The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-26 00:00:00

MIEN( BE R, WE SUP AT EVANS'
,4 EVERY EVENING THIS WEEK tan. Alfred
Mellon's Promenade Concerts.

cgEA.—VACkNCIES for MIDSHIPMEN Pna
K. 7 APPRENTICES in a first-class London shipping fir rn.
Premium moderate. Alpo apprentices without premium.—
Apply to SIMMONDS and Co.. 38, St. Mary-at-hill, East-
cheap, E.C. Third officers and Stewards wanted.

IDINBURGH (Reduced Fares), from Irongate-
wharf, Tower.—Saloon, 20s fore cabin, 153: deck
(soldiers and sailors only), 7s rd ; return tickets (available for
a Month), 30s and 22s d. The cheapest and quickest sea
route by the splendid new ST EAMSHIPS of the LONDON
and EDINBURGH SHIPPING COMPANY, sailing every
Wednesday and Saturday, at 10 morning. Apply at the
Spread Eagle, Regent-circus ; or at Irongate-wharf.

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
REAR OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, Lom:on, and Royal inkurance-
buildim-,,5, Liverpool.
Total Annual Reventi, exceeds ........ Esoo,o^^.
Accumulated Fluids in hand over ......1,030,000.

Chairman in Liverpool:
CHAR,LES TURNER, Esq., M.P.

Chairman in London :
WILLIA.3I WAISWAIGIIT, Esq.

Ex Tp
--ACI'S FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR

The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company atrentoilve
called upon to make their accustomed periodical Repor
at
Meeting of its Shareholders.
FIRE BRANCH.
The Directors have, as pieasing,lv attsrustnettxmpeecttnyt,haetFtihree
close of the year, to announce, for the
,ooClyoa.l in the
Premiums have not only rear
The bhuettedxcebyedth£o,3oßo
The hi comparative position
Government Returns of Duty is again fully maintained.
The profit of the business of the year exceeds
andihstweteuty.
the amount realised in the preceding year,
Passes that of withanytyrreriee, bthuet thwaolaehireceetp,.t,totre,
esrinedciettohne
commencement of h
account of British and Foreign Insurances being £45,107 10s.
and of the North American business, which is kept sepa•
rately, £11,097 16s. 10d.
LIFE BRANCH.
The very 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 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 assuran^e Amountsto £ 41,28 P. 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-
sible in a single year from deterioration of some kind or
another.
Tf, 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 future may unfold for it a sphere of still greater macni-
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 t',c Company exceeds £70,000,000.
The duty paid to Government for the year 1562 was
£85,062, and the amount insured on farming stock,
£10,086,332.

A bonus of three-fifths of the profi's periodically made to
parties Insuring, who have thus, from time to time, received
sums amounting in the aggregate to £440,000 ; and the Society
now holds a large lies ,rve appli?able to a future Bonus.
The rates of premium are in no case higher than those
charged by the other principal offices making no returns to
their insurers.

For pro<pectuses 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 Barimr, I
Esq., M.P. W. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P.
Mutual Lit, 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
The Accumulated Fund exceeds
It has paid in Claims

.. £51,000
.. 2`0,, 00
.. 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 ..
1852
„ 1857 ..
„ 1862 ..
Maltimr the total bonus additions, £95,600
Bonuses may be received in cash or applied to the twill°
tion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an
addition to the I °Ley.
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.

.. £5,400
.. 11,500
.. 23 200
.. 56,500

WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary,
Chief Office, 15, Moorg,ate-street, E.C., Aug 1,1883.

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.

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

Accumulated and Invested Funds
Annual Revenue 422,401
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Insuran'es 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 t ransacted 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 :
LONDON 58, Threadneedle-street.
4, New Bank Buddine.s. Lothbnry,
West-end Office B, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

OELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
the BIRTH of SHAKSPE ARE
(ofat Stratford-upon-
Avon. The Tercentenary Committee'which Sir Robert
N. C. Hamilton, Bart, K.C.8.. is Chairmanln,3l,a3ree nowd rrety-
ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may
account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Sptaourbrcicthge
and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Bank:
agents, Messrs
Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and
Greenway, Warwick ; or their London
Smith, Payne, and Co , Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or Mes.rs..
Glyn and Co , bankers, London.
The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting, the subscrip-
tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers
o Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee
r6st their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only
the birthplace of Shakspeare, but the centre of attraction to
all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his
home, the town he loved, and where he lived and died.

