The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-16 00:00:00

RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
VIFITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
(Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions
of 1851 and 1862) is allowed by upwards of Five Hundred
Medical men to be the most effective intention in
the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel
spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is bore avoided—a
soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requi-
site resisting power is supplied by the Hoc-Main Pad and
Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that
it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A
descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which can-
tot fail to fit, forwardei y post, on the circumference of
the body, two inches beblow the hips, being sent to the
manufacturer,
Mr. JOHN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London.
A Single Truss, 165., 215., 268.6 d., a 31s. 6d. Posta
Postage,
ls. A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., an nd
d 525. 6d.
ls. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and b2s. 6d. Postage
Is. 10d.
Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White,
Pod-office, Piccadilly.
NEW PATENT
FLASTIC STOCKINGS,
KNEE-OAPS, &cn for Varicose Veins and all cases
of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprain &c. They
are porous, light in texture, and inexpensivs, e, and are
drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d.,
10s., and 16s. each. Postage, 6d.
JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly.'

NIUTUAL ASSURANCE without MUTUAL
ITED LIAB
NUMBER ILITY.
ICON-FORFEITURE POLICIES by a LI
of PAYMENTS. PROFITS may be APPLIED so as to make
POLICIES PAYABLE in LIFETIME.
BRITISH EQUITABLE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
4, Queen-street-place, Southwark Bridge, E.O
NEW POLICIES ISSUED.
New Policies
issued.
88 --£14,250
108 -- 18,481

IP6B
1869

In Weeks.
3

Execs, 22 £4,231
In 52 weeks ending April ith, 1869 ...3,105 £539,44.2

CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL
LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
ANNUAL INCOME, steadily
.increasing, £220,000
ASSURANCE FUND, safely invested, £1,598,000
SPECIAL NOTICE.
All Persons who effect Policies on the Participating Scale
Before June 30th, 1869, will be entitled at the NEXT Boxus
to ono year's additional Share of Profits over later
Entrants.
Tables of Rates and Forms of Proposal can be obtained
of
GEORGE CUTCLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary.
13, St. James's-square, London. S.W.

ABOLITION OF THE DUTY ON FIRE
INSURANCES.
THE Directors of the ROYAL INSURANCE
COMPANY, in anticipation of the aboie, beg to intimate
that on all new Insurances now effected there will only be
payable (provisionally) the proportion of Duty forth e time
between the date of the Order and Midsummer Day next.
ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.

lIEID OFFICES:
Royal Insurance Buildings, Liverpool,
and
Lombard-street, London.
CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS STERLING.

Important Announcement.
Increased Share of Life Profits.
ALL NEW INSURANCES, with Participation, EFFECTED
AFTER IST JANUARY, 1868, will become entitled to an INCREASED
SHARE OF THE PROFITS, in accordance with the Resolution
passed at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

JOHN H. IdoLAREN, ➢tanager.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the Storms
of the past eighteen months the National Lifeboat
Institution contributed to the saving of 1,270 lives from
various shipwrecks and 32 vessels from destruction. The
Institution also expended £27,641 in tho same period on
its Lifeboat Establishments, in addition to granting
£3,793 for rewards.
The Institution has now 207 Lifeboat Stations under
its management.

Contributions will be thankfully received by the London
xnd country bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis.
Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street Adelphi, London.