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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 Smrrn, 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 ➢tanager.
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,noo
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 time 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 £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 yckir ending the Nth
June, 1868, road at the Annual General Meeting of
Proprietors, August 14, 1868—Colonel CHARLES
WET HERALL, K.C.T., Chairman of the Company, iu
the Chair.
The proprietors will no doubt remember that at the last
annual general meeting a report was male to then for the
quinquennial p-riod then tertninating, and that a bonus
was declared in respect of it amounting to the suns of
£208,174. 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.

SIIRPIXS FUND ACCOUNT, 30Th JUYE, 1838.
DR. INCOME OF TIIE YEAIt.
Balance Of account, 30th
June, 18G7, ,C9Bl ,514 13 9
Less amount distributed
as bonus 2118,77.1 0 0
£772,710 13 9

Premiums cn new Amur-
aneos ..................... 14,596 1 5
Ditto on old ditto ..... 366,215 7 3
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.£3:11,811 8 3

Interest from invest-
ments ..................... 117,551 7 3

£498,393 15 11
Profit and loss, balance
of account ............... 46,00 13 3
Total inc Mme ............... - 544,466 9 2

£1,317.207 2 11
On. CITARGE OF TITS YEAIL
Dividend to proprietors
Claims on decease of lives £8,877 0
5
assured .................. £265,523 13 5
Additions to those under
articipating policies... 22,816 4 7
p
Policie3 surrendered 28,642 11 3
Re-assurances, new
Ditto, old.

£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 charge ... . £409,654 14 5
Balanco of account, 30th Juno 1868 907,552 8 6

£1,317,207 2 11

Examined and approv all
THOMAS ALLENI Auditors
lIENRY ROSE, r
The total income of the year, it will be seen, is £544,466
9s. 2d., and the total outgo £109,651 14s. 5d.; the diffe-
rence, or the sum laid by- viz., £131,811 14s. 9d.—raises
the fund again to £907,552 Bs. 6d.
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.
Tho 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 now 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 premiums paid for re-assurance, many of the risks
re-assured having terminated by death and other causes.
The expenses of management are less than those of last
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
per cent. on the total income.
The balance-sheet is as follows :
DB. 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 mortg.ages £1,460,772 2 7
Ditto ditto decreasing ditto . 183,979 17 10
Ditto ditto reversions .. ... 347,136 5 5
Ditto ditto funded securities... .. 479,932 13 3
Ditto ditto temporarysecurities 142,424 011
Current interest on the above invest-
-36,243 7 6
nients
Cash and bills
,
Advanced on security' .... the company's
159,503 14 9
policies..., ............................ 6
Agents' bah 112,460 1 Aces
Sundry accounts ...................
4506,167 18 0
5
Value of promiums (1867) ........ .......,
86 860 13 9
I Value of re-assurances

Total .................................... £7,565,198 1 3
Examined and approved.
THOMAS ALLEN,} •
HENRY ROSE, Auditors.
The present dispositionof the Company's funds is shown
by this account. On ccmpaying 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-
Chairman.
Charles Bischoff, Esq. Chas. Thos. Holcombe, Esq.
Thomas oddington, Esq. Joshua Lockwood, Esq.
Charles Chatfield, Esq. James Murray, Esq.
Sir J. Buller East, Bart., Philip Rose, tsq.
D.C.L. George Russell, Esq.
Robert A. Gray: Esq. Thos. Godfrey Sambroae,
WM. Augustus Guy, M.D. Esq.
Admiral