The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-06 00:00:00

FIRE BRANCH

"The Fire Branch has certain y shown no exhaustion dor-
bthe year 1860 of that impetus which had previously
ought it to a position. of the first magnitude among, the
.Insurance Companies of the United Kingdom. The Fire
Premiums in 1859 had advanced to the sum of £2,8,314 7s. 3d.
In 1860 the amount of Fire Premiums has arrived at a sum of
£2-2,977 19s. 11d., showing an increase of .£34,663 Its. Bd., ex-
ceeding the large advance of the preceding year, so that in
INvo years the Fire Revenue of the Company has been en-
rtinced by the enormous sum of 466,829 17s. sd.
" The Parliamentary Report of Returns of Duty pP id to
Government for the year 1860 exhibits the anu-mentation of
the business in a more promineitt way, as it affords the means
comparison wh other Companies. Th Prorietors will
bbe gratified to learn that the increase ofe Dutyppaid by the
poYal in the last year is more than double that of any other
.;;97,oany, either London or Provincial, whilst only one of
',nose Companies even approaches to 50 per cent. of the ad-
'tance of this Comp ny. Our increase actually cquais 31) per
Cent of the entire increase of the whol- of he Metropolitan
Ofnces combined, whilst of the Provincial Offices it forms up-
'Wards of 30 per cent. of the total advance of the otherAV offices
established out of London,
LIFE BRANCH.

`The Reports of the Company for several years have hid
pvariably to announce a corstant periodical expansion of its
Life Business, the New Policies nfeach succeeding year show-
' ,hri,g an advance over the one that had immediately preceded
IL A similar result is shown in the year 1860, the Premiums
• on New Policies, after deducting Guarantees, be ng £15,097
178, 10d., which is an increase on that item of £1,993 17a. sd.
above the amount received for the year 1859.
"But even this advance is small when compared with the
sadden and remarkable momentum which has been given to
this Branch of the Business in the present year (1860.
"It was not until the commencement of the year that the
Public seemed to have become fully acquai,ited with the fact
th it the Royal Insurance Com-any hut published late in the
last year an account of the investigation into the Assets and
Liabilities of its Life Department, under a n6vel 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 it. 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
Kingdom, as well as in other parts of the World. Indeed a
Host satisfactory and conclusive evidence that such is the case
is afforded by the fact that the sum Assured on New Policies
in the six months to the 3d June of the present year is ac-
tually 50 per cent. in excess of the sum assured in the corres-
ponding* months of the year 1860, although the latter amount
In it seif exceeded the sum assured in any like previous period
time
"If this success be continued, the Royal Insurance Com-
tany would, with respect to the amount of its new business,
e at once placed (at least with one or two exceptions) at the
bead of all the Insurance Companies doing business in this
Country, and the anticipations of the last Report, to the
effect that the details of the Lire Business then to be pub-
lished would form an epoch of the Establishment, will have
a speedy and very happy realisation."
SPECIAL ADVANTAGES OF THE LIFE BRANCH.
PROFITS.—Large proportion Returned every Five Years to