The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-08 00:00:00

A.D. 1720.

ROY AL 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.

OOTAVIUS WIGRANI, Esq Governor.
JAMES STEWART IPMGSON, Esq Sub-Governor.
CHARLES JOHN MANNING, Esq Deputy-Governor.
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DIRECTORS.
Robert Barclay, Esq. William Tetlow Hibbert,
John Garratt Cattley, Esq. Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Edward James Daniell, Esq. Egerton Hubbard, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq. Nevile Lubbock, Esq.
Lancelot William Dent, Esq. George Forbes Malcolmson,
Alexander Bruce, Esq. Esq.
Fredk. Joseph Edlmann, Esq. Lord J osceline Wm. Percy.
Charles Hermann Goschen, Charles Robinson, Esq.
Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Riversdale Wm. Grenfell, Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq.
Francis Alex. Hamilton, Esq. William Wallace, Esq.
Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq. Charles Baring Young, Esq.
Medical Referee, Samuel &My, Esq., F.R.S.

NOTICE.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment
of FIRE PREMIUMS falling duo at Lady Day will expire
on the 9th of April.
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 be.
Fp MING STOCK.— No Extra Charge is made for the-
use of Steam Thrashing Machine.-4.
The Reversionary Bonus on British LIFE POLICIES
has averaged nearly 2 per cent:per:annum on the sum
assured.

Equivalent reductions have been made in the 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 Assured
Liberal participation in Profits, with the guarantee
of a large invested Capital Stock, and exemption
under Royal Charter from the liabilities of 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 AND A
IiALF.

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

LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL is the only
institution in the Metropolis for the treatment and
prevention of contagious fevers.
CONTRIBUTIONS will be gratefully, received by
Messrs. Dimsdale and Co., 50, Cornhill ; Messrs. Drum-
mond, Charing-cross; Messrs. Coutts, Strand ; Messrs. Fleet-street ; and by the Secretary, at the ilospital,
Liverpool-road, Islington, N.

tt •ts
50 • `)
.'l' g C",' 6. 71 OH
t. g„c, 62, Amount 6 (f, Amount Annual
c=4 0 0 F.). Proposed. Z -c1 Assured. Premiums.
*a. T p., 0
of 4 P.,
-- ---
. •C s. d. £ s.
1858 4,802 1,023,140 0 0 3,318 C 54,140 0 0 21.347 16 d.
5
1868186
17
3 13:424664 476719:36063 5
13,699 3,752,967 4 8 122,257 17 66 0 9,746 2,037,383 0 0 63,507 19 10
-- -- ---
Total.. 35.5121 8,664,109 5 9 26,763 6,444,490 4 8 207,113 13 9
The net premium income has increased to
the sum of ................. . ..... : ......... • £216,-01 1 7
, • . . . ._.....,,,,.1......,, ..... •‘

The net premium income
the sum of
The interest on investmeni
of receipt yield

£2
s and other items

1,276 18 1

Making a total income of ............ £237,980 19 8
The claims were 335, amounting to the sum of £127,886
12s. Id.

The balance of the year's income was .C 68,026 9s. 4d.
The assets of the association at the close of the year
amounted to £667,493 Bs. sd.
The directors draw special attention to the fact thpt the
next bonus valuation will take place at the end of the year
1872, and that all polices effected on the profit miles prior
to the 31st December, 1869, will be entitled to participate
in the same.
The directors also draw attention to the successful eat a-
blishmeut during the past year of the Britannia Firo
Association, ur der the auspices of the Briton. The direc-
tors believe that the establishment of a Fire Company, to
work in active co-operation with the Life, will tend much
to the advantage and profit of both institutions. It is
scarcely necessary to remark that the capital funds and
constitution of each office are quite separate and distinct.
By order of the Board,
JOIIN MESSENT, Actuary and Secretary.
London, March 18, 1869.

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, K.C.T., Chairman of the Company, in
the ('hair.

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.

BaiargeDiPitaALTILACCOUNT, 30Tli JUZTE, 1868.
June, 1867, £981,514 13 0
Less amount distributed
as bonus 208,774 0 0

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

- ..........

Interest from invest- £3Bo'Bll 8 3
ments 117,584 7 8

'72,740 13 9

£498,395 15 11
Profit and loss, balance
of account 46,070 13 3
544,466 9 2
Total income

£1,317,207 2 11

On. CuAnGn of THE yo.n-
Dividend to proprietors .................... X 8,877 5 0
Cla;•ns on decease of lives
assured £265,523 13 5
Additions to those under
participating policies 22,816 4 7
Policies surrendered 28642 11 .
Re-assurances, new
Ditto, old 50,365 0 8

£370,618 5 3
Commission
Medical fees
Income tax
Expenses of manage-
ment "
8 5
400,777 9 5
•

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

£1,317,207 2 11
Examined and approvA,l
THOMAS ALLE Auditors.
9s. 2d., and the total outgo £409,654
HENRY ROSE,
14s. sd. ; the The total income of the year, it will be seen, is £544,466
diffe-
rence, or the sum laid by—
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 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 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 :--
DR.
Interest due to proprietors .................. £6,977 13 3
Claims on decease of lives assured, and
additions thereto unpaid .................. 61,530 4 5
Sundry accounts ............................. 45,875 13 6
Liability under sums assured, are- (1:867) 6,369,469 11 7
Proprietors' fund ........... . .................. 173,792 10 0
Surplus fund as before ........................ 907,552 8 6

Total .................................... 47,565,198 1 3
CR. ASSETS.
Ditto ditto decreasing ditto ...... 183,979 17 10
Amount invested in fixed mortgages... £1,460,772 2 7
Ditto ditto reversions ............... 347,136 5 5
Ditto ditto funded securities ...... 479,932 13 3
Ditto ditto temporary securities • 142,424 011
Current interest on the above invest..

ments ........................................... 86,243 7 6

,
Cash and bills .................................... 22601 2 9
Advanced on security of the company's
policies., , ..................................... 159,503 14 9
Agents' baltnces ............ . ................. 27,112 9 6
Sundry accounts .............................. 112,460 15 0
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,} Auditors.
RENR Y ROSE,
with that of 1867, it
Company's funds is shown
Thebytb i prs
aecsceonutn dt.i spool t
cocnnolfrtahriona i
will bo 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 Boddington, Esq. Joshua Lockwood, Esq.
Charles Chatfield, Esq. James Murray, Esq.
Sir J. Buller East, Bart:, Philip Rose, Egq.
D.C.L. George Russell, Esq.
Robert A. Grayi Esq. Thos. Godfrey Sambrook°,
Wm. Augustus Guy, M.D., Esq.
F.lO. A dmiral

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
'tro as follows :
For Fallon Women.
28, Church-row, Hanip- 150, New Kent-road.
stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-streot, Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland. street. wich.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, Honstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary s Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. Jamos's-street, Dover.
Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapsido.
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three homes for servants of good
character, in which aro admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The home at Groat Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. Tho committee ale deeply anxious to
open another house for this pitiable class.
The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young
women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 624 appli-
cants whose histories are recorded in the applicant's book.
The Society's Report (of which a contributor writes, "I
never road a report of any charitable institution which so
entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my
sympathy") may be had on application.
Tho Society is under the presidency of the Earl of
Shaftesbury. Its banliors are Messrs. Barclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent. DINL. COOPER, Sec.
fif Queen-street Clheapside.

ROYAL HOSPITAL for INCURABLES,
IVest-hill Putnoy-boath.

Establisllcd'3lst July, 1851.
This Institution exists for the comfort and relief of per-
sons (being above the pauper class) afflicted with incur-
able bodily disease.
Belief is afforded—lst. By supplying a home, with
medical attendance, nursing, and all requisites for the in-
valid.
2d. By granting an annuity of £2O to patients at their
own homes.
A new wing to the Hospital has lest been completed
at a cost of upwards of .£lO,OOO, and FUNDS are urgently
NEEDED to liquidate the expenses incurred.
There are 120 inmates and 237 pensioners, all entirely
dependent upon voluntary subscriptions.
Nearly 300 approved applicants aro awaiting election.
For the maintenance of present operations, for the ex-
tension of the benefits of the Charity, donations, and espe;
daily annual subscriptions, are earnestly solicited. Life
subscriptions, £5 ss. and upwards; annual subscriptions,
half a guinea and upwards, with votes in proportion.
Information will be supplied, with the greatest pleasure,
upon application to the Secretary,by whom contributions
will be thankfully received-
FREDIaIIC ANDREW, Secretary
No. 10 Poultry London, E.C. September 1868.

it. Trere-Orban, the Chief Minister of Belgium, is now
in Paris, and has had several interviews with the Emperor
Napoleon and his Ministers. Of course the result of
these conferences is not yet known, but it seems that
the negotiations are by no means finished. The Paris
correspondent of the Standard deems himself enabled to
State on very good authority that the efforts of the French
Government are directed to the establishment of a Customs
Union between the two countries, by the abolition of the
customs linebetween France and Belgium, and the adoption
of French tariffs at the Belgian ports and the Belgian, Dutch,
and German frontiers. The French Government alio
made it a sine quti non that the law recently passed, wh'et
enables the Belgian Government to take immediate pos-
session of any line of railway sold to a foreign company
without its consent having been previously obtained,
shall not be allowed to interfere with the completion of
the contract with the French Chemin de Fer de l'Est.
The writer has reason to believe that M. Frere-Orban is
not prepared to grant either of these preposterous de-
mands. This is no news. A declaration of the most
positive character was•some time ago made by the leading
Belgian journals. Belgium, they affirmed, would neither
agree to a Customs Union, nor allow its right of forbidding
the treaty with the Eastern Company to be brought into
question. But, this precise statement notwithstanding,
it is not a little significant that Kirg Leopold's Minister
should now be negotiating as a plenipotentiary at the
French Court.

The Independance Begs publishes a detailed account of
M. Frere-Orban's interviews with the Emperor and his
Ministers. The diplomatists seem to have rivalled cll.-
cumlocutTon doings in England. The first interview M.
Frere-Orban had was with the Marquis de Lavalette. It
was devotei wholly to things in general. Germany, the
affairs of the East, anything but the railway business
were fully enlarged upon in the course of this charming
conversation. On. Saturday the Belgian Minister went
to see the Emperor. Nothing could be more satisfactory
than this interview, which lasted an hour. M. Fb e-
Orban met with a warm welcome. The two talked
together with the most perfect urbanity. The Belgian
Minister explained the sentiments, the interests, the
duties of Belgium, and assured the Emperor that
nothing separated the little country from the
big one. The Emperor heard all this with
une attention continue et une i‘icnveillance marquee.
But the concessions which France demanded, and the
extent to which Belgium was prepared to grant thcni,
were two trifles left wholly out of the discussion. Then
came M. Rouher's turn. It was now high time to began
business, and accordingly M. Rouher tried to demonstrate
that the treaties by which Belgian lines are to be leased
to French companies mightbe so surrounded byguarantees
as to obviate all the inconveniences which the Belgian
Government dreaded. M. Rouher, the Independance Beige
is assured, maintained these treaties as one of tie
principal elements of the solution which the two
Governments sought. This is, indeed, coming to
the point ; but here, unfortunately, the narrative stops.
Frera-Orban's answer has yet to be known. It is
evident, however, that the progress already made bears
no proportion to the amount of time consumed. The
Belgians say that they will not have these treaties con-
firmed, and the French Government is clearly deterna'ned
to raise the question. There the matter stands.