CONTRACT FOR PROVISIONS.
Royal Hospital, Chelsea,
14th Aug., if. 63.
THE RTGITT HONOURABLE the LORDS
and OTHERS. COMMISSIONERS of this HOS-
PITAL, do hereby give NOTICE, That they are ready to
receive TENDERS from and to treat with such persons as
may be wilting to Contract for victualling the in-ensioners
of the said Hospital, from the Ist October, 1853, to the 30th
September, Mt, both days inclusive, with the followin,*
articles of provisions, Sze., viz. :—Beef and Mutton, Bread",
Cheese, Butter. Potatoes, Salt, Oatmeal, Barley or Rice,
PePper, Flour, Suet, Cocoa, Black Tea, Sugar, Milk, Onions
or Leeks, Carrots, Celery, Thyme, Marjoram, Winter Savory
"4 Parsley, daily, at per head per diem for the whole
ration according. to the established allowances of the house, as
specified in the form of Tender, which may be obtained at the
(Tice of the Secretary any day between the hours of 10 and 3
at which Tender must be filled uand delivered, sealed,
artier
tendering, or
of the said
Hospital by the party rr
or by an agent appointed on his or their
which TnesdaY, the Ist of September, at 12 o'clock, at
ime their Lordship be prepared to take the same
into consideration.
],t is. to be observed that the Contractors will be required
to Security to the Crown for the due performan eof the
dlad
will Contract, and that no Tender be received after the day
and hour above mentioned.
The Commissioners do not pledge themselves to accept the
lowest Tender.

A. J. MOORHEAD,
Secretary and Registrar.

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vttred without any mercurial ingredient,
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Scott of Bromley, Kent, will be foun
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from the recipe off Dr.
suffer from bilious and liver coma---
pasnas, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &c.
and R 8 a purifier
costiveness, as a family apet edicine
mild in their opera-
For habitual
of the blood, they are truly excellent;
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Sold
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three
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limes the quantity in one,' ga 9d. Be sur
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Sootts Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a
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'TOLGRAMS of 13/031PS (G •
p,rtraits), with album erilarryljeLmentUsitilhtleraetjroemw,etlaikerenY
daily at SKATEE'S Piatel4raph Depot, 32, Sussex-place. Re-
gent's-park, NAP., where a cl"bification of children's like-
namines attendedf ay of birth may nosy be seen. Invalids and

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RUPTURES.-13y ROY --------------t.
WHITE'S Al 0 C-MAA-1 LETLTEERvExigs
(PERFECTED AND fi_,,N
EXHIBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1.-(iinirrED
Two Hundred Medical Gentle),,,;' -Lialluw-A ~Tnt
invention in the curative treT be th-f, "Y uPwardsol
The use of a steel spring, „ oittraent ot- DFliost effective
is here avoided—a soft bandnge e'il, hurttull Elt lA.
pwein Wat4l.lts effects,
1;ody, while the requisite resisting
Iti&-Maio ['ad and Patunt Lever,'fittin,,,er, 8 PPlicTinid the
~nd closeness that it cannot be detecied with no
ebtLy the
(hiring- sleep. A &scriptive circular in4arl In ay he ease
truss, which cannot fail to fit, forward ie had, a,,,worn
cumierence ot the body, two inches belowPOst,he Ilion t''.--juedetthre.
sent to the manufacturer, PB, being
Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly.
& A Single Truss, Ills., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. ed. post
Dnublo Truss, :11s. Gd., 425., and 525. 6d. Postas',."age,ls.
ka Umbilical Trues, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, le, X: 16 ad,
lest-office Orders to be made payable to John Mad
te, post.
Piccadilly.
NEW PATENT
t 1-4,AST IC
4'"-e4, and
CAPS, s:c., for Varicose Veins and all CFts„ 0:.
iorn.a;,-',B and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are
eye an'( nvht •in t,,:.:114.:%.=, And inexpc,nsive, cud are drawn on
each. iPlinarystocklng. PriGe 40. Gd., 7s. td, 10s, to ti3s.
°sta,re Gd.
Jou:,., . „ Wl' I Pr:, , atmfaofare 2251
r, 3 Pit.lGOilly.