The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-15 00:00:00

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, S.W.

OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq Governor.
JAMES STEWART H9DGSON, Esq Sub-• Governor.
CHARLES JOHN MANNING, Esq Deputy-Governor.

DIRECTORS.

Robert Barclay, Esq.
John Garratt Cattle y, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq.
Edward James Daniell, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq.
Lancelot William Dent, Esq.
Alexander Druc!, Esq.

William Tetlow 'Ebbed,
Esq.
Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Egerton Hubbard, Esq.
Nevile Lubbock, Esq.
George Forbes Malcolmson,
Esq.
Lord J osceline Wm. Percy.
Cbarles Robinson, Esq.
Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
Joseph Somes, Esq.
William Wallace, Esq.
Charles Baring Young, Esq.
mei Solly, Esq., F.R.S.

Fredk. Joseph Edimatin, Esq.
Charles Hermann Goschen,
RiEverssq. dale Wm. Grenfell,
sq.
Fra Encis Alex. Hamilton, Esq.
Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq.
Medical Referee, Sam

FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected on
advantageous terms.
The Duty on Fire Assurances has been reduced to the
uniform rate of ls. 6d. per cent. per annum.
No charge is made by this Corporation for Fire Policy
or Stamp, however small the Assurance may he.
F.ArMING STOCK.- No Extra Charge is made for the
use of Steam Thrashing Machines.
The Rever,ionary Bonus on British LIFE POLICIES
has averaged nearly 2 per cont. per annum on the sum
assured.
Equivalent reductions have been made in tbo Premiums
payable by persons 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 Asrurod
from
a the Stock,li i
ab andlitie
s exemption
of Liberal participation in Profits, with tho guarantee
invested
nvested
Capital
uofnda largeorßoyal
Charter
part-
nership.
The advantages of modern practice, with the secu-
rity of an Office whose resources have been
tested
by the experience of nearly a CENTURY
HALF.
AND A

ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
ROBERT P. STEELE, Secretary.

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THE HOME SECRETARY'S ELECTION

ADDRESS'.

Mr. Bruce, the Home Secretary, has issued his .address
to the electors of Renfrewshire. It runs as follows :
" The lamented deathof Captain Speirs has deprived you
of a representative whose youthful years and previous
career gave promise of long and faithful service. I have
been- invited by many influential Liberals of your county
to offer myself as a candidate to supply his place, and I
gratefully accept the proffered honour. A stranger to
the great body of the electors, unconnected with you by
ties of birth or property, I can only attribute the
distinction of being so selected to the fact that I am a
member of a Government whose principles you approve,
and in whose adminstration of public affairs you are die—
posed to confide. That Government has, through its most
conspicuous members, pledged itself to a policy of
justice and conciliation towards Ireland ; to carry into
every department of the state a spirit of order and
economy ; to introduce measures for extending and
improving the education of all classes, with due regard to
the equal religious rights of all, and to apply itself with
energy and promptitude to the many questions of legal
and social reformation which demand solution. It is
obvious that these large designs cannot be accomplished in
a single session : they demand time and opportunity.
Yet I hope that among the measures which shall
signalise the coming session will at least be reckoned one
for settling the religious troubles in Ireland on a basis of
strict equity and equality ; and another for completing
in Scotland that system of national education, which,
imperfect as it may be, and inadequate to the present and
future wants of a growing population, has been of incalcu-
lable benefit to your country, and may, I trust, herald
the way to the extension of a similar blessing to England
and Wales. I hope by your aid and confidence to bear
my part in carrying these and other measures of pressing
interest ; on all of which I propose, with your permission,
to take an early opportunity of more fully expressing my
opinions and of hearing yours."