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BRITON MEDICAL AND GENERAL
LIFE ASSOCIATION.

Chief Offiws--429,Strand, London.
TRUSTEES.
Lieut.-General Sir J. E. R. Partridge, Esq., F.R.S.
I Dupuis, K. 0.8. Francis Webb, Esq.
Sir James Duke, Bart. W. Tyler Smith, 31. D.
Sir W. Fergusson, . Bart., Millis Coventry, EA.
CHAIRMAN
DEPUTY CHAIRMAN W. TYLER SMITH, Esq.
EXTRACTS from the FIFTEENTH ANNUAL RE-
PORT, read at the Annual General Meeting held at the
Society's House on Thursday, 18th March, FRANCIS
WEBB, Esq., in the chair.
The directors have received 3,212 proposals for assur-
ing the sum of £972,866 18s. 9d. 2,472 policies were
issued, assuring £703,451 4s. and producing in annual
premiums the sum of £25,227 Bd.
The following tabulated returns exhibit tt
ness transactions during the three quinquennt

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al

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6 `&
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Amount
Assured.

Annual
Premiums.

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P. .2

1858
1863
1868

Total..l

4,8021
13,244
17,466

35,5121

3,313)
9,74G1
13,091

2G,7631

£ R. d.
21,317 16 5
63,507 19 10
122,257 17 6

207,113 13 9

.6,704 1 7

1,276 18 1

Making a teird income of £237.980 19 8
The claims
'amounting to the sum of £127,886
kin
vere!,33,-
12s. id.
. The balance of the year's income was £68,026 9s. 4d.
The assets of the associatibn at the close of the year
amounted to £667,493 Bs. sd,
The directors draw.special attention to the fact Un- t 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 be entitled to participate
in the same.
The directors also draw attemion to the successful esta-'
blishment during the past year of the Britannia Fire
Association, urder 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 renrark 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.

EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY,
LONDON.
Report of the Directors for the year ending the 30th
June, 1868, read at the Annual General Meeting of
Pioprietors August 14, 1868—Colonel CHARLES
WETHERkLL, K.C.T., Chairman of the Company, in
the Chair.
Tho 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 ear, with the debit of £772,740 13s. 9d.

SURPLUS FUND ACCOUNT, 30Tx JUFE, 1308.
Dn. 1N.c.,-)m}: OP THIS YEAR.
"1141,
1867, -
Less amount t istributed
as bonus • ••
208,774 0 0
£772,740 13 9
Premiums cn new aAsur- • •
ances
Ditto on old 366,215 7 3

£30,811 8
Interest from invest-
ments ..................... 117,584 7

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

£1,317,207 2 11
CR. CHARGE OF THE YEAR
Dividend to proprietors
010-ns on decease of lives
assured .................. £265,523 13 5
Additions to those under
participating polici.. 22,816 4 7
Policies surrendered....., 28642 11 3
Re-assurances, new ...... 3,270 15 4
Ditto, old ..................... 50,365 0 8

£370,618 5 3
Commission
............... 7" " 2 Income tax .. .
2215 4 7
Expenses of ....... '• •••
manage-
ment ...
Medical fees ...............
11,702 15 0
............... 15,489 8 5 400,777
9.5

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

£1 317 207 211
Examined and approv
' THOMAS ALLEN 1. 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., £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-
chided, at upwards of £5 12s. per cent.
The premiums on new assurances are £14,596 is. 9d.,
and of this sum £3,270 15s. 4d. has been expended in re-
assurances.

The claimii on decease of lives assured are nearly iden-
tical in amount
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 jaid for re-assurance, many of the risks
re-assured having The expenses of Management are less than those of last
year by upwards of £1,400. But they still include charges
terminated by death and other causes.
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 51-
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
Advanced on security of the company's
policies.... - 159,503 14 9
Agents' baluices • 27,112 9 6
Sundry accounts
Value of premiums (1867) ..... 4,506,167 18 0
Value of re-assurances 86,860 13 9

36,243 7 6
22,604 2 9

T0ta1...... L 7,565,198 1 8
lizamined and approved.
THOMAS ALLEN,) d•
Au 'tors.
HENRY ROSE,
The present dieposition 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 Governu:ent funds, and that about
Lll,OOO more hes boon advanced on security of the com-
pany's policies. Exclusive of the sum indicating the value
of the future preniums, 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 Boddingon, Esq.
Charles Chatfield Esq.
Sir J. Buller East, Bart.,
D.C.L.
Robert A. Grays Esq.
I Wm. AngustusiCiuy M.D.,

Chas. Thos. Holcombe, Esq.
Joshua Lockwood, Esq.
James Murray, Esq.
Philip Rose, Esq.
George Russel], Esq.
Thos. Godfrey Sambrooko,
Esq.
Admiral Tindal.:

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LECTURES.

Three' Courses of Lectures on Common and Mercantile
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mouths of May, and Juno next.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern
Railway Terminus, King's Cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN.
Vice-Patron—
His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, B.G.

President2-11is brace the Duko of BUCCLEI3CII. K.G.
This Hospital, founded in .the year 1828, the first to
establish the principle of free admission to the sick poor,
without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is
wholly dependent :or support on voluntary contributions
and legacies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
drstizute sick has for a considerable period averaged be-
tween 3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the
benevolent., as the premises of this hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contriln.tions are received by their bankers, Messrs.
Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs.
Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co.;
Berries .pa rO. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and
Co.; Smith, rajrue, and Co.;
Barclay an
Deacon, and Co.;
Nisbet and Co.,lßerners-street snilli dat
the Hospital from 10 till 8.

Another important confidential conversation purporting
`.o have taken place between two personages of the highest
-ank in America has been reported, verbatim, by the
ji:7tcd and indefatigable New York journalists. The
Eveniag Post says that a few days ago a functionary of
.high position, and an uncompromising Protectionist,
called upon General Grant tohearhis "platform" on tariff
matters. The President appears to have been unusually
confidential. Going straight to the point, he
replica that he was resolutely -opposed to all
legislation for the purpose of increasing the duties
ni goods imported into the 'United States. He would
rather that the heaviest of these Customs' duties were
entirely suppressed than that the trade of the country
should be. hampered by greater burdens of the kind. The
revenue certainly did not require increased duties. It is
highly satisfactory to hear this ; but the important ques-
tion to decide is whether these remarks really did come
from General Grant, er whether they were dreamed by
one of the imaginative literary men of the Post.

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