The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-14 00:00:00

FIRE BRANCH.

"The Fire Branch has certain y shown no exhaustion dur-
ing. the year 1,860 of that impetus which had previously
brought 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 £248,314 7s. 3d.
in 1869 the amount of Fire Premiums has arrived at a sum of
.£242,977 19e. lid., showing an increase of £34,663 12s. Bd., ex-
, eeding the large advance of the preceding year, so that in
two years the Fire Revenue of the Company has been en-
h need by the enormous sum of 266,829 17s. sd.
"The Parliamentary Report of Returns of Duty 'rid to
Government for the year 1860 exhibits the angmentatfon of
the business In a more prominent way, as it affords the means
of comparison with otner Companies. The Proprietors will
be gratified to learn that the increase of Duty paid by the
Royal in the last year is more than double that of any other
Co t‘pany, either London or Provincial, whilst only one of
those Companies even approaches to 50 per cent. of the ad-
vance of this Comp ny. Our increase actually equate 30 per
cent. of the entire increase of the whol- of he Metropolitan
Offices combined, whilst of the Provincial Offices it forms up-
wards of 30 per cent. of the total advanceof the other 28 offices
established out of London,

LIFE BRANCH.
"The Reports of the Company for several years have had
invariably to announce a constant periodical expansion of its
Life Business, the New Policies of each succeeding year show-
ing an advance over the one that had immediately preceded
it. A similar result is shown in the year 1860, the Premiums
on New Policies, atter deducting Guarantees, be ng £15,097
17s, 'ed., which is an increase on that item of £1,993173. sd.
above the amount 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
th t the Royal Insurance Com any had published late in the
last year an account of the investigation into the Assets and
Liabilities of its Life Depart vent, 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 pqrpose.
" It is conjectured from the extensive Notices of this Pam-
phlet and its accompanying Diagrams, which have appeared
In the Petiodiewlo of the daor,cr
t'.at
it has larel, attracted the
iitto”sum of vast numbers rersons in all parts On toe unitea
Kingdom, as well as in other parts of the World. Indeed a
most satisfactory and con-lusive evidence that such is the case
Is afford,d 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 exPe.s of the sum assured in the corres-
ponding months of the year 1860, although the latter amount
In ItseA exceeded the sum assured in any like previous period
of time
" If this success be continued, the Royal Insurance C3M-
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 Insurance Companies doing business in this
Country, and the anticipations of the last Report, to the
effect that the detals of the Li 'e 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
Policies then in existence Two ENTIRE YEARS.

Expenses ch efiy 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

BY ANY C3MPANY.

SECURITY FOR BOTH FIRE AND LIFE BRANCHES

CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS Sterling.
Accumulated Funds in hand exceed £Bll,OOO.
PERCY M. DOVE,
Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Hay-
market, IS NOW OPEN for the Season EVERY
EVENING, under the direction of Monsieur BOULCOURT
principal Cornet-a-piston and Conductor. The music will
be selected from Verdi, Meyerbeer, Rossini, Flotow. Balfe,
and other eminent Composers. During the recess these well
known Rooms have been entirely RE-DECORATED and
I WPRO VED by Messrs. IL T. SMITH and assistants. The
new Chandeliers by M. Benjamin. Admiss'on, One Shillinz.
—All the new Music to be had at the Office, No. 7, Great
Windmill-street.

LPANISH AND PORTUGUESE
WINES.
PO RTS—Montero, 6s. per gallon, 15s. per dozen. Priorato,
San Vicente. and Almