The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-20 00:00:00

WEST INDIES AND MEXICO.

Leave St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St.
Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, Now Orleans, Porto Rico,
Haiti, Santiago de Cubs-, Guadeloupe, Martinique.
JAPAN, NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC, AND
. _ _ .

CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama).
Leave St. Nazaire on the Bth of each month for Mar-
tinique, St. Martha (United States of Columbia), Colon,
Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama); La Guayra, Porto Ca-
bello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Demerara, Paramaribo,
Cayenne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, &c., San Jose, La Union,
San Francisco, China, and Japar..
Hand books, with full details of all the routes of this
company, can be had of
STRINGER, PEMBBROKE, and Co.,
Agents, 8, Austinfriars, London, E.C.

INDEMNITY MUTUAL MARINE
ASSURANCE COMPANY,

36, Great Winchester-street, London.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, That the Annual Dividend, due to
the Shareholders on their Capital in this Company to the 31st
December last, will be Paid on Monday, the let day of February
next, by Warrants, which will be forwarded to each Proprietor
on that day; also, that the Books of the Company for the transfer
of Shares will be Closed from Tuesday, the 19th January, until
Thursday, the 4th February.
FRANCIS STEPHENS, Secretary.
13th January, 1869.

ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES:
Royal Insurance Buildings...... Lombard-street, London.
Royal Insurance Buildings ...... North John-street, Liverpool.
CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS STERLING.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds £Boo,ooo
Accumulated Funds in hand .£1,500,000
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
Life and Annuity Funds....
SPECIAL ADVANTAGES—
Exemption of Assured from Liability of Partnership.
BONUSES among the largest ever declared by any Company.
Profits divided every five years.
All new Life Insurances now effected will become entitled
to an Increased Share of the Profits.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Premiums in 1867 £460,553.
REDUCTION OF DUTY.—Since this first took place the increase
of business of the ROYAL has exceeded that of any other Office,
as shown by Government Returns.
Prompt and liberal settlement of Losses.
JOHN H. MCLAREN, Manager.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY,
LONDON.

Report of the Directors for the year ending the 80th
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, 30nr JUYE, 1868.
PR. INCOME OF TUE YEAR.
Balance of account, 30th
June, 1867, £981,514 13 9
Less amount distributed
as bonus 208,774 0 0
X 772,740 13 9
Premiums on new assur-
ances

Ditto on old ditto 366,215 7 3

£350,811. 8 3
Interest from invest-
ments 117,584 7 3

£498,395 15 11
Profit and loss, balancer'
of account
Total income - 544,466 9 2

£1,317.207 2 11
CR. CHARGE of Z fiE YEAR.
Dividend to proprietors ...„
Claims on decease of lives
ai,iured £Z115,523 13 5
Additions to those under
participating policies 22,816 4 7
Policies surrendered 28,642 11 3
Re-assurances, now
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

~552 8 6
Total charge
£409 654 14
Balance of account, 30th June, 1868 907

£1,317,207 2 11
Examined and approved.
THOMAS
HEN ALLEN,} Auditors.
Y OSE,
The total income of the yeR R ar, it will be seen, is £544,466
sstur eceivided by—viz.,
during £131,811 14s. 9d.—raises
9s. 2d., and the total outgo £409,654 14s. sd. ; the diffe-
renTche,eoirnttehree mla
the fund again to £907,552 Bs. 6d.
3d., arising from the productive portion of the realised
110 year is £117,584 7s.
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 51
per cent. on the total income.

The balance-sheet is as follows :
DR. LIABILITIN S.
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 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
policies 159,503 14 9
Agents' balances
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,
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:
Tho Right Hon. Sir JOHN YOUNG, Bart., K.C.8., 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,
Wm. Augustus Guy, M.D., Esq.
Adratral Tindal.;

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
are as follows :
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, Ramp- 150, New 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, Ilampstead.
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 aie 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 524 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 bankers are Messrs. Barclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent. DANL. OODPEB,ISec.2.I
Qaufteu-dreet Qinieddo.