The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-24 00:00:00

LIFE BRANCH.

"The 'Reports of the Company for several years have had
invariably to announce a corstant periodical expansion of its
Life Business. the New Policies ofeach succeeding year show-
ing an advance over the one that had immediately preceded
it l A similar result is shown in the year 1860, the Premiums
on New Policies, after deducting Guarantees, he ng £15,097
17s, led. wh eh is an increase on that item of £1,99317t. sd.
above the arrp•unt received for the year 1859.

"But even this advance is small when compared with the
sudden and remarkable momentum which has been given to
this Branch of the Business in the present year (1861).
"It was not until the commencement of the year that the
Public seemed to have become fully acquainted with the fact
t the Royal Insurance Company had published late in the
'last year an account of the investigation into the Assets and
nabilities of its Life Department, under a novel form, and in
as plain and intelligible a manner as the abstruseness of the
subject admitted, together with the entire statements and
valuations necessary for that purpose.
" It is conjectured from the extensive Notices of this Pam-
phlet and its accompanying Diagrams, which have appeared
In the Periodicals of the day, that it has largely attracted the
attention of vast numbers' f Persons in all parts of the United
iiinodom, as well as in other parts of the World. Indeed a
most satisfactory and conclusive evidence that such is the case
is affordcd by the fact that the sum Assured on New Policies
in the six months to the :id June of the present year is ac-
tually 60 per cent. in excess of the sum essuredin the corres-
"ding months of the year 1860, although the latter amount
in if se►f exceeded the sum assured in any like previous period
of time

" If this success be continued, the Royal insurance Com-
pany would, with respect to the amount of its new business,
be at once placed (at least with one or two exceptions, at the
head of all the Tnsurance Companies doing business in this
Country, and the anticipations of the last Report, to the
effect that the deta•ls of the Lire Business then to be pub-
lished would form an epoch of the Establishment, will have
a speedy and very happy realisation."

SI'N:CIAL ADVANTAGES OF THE LIFE BRANCH.
PROFITS.—Larne ?ropoytion Returned every Five Years to

Policies then in existence Two ENTIRE YEARS,

Expenses ch•efly born by the Fire Branch, in order to
Increase the Bonus t ) be Returned.
LIFE BONUSES DECLARED.
Two per Cent. per Annum on the Sum Assured :
THE GREATEST BONUS EVER CONTINUOUSLY DECLARED

C.,;PANISH AND PORTUGUESE
PORTS—Montero, 6s. per gallon, 15s. per dozen. Priorato,
San Vicente. and Almanzs, Bs. 6.1. per gallon, 20s. per dozen.
Alto Douro, Os. 6d. per gallon, 21s. per dozen, to 19s. 6d. per
gallon, 425. p,-,r dozen. Val do I'Lnas, • Os. and 21s. per dozen.
SH ER RlES—Cordo an, very pale soft light Wine, 6s. per
dallon, 15s. per dozen. X, rezano, Bs. 6d. per gallon, %Os. per
ozen. Other qualities, 245. to 48s. er dozen.
Price per dozen includes bottles and packages.
List, with full pariculars, free on application.
Spanish Peninsula Wine Company,
14, Barge-yard Chambers, Bucklersbury.