The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-13 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, Pall Mall, S.W.

OCTAVIIIS WIGRAM, Esq Governor.
JAMES STEWART iI9DGSON, Esq Sub-Governor,
CHARLES JOHN MANNING, Esq Deputy-Governor.

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.
Fred k. Joseph Edlmann, Esq.
Charles Hermann Goschen,
Esq.
Riversdale Wm. Grenfell,
Esq.
Fmn cis Alex. Hamilton, Esq.
Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq.
Medical Referee, Sam

DIRECTORS.
William Tetlow Hibbert,
Esq.
Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Egerton Hubbard, Esq.
Nevile Lubbock, Esq.
George Forbes Malcolmson
Esq.
Lord Josceline Wm. Percy.
Charles Robinson, Esq.
Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
Joseph Somos, Esq.
William Wallace, Esq.
Charles Baring Young, Esq.
.uel Solly, Esq., F.R.S.

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.LerMING 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 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
HALF.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
ROBERT P. STEELE, Secretary.

EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament.
For Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity in
Situations of Trust.
Chairman— General Sir FREDERIC Swim, K.H., F.R.S.
Policies payable during Life—lndisputable—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
applicants post free.

HENRY LAKE, General Manager.
316, Regent-street, and 17, Waterloo-place Pall mall, London

THE MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY.—Every Policy effected with this Society by the
31st inst. will have the advantage of one year in every Annual
Bonus. . _ _

The Directors give notice that the Policies of the Society be-
come Indisputable, and are relieved of all conditions (except
payment of the annual premiums), when they have remained
unchallenged for five years, and the life assured has completed
his 30th year.
The bonus additions allotted by the Society are highly satisfac-
tory. In a recent claim the addition to a ..£l,OOO assurance, dated
1845, amounted to £l,OlO, making the total payment £2,010.
CHARLES INGALL, Actuary.

No. 39, King-street, Cheapside,
London, December, 186 S.

INDEMNITY MUTUAL MARINE
JL 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 Ist 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.

13th January, 1869.

FRANCIS STEPHENS, Secretary.

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,'oo
Accumulated Funds in hand £1,500,000
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
Life and Annuity Funds.... ............... ....£1,031,329
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 30th
June, 1868, read at the Annual General Meeting of
Preprietors, 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, 30TH JUNE, 1868.
DR. INCOME OF THE YEAR.
Balance of account, 30th
June, 1867, £981,514 13 9
Less amount distributed
as bonus..

208,774 0 0

£772,740 13 9

Preinituns new assur-
ances
Ditto on old ditto 366,215 7 3

£3:0,811 8 3

-
Interest from invest-
ments 117,584 7 3

£498,395 15 11
Profit and loss, balance
of account
Total income

544,466 9 2

.£1,317,207 2 11

CR. CHARGE OF TIIE YEAR
Dividend to proprietors
Claims on decease of lives
- - -- - - - -

£8,877 5 0

assnred Y £265,523 13 5
Additions to those under

participating policies— 22,816 4 7
Policies surrendered 28,642 11 3
Re-assurances, new
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

Total charge
Balance of account, 30th June, 1868 907,552 8 6

£1,317,207 2 11
Examined and approved.
THOMAS ALLEN')
HENRY ROSE, Auditors.
The total income of the year, it will be seen, is £514,466
9s. 2d., and the total outgo £409,654 14s. sd. ; the diffe-
rence, or the sum laid by—viz., £131,811 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 £5 12s. per cent.

Thepreniiums 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
rear 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, &c. (1867) 6,369,169 11 7
Proprietors' fund
Surplus fund as before 907,552 8 6

£6,977 1.3 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-
ments 36,243 7 6

Cash and bills 22,604 2 9
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

T0:a1..,

X 7,565,198 1 3
Examined and approved.
HTEHNORMYASROASLEI:EN
Auditors.
The present dispositionof 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.8., 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 Sambrooke,
Esq.
Admiral Tindal.

D.C.L.
Robert A. Gray, Esq.
Wm. Augustus Guy, M.D.,
F.R.S.

MR. ESKELL, SURGEON DENTIST, the Author
of "PURE DENTISTRY, and What it Does for Us,"
"PAINLESS TOOTH EXTRACTION, or Anesthesia Locally
Applied," "DENTAL SURGERY_a Practical Treatise," &c., &c.,
may be Consulted Daily as hitherto from 10 to 4 o'clock, at his
ONLY Residence, 8, GROSVENOR-ST/11MT, GROSVZNOII-BQUABA (a
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