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London, England, 1869-05-04 00:00:00

G LICENSES.-CAUTION.

rulIE COMMISSIONERS of INLAND RE_
VENUE GIVE NOTICE that all DOG LICENSES
granted in the year 18.68 expired on the tAst December
last, and every person keeping a dog in the current year is
required forthwith to take out a new License.
The duty payable for each dog kept is Five Shillings.
The penalty for keeping a dog without License is Five
Pounds.
A License is not transferable from one person to
another. •
A License may be obtained by the owner giving his
name and address, and the name of the place where the
dog is kept. on application at
The Office of the Collector of Inland.)
, In the neigh-
Revenue, l bourhood of the
The Office of the Distributor of Stamps .
Or applicant's re-
sidence.
A Money Order Post Office.
Licenses will also be granted by the several Supervisors
of Inland Revenue.
Persons residing at a distance from any of the above
offices, by transmitting with their application Inland
Revenue (Receipt) or Postage Stamps for the proper
amount of duty, to the Collector of Inland Revenue for
the Die rict, will receive a license in return by post.

FPM. CODBETT,-Qicrettup

TRENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON
F ICM AL 1Z PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN
STITUTION.

President—Rev. CANON DALE,

CONTRIBUTIONS for the support of the Homes in 1868 are ear-
nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon
Sa t
Salt,
and Co., id,
Lombard street, E. 0.; Francis Nicholls,
(of Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, E.O.
E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road, N.W.

lIE METROPOLITAN CONVALESCENT
• INSTITUTION.
President—His Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON.
Treasurers—The Right Hon. Russell Gurney, M.P., and
Col. W. F. Grant.
DONATIONS and SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly
solicited, to enable the Board to meet the grantly increased
expenditure of this old Charity. 240 adults aro received
at Walton ; 80 children at Mitcham and Hendon.
Bankers—London Joint-Stock Bank, Pall-mall.
CHARLES HOLMES, Secretary.
Office, 32, Sackville-street, Piccadilly.

THE HOSPITAL for WOMEN, Soho-square.
—Bankers: nessrs. BarelnY. Bevan, and Co.;
Messrs. ransom, Bouverie, and Co.—The Cemmittee
APPEAL very-earne,stly for CONTRIBUTIONS. The
Hospital is now open on "Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fri-
days to out-pationts who are treated without letters of
recommendation.

HENRY B. INGRAM, Secretary.

THE ASSOCIATION for the WELFARE of
the BLIND, 210, Orford-street and 127, Enston-road.
Patroness—her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
This Institution affords employment in various ways to
172 blind men and women.
Pensions to various amounts are granted to the blind
who cannot earn their own living.
500 blind men and women am applying
cannot be given for WANT of FUNDS.
Contributions will be thankfully received by the Secre-
t' Rev. O. B. REID, M.A.
for help, which

GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL,
Caledonian-road, Islington, N.
Supported by Voluntary Contributions.
This Hospital has relieved 481,954 patients since it Was
established at King's-cross in 1856. Patients are admitted
free.

v
Bankers—Messrs. Barnet Lloyds and Co., 60, Lombard-
street, Messrs. Ransom and' Bouerlto,
Sec., / Smith. Rs°,
Gao. Rain, Soc.l, Pall-mall.—Hon.

rr HE ROYAL
I. HOSPITAL for DISEASES of
the MUST, City-road.—The wards for in-patients
are constantly full
those for ont-patients crowded daily.
FUNDS

CaARLES L. KEMP, Secretary.

HOSPITAL for DISEASES of the THROAT,
Golden-square, W.
President —llls The Committee of Grace the Duke of GRAFTON.
FUNDS to help them Management earnestly APPEAL for
to meet the heavy current expenses.
last six years. 18,000 poor persons have been relieved in the
Upwards of

GEORGE WOOD, Secretary.

THE ROYAL INFIRMARY for DISEASES
of CHILDREN and WOMEN, Waterloo-bridgo-

road.

Upwards of WO poor sick children are relieved daily at
this Hospital.

