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fr II E LOMBARD EXCHANGE AND
NEWS-ROOll.
Lombard-street. London.
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and Secretary of the Liverpool Exchange.
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COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSAT-
LANTIQUE.

4, Rue de la Pais, Paris.
FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS.
NEW YORK.
Leave every 14 days, from Havre and Brest, for New York.
RATES OF PASSAGE.
From HAvBE or BREST to NEW YORK.
First ',Mass 7OO fr.
Second Class 425 fr.
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railway ticket, 725 fr. ; second class, 440 fr. ; third class
285 fr.

WEST IN DIES AND MEXICO.

Leave St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St.
Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, New Orleans, Porto Rico,
Haiti, Santiago de Cuba, 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,
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STRINGER, PEMBBROKE, and Co.,
- Agents, 8, Austinfriars, London, E.O.

MITE 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 £ ~000 assurance, dated
1845, amounted to £l,OlO, making the total payment £2,010.
CHARLES INGALL, Actuary.
No. 39, King-street. Cheapside,
London, December, 18G3.

110YAL 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,roo
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 £46',553.
REDUCTION OF DUTY.—Since this fires 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
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, 30TH JUYE, 1868.
DR. INCOME OF THE YEAR.
Balance of account, 30th
June, 1867, £081,514 13 9
Less amount distributed
as bonus 208,774 0 0

£772,740 13 9

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

X 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 3
Total income ...............

£1,317.207 2 11
CR. CHARGE OF THE YEAR
Dividend to proprietors
Claims on decease of lives
£265,523 13 5
assured
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

£370,618 5 3
Commission
Medical fees
Income tax
Expenses of ma n age-
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 fl
Examined and approvA
THOMAS ALLEN 't Auditors.
HENRY ROSE, f
The total income of the year, it will be seen, is £544,466
9s. 2d., and the total outgo £409,654 14s. sd. ; the diffe-
rence, 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.
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 abgorbed
by the company. The whole expenditure, however, in-
cluding income tax, is at the rate of little more than 5i
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
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
Cu. 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
Currents rrent interest on the above invest-
-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
alue of premiums (1867)
Value of re-assurances 4,518(11662,,841666070
111385
900
V

Total £7,565,198 1 3
Examined and approved.
THOMAS ALLEN,' Auditors.
HENRY ROSE,
The present disposition of the Company's funds is shown
by this account. On ccmparing it with that of 1837, 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 emit-
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 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 Sambrook°,
Esq.
Admiral Tindal.:

D.C.L.
Robert A. Gray- Esq.
Win. Augustus Guy, M.D.,
F.IL S.