The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-09 00:00:00

ABOLITION OF THE DUTY ON FIRE
INSURANCES.

THE Directors of the ROYAL INSURANCE
OMPANY, in antic'pation of the above, beg to intimate
that on all new L surances now effected there will only be
payable (provisionally) the proportion of Duty for the time
between the date of the Order and Midsummer Day next.

ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES:
Royal Insurance Buildings, Liverpool,
and
Lombard-street, London.
CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS STERLING.

Important Announcement.
Increased Share of Life Profits.

ALL NEW INSURANC ?7,'S, with Participation, EFFECTED
AFTER IST JANUARY, 18(S, will become entitled to an INCH EASED
SHARE OF THE PROFITS, in accordance with the Resolution
passed at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

JOHN H. IicLAR EN, Manager.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY,
LONDON.

Report of the Directors fo; —die year ending the 30th
June, 1868, read at the Annual General Meeting of
Proprietors, August 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 mado to thorn 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, nfrm JUIE, 1868.
PR. INCOME OF THE YEAR.
Balance of account, 30th
June, 1867 4'381,514 13 9
Less amount 1 istributed
as bonus 208,774 0 0
£772,740 13 9

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

£380,811 8

Interest from invest-
ments 117,581 7

£498,395 15 11
Profit and loss, balance
of account
Total income 544,466 9 2
i
£1,317,207 2 11

CR. CHARGE OF THE YEAR
Dividend to proprietors
Cla;-us on decease of lives
assured £265,523 13 5
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

Medical fees

'751 16 2

Income tax 2,215 4 7
Expenses of manage-
ment 15,489 8 5
400,777 9 5

Total chargn
Balance of account, 30th June, 1868 907,552 8 6

£1,317,207 2 11
Examined and approv 1
THOMAS ALLEN} Auditors
HENRY ROSE,
The total income of the year, it will be seen, is £544,466
9s. 2d., and the total outgo £409,654 14s. sd. ; the diffe-
rence, or the sum laid by- viz., £131,811 14s. 9d.—raises
the fund again to £907,552 Bs. Gd.
The interest received during the year is £117,584 75.
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 premiums paid for re-assurance, many of the risks
re-assured having terminated by death and other causes.
The expenses of management are loss 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 oi
per cont. on the total income.
The balance-sheet is as follows :
Dn. 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
Current interest on the above invest-
ments
Cash and bills 22,604 2 9

Advanced on security of the company's
policies....
Agents' balriaces
Sundry accounts
Value of premiums (1867) ...... 4,506,167 18 0
Value of re-assurances 86,860 13 9

Total £7,565,198 1 3
Examined and approved.
THOMAS A LLEN,2 Auditors.
lIENRY 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 Las 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.
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. Tlios. Holcombe, Esq.
Joshua Lockwood, Esq.
James Murray, Esq.
Philip Rose, Esq.
George Russell, Esq.
Thos. Godfrey Sambrooke,
Esq.
Admiral Tiudal.',