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London, England, 1869-02-27 00:00:00

A.D. 1720.

ROYAL EXINIANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION,
(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.

OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq Governor.
JAMES STEW ART H')DGSON, Esq Sub-• Governor.
CHARLES JOHN MANNING, Esq Deputy-Governor.

DIRECTORS.

Robert Barclay, Esq.
John Garratt Cattley, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq.
Edward James Daniell, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq.
Lancelot William Dent, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq.
Fredk. Joseph Edlmann, Esq.
Charles Hermann Goschen,

William Tetlow Hibbert,
Esq.
Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Egerton Hubbard, Esq.
Nevile Lubbock, Esq.
George Forbes Malcolmson,
Esq.
Lord J ()Beeline Wm. Percy.
Charles Robinson, Esq.
Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
Joseph Somes, Esq.
William Wallace, Esq.
Charles Baring Young, Esq.
mel Solly, Esq., F.R.S.

Esq.
Riversdale Wm. Grenfell,
Esq.
Francis Alex. Hamilton, Esq.
Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq.
Medical Referee, Sam

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. por cent. per annum.
No charge is made by this Corporation for Fire Policy
or Stamp, however small the Assurance may be.
1‘ rIIING STOCK.— No Extra Charge is made for the
use of Steam Thrashing Machines.
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 AsFured
Liberal participation in Profits, with the guarantee
of
ndaer
Cvehsateder from Cap theStock,ital and exemption
liabilities
of
part-
nership.
The advantages of modern practice, with the secu-
rity of an Office whose resources have been tested
ulaßrgoeyalin
Charter
by the experience of nearly a CENTURY AND A
HALF.
ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. .
ROBERT P. STEELE, Secretary.

GAME LICENCES.
,TIE COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND
REVENUE hereby give Notice that SUPPLEMENTARY
LISTS, containing the Names of all Persons who have taken
out LICENCES to KILL and DEAL in GAME in the current
Year, from the 30th September last inclusive, have been printed
for each Excise Collection.
A Copy of the List, applicable to any District, may be obtained
GRATIS on application at the Offices of the respeorctive Collectors
or Supervisors of Inland Revenue, Distributors Sub-Distribu-
tors of Stamps, by whom Licences are issued.
The Commissioners further give Notice that instructions have
been issued to their Officers to take the necess
ound iu ary steps to prefer
informations for penalties against all persons f purs
or dealing in Game without licensWe.
M. CORBETT, Secretary.

Inland Ilevenne, Somerset House,
London, Fobrnary 15, 186.).

AB C PATENT DESPATCH BOX.—JEN-
NER and KNEWSTUB'S newly-invented Patent
A B C and 1,2, 3, Despatch Boxes, " for general conve-
nience, for ready access to papers and methodical
arrangement, have received tbe highest commenda-
tion." Price 10s. 6d. and upwards. " This is a valuable
contrivance."--Punch, Nov. 14. " Cannot fail to be useful
in the library and office."—Record. " Will meet espe-
cially the requirements of literary, legal and official per-
sons."—Star. "A boon to all lovers of order."—lllus-
trated London News. " There can be no question as to
the value of this invention."—Morning Post.—Jenner and
Rnewstub, Inventors of the Elgin Writing case, 33, St.
James's-street, 5114 66, Jorinp-otreet.

EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament.
For Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity in
Situations of Trust.
Chairman-. General Sir Fur.Duem F.R.S.
Policies payable during Life—Indisputable—Not liable to
Forfeiture.
Annual Income exceeds Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Pounds.
The Annuity Tables, offering special advantages to Annuitants,
and full particulars of the popular Principles of this' Society, will
be found in the New Prospectus, which will be forwarded to
applicantsspost free.
yiENRY LAKE, General Manager.
316, Regent-street, and 17, Waterloo-place Pall-mall, London.

ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES:
Royal Insurance Buildings.a...Lombard-street. London.
• Royal Inhuranc,e Buildings ....... North John-street, Liverpool.
CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS STERLING.
Total. Annual Revenue exceeds... ....... 4800,c00
AccUmulated Funds in hand 41,500,000
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 six 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 hi London.

EAGLE IN S IJRA:N E COMPANY,
LONDON.
RepOrtof the Directors 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 deductionof this
bonus—that is to say, with the debit of £772,740 13s. 91

SURPLUS FUND ACCOUNT, 30TH JUYE, 1868.
Dn. Nano OF THE 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 8

£380,811 8 3
Interest from invest-
ments 117,584 7 3

£498,395 15 11
Profit and loss, balance
of account 46,070 13 8
Total income 544,466 9 2

11, 317: 207 2 11
CR. CHARGE OP THE YEAR
Dividend to proprietors
Claims 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 3,270 15 4
Ditto, old 50,365 0 8

£370,618 5 3
rv.nrnisai nn
Medical fees
751 16 2
Income tax 2,215 4 7
Expenses of manage-
ment 15,489 8 5
400,777 9 5

Total chalgs 6"
£409, o 4 14 5
Balance of account, 30th June 1868 907,552 8 6

£1,317,207 2 1

Examined and approv

THOMAS ALLENI
HENRY ROSE,
The total income Of the year, it will be seen, is £514,466
9s. 2d., and the total outgo £409,654 14s. 5d.; the diffe-
rence, or the sum laid by—viz., £134,811 14s. 9d.—raises
the fund again to £907,552 Bs. 6d. Auditors.
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, product') ve 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. pe r 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.
s in
of premiums paid for re-assurance,
appear the amount
A considerable reduction, too,
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 :
Da. 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, &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.
....£1,460,772 2 7
Ditto
ount idnvitetosted in
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 22,604 2 9
Advanced on security of the company's
policies....,
Agents' balfnces
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.
HENRY ROSE, f
THOMAS ALLEN,) Auditors.
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 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 RITE Esq., Deputy-

Chairman.
Charles Bischoff, Esq. Chas. Thos. Holcombe, Esq.
Thomas Boddingtou, Esq. Joshua Lockwood, Esq.
Charles Chatfield, Esq. James Murray, Esq.
Sir J. Buller East, Bart) Philip Rose, Esq.
D.C.L. George Russell, I:sq.,
Robert A. Gray: Esq. I
.. Thos. Godfrey Sambrooke,
Wm. Augustus Guy/ 21'1)4 Esq.
F.M. 1 Admiral Tindal'',

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.
Relief is afforded-Ist. By supplying a home, with
medical attendance, nursing, and all requisites for the in-
valid.
2d. By granting an annuity of £2O to patients at their
own homes.
A new wing to the Hospital has just been completed
at a cost of upwards of XlO,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.
Is{Q. 1°,139111t171.140d0n, B.C. f3optember, 1868.