The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-14 00:00:00

EDINBURGH (Reduced Fares), from Irongata-
wharf, Tower.—Saloon, 20s ; tore cabin, 155; deck
(soldiers and sailors only), 7s ?id; return tickets (available for
a month), 305 and 22s ffi. The cheanest. and quickest sea
route by the splendid new STE AMSHIPS of the LONDON
and EDINBURGH SHIPPING COMPANY, sailing every
Wednesday and Saturday, at ;0 morning. Apply at the
Spread Eagle, Regent-circus; or at Irougate-wharf.

TAE ORIENTAL HOTELS COMPANY
(Limited).
Incorporated under the Corn anies' Act, 1802, by which the
Liability of each Shareholder is strictly limited to the amount
of his Shares.
Capital .V 50,000, in 25,000 Shares of £lO each.
(With power to increase to One Million Sterling.)
First Issue 12,500 Shares, iyher^of a portion will be reserved
for India.
Deposit £1 per Share on application, and £1 on allotment.
Calls 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 of Bengal.
Colonel Anderson, C. 8., Director of the Eastern Bengal Rail-
way Company.
George 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 and Baroda Rail-
way Company.
Colonel Holland, Director of the Agra and United Service
Bank.
John tewart, Esq., Director of the Marine Insurance Com-
p John Robert Thomson, Esq., Chairman of the London and
South African Bank. E
J es Henry roung, sq.. late of the Bengal Civil Service.
AUDITORS.
T. R. Walker, Esq . 21. Hanover-square, and
A Shareholder, to be cleated -t the First General Meeting.
BANKERS IN LONDON.
The Agra and United Service Bank (Limited), 27, Cannon-
street, N.C.
The London and County Bank, Hanover-square, W.
BANKERS IN INDIA.
The Agra and United Service Bank (Limited).
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Uptons, Johnson, and Upton, 20, Austin-'riars, E.C.
BROKER.
Francis Burnand, Esq., 78, Lombard-street, and 13 and 14,
County-chlmbers, Cornhill, E.C.
SECRETARY (pro tem.)
31acdonald Yates, Esq.
Temporary Offices : —35, Cannon-street, E.C., and 5, Parli-
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 jo'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
Ptera.um 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 hell-year ending 30th April last, equal to 20 per cent. per
annum.
It is proposed, in the fitst instance, to supply the urgent
rrquirements of Bombay and Point de Galle.
In the event of two-thirds of the first issue of shares not
being subscribed for, no allotmen' 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).
NOTICE is it GIVEN, That NO APPLICA-
TION for SHARES in the oriental Hotels Company
(Limited) WILL BE RECEIVED after TO-MORROW
(SATURDAY), the 15th August current.
MACDONALD YATES, Secretary pro tem.

PASSENGERS AND TRAVELLERS
PROTECTION AND COMPENSATION OFFICES,

16, Craven-street, Strand, London, W.C.

Passengers by Rail, Road, or Water. and others suffering
from loss or injury to themselves or pro,,erty, should apply
for redress and compensation at the above Offices; established
to render prompt assistance to all classes upon the most ad-
vantageous terms.

Advice on application gratis. Letters must be addressed
to " The Manager," enclosing a stamp for reply.

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY
HEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Insurance-
buildings, LiverpoeL
Total Annual Revenue exceeds .£500,0)0.
Accumulated Funds in hand over 1 OOO,OOO.

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

Chairman in London

WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq.

EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR
1862.

The Directors of the Royal Ineursnce Company are now
called upon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the
Meeting 01 its Shareholders.

FIRE BRANCH.
The Directors have, as p'easingly as unexpectedly, at the
close o the year, to announce, fo, the first time, that the Fire
Premiums have not only reached, but exceed L 300,000.
The high comparative position held by the Royal in the
Government Returns of Duty is ag,in luny mantamed.
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, sine- the
commencement of thi' Office, the balance to the credit on
account of British and Foreign insurances being. £95,10/ 10s.
5d., and of the North American business, whichis 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 the year 1862
exceeds even that of theyear 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
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
futnre to the participating life assurer.
Evidence of continued care in the selection of lives is amply
afforded by a statement of the lumber rejected, These have
amounted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum
proposed for assurawe Amounts to £ 43,281. 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-
Mule 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 an 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
expiession of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal
Insurance Company were never brizlater, 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 maeni-
tude, combiniag distinguished commercial success to the
Office with a le. gthened career of usefulness and protection
to the pubic.
PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Established 1809.
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.
Accumulated and InvesteL*! Funds £2,122,828
Annual Revenue

FIRE DEPART ?TENT.
Insuraires granted both at Home and iu 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 :
Am, unt In ,nred. Premiums.
1,037 8763,334 £23.641 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished
on application at the

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OFFICES :
LONDON 5B, Threadneedle-street.
4, New Bank Buildings. Lothbury.
West-end Office.. 8. Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE'
SOCIETY.
The business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000.
The duty paid to Government for the year 1862 was
£85,062, and the amount insured on farming stock,
£10,t86,332.
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 Res 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 Peetuses apply at the Society's Offices,
I',l Surrey-
street,'fitar orwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-
s, E.C.

w3l. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary,
,Chief Office, 15, Moorg,ate-street, E.C., Aug 1,1863. 1

pR°I7IDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.
EstaMished 1840.

Thomas Baring, E TRIIEVICEES. I
Thomson Hankey slic"qM.P.
'B-”Mfo•Pr•all classes.
I Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
311utual Lit. Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P.
This Association Assurancehas now
total sum of £1,500,000, in existence 6,000 policies. for a
The The AnnualAccumulatedl
nlneFit7nd eXceeds• • :: £2501,1
The v.-hole of the profits are
It has paid in Claims
sums have been 112,000
ided quinquennially among
are •di • • • • •
the Members. Three divisional have already been made'
when the tollowing
policies added as bonuses to the
Dec. 31, 1847 ~. ..
1852 .. .. • • • • .. X 5,400
•• 18:57 • • .. •; • • •• 11,500
1862 .. • • .. ' • • - 23 200
~
making the total bonus additions, £98,600. • • 56,500
received in cash
assured,
in
lieu
of
an
applied to the at the option of theorreduc-
tionlionetuspersernirru;rnbse_
addition to the 1 01 0_
is asp ythe system of free
711 invited to
ocinced by this Association b or paid-
upAtptoeinictijeosn
submitted to on the relt • y which the
sacrifice so often tiquishment of a
oided.
o icy is wholly av
intr
open to an,
therwise
whether assurers or o 1
The balance-sheets of the Association are
vents will be appointed in unrePre-
setcetdivdie and influential a

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