The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-16 00:00:00

A.D. 1720.

110 YAL EXCHANGE
ON ASSURANCE
CPORATI.
(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.

OOTAVIIIS WIGRAM, Esq Governor.
JAMES STEWART 'PIDGEON, Esq S üb-Govern or.
CHARLES JOHN MANNING, Esq Deputy-Governor.

Robert Barclay, Esq.
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William Tetlow Hibbert,
John Garratt Cattley, Esq. Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq.
DIRECTORS.
Edward James Daniell, Esq. Egerton Hubbard, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq. Nevile Lubbock, Esq.
Lancelot William Dent, Esq. George Forbes Alalcolmson,
Alexander Druce, Esq. Esq.
Fredk. Joseph Edlmann, Esq. Lord J osceline Wm. Percy.
Charles Hermann Goschen, Cbarles 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 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.
F. 4 MING STOOL—No Extra Charge is made for the
use of Steam Thrashing Machine-a.
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
RALF.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
11913=T P. KEELS, Secretary.

THE ROYAL INFIRMARY for DISEASES
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 poor suffering children, who are rendered so
helpless by sickness and poverty'.
Bankers, Messrs. Puller, Banbury, and Co., 77, Lombard-
street ; and by Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand.
CHARLES J. F. RENTON, Secretary.
Waterloo-bridge-road, S E.

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 persc ns over
20 years of age and above the pauper class, who aro 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
tained from the Secretaxs. of application may be ob-
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS and DONATIONS are
earnestly solicited.
Bankers—Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard-
street, E.C. ; Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross, S.W.
EDWD. WEAVER, Sec.
Offices, 73, Cheapside, E.C.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
are as follows :
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, camp- 150, New Kent-road.
stead. 48 Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-street,Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Groat Portland- street. wick.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, Henstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, l3uckhurst-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 frienaless
servauts annually.
The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The committee me deeply anxious to
open another house for this pitiable class.
Tho 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 read a report of any charitable institution which so
entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my
sympathy") may be had on application.
The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of
Shaftesbury. Its banlaers are Messrs. Barclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent. DANL. 000 PE, Pea
At wutearfitrot 011awaido4

£1,317,207 2 11
Examined and approv 41
THOMAS ALLEN,}
Auditors
HENRY ROSE, 3
The total income of the year, it will be seen, is £544,466
9s. 2d., and the total outgo £409,654 145. 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, Tnay 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 h
te 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 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 61,530 4 5
Sundry accounts
Liability under sums assured, &o. (1867) 6,369,169 11 7
Proprietors' fund ...........
907,552 8 6
Surplus fund as before

Total .C7,565,198 1 3
CR. ASSETS.
Amount invested in fixed mortgages £1,460,772 2 7
Ditto ditto decreasing ditto 183,979 17 10
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
Advanced on security of the company's
159,503 14 9
policies....Agents' bah Aces
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

Total _ _
_.£7,565,198 1 3

Examined and approved.
THOMAS A LLEN' Auditors.
HENRY ROSE, f
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
£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.
Thomas Boddington, Esq.
Charles Chatfield, Esq.
Sir J. Buller East, Bart.,

Chas. Thos. Holcombe, Esq.
Joshua Lockwood, Esq.
James Murray, Esq.
Philip Rose, Esq.
George Russell, Esq.
Thos. Godfrey Sambrooko,
Et*
Adularia Tiata;

D.C.L.
Robert A. Gray! Esq.
Wm. Augustus Guy