The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-02 00:00:00

No. 16,989. LON DON, T UESDAY MORNING

'ITANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.

(Constitute) by Act of Parliament, 1825.)
GOVERNOR.

His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEI"CH and QUEENSBERRY.
DEPUTY-GOVERNOR.
The. Right Hon. the Earl of ELGIN and KINcARDINE.

The TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the
STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY was held within the
Company's Office, 3, aeorge-street, Edinburgh, on Monday, the 15th
day of February, 1847, in the terms of the Act of Parliament by
which the Company is constituted.
JAMES MONCRIEFF MELVILLE, Esq., in the Chair.
A report on the progress of the Company's business during the
past year was submitted by the Directors, In which the following re-
sults were communicated:—
The new Policies issued from the 15th of November, 1845, to the
Isth of November, 1846, the Company's business year, amount to
592. the number of proposals made to the Company during the same
period being 769.
The amount of new Assurances, covered by the 592 new Policies
is 368,6791. 7s. 10d. (an average of 625/. for each Policy) ; the
amount of Assurances applied for during the year being
476,1351. 17s. 9d.
The revenue of the Company is upwards of 120,0001. pet annum.
The claims have been moderate, both in number and amount, and
considerably less than shown by the mortality tables on which the
Company's calculations are founded. The results in other branches
of the business have been favourable.
The business of the Commercial Life Assurance Company of Scot-
land has been transferred to the Standard Company during the past
year, being 398 Policies, covering about 200,000/. of assurance, and
being in addition to the new business of the year above reported.
The business of the York and London Assurance Company, which
was transferred to the Standard Company in 1844, continues to exhi-
bit satisfactory results in its progressive development.
The report then alluded to the great extension of the Company's
business In Scotland generally, and to the rapid progress of the Com-
pany in England, also in Ireland.
The increasing success of the Branch Office opened by the Com-
pany in Glasgow was subject of congratulation, and the establishment
of Local Boards in Aberdeen and Inverness were reported.

The following new Directors were elected :
David Smith, Esq., W.S., Edinburgh.
•Ento.. =".„ , s.suguso 11E6
James Condie. Esq., Perth.
James Lindsay, Esq., Lawrence Pountney-lane, London.
By order of the Directors.
WILLIAM THOS. THOMSON, Manager.
The Standard Life Assurance Company is so constituted as to afford
the beneitts of Life Assurance to all who may seek its protection in
that form which is best suited to attain the particular object in view;
wkile to those who look to the advantage to be derived by way of
bonus to their Policies from the favourable results of the business,
there is every inducement to connect themselves with the Company.
The annual contributions demanded for Life Policies have been
fixed on the most approved Information as to the valise of life, and
the Company have published an extensive set of Life Tables (18 in
number), setting forth its terms for all ordinary transactions, so that
its principles are fully before the public.
Bonus additions to Policies have been declared on three occa-
sions—in 1835, in 1840, and in 1845.
The following are examples of the additions made :
Policy of 1825 for £l,OOO increased to £1,600 0 0
Do. 1830 do. do. 1,412 10
Do. 1835 do. do. 1,225 0 0
Do. 1840 * do. do. 1,087 10 0
An :investigation of the Company's affairs, and a division of pro-
fits, are made every five years, the next being in 1850.
The system of bonus being ,an advantageous one for Policy-holders,
the Directors of the Standard Company, in fixing the mode of division
which they have adopted, gave the subject much attention, and after
the most particular inquiry into the practice of other Companies
who had divided profi is, they adopted the survivorship principle
followed by the Equitable Society of London. under which system a
policy has been known to realise at death six or seven tim,s its
original amount. The Standard Company do not hold out the pro-
spect of similar results as regards the amount of additions to their
policies, for there are peculiarities in the arrangements of the Lon-
don F:quitable conferring Class Benefits, and there were advantages
which arose in its earlier years, which are not in the present day
open to any office But it is the principle of division which is re-
ferred to as common to lath Companies, and which has bee* highly
conducive to the production of the great results alluded to.
To the terms and conditions of Assurance the Directors of the
Standard Company have directed their particular attention, satisfied
that the more liberal these arc made, the wider will the practice of
Life Assurance be extended,

PETER E WART, Resident Secretary,
82, King William-street.

Forms of proposal and every information may be obtained at the
Company's Offices, 3, George-street, Edinburgh; 82, King William-
stree London ; 66, Upper Sackville-street, Dublin ; :15, St. Vincent-
place, G'asgow ; or at any of the Agencies which are established in
the principal towns of Scotland, England, and Ireland.

LIFE ASSITRANCE‘—BRITISII
SOCIETY, 17,:terr liTid:e-
DIAEC

MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE
street, Blackfriars, London.

Jelin Atkinson, Esq. Captain Twisleton Graves
Henry Wm. Beauclerk, Esq. Thomas- Hamber, Esq.
Henry Charles Curtis, Esq. John Lodge, Esq.
G. Godwin, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A. Lieutenant-Colonel Montresor
Hon. William Gore George Alfred Walker, Esq.
THE BRITISH MUTUAL LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY entertains proposals of any descrip-
tion involving the contingency of human life.
Prospectuses and every information may be had on application at
the office, 17, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars.
CHARLES JAMES THICKE, Resident Secretary.

INVESTMENT
UMS-
for LARGE or SMALL
S
The attention of the public is invited to the following notice :--
The Deeds for carrying out the romolutions of the Shareholders in
the Go trantee Fund of the BRITISH MUTUAL. LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY are nose ready, and the respective Shareholders
are hereby requested to attend at the offices, between the hours of
Eleven and Three, to sign and execute the same, when the old shares
may be exchanged.
Applications may be addressed to the Secretary for the remaining
unappropriated Shares entitled to the advantages set forth in tho
following

SALES BY AUCTION.

SALES OF LANDED PROPERTY, OF FREEHOLD AND
LEASEHOLD HOUSES, RENT -CHARGES, REVERSIONS
POLICIES, &c.
MR. EDMUND ROBINS (Successor to the
late Mr. GEORGE ROBINS, and whom he has assisted
many years in the conduct of his business) announces most
respectfully to the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public generally, that
the BUSINESS WILL NOW BE CONTINUED BY HIM in the
department of SALES by AUCTION, or PRIVATE TREATY, of
LANDED PROPERTY, of FREEHOLD and LEASEHOLD
HOUSES, atENT-CHARGES, REVERSIONS, POLICIES, &c., as
well as SURVEYS and VALUATIONS; and he most respectfully
urges that the long experience he possesses, under the able conduct
of his lamented relative and predecessor, entitles him to solicit a
portion of that support ro many years enjoyed by the old-estabdshed
concern in Covent-garden, whilst he ventures to assure his
patrons that a strict attention will not only be paid to the interests
of those who may entrust the disposal of their property to his con-
duct, but a scrupulous desire to render the charges for commission,
&c., as moderate as he consistently can to accomplish that success
which it will ever be his primary object to achieve.

TO EMIGRANTS AND SPECULAToRS.

IMPORTANT SALE of LANDS in TEXAS, under the DO3iI.
NEON of AMERICA, calculated for AGRICULTURAL run-
POSES, and near several thriving Towns.
MR— ROBINS is instructed to SUBMIT
to PUBLIC SALE. at the Auction Mart, on TUUSSDAY
next, March 4, at Twelve, in various Lots,
SINGULARLY ATTRACTIVE ESTATES for the EMIGRANT
or SPECULATOR, comprising
10,643 ACRES of FREEHOLD LOCATED LANDS in TrxAs,
under the Dominion, and in the Southern part• of the United
States of America, and now denominated the Land of Promise.
The limits of an advertisement preclude the possibility of
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to important water conunanicatien, all of which will be
fully described in the prospectus, with a description of esch tract of
land, and the boundary as set font in the title ! it will moo 1%.....An
NINE ORIGINAL. TITLES, or SEPARATE ESTATES,
in the counties of Harris Liberty, Galveston, and Hexer, the smallest
Lot of which will be 320 Acres, and
TIIE LARGEST 4,605 ACRES,
surroended by thriving farms, and not far distant from the populous
towns of Houston, Harrisburg, Montgomery. Trinity, and St.
Antonio de Bexar, all excellent markets, with important navigable

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HOUSE OF COMMONS.
(Roo 22, before Mr. Examiner Sm)
Edinburgh avid Bathgate Railway ( Extensioan o rt. f
Barrack's
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Iron Works, and Deviation of Main Line at or near Clifton
Hall).
York Improvement (Lendal Bridge and approaches.)
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(Room 23, before Mr. Examiner MAY.)ds.—Com-
Leeds, Burley, and ileadingley Turnpike Goads
plied with.
York and Newcastle Railway (Main Line Improvement,
Bishop Auckland, and other Branche., and abandonment of
part of the Bishop Auckland Branch).—Complied with, ex-
cept in one instance.
Tunbridge Wells (East Grinstead and Brighton Junction
Railway).—Complied with.
Inverness Harbour and Navigation Improvement.—Com-
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Inverness Municipal and Police, Water, Gas, Market,
Shambles, Bridges, Roads, Petty Customs and Bleaching
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Adjourned till to-morrow.

PARLIAMEN TARY BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the .House of Commons.)
SATURDAY, TSB. 27.
NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE B
edILL-OFFICE.
The following Railway Bills are appoint to be read A
second time:—

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3.
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midlands Junction De•
viations.
olverhampton, and Dudley (Stourbridge and
Birmingham, W
West Bromwich).
THUSSDAY, MARCH 4.
York and North Midland (Hull Station and Branches).
Newcastle and Berwick (Last Coast Line,
Blyth, Seaton
Sluice, and other Branches).
Newcastle and Berwick (Cramr mgt on and Percy Main, and
Killingwor, and other Branches).
York and North Midland (Harrogate Branch Extension
and Terminus).
York and Newcastle (Hartlepool Dock and R ;1
—as-way, and
Great North of England, Clarence and Hartlepool June
tion Railway, Lease and Purchase).
York and Newcastle (Wearmouth Dock Enlargement).
York and Newcastle, Newcastle and Berwick, and North
British Amalgamation•
ement of London and Stratford
Eastern Counties (Enlarg
Stations, and Amendment of Acts).
London and
Direct London and Portsmouth, Brighton and Chichester,
London, Brighton, and South Coast, and
South-Western.

Great North of India.
Swansea Valley.
South Wales.
Vale of Neath.