The Committee most earnestly solicit Contributions, to
enable thorn to continue the benefits of medical aid 'to those
numerous poor suffering children, who are rendered so
helpless by sickness and poverty.
Bankers, Messrs. Fuller, 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 perscns over
20 years of age and above the pauper class, who are hope-
lessly afflicted with incurable disease.
Pensions of £2O per annum are also granted
Then°mewaas opened in September 1863 ; 71 in-
patients and 106 annuitants have been elected. Elections
in May and November. Forms of application may be ob-
tained from the Secretary.
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS and DONATIONS are
earnestly solicited. •
Bankers—Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard-
street, E.C. ; Messrs. Drummond, Charing-crosg, S.W.
ED WD. WE.A 'YEA Sec.

Offices, 73, Cheapside, E.C,

ire as follows 'S HOMES
ES
HE RESCUE SOCIETy
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, EamP- 150, New Bent-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, Hampstead.
9, Ffenstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Diary s Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's-street, Dover.
Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside.
In addition to the above-reuned 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 me 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 Repert (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 banbers are Messrs. Batclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent. DeI.NL. CODPER, Sec.
Qmeu-street Glhopoido.

ABSOLUTE SECURITY POLICIES, UN-
FORFEITABLE, UNCONDITIONAL, and UN-
CIIALLENGEABLM, issued by the PRUDENTIAL
ASSURANCE COMPANY, 62, Ludgate-hill, London,
E.O. Established 1848.
The Directors of this Company, in deference to an ob-
jection not unfrequently urged by persons invited to as-
sure, that the ordinary mode of Life Assurance is in their
opinion defective or uncertain, by reason of the operation
of the customary conditions, have resolved to gromulgate
the present Tables, and to issue Assurances under them
which shall be absolutely Unforfeitable, Unconditional,
and Unchallengeable.
For the reason referred to, many persons hesitate or
decline to assure on the ground that, in the event of in-
ability or unwillingness to continue payment of their pre-
miums, the Assurance will becom3 forfeited. To this
class of the public the system now introduced will espe-
cially commend itself, being entirely free from all condi-
tions of forfeiture on account of non-payment of premium,
or from any other cause whatever; while at the same
time it absolutely guarantees at decease, when even a de-
fault is made in payment of the premium, a fixed sum in
respect of every premium paid, bearing the same propor-
tion to the total amount assured as the number of pre-
miums actually paid may bear to the whole number origi-
nally contracted to be paid.
Besides this important advantage, every policy will ex-
pressly state what sum can at any time be withdrawn on
the discontinuancn of the assurance.

The assurei will thus always have the option of retain-
ing either an ascertained fixed sum payable at decease,
or, in case of need, of withdrawing a certain amount, ac-
cording t the duration of the Policy, such amounts being
set forth on every Policy, and rendering unnecessary any
future reference to the .Company on these points, as is the
case with ordinary assuran,-es.
Qreditqrs ase,nring the lives of 'debtors will appreciate
•vcc. II • r
it, will likew'se commend itslf to bml:49.s, capitali,:ts, and
otheys..wieckssipiartive•Tha bit 4 matting ad,,a &ries col a Lend-Fit
seclu'ed by4afe they.c.iii. at any time learn, by
mere inspe6tion, the exact value, either immediate or re-
version:lrv, of a Policy of this deSeription.
Every Policy issued on this plan will be without any
ronditii,DS as to voyntrinp:, foreign r,sid,nee, or sit IteT'usual
litnitati,ms. By this freedom from rest rot ions of all kin&
the objections' l-fore referred to will be entirely removed,
and the Policies will become at once posit: voly valuable as
actual securities.

In addition to the foregoing statement of adv.:ntages,
the number of premiums is strictly defined. The 1 ngest
term provided for is twenty- fiv,l years, and the shortest
fivo years, as shown by the Tables. Thus, tankers, credi-
tors, and others holding policies of this clis.3 as security,
may always know the utmost amount they may be called
upon to advance so as to maintain the full benefit of the
Assurances—a matter of great importance where policies
aro held as collateral security.
It is only necessary to add that, as a consequence of the
policies under these tables being unforfeitable and uncon-
ditional, they will also be unchallongeable on any ground
whatever. They may therefore be aptly termed Absolute
Security Policies.

The PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY pos-
sesses an income of £215,000 a year. Its position is un•
questionable, and it obtains the largest amount of new
business of any office in the Kingdom. SPECIAL
AGENTS WANTED.

lIENRY HARDEN, Secretary,

f'ILERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL
LIFE ASSURAN^E SOCIETY.
13, ST. JAMES'S SQUARE, LONDON, S.W.

CHAIRMAN.
Right Hon. John Robert Mowbray,
DEPUTY-CHA IHMEN.
William Bowman, Esq., F.R.S.
Sir Charles Locock, Bart, D.C.L.,

Extracts from the Report of the Directors, presented at
the Aux. ual General Meeting held on the 27th November,
1868 :-
1. The sum of £412,345 was proposed for Assurance, of
which £307,395 was completed at Premiums pro-
ducing £10,067 per Annum.
2. The amount paid under Claims by death was £100,883,
being the smallest since 1860, whilst the expenses of
management and all other outgoings were even less
than for many years past.
3. On the other hand, the Income was raised to £219,769,
notwithstanding that its increase was retarded by
abatements of vemium which did,not take effect in
the previous year, and by the cessation of interest on
the large sum paid as Bonus in 1867.
4. The Surplus income was very considerable. It
amounted to £93,152, a sum exceeding by more than
£B,OOO any previous Surplus during the forty-four
years of the Society's existence.
5. The Accumulated Fund was thereby increased to
£1,598,906.

Tho following are among the distinctive features of the

Ociet y :
CREDIT SYSTEM.—On any Policy for the wl.ole of
Lifo, where the age does not exceed GO, one-half of the
Annual Premiums during the past five years may remain
on credit.

ENDOWMENT ASSURANCES may be effected,
without Profits, by which the Sum Assured becomes pay-
able on the attainment of a specified age, or at death,
whichever event shall first happen.
INVALID LIVES may be assured at rates proportioned
to the increased risk.
PROMPT SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS.—Claims paid
thirty days after proof of death.
Tables of Rates and Forms of Proposal can be obtained
of any of the Society's Agents, or of
GEORGE CUTOLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary.
13, St. James's-square, London, S.W.

THE GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY.

Established 1821.
No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C.
Subscribed Capital Two Millions.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that FIRE POLICIES
which expire at LADY-DAY, must he Renewed within
Fifteen Days at this Office, or with tho Company's Agents
throughout the Kingdom, otherwise they become void.
For Prospectus and other information apply to the Com-
pany's Agents, or to

T. TALLEMACH, Secretary.

it_4ONDON FEVER HOSPITAL is the only
institution in the Metropolis for the treatment and
pr(vention of contagious fevers.
CONTRIBUTIONS will ho graiefully received by
Messrs. Dimsdale and Co., 50, Cornhill ; Messrs. Drum-
mond, Charing-cross; Messrs. Coutts, Strand ; Messrs.
Hoare, Flea-street ; and by the Secretary, at the Hospital,
Liverpool-road, Islington, N.

141STABLISHMENT for GENTLEWOMEN
Li &ring TEMPORARY ILLNESS.
.• The relatives.of Clergymen, Navai. Military, and Pro-
fessional Men, Governesses, and Artists may, for a small
weekly payment, receive the comforts of -a HOME, com-
bined with the best medical and surgical treatment, at the
establishment, 90, Upper Barley-street.
This establishment, which was opened in 1850, is patro-
nised by her Majesty. The Bishop of London is Visitor,
and it is managed by the Marchioness of Ormond', the
Lady Laura Palmer, Mrs. Edward Romilly, the Lady
Caroline Russell, Mrs. Cecil Russell, and other ladies.
All information respecting it may be obtained on writ-
ten or personal application to the Lady Superintendent.
Subscriptions received at the Institution, and by the
Troaswgr, at Messrs. Coutts and Co.'s, 59, Strand.
W. O. MING MME lictia, Soc.

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.5 .F. 4 •
o z,,-_• .22. g'
.. g g '°. gg " "o' T,
s. P ~., o Amount ,8 ~ Amount Annual
—° rg X''' osz Proposed. •E. Assured. Premiums.
''-a-r. 4:: '75
,f,
------
z s. d. £ R. d. £s. d.
1858 4,802 1,023,140 0 0 3,318 (54,140 0 0 21.347 16 5
1863 13,244 2,779,666 0 0 9,746 2,037,383 0 0 63.507 19 10
1868 17,466 4,861,303 5 9 13,699 3,7:4967 i 8 122,257 17 6
—— -
Total.. 35,512 8,664,109 5 9 , 26,763 6,444,490 4 8 207,113 13 9
The net premium income has increased to
the sum of £216,704 1 7

The net premium income
the sum of
The interest. on investmen
of receipt yield v..

is and other items

4,276 18 1

Making a total income of £237.980 19 8
The claims were 335, amounting to the sum of £127,886
12s. ld.

The balance of the year's income was £68,026 9s. 4d.
The assets of the association at the close of the year
amounted to £667,493 Bs. sd.
The directors draw special attention to the fact thet the
next bonus valuation will take place at the end of the year
1872, and that all polices effected on the profit scales prior
to the 31st December, 1869, will be entitled to participate
in the same,

The directors also draw attention to the successful esta-
blishment during the past year of the Britannia Fire
Association, tinder the auspices of the Briton. The direc-
tors believe that the establishment of a Fire Company, to
work in active co-operation with the Life, will tend much
to the advantage and profit of both institutions. It is
scarcely necessary to remark that the capital funds and
constitution of each office are quite separate and distinct.
By order of the Board,
JOAN MESSENT, Actuary and Secretary.
London, March 18, 1869.

EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY,
LONDON.

Report of the Directors for the year ending' the 30th
June, 1868, read at the Annual General Meeting of
Proprietors, Aurnst 14, 1868—Colonel CHARLES
WETHERALL, K.C.T., Chairman of the Company, in
the Chair.

The proprietors will no donbt 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.

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0 I'll / .. ,O. -X,..7.1a---&-C*Cro r-73, rn. _nn---- -r L.r.m."_E-1, ---
Pit. INCOME OF THE YEAH.
•,....krnbrirtrtrfirtrry,rini, 80th -ttl:Tr-
June, 1807,7.4, 4'181,514 1:3 9
Less amount disnibuted
us bonus 208,771 0 0

£772.710 13

.772,7

Premiums Cu new assur-
ances
Ditto on old ditto 3,36,915 7 3

£3.10,811 S

Interest from invest-
ments

117,584 7

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

46,070 13 3

CR. CHARGE OF THE YEAR
Dividend to proprietors
Cla;-us 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
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

544,466 9 2

£1,317,207 2 11

.£4,877 5 0

409,777 9 5

Total chargo
Balance of account, 30th Juno 1868 907,552 8 6

£1,317,207 2 11
Examined and approv •
THOMAS ALLEN} Auditors
HENRY ROSE,

The total income of the year, it will be seen, is £544,466
9s. 2d., and the total outgo £109,651 14s. 5d.; 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, 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-
chided, 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 ineugement aro less than those of last
year by upwards of £1,400. But they still include charges
incurred in the final closing of the two officeshist absorbed
by the company. The whole expenditure, however, in-
cluding income tax, is at the rate of little more than 5}
per cent. on tho total income.
The balance-sheet is as follows :
Dn. LIABILITIES.
Interest due to proprietors
Claims on decease of lives assured, and
additions thereto unpaid
Sundry accounts
Liability under sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,84695:817695 1131 76
Proprietors' fund
Surplus fund as before 907,552 8 6

£6,977 13 3

Total £7,565,198 1 3
CR. ASSETS.
Amount, invested in fixed mortgages X1,460,772 2 7
Ditto ditto decreasing ditto
Ditto ditto reversions 347,136 5 5
Ditto ditto funded securities
.
Ditto ditto temporary securities. 142,424 011
Current interest on the above invest-
___ _

ments .
Cash and bills
Advanced on security of the company's
policies....
Agents' baluncos
Sundry accounts
Value of premiums (1867)
Value of re-assurances 86,860 13 9

36,243 7 6
22,604 2 9

Total £7,565,198 1 3

• .
Etamined and approved.
THOMAS A LLEN,}
Auditors.
HENRY ROSE, •

The present dispositionof 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 lion. Sir JOHN YOUNG, Bart., K.C.B. 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., I Esq.
F.lO. - 1 A clnairal Tindal.: