The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-12 00:00:00

A.D. 1720.

ROYAL 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,P Mall, S.W.

GOTAVIITS WIGRAM, Esq Governor.
JAMES STEWAItT 111DGS0141, ESC'. Sub-•Governor.
CHARLES JOHN MANNING, Esq ....... Deputy-Governor.
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 Druce, Esq. Esq.
Fredk. Joseph Edlmann, Esq. Lord .3 °Beeline Wm. Percy.
Charles Hermann Goschen, Gbarles 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 Solly, Esq., F.R.S.

NOTICE.—The usual fifteen days allowed for
.payment
of FIRE PREMIUMS falling due 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 le. 6d. per cent. per annum.
No charge is made by this Corporation for Fire Policy
or Stanip, however small the Assurance may be.
:141ING STOCK.— No Extra Charge is made for the
use of Steam Thrashing Machine 2.
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 sec►l-
- of an Office whose resources have been tested
by the experience of nearly a CENTURY ADM A
HALF.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
EQDratT R. STEZLE socrotary.

THE ROYAL INFIRMARY for DISEASES
j of CHILDREN and WOMEN, Waterloo-bridge-

road.
Upwards of 100 poor sick children are relieved daily at
this Hospital.
The Committee most earnestly solicit Contributions, to
enable them to continue the benefits of medical aid to those
numerous po.or suffering children, who are rendered so
helpless by sickness and poverty.
Bankers, Messrs. Fuller, Banbury, and Co., 77, Lombard-
street; and by Messrs. Coutt.s and Co., Strand.
CHARLES J. F. RENTON, Secretary.
I Waterloo-bridge-road, SE.

BRITISH HOME for INCURABLES, Clap-
ham-rise. instituted in 1861.
Patroness—H.R.H. the Princess of WALES.
This Institution provides a home for life, with good
nursing and skilled medical attendance, for perscns over
20 years of age and above the pauper class, who are hope-
lessly afflicted with incurable disease.
Pensions of £2O per annum are also granted.
The Home was opened in September 1863; 71 in-
patients and 106 annuitants have been elected. Elections
in May and November. Forms of application may be ob-
tained from the Secretary.
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS and DONATIONS are
earnestly solicited.
Bankers—Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard-
street, E.G. ; Messrs. DrummEDond, Charin
WD. WEAYER, Soc.
g-cross, S.W.
Offices, 73, Cheapside, E.C.

IIHE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
are as follows :
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, Hamp- 150, Now Kent-road.
stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-street,Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland- street. wich.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, Henstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's-street, Dover.
Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside.
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three homes for servants of good
character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The committee ate deeply anxious to
open another house for this pitiable class.
The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young
of "
women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 524 appli-
cants, whose histories are
of which a recorded incontrib the apptolicawrites, 1
nt's book.
The Society's Report
never read a report of any charitable institution which so
entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my
sympathy"). may be bad on application.
Tbe Society is under the presidency of the Earl of
Shaftesbury. Its belabors are Messrs. Barclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent. DANL. OODPER, Seo.
8;" CLuoeu-street cheißside-a

£1,317,207 2 11
Examined and approv ail
THOMAS ALLEN Auditors.
HENRY ROSE, j

The total income of the year, it will be seen, is £544,466
9s. 2d., and the total outgo £409,651 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-
cluded, at upwards of £sl2s. 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
Tear 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 5i
per cent. 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 61,530 4 5
45,875 13 6
Sundry accounts
Liability under sums assured, &e. (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 347,136 5 5
Ditto ditto funded securities 479,932 13 3
Ditto ditto temporary securities
Current interest on the above invest-

36,243 7 6
22,604 2 9

ments ........ . ................
Cash and bills
Advanced on security of the company's
policies 159,503 14 9
Agents' baIfACOEI
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,} Auditors.
HENRY ROSE,

The present disposition of the Company's funds is shown
by this account. On comparing 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
£l4OOO 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, Esq.
D.C.L. George Russell, Esq.
Robert A. Gray Esq. Thos. Godfrey Sambrooke,
En
Wm. Augustus Quy M.D., .
11.13,43. Admina Windol4

HOME for the HELPLESS. --ST. JAMES'S
DIOCESAN HOME for FEMALE PENITENTS
(Hammersmith), under tie immediate direction of the
Bishop of London. The work carried on by aSisterhood,
"in faithful accordance with the principles of the Re-
formed Church of England." FUNDS greatly needed
COUNCIL.
The Bishop of LONDON,
Rev. J. W. Ayre Major-Gen. Rt. Hon. Percy
Rev. F. G. Bloomfield Herbert, M.P.
Eon. and Rev. F. Byng RO7. J. E. Kempe
Rev. R. G. Baker Rev. W. F. Erskine Knollys
Rev. S. Brooke Rev. S. W. Lloyd
The Lord Clinton Rev. A. Martineau
Rev. W. Cadman Rev. W. 1). Maclagan
E. Charrington, Esq. Rev. Daniel Moore
Rev. E. L. Cutts, Chaplain Rev. J. Moorhouse
Rev. E. Capel Cure J. D. Morton, Esq.
Rev. J. E. Cox Rev. Capin Nopoan
Octavius Coope, Esq. Rev. E. Parry
Arthur Currie, Esq. John Pearson, Esq., Q.C.
Rev. J. Connell Rev. G. F. rrescott

Rev. C. W. Fume
C. J. Freake. Esq.
J. S. Gilliat, Esq.
Rev. Dr. F Hessey
H U Heald, Esq.
IL Hook, Esq., Treasurer
Subscriptions will be rece
Messrs. Harries, Farquhar,
Secretary, Rev. S. W. Lloy(
man-square, to whom comm

Rev. F. Pigon
R. T. Pigott, Esq.
R. R. Pym, Esq.
Hugh H. Seymour, Esq.
R. Wade. Esq.
Loftus Wigram, Esq.
ived by any of the above ; by
and Co ; and by the Hon.
I, 14, Seymour-street, Port-
aaications may be addressed.

ROYAL HOSPITAL for INCURABLES,
West-hill Putney-heath.

Established'3lst July, 1854.
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-Ist. By supplying a home, with
medical attendance, nursing, and all requisites for tho in-

valid.
2d. By granting an annuity of £2O to patients at their
own homes.
A new wing to the Hospital has last 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 are awaiting election.
For the maintenance of present operations, for the ex-
tension of the benefits of the Charity, donations, and espe-
cially 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.
FREDERIC ANDREW, Secretary
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