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

No. 16,989. LONDON, TUESDAY E

TAND AR D LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.

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

His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH and QUEENSBERRY.

DEPUTY-novratoa.
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, George-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 /110*CHIEFF 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
15th 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 368,67 W. 7s. 10d. (an average of 6251. for each Policy) ; the
amount of Assurances applied for during the year being
476,1351. 175. 9d.
The revenue of the Company is upwards of 120,0001. per 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 fallowing new Directors were elected :
David Smith, Esq., W. 81., Edinburgh.
Eagle Henderson, Esq , Merchant, Edinburgh.
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 benefits of Life Assurance to all who may seek its protection in
that form which is best suited to attain the particular object in view ;
while to those who look to the advaMage 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 informstion as to the value of life, and
the Company have published an extedeive set of Life Tables (18 in
number), setting forth its terms for an ordinary transactions, so that
its principles are fully before the pub*
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 0
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 beln:r.an advantageous one for Policy-holders,
the Directors of the Standard Company, in fixing the mode of division
which they have ad6pted, gave the subject much attention, and after
the most particular inquiry into the practice of other Companies
who had divided profits, they adopted the survivorship principle
followed by the Equitable Society of London, under whichsystem a
policy has been known to realise at death six or seven timss 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 Equitable 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 both Companies, and which has been 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 are made, the wider will the practice of
Life Assurance be extended,
PETER EWART, 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-
street, London; 66, Upper Sackville-street, Dublin; 35, St. Vincent-
place, Glasgow ; or at any of the Agencies which are established in
Vincent-
the principal towns of Scotland, England, and Ireland.

LIFE ASSURANCE.—BRITISH
SOCIETY, IT, New Bridge-1
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MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE
.street, Blackfriars, London.

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Jahn Atkinson, Esq. Captain Twisleton Graves
Henry Wm. Beauclerk, Esq. Thomas }Umber, Esq.
Henry Charles Curtis, Esq. John Lodge, Esq.
G. Godwin, Esq., F.E.S., F.S.A. Lieutenant-Colonellidontresor
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 eke, IT, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars.
CHARLES JAMES THICKE, Resident Secretary.

INVESTMENT for LARGE or SMALL
SUMS.
The attention of the public is invited to the following notice :
The Deeds for carrying out the resolutions of the Shareholders in
the Guarantee Fund of the BRITISH MUTUAL LIFE AS'SUR-
ANCE SOCIETY are now 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 the
following

SALES BY AUCTION.

SALES OF LANDED PROPERTY, OF FREEHOLD AND
LEASEHOLD HOUSES, RENT-CHARGES, REVERSIONS
POLICIES, &c.
!Ult. EDMUND ROBINS (Successor to the
LTA. 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, RENT-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 so many years enjoyed by the old-estab Ished
concern in Covent-garden, whilst he ventures to assure his
patron., 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 bo his primary object to achieve.

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