n 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
polici ,s _

Dec. 31, 1847 ..
~ 3852 ..
1857 ..
~ 1862 .. —
snaking
Bonuses
lieu of an
Tna-S, be received in Irish or applied to the reduc-
tion of premiums at the option of the assured, in
addition tot he I,obey.
Attention is especially invited to the system
ithe
up policies introduced by this Association, by which _ a
of free orpaid-
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.

il OYAL FREE HOST/TAT
in the immediate vicinity oft --h'j", : Gray's: road
way Terminus, at King's-cross, -- Great Northern
Rail-
Patron—The QuEENT
President—The Duke of Bucci-I,* if,
Treasurer—Edward Masterm -,,-;11", 'LG.
This was the first hospital to introduceafi''''Sq*
and instant admission to the destitute sick,ewlT principle of
mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted the for_free
tution in its most pitiable form—Viz., that wi%the,l to desti-
tution
but the
pr.nied by sickness and disease, and is "w ofianaccfsnm-
magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be 8----.ent
capable of admitting into Its wards a very large proportionrendered
the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires
of
funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. ml,),tion of
it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more,
on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. - more,
The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to
cases that
EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued upper
tdoaielynable them to admit and relieve the distressing cas
Present themselves.
mCaoantributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward
rrnao, Esq Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
,e. Co.;; Drummond and Co. ; Metrics and Co. ; Ransom and
a!-,nJol:Cor.eseo.i,ot.nti,eisGarnrost,e, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn
and Co.;. v7l.- Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison
Co.;, Nisbet and Co.and at the Ho Deacon, and Co. ; Ocerend, Gurney, and
, ; Messrs. J. named and Co., Liverpool
sPitaL
STANFORD S. 531.1T11, Secretary