The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-03 00:00:00

GAME LICENCES.

IrIlE COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND
a REVENUE hereby give Notice that SUPPLEMENTARY
LISTS, containing the Names of all Persons who have taken
out LICENCES to KILL and DEAL in GAME in the current
Year, from the 30th September last inclusive, have been printed
for each Excise Collection.
A Copy of the List, applicable to any District, may be obtained
GRATIS on application at the Offices of the respective Collectors
or Supervisors of Inland Revenue, Distributors or Sub-Distribu-
tors of Stamps, by whom Licences are issued.
The Commissioners further give Notice that instructions have
been issued to their Officers to take the necessary steps t o prefer
informations for penalties against all persons found in pursuit of
or dealing in Game without license.
WM. CORBETT, Secretary.

Inland Revenue, Somerset House,
London, Febrnary 15, 186).

EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament
For Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity in
Situations of Trust.
Not liable to
F ges to Annuitants,
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Annual Income exceeds Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand
The Annuity Tables,
Pounds,
special advanta
and full particulars of the popular Principles of this Society, will
be found in the New Prospectus,
offering
which will be forwarded to
applicants post free.

HENRY LAKE, General Manager.
316, Regent-street, and 17, Waterloo-Place Pall mall, London.

ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES:
Royal Insurance Buildings ...... Lombard-street, London.
Royal Insurance Buildings ...... North John-street, Liverpool.
CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS STERLING.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds .............. £Boo,roo
Accumulated Funds in hand .................. .£1,500,000
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
Life and Annuity Funds.... ....£1,031,329
SPECIAL ADVANTAGES— •
Exemption of Assured from Liability of Partnership.
BONUSES among the largest ever declared by any Company.
Profits divided every five years.
All new Life Insurances now effected will become entitled
to an Increased Share of the Profits.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Premiums in 1867 £46),553.
REDUCTION OF DUTY.—Since this first took place the increase
of business of the ROYAL has exceeded that of any other Office,
YOCHLNARSTEONN, Secretary in London. Manager.
as shown by Government Returns.
Prompt and liberal settlement of Losses.
JOHNJOHN
B.
H.

EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY,
LONDON.

Report of the Directors for the year ending the 30th
June, 1868, read at the Annual General Meeting of
Proprietors, August 14, 1868—Colonel CHARLES
WETHERALL, 8.C.T., Chairman of the Company, in
the chair.
The proprietors will no doubt remember that at the last
annual general meeting a report was made to them for the
quinquennial period then terminating, and that a bonus
was declared in respect of it amounting to the sum of
£208,774. The surplus fund account, as under, commences
with the balance of June, 1867, after deduction of this
bonus—that is to say, with the debit of £772,740 13s. 9d.

SURPLUS FUND ACCOUNT, 30'm JUNE, 1868.
Du. INCOME OF THE YEAR.
Balance of account, 30th
June, 1867, X 981,514 13 9
Less amount distributed
as bonus 20774 o 0
L______.— X 772,740 13 9

Premiums on new assur-
ances
Ditto on old ditto 366,215 7 3

£380,811 8 3
Interest from invest-

ments 117,584 7 3

4408,395 15 11
Profit and loss, balance
of account
Total income -_____---- 544,466 9 2

-£1,317,207 2 11

CR. CHARGE OP THE YEAR*
, Dividend to proprietors ...............
£8 877 5 0
Claims on decease of lives .....
assured £265 523 13 5
Additions to those under
participating policie. 22,816 4 7
Policies surrendered..... 28642 11 3
Re-assurances, new 3,270 15 4
Ditto, old 50,365 0 8

£370,618 5 3,-, v
Commission 11,702 15
Medical fees
751 16 2
Income tax
-- 2,215 4 7
Expenses of manage-
ment 15,489 8 5 400,777 9 5
—____,----

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Total chargA .................. ......... £409,654 14 5
907,552 8 6
Balance of account, 30th June.. 1868 ......

£1,317,207 2 11
Examined and approve
THOMAS ALLEN} Auditors.
HENRY ROSE,
The total income of the year, it will be seen, is £544,466
i-,
9s. 2d., and the total outgo £409,654 14s. Sc;. the diffe-
rence, or the sum laid
-Y--viz., £134,811 14s. 9d.—raises
the fund again to £907,552 Bs. 6d.
The interest received during the year is £117,584 7s.
3d., arising from the productive p the last year's report.
portion of the realised
assets of £2,897,157, mentioned in
The whole assets, productive and unproductive, may there-
fore be considered as having improved at the rate of rather
more than 4 per cent. ; or, if the profit shown of £46,070
13s. 3d., derived from various extraneous sources, be in-
cluded, at upwards of £5 12s. per cent,
The premiums on new assurances are .£14,596 ls. 9d.,
and of this sum £3,270 15s, 4d. has been expended in re-
assurances.
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The claims on decease of lives assured are nearly iden-
tical in amount with those of 1866. They are less than
those of last year by nearly £19,000.
A considerable reduction, too, appears in the amount
of premiums paid for re-assurance, many of the risks
management are less than those of last
re-assured having terminated by death and other causes.
The expenses of
year by upwards of £1,400. But they still include charges
incurred in the final closing of the two officeslast absorbed
by the company. The whole expenditure, however, in-
cluding income tax, is at the rate of little more than 51
per cent. on the total income.
The balance-sheet is as follows :
DR. LIABILITIES.
Interest due to proprietors £6,977 13 3
Claims on decease of lives assured, and
additions thereto unpaid
Sundry accounts
Liability under sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,369,469 11 7
Proprietors' fund ...........•
Surplus fund as before 907,552 8 6

Total £7,565,198 1 3
CR. ASSETS.
Amount invested in fixed mortgages £1,460,772 2 7
Ditto ditto decreasing ditto 183,979 17 10
Ditto ditto reversions ... 347,136 5 5
Ditto ditto funded securities
Ditto ditto temporary securities
Current interest on the above invest-
ments ........ .
Cash and bills
Advanced on security of the company's
policies....
Agents' baluaces
Sundry accounts
Value of premiums (1867) ..... 4,506,167 18 0
Value of re-assurances 86,860 13 9

36,243 7 6
22,604 2 9

Total .................................... £7,565,198 1 3
Examined and approved.
THOMAS ALLEN,) Auditors.
HENRY ROSE,
The present disposition of the Company's funds is shown
by this account. On ccmparing it with that of 1867, it
will be observed that further investments have been made
on mortgage and in the Government funds, and that about
£ll,OOO more has been advanced on security of the com-
pany's policies. Exclusive of the sum indicating the value
of the future premiums, the assets amount to £3,059,030
3s. 3d.

The direction of the company is now constituted as
follows :
The Right Hon. Sir JOHN YOUNG, Bart., K.C.B. Chair-
men.
WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE Esq., Deputy-
Chairman.
Charles Bischoff, Esq.
Thomas Boddington, Esq.
Charles Chatfield, Esq•
Sir J. Buller East, Bart.,
D.C.L.
Robert A. Gray Esq.
Wm. Augustus Guy, M.D.,
F.R.S.

Chas. Thos. Holcombe, Esq.
Joshua Lockwood, Esq.
James Murray, Esq.
Philip Rose, Esq.
George Russell, Esq.
Thos. Godfrey Sambrook°,
Esq.
Admiral Tindal.;