The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-17 00:00:00

EMEMBER, WE SUP AT EVANS'
ReiLrERY EVENING THIS WEEK after Alfred
__l:Lit Promenade Concerts.

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
established lBO9.
Incorporibted by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.
Accumulatedeand Invested Funds £2,122,828
Annual Revenue (.. 422,401
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Insnran'es zrantei both at Home and in Foreign Countries
on the most liberal terms.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
4, Every facility offered to Insurers.
Ninety per Cent. of the Profits divided among the Insurers
on the participating principle.
The new Life businets 4ransacted in 1882 as follows :
Policies. A mrunt Insured. Premiums.
1,037 £763,334 £23.641 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished
on application at the

toatnolf OFFICES
58, Threadneedle-street.
4, New Bank Budding.a. Lothbury.
~ West-end Office B, 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 farming 62 was
'.1,062, and the amount insured on stock,
X 10,086,332.
A bonus of three-fifths of the profits periodically made to
Parties insuring, who have thus. from time to time, received
stuns amounting in the aggregate to £440,000 ; and the Society
applicable to a future Bonus.
now holds a large Reserve a
The rates of premium are in no case higher than those
Charged by the other principal offices making no returns to
their insurers.
}'or pro:pectuses apply at the Society's Offices,
Surrey-
street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars,
k
friars, E.C.

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Inburance-
buildings, Liverpoel.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds Z500,0,0.
Accumulated hinds in hand over 1,000,000.

Chairman in Liverpool:
CHARLES TURNER, Esq.,
Chairman in London :
WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq.

EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR

1862, --
The. Di of the Royal Insurance Company are now
eastln make their accustomed periodical Report at the
ting of its Shareholders.
FIRE BRANCH.
The Directors have, as pleasingly as unexpectedly. at the
Vose o' the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire
Premiums
igtuhmshhave not only reached, but exceed £300,000.
comparative position held by the Royal in the
Government Returns of Duty is again fully mhintained.
the profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably
tile amount realised in the preceding year, and in fact sun-
Passes that of any year, with but two exceptions, sine• the
commencement of Office, the balance to the credit on
neo unt of British and Foreign Insurances being £45,107 10s.
tat, and of the North American business, which is kept sepa-
LatelY, £11,007 16s. lOd.

state
The LIFE BRANCH-.
ver9 gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors tO
_ the sum assured on new by
for fhe year 1P62
exceeds even that of the yeer 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived
the almost unexampled amount for a single year of
bag
on 1,498 new policies issued. Until within the last
bl 7 years it is believed that such a sum assured as that which
Ras all
been announced as the tesult of one year's business
91 but unheard of.
This Portion of the Company's business has been carefully
shareholder
and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the
42,1tri eholder, as well as no small encouragement for the
'1 re to the participating life assurer.
afforded
of continued care in the selection of lives is amply
...o_rded by a statement of the number rejected. These have
‘,4uounted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum
proposed for assuran^e mounts to £143,281. Various degrees
u ineligibility have led to these lives being declined.
bl i
No small number of the Assurance Companies of the day
record their accepted lives annually at a sum not much, if at
, e slexceeding those which the Royal has declared as in admis-
n
anot
a single year from deterioration of some kind or
her.
bjf. to complete their review, the Directors now advert
"enY to the United Kinerom, they hato announce that
11 'ire Business its pro-gdress has been undoubtedly more
I,Pid than that of any other Company established either in
London or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken
Mace. 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
Vtpression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal
;_hsuranca 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 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.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.

Established 1840.
TitusTzzs.

Thomas Baring., Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
I Thomson Hankey, ksq., M.P. Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P.
Mutual Lif. 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

.. Z 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 ..
„ 3852 ..
„ 1857 ..
tnakinz the total bonus additions, £98,800.
itonuses may be received in clsh or applied to the reduc
tion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an
addition to the obey.
Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid-
nP 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.

.. X 5,400
.. 11,500

.. 23 200
.. 56,500

W3l. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary.
Chief Office, 15, :Margate-street, E.C., Aug 1, 1863.

A.D. 1720.
ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION
(Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First)
FOR SUA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES.
Offices, Royal Exchange, London.
Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall.
OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor.
UECIRGE PEARICES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir .TORN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor.

TORS.
Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Retry Bainbridge, Esq.
Earl of Leven and Melville.
Robert Barclay, Esq
Robert
Garrett Cattlev. , Esq. Manning, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq.
Qeeline W. Percy.
William Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Jo. ,
HC heansr.
Thomas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq.
yjNnelson,Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Smith, Esq.
Predk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington
Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq.
Esq M.P.
R obi. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, , ~ .
Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.' William Wallace, lsq Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. ' Chas. Baring Young, Esq.
Medical Referee, SAmtrEt, SOLLT, 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 }l.mns on British Policies has averaged
nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured.
Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums
payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonne.
The divisions of Profit take place every Five years.
Any sum not exceeding X 15,000 may be insured on one
Life.

DIREI

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This Corporation affords to the Assured—
Liberal participation in Profits—vrith exemption from
the liabilities of partnership.
A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual
Societies—with 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-
perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF.
The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve
hi the MlMiff, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the
'United Kingdom, free of charge.

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

ARMY CONTRACTS,
Commissariat 0111,e,
Aldershot, 2d September, 1863.
TENDERS will be 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
FORAGE,
In such quantities as may be required, from Ist November,
1863, to 3.st October, 186#, for the use of Her Majesty's
Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the eem_
mand.

Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob-
tained on apnlication at this office, by letter or in person,
between the hours of ten and four o'clock.
The Tenders must be properly filled up and signed, and
delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the
outside "Tender for Foraze"). and no Tender will be noticed
unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered
by the hour appointed.

HENRY B. MORSE,
Deputy Commissary-General.

ARMY CONTRACTS.
TENDERS will be received at this Office until
12 o'clock noon on the 3d of October, from persons who
maybe willing to enter into Contracts to supply
FORAGE AND PAILLASSE STRAW,
in such
quantities as may be required, for the use of Her
liajesty's Land Forces stationed in the following ',laces,
from let November, 1663, to 31st October, 1864 :

FORAGE.
1. Hyde-park. Kensington. Regent's-park, Guards.
2. Hounslow and K
3. Hampton Court. neller Rall.
4. Windmor. and Horse
5. Ttriehton.
6. Sandhurst.
7. Enfield.

PAILLASSE STRAW.
1. Brompton 'House, Hydepark, and Kensington.
2. itegent'p-park, St. John's-wood, and Portman-stree
Barracks.
3. New Par/licks, Chelsea
4. Wellington and St. George's Barrack,.
5, The Tower.
5. oii-Anpstloonwcaonurt
and hneller Half.
Hampton
S. Windsor. _

9. Bit
h am. with Coast Forts frtma li•ewhaven to Shore-
; '
10. Croydon.

Separate Tenders must be made for Foraze and f
lease Straw for eh ot the abovc-mentioned Stations Orr pail.
ra
te's as groupe and numbered.
Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be
'tsined on a 1: tion at this office, by letter or in person,
pp .ca
between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock.
Tenders on the printed forms must be properly filled
In
at
6i7iled, and no Tender will be noticed unless delivered
ob:the nder-mentioned I tffice, under closed envelop, (marked
12 ceetataide " Tender for Commiarssiat Supplies' ), before
—l` noon on the 3d October next.

W. T. POWER,
Collura' s sary-G eUcral.
. cols,e n
fi',.°l7altissary.G enera Fs °face,
off. Street, Spgardenk
"w", W„ loth, Sept Mal

(Signed)