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

RUPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.

WHITE'S M C-M AIN LEVER TRUSS
(Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions
of 1851 and 1862) is allowed by upwards of Five Hundred
Medical men to be the most effective invention in
the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel
spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided— a
soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requi-
site resisting power is supplied by the lloc-Main Pad and
Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that
it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A
descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which can-
rot fail to fit, forws.rdei by post, on the circumference of
the body, two inches below tho hips, being- sent to the
manufacturer,
Mr. JOHN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London.
A Single Truss, IGe., 215., 2Gs. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage,
ls. A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage,
Is. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage,
la. 10d.
Post-office Orders to bo made payable to John White,
Post-office, Piccadilly.

NEW PATENT
VLASTIC STOCKINGS,
KNEE-CAPS, &e., for Varicose Veins and all cases
of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They
are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are
drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. Gd., 75. 6d.,
108., and 16s. each. Postage, Gd.
JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly.'

MUTUAL ASSURANCE without MUTUAL LIABILITY.
NON-FORFEITURE POLICIES by a LIMITED NUMBER
of PAYMENTS. PROFITS may be APPLIED so as to make
POLICIES PAYABLE in LIFETIME.
BRITISH EQUITABLE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
4, Queen-street-place, Southwark Bridge, E.O
NEW POLICIES D. ISSI7E
New Policies
issued.
8t —£14,250
108 18,481

In Weeks.
1868 ... 3
1869 ... 3 ..

Excess • • • • •• •• 22 £4,231
In 52 weeks ending April ith, 1869 ... 3,105 —X539,442

CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL
LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
ANNUAL INCOME, steadily increasing, £220,000]
ASSURANCE FUND, safely invested, £1,598,000 I
SPECIAL NOTICE.
All Persons who effect Policies on the Participating Scale
before June 30th, 1869, will be entitled at the NEXT BONUS
to one year's additional Share of Profits over later
Entrants.
Tables of Rates and Forms of Proposal can be obtained
of _ .

GEORGE CUTCLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary.
13, St. James's-square, London, S.W.

ABOLITION OF THE DUTY ON FIRE
INSURANCES.

!THE Directors of the ROYAL INSURANCE
COMPANY, in anticipation of the above, beg to intimate
that on all new In surances now effected there will only be
payable (provisionally) the proportion of Duty for the tune
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 INSURA'NC F.S, with Participation, EFFECTED
AFTER IST JANUARY, 1868, will become entitled to an INCREASED
SHARE OF THE PROFITS, in accordance with the Resolution
passed at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders,

JOHN H. McLAREN, ➢tanager.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

rTHE ROYAL HOSPITAL for DISEASES of
_IL the CIIIiST, City-road.—Tho wards for in-patients
aro constantly full, those for ont-patients crowded daily.
FUNDS greatly needed.
CHARLES L. KEMP, Secretary.

IFE BOAT SERVICES.—During the Storms
ILA of the past eighteen months the National Lifeboat
Institution contributed to the saving of 1,270 lives from
various shipwrecks and 32 vessels from destruction. The
Institution also expended £27,041 in the same period on
its Lifeboat Establishments, in addition to granting
£3,793 for rewards.
The Institution has now 207 Lifeboat Stations under
its management.
Contributions will bo thankfully received by the London
lnd country bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis,
Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street Adelphi, London.

DOG LICENSES.—CAUTION.
rIIE COMMISSIONERS of INLAND RE_
r VENUE GIVE NOTICE that all DOG LICENSES
granted in the year 1868 expired on the 31st December
last, and every person keeping a dog in the current year is
required forthwith to take out a now License.
The duty payable for each dog kept is Five Shillings.
The penalty for keeping a dog without License is Five
Pounds.
A License is not transferable from one person to
another.
A License may be obtained by the owner giving his
name and address, and the name of the place whore the
dog is kept, on application at
The Office of the Collector of Inlandl In the neigh-
Revenue,The Office of the Distributor of Stamm
Or bourhood of the
• applicant's re-
A Money Order Post Office. j sidence.
Licenses will also be granted by the several Supervisors
of Inland Revenue.

Persons residing at a distance from any of the above
offices, by transmitting with their application Inland
Revenue (Receipt) or Postage Stamps for the proper
amount of duty, to the Collector of Inland Revenue for
the Dis rict, will receive a license in return by post.
WM. GOBBET r, Secretary.

The directors draw special attention to the fact that the
next bonus valuation will take place at the end of the year
1872, and that all polices effected on the profit scales prior
to the 31st December, 1869, will bo entitled to participate
in the same.

The directors also draw attention to the successful esta-
blishment during the past year of the Britannia Fire
Association, under 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,
JOHN MESSENT, Actuary and Secretary.
London, March 18, 1869.

RAGLE INSURA.,NCE COMPANY,
LONDON.

Report of the Dfrectors 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 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, 30TH jUYE, 1868.
Du. INCOME OF THE YEAH.
Balance of account, 30th
June, 1867, £981,514 13 9
Less amount 4 istributed
as bonus 208,774 0 0

Premiums on new Assur-
ances
Ditto on old ditto 130,215 7 3

£380,811 8

Interest from invest-
ments 117,584 7

£498,395 15 11

Profit and loss, balance
of account
Total income

£772,740 13 9

544,46 G 9 2

£1,3.7,207 2 11

CR. CHARGE OF THE YEAR
Dividend to proprietors
Cla;-ns 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
Income tax 2,215 4 7
Expenses of manage-
ment 15,489 8 5

400,777 9 5

Total charge .
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 bo seen, is £544,466
9s. 2d., and the total outgo £409,654 14s. sd. ; the diffe-
rence, or the sum laid by-- viz., £134.811 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.
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 now assurances aro £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 officoslast absorbed
by the company. The whole expenditure, however, in-
cluding income tax, is at the rate of little more than 51
per cent. on the total income.
The balance-sheet is as follows :
Dn. LIABILITIES.
Interest duo to proprietors
Claims on decease of lives assured, and
additions thereto unpaid
Sundry accounts
Liability under sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,369,469 11 7
Proprietors' fund
Surplus fund as before 907,552 8 6

£6,977 13 3

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 317,136 5 5
Ditto ditto funded securities
Ditto ditto temporary securities
Current interest on the above invest-

ments
Cash and bills
_ _

36,243 7 6
22,604 2 9

Advanced on security of the company's
policies....
Agents' baluicos
Sundry accounts
Value of premiums (1867)
Value of re-assurances 86,860 13 9

Total Z 1,565,198 1 3
Examined and approved.
THOMAS A LLEN,}
Auditors.
HENRY 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 has been advanced on security of the com-
pany's policies. Exclusive of the sum indicating the value
of the futuro premiums, the assets amount to £3,059,030
3s. 3d.
The directicn 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.
Win. Augustus Guy ALD,
F.R.S.

Chas. Thos. Holcombe, Esq.
Joshua Lockwood, Esq.
James Murray, Esq.
Philip Rose, Esq.
George Russell, Esq.
Thos. Godfrey Samb coke,
Esq.
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