The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-22 00:00:00

AUDITORS.

Lewis Loyd, Esq. Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
Cornelius Paine, jun., Esq. I Noel Whiting, Esq.
Thos. Tanemach, Esq., Secretary I Saml. Brown, Esq., Actuary

:LIFE DEPARTMENT.—UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF AN
ACT or PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to new In-
Eurers EIGI4TY PER CENT. of the Profits, at Quinquennial
Divisions, or a Low Rate of Premium Without participation of
Profits.
Since the establishment of the Company in 1821, the
Amount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in
twill value £860,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary
Bonuses of £1,058,000.

After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the Life
A ssurances in force, with txistino• Bonuses thereon,
'mounted to upwards of £4,730,000, the Income from the Life
Branch £207,000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund,
independent of the capital, exoeeded £1,618,000.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.--Insurances are effected upon
every description of property at moderate rates.
No expense is incurred in effecting a new Insurance be-
yond the payment rf tb,p"Nwrt7al Preinturn and Duty, 'mitten
the I t eau um amounts 1 h 6a.
Claims liberally and promp;.ly settled.
NOTICE IS HErIcEBY GIVEN, that FIRE Policies
411loh expire at Iretaelmas must be renewed within fifteen
(days at this Office, or with Mr. SAMS, No. 1, St. James's—
street, corner of Pall-Mall ; or with the Company's Agents
throughout the. 'Kingdom, otherwise they become void.
ApPlication for Prospectuses and Agencies to be made to
the secretary_

TLIVERPOOL AND LONDON FIRE
AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY•

Established in 1836.
Offices :--1, Dale-street, Liverpool ; 20 and 21, Poultry,
London. E.C.
PROGRESS OF THE COMPANY SINCE 1850:
17,

rear, Fire Premiums. Life Premiums. Invested Funds.
-----.... .______
£502,874
385 L £51,305 .£27,157
1856 222,270 72,781 821,081
1861
1,3,1,905
300,130135,974
1862 436,005 13,,703
1,417.808
--

The Fire Duty pa id by this Company in England in 1862
'as 471,284.
SWINTON BOULT, See-et3ry to the Company.
JOHN ATKINS, Resident Se, retary, London.

A.D. 1720.
nOYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION
(141;stablished by Charter of his Majesty George the First)
FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES.
Offices, Royal Exchange, London.
Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall.
OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor.
GEORGE PEARKES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir Joni./ HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.
11:,,('IlrY Bainbridge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Robert Barclay, Req. Earl of Leven and Melville.
ohn Garratt Ca4Alev, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
liark Currie Cl ,se, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq.
Gilliam Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy.
Thomas Deni, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq.
Alexander Drum, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Predk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
Riveradale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq.
Robt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P.
Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.: William Wallace, Esq.
Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq.

Medical Referee, SAMUEL SoLLT. Esq., F.R.S.

NOTICE.— rhe usual fifteen days all'jwed for payment of
EIRE PREMIUMS falling due at Michaelmas will expire
On 14th October.

FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this
Corporation on advantageous terms,
The Reversionary Bonus on British Life Policies has ave-
raged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured.
Equivalent reductions have. 'been made in the Premiums
ayable by persons who pre;erred that form of Bonus.
The divisions of Profit take place every Five years.
Any sum not exceedmg £15,000 may be insured on one
Life.
This Corporation, s;fords to the Assured—
Liberal partir,ipation in Profits—with exemption from
the liabilities at partnership.
A rate of r,onus equal to the average returns of Mutual
Societies—veith the guarantee of a large invested Capital
Stock.
The advantages of modern practice,—with the security
of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex-
perienc of nearly a CENTURY AND A DALT%
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Politic' 14 on the participating system, granted on or before
the gist, December, 18e3, and in force at th- close of the year
1865, be entitled to share in the next division of profits

ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary.

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY
HEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Inturancc-
buildings, LiverpoeL
Total Annual Revenue exceeds £500,010.
Accumulated Funds in hand over 1 OOO,OOO.

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

Chairman in London

WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq.

xxnucrs FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR

1882.

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

FIRE BA.
The Directors have, as pleasingly H
RS unexpectedly, at the
close of the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire
emitting 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 £95,107 10s.
Ud., and of the North American business, which is kept sepa-
rately, £11,007 16s. 10d.

LIFE BRANCH.
The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the sum assured on new policies for fhe year 1F62
exceeds even that of the year 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived
at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of
£701,127 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 smounts to £143,281. 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-
stole 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)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
OfTiee with a lengthened career of usefulness and protection
to the puble.
PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.

Established 1840.
TRUSTEES.

Thomas Baring Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
I
Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. 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 Acoumulated Fund exceeds .. 2 o,r 00
It has paid in Claims • • • • .. 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

- .. .. X 5,400
11,500
23.200
56,500

Dec. 31, 1847 ..
„ 1852
„ 1857 ..
1882
Inakint; the total bonus additions, £08,600.
Bonuses be received in v ish or applied to the retine
lion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an
addition to the i ol.ey.
Attention is especially Invited to the system of free or paid-
nll Policies introditeod 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.

Chief Office, 15, MoorgW3t. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary.
ate-street, E.C., Aug 1, 1863.

ARMY CONTRACTS.
Commissariat Office
Aldershot 24 September,, 1863.
TENDERS will he received At. this office, until
noon, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th September, 1863,
from persons who may be willing to enter into Contract for
the supply of

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6, OXFORD STREET, W.

THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections
from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE and Halevy's
MUSKETEERS (first time in England).
Principal Artistes —Miss Russell. Miss Ellison, Messrs.
Green, Bernardi, guish, &c., with full band and chorus.

Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Flute Solos by Drew Dean &c.

Comic, by UNSWORTH (" or any other man "), Eugene,
W. Randall, A. Lloyd, and George Hodson.
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Also, a Performance by IIerrSCHALKENBACH on his
wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHESTRE, contain-
ing a full bald of 40 instruments.
The HALL has just been newly Decorated and Ventilated,
and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis.
Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, ed. ; stalls andbalcony, ls. ;
private boxes, 10s. 6d.

•

CANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In order
to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasing crowds,
Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the representation of Pro-
fessor Pepper and Henry Dirks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral
Illusion, " THE GHOST," from the Picture Gallery to the
Concert Hall, where a new and elegant stage is erected,
affording a more ample view of the Illusion from Stalls, Bal-
cony, and body of the Hall. He has also arranged for Mr.
A. Silvester to give (with all that gentleman's latest im-
provements and effects), REPRESENTATIONS EACH
EVENING, at Ten o'clock.

All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual,
including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Unsworth (the modern
Demosthenes), Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, George Hodson, &c.

POLYGRAPHIC HALL-MISS HERAUD
and Herr KRUEGER'S celebrated SHAKESPE -
RUN ENTERTAINMENT Illustrative of THE PAS-
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Music by J. C. Beuthin, Esq. Solos Miss Mabel Brent,
Mrs, Beuthin, Herr Bonn, Mr. Page, Mr. Stedman, and Signor
Nappi. An efficient chorus. Booking, &c., at the Hall, King
William-street, Strand, from Ten to Five, or Tickets of
Musicsellers.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly.
These elegant Rooms are NOW OPEN for the Winter
Season. They have been entirely redecorated.
Musical Director, Mons. Jullien, of monster concerts cele-
brity. The band ,s selected from the Crystal Palace, the
Italian Operas, and the Household Troops of her Majesty.
Doors open at 8 o'clock.
Admission, is.
Manager—M. GRENET.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The
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Grand Divertissement—Favourite Onera Selections—NICO-
SIA, the eminent Violinist—RAPHAEL, DE SOLLA. the
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Evening.

Doors open at 7—commence at half-past 7.

ROYAL ALILA.IIII3RA PALACE. Great
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NICOSIA, the eminent Violinist, who will appear Every
Evening.

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RITPTURES.—I3Y ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
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,nd closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn
luring sleep. A descriptive circular may he had, and the
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cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being
-,cut to the manufacturer,
Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly.
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A Single Trim, les., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. el Postage, la.
X. Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 428., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd.
An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. ed. Postage, ls. lod.
Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post-
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