The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-10 00:00:00

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REMEMBER, WE SUP AT EVANS'
EVERY EVENING THIS WEEK after Alfred
bielion's Promenade Concerts.

AT GENERAL COURT of PROPRIETORS,
held at the BANK OP ENGLAND, on THURSDAY,
the 10th of September, 1863,
Resolved—That the Thanks of this Court be given to the
Governor, Deputy-Governor, and Court of Directors of the
Bank of England, for their able management of the affairs of
this Corporation during the last half -year.
Ordered—That the said Resolution be advertised in all the
Daily Morning and Evening Papers.
JAMES STEWART, Secy.

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.
Insurances fzrante,l both at Home and in, Foreign Countries
on the most liberal terms.
LIFE DEPARDIENT.
Every facility offered to Insurers.
Ninety per Cent. of the Profits divided among the Insurers
on the participating principle,
The new Life business , ransacted in 1862 as follows :
Policies. Aranunt In ,iired. Premiums.
1,037 £763,334 £23,641 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished
en application at the

LONDON OFFICES :
58, 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
88,062, and the amount insured on farming stock,
£10,086,332.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 aggregate to £440,000; and the Society
Pow holds a large Reserve applicable 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 zpectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey-
street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars, E.C.

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Insurance-
buildings, Liverpool.
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.

EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR

1862.
The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now
called upon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the
Meeting of its Shareholders.

FE .
_ The Directors have, as R
pleasißßANCHngly as unexpectedly, at the
Tose of the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire
rremiums have not only reached, but exceed £300,000.
',The high comparative position held by the Royal in the
,Tovernment 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-
rnasses that of any year, with but two exceptions, since the
commencement of thi. Office, the balance to the credit on
account of British and Foreigm Insurances being £45,107 10s.
ftrid of the North American business, which is k pt sepa•
rate) Y, £11,097 16s. 10d.

LIFE BRANCIT.
LfTbe very gratifying (hay now falls upon the Directors to
-*ate the sum assured on new policies for the year 1662
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
el" 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 as suran ^e a mounts 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-
sible 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
Londpn 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
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.
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 .. £Bl,OOO
The Accumulated Fund exceeds .. 00
It has paid in Claims .. • • .. 112000
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
71 3852
„ 1857 ..
1862 ..
_,,
Making. the total bonus additions, £96,600.
Bonuses ma7 be received in Irish or applied to the reduc-
tion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an
addition to the policy.
Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid-
bP 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
.. 21200
56,500

WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary.
Chief Office, 15, WM. THOS.
E.C., Aug 1, 1863.

A.D. 1720.
ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION
(Established 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 JOAN HENRY FELIX, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.

Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville.
John Garratt Cattley, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq. The lion. Josceline W. Percy.
Thomas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq.
Robt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P.
Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.: William Wallace, Esq.
Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. i Chas. Baring Young, Esq.
Medical Referee, SASturr, SOLLY, Esq., F.H.S.
FIRE and LIFE ASFATRANCES may be effected with this
c.'orporation on advantageous terms.
In the Life Department, assurances are granted with par-
ticipation in Profit 2, or, at lower Premiums, without such
participation.
The Reversionary Batts 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 ?ersons who preferred that form of Bonus.
The divisions of Profit take place every Five years.
Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one
Life.

This Corporation affords to the Assured—:
Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from
the liabilities of partnership.
A rate of Bonns 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. RALF.
The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve
In the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the
United Kingdom, free of charge.

ROYAL EXCTTANOE, LONDON.

ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, at King's-cross.
Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.
This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free
and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for-
mality of
governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is ac eom-
Milled by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient
magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered
capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of
theses in
the casual
it !he°
mostrder twc)rheathvbeesdoOofbeodusr
funds in
sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the
tures. Moreover,
clerefaor the reception of
_ gr_actuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more,
afevlaloilwab-
olvitlie average, than 3,000 ont-patients a week.
EARNEST feel it their imperative duty to make an
to enable them PEAL to the public for continued allpPart•
em to admit cases that
daily present and relieve the distressing
themselves.
Contributi
M wis are received
arerman, Esci
Co. ; Drummond' and Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
Co. ; Prescott, Grote, .• rr
.!.. —erect; and Co. ; Ransom and
and Co.Coand uo.
Co.;' .Jones Lo and ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn
and
Co. ; Nisbet and CoiDeacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and
and at the II • -". ; Messrs.osPital. J. Barred and Co., Liverpool

STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary.

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