The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVEN' NG, APRIL 4, 1862,

OLERICAL, MEDICAL, and GENERAL LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
13, St. James's-square.
Special Act of Parliament.
London, S.W.
Established 1821. Empowered b f
BONUS MEETING, 1862.
The Report presented at a Mecting:held on the 2d January
last, for the declaration of the Seventh Bonus, showed, in
evidence of the progress of the Society, that dining the quin-
quennial period which terminated on the 30th of Juno, 1861,
New Assurances for a total sum of £1,486,370 had been
effected, being an increase of £62,215 on those of the previous
five years ; that
The Income had increased from £166,800 to £196,400 per
annum; that
The Assurance Fund had risen from £1,154,276 to
£1,422,191; and that a
Reversionary Addition to the Policies of £275,077 was then
made, as against £2:2,479 at the prior division.
In illustration of the results of the Division, that the
Reversionary Addition above named averaged 48 per cent., or
varied with the different ag,es from 33 to 89 per cent. on the
Premiums paid in the five years ; and that the
Cash Bonus averaged 26 per cent. on the like Premiums,
being amongst the largest ever declared by any office.
The Report explained at length the nature of the invest-
ments, and the bases of the calculations, the results of which,
as above shown, are eminently favourable.

The following are among the distinctive features of the
Society :
Credit System.—On Policies for the whole of 111 c, one half of
the Annual Premiums during the first five years may remain
on credit, and may either continue as a debt on the Policy, or
be paid off at any time.
Policies for Tenets of Years may be efftlEted at rates pecu-
liarly favourable to Assurers.
Invalid Lives may be assured at Premiums proportioned to
the increased risk.

Prompt Settlement of Claims.—Claims paid thirty days
after proof of death.
The Accounts and Balance Sheets are at all times open to
the inspection of the Assured, or of persons proposing to
assure.

Tables of Rates, Forms of Proposal, the Report above men-
tioned, and a detailed account of the proceedings of the Bonus
Meeting, can be obtained from any of the Society's Affents.
or of
GEORGE CITTCLTFFE. Actuary and Secretary,
13, St. James's-square, London, S. W.
The Next Division of Profita will take place in .January,
1867, and persons who effect New Policies before the end of
June next will be entitled at that Division to one year's
additional share of profits over later Assurers.

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recommendation adverse thereto. On the 21st a
joint resolution was adopted authorising the Secre-
tary of the Navy to have the steam frigate Roanoke
iron clad. The Tax Bill was taken up, but the dis
eussion did not extend beyond the spirituous liquors
.
having adopted a few amendments to the bill.
and the house adjourded after
anAd al
1:se's:ell:he:BOO paper has the following :—" In
the Confederate court, on Saturday last, the impor-
tskeatheisidvs.
August Belmont,' was
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s
have interposed, and,
r as French citizens, claim the tobacco as their pro-
perty. Proceedings in this case will be, most pro-
bably, indefinitely postponed, as the blockade cuts
off from the ltothschilds the opportunity of attend-
ing properly to their interests in the matter."
The correspondent of the Philadelphia press at
Fcrt Monroe states that Mr. Buchanan, the com-
mander of the Merrimac, died a fow days since of
the wounds he received in the action of the Bth
March, Amputation was found necessary, and his
leg was accordingly taken off a few inches below
the hip joint. His system proved unable to sustain
the shock, and he died the following day.
Whether Mr. Yancey, one of the Confederate
commissioners to England, was captured or not,
appears to be still doubtful. A New York journal
says
it was._ stated legtefday in oar news columns,
that Wm. L. Yancey was arrested in the disguise
of a sailor, on board a schooner, trying to run the
blockade into a Southern port, and that he is on his
way to Fort Warren. To-day, however, we have a
despatch to the effect that Southern advices had
arrived at Nashville, to say that Yancey arrived at
New Orleans, and made a speech avowing that no
help could be procured from England or France,
and urging retaliation by stopping cotton cultiva-
tion. A later despatch from the engineer of the
United States gunboat Waterwitch states that the
gunboat captured the schooner Wm. Mallony, with
Yancey on board. Which of these reports is true
we are unable to determine."
_

The Washington correspondent of the New Fork
Times, under date March 21, 'rites as follows

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rejected. The President, it is said, has been asked
to bring Sigel to take his division.
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etno-tdaasy
was considered, but is not yet confirmed. His error
is that Gen. M'Clellan recommended him. Gen.
Fremont received his final instructions to-day at the
War Department, and leaves to-morrow. His body
guard, under Zagony, will accompany him and
reorganise the cavalry. Secretary Chase is prepar-
ing a very elaborate tax bill, which is intended to
be moved as a substitute for the present bill
now before the house. The rate of taxation
is considerably higher upon all articles of prime
necessity, and much lower on other :articles which
the ways and means committee fixed to suit their
purposes. The Secretary favours a tax upon
whisky of not less than 50c. per gallon ; on tobacco,
75e. per lb., and so on. The bill will probably be
taken by the Senate finance committee ,as it will
come too late to be considered by the house. The
public debt and all foreign drafts are paid at matu-
rity, no matter what may be the pressure in other
respects on the Treasury."
By the arrival of the steam ship Karnak at New
York we have Mexican advices to the 7th March.
It is stated that all the English at Vera Cruz,
wth the exception of about a hundred men, had
embarked and were ready to start for England, via
Havannah and Bermuda. They had sold all their
mules to the French. The French and Spanish
forces remain in Mexico. Sickness among the
troops still continued. Rumours of battles in the
interior between the insurrectionists and the forces
of Juarez were rife, but they needed confirmation.

WRECK OF A CONVICT SHIP.

THE NAVY.

The Duke of SolncrEet's levee yesterday at the
Admiralty was attended by the undernamee. officers:
—Capt. W. Armytage, Capt. C. 0. Jones, Capt. C.
Wake, Capt. H. Harvey, Capt. H. Haseltino, Capt.
W. Morris, Capt. F. Patton, Copt. H. Boys, Capt.
C. B. Hamilton, Capt. G. F. Westbrook, Commander
G. D. Bevan, Commander H. Harvey, Commander
J. G. Goodenough, Commander B. Nitres, Commander
W. H. Blake, Commander J. A. Shears, Commander
G. A. Popplewell, Commander E. Lacy, Commander
W. Horton, Commander P. H. Dyke, Commander
J. M‘Donald, Lieut. H. E. Crozier, and Mr. J. W.
Johnstone, Deputy-Inspector of Hospitals.
The Royal Sovereign, 131, screw steamship, will
be brought from her moorings in the harbour, and
placed under the shears at the dock to-morrow, for
the purpose of being dismasted, orders having been
received from the Lords of the Admiralty that this
noble ship is to be cut down and converted into a
frigate, and made suitable for being armed and
fitted with Captain Coles' cupola shields. A large
number of shipwrights are to be immediately em-
ployed on her, as the orders are that the work is to
be completed with every possible despatch.
No instructions have yet been received from the
Admiralty for suspending the works connected with
the Royal Oak, 60, armour-plated frigate, under
conatructiort- at Chatham, and it is therefore pro-
bable that the plan proposed for completing the
squadron of armour-plated frigates building at the
several dockyards as cupola ships, on Capt. Coles's
principle, has been abandoned, and that the Royal
Oak and other vessels of her class will be completed
simply as armour-plated ships, according to the
original plan. In the meantime every effort is
being made by the dockyard officials to have the
Royal Oak completed and afloat during the present
summer. To accomplish this every hand, with the
exception of some 50 or 60 shipwrights and caulkers
at work on the Racoon, 22, and the Pylades, 21, is
employed on her, and from the energy which is
just now being displayed little more than four
months will see the first of the new description of
wooden armour-covered ships afloat. By special
direction of the Admiralty all the hands in the
dockyard have been withdrawn from the wooden
ships and placed on the two iron vessels, the Achilles
and Royal Oak, which together have upwards of
1,000 shipwrights and mechanics employed on them,
in addition to the hands at work in the factory and
smithy preparing the materials to be used. The
exterior of the Royal Oak is now completely
planked in readiness to receive her armour-plates,
which will be laid on a solid backing of teak and
oak of 29 inches in thickness. Adjoining the slip,
an extensive building is in course of erection for the
reception of the machinery to be used in preparing
the iron slabs in which the vessel will be encased.
Unlike the Achilles, the Resistance, the Defence,
and other iron vessels of that class, which are pro-
vided with projecting stems„for running down ves-
sels, the Royal Oak and other armour -plated ships
are almost square built, each being constructed
with what is termed a " fimble-home",stem pro-
jesting in the slightest possible manner 'from the
bow of the ship, thus doing away altogether
with the supposition of these frigates being used
as steam rams. In order to obtain additional
strength for the stern-post, the screw-well usually
found on board the screw steamers will be partially
abolished in the Royal Oak and the sister ship
Roy al Alfred, building at Portsmouth.
The Vivid, tender to the flagship Fisgard, at
Woolwich, has left the river on special foreign ser-
vice.

The screw steam transport Fox, 42, Master
Commander Thomas Pullen, yesterday commenced
shipping boilers and machinery in basin at Wool-
wich, for the Royal Alfred, 91, screw steamship,
under construotion at Portsmouth.

The chartered transport Anne Forster, for
Jamaica, having shipped guns, carriages, smiths'
forges, zinc, and other stores from Woolwich
Arsenal yesterday sailed for her destination.
Her Majesty's paddle yacht Victoria and Albert,
Captain George Seymour, C. 8., arrived at Ports-
mouth yesterday morning, on her return from
conveying her Royal Highness the Crown Princess
of Prussia to the continent.

The iron screw frigate Valiant, 32, 4,063 tons,
800-horse power, building at Millwall, is ordered to
be sent, as soon as launched, to Chatham, where
she will be fitted, and furnished with her Arm-
strong armament.
The Royal Naval Reserve is becoming highly
popular in Liverpool. Within the last few weeks
upwards of 200 men have been enrolled by Com-
mander White, of the Hastings.

Inquiries have been made by the agents of the
American Federal Government, in England, as to
the rate at which iron plates, for the construction
of iron-clad ships, can bd manufactured and supplied
in this country.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Thomas F. Hight, super-
numerary in the Fisgard, confirmed as first-class
assist.-engineer; J. Edge, secretary to Rear-Admi-
ral L. T. Jones, K.C.8,, Commander•inChief at
Cork ; and Richard Curgenven.