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EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament.
For Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity in
Situations of Trust.
Chairman— General Sir FREDERIC SMITH, K.H., F.R.S.
Policies payable during Life—lndisputable—Not liable to
Forfeiture.
Annual Income exceeds Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Pounds.
The Annuity Tables, offering special advantages to Annuitants,
and full particulars of the popular Principles of this Society, will
be found in the New Prospectus, 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 ZBOO,'OO
Accumulated Funds in hand £1,500,000
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
Life and Annuity Funds....
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 1567 £461,553.
REDUCTION OF DuTY.—Since this first took place the increase
of business of the ROYAL has exceeded that of any other Office,
as shown by Government Returns
Prompt and liberal settlement of Losses.
JOHN H. MCLAREN, Manager.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY,
LONDON.

Report of the Directors for the year ending the 30th
June, 1868, read at the Annual General Meeting of
Ploprietor.:, Au.zust 14, 1868—Colonel CHARLES
WETHERALL, K.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, 30xit j1.1.1,7E, 1868.
DR. INCOME OF THE YEAH.
Balance of account, 30th
June, 1867, £981,514 13 9
Less amount distributed
as bonus 208,774 0 0
£772,740 13 9

Premiums on new assur-
anet's
Ditto on old ditto 366,215 7 3

£3:20,811 8 3

Interest from invest-
ments 117,584 7 3

.W 8,393 la 11
Profit and loss, balance
46,070 13 3
of account
Total incmuo

£1,317,207 2 11

Cn. CHARGE OF THE YEAR
Dividend to proprietors
Claims on decease of lives
£265,523 13 5
assured
Additions to those under
participating policies—. 22,816 4 7
Policies surrendered 28,642 11 3
Re-assurances, new
Ditto, old 50,365 0 8

£370,618 5 3
Commission ............... 11,702 15 0
Medical fees ............... 751 16 2
Income tax .............. 2,215 4 7
Expenses of manage-
ment ........................ 15,489 8 5
400,777 9 5

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

£1,317,207 2 11

Examined and approv
THOMAS ALLEN,
Auditors
HENRY ROSE,
The total income of the year, it will be seen, is X 514,466
9s. 2d., and the total outgo £409,651 14s. sd. ; the diffe-
renceor the sum laid by- viz., £131,811 14s. 9d.—raises
the fund again to £907,552 Bs. Gd.
Tho interest received during the year is £117,584 7s.
3d., arising from the productive portion of the realised
assets of £2,897,157, mentioned in the last year's report.
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.
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 premien-is paid for re-assurance, many of the risks
re-assured having terminated by death and other causes.
The expenses of menagement are les3 than those of last
year by upwards of £1,400. But they still include charges
incurred in the final closing of the two officeshist absorbed
by the company. The whole expenditure, however, in-
cluding income tax, is at the rate of little more than 5}
per cent. on the total income.
The balance-sheet is as follows :
DR. LIABILITIES.
Interest due to proprietors
Claims on decease of lives assured, and
additions thereto unpaid
Sundry accounts
Liability under sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,369,169 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
Ditto ditto reversions 347,136 5 5
Ditto ditto funded securities
Ditto ditto temporary securities 142,424 011
Current interest on the above invest-
ments
Cash and bills 22,604 2 9
Advanced on security of the company's
policies 159,503 14 9
27,112 9 6
Agents' balf noes
Sundry accounts
Value of premiums (1867) • • ••• , 9
860 13 9
Value of re-assurances ........................
_____B_____6,

Total £7,565,198 1 3
Examined and approved.
THOMAS A LLEN,}
Auditors.
lIENRY ROSE,
The present disposition of the Compagy'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-

man.
WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE Esq., Deputy-

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Chairman.
Charles Bischoff, Esq. I Chas. Thos. Holcombe, Esq.
Thomas Boddington, Esq. Joshua Lockwood, Esq.
Charles Chatfield, Esq. I James Murray, Esq.
Sir J. Buller East, Bart., Philip Rose, Esq.
D.C.L. George Russell, Esq.
Robert A. Gray. Esq. Thos. Godfrey Sambrook°,
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Wm. Augustus Guy, M.D., Esq.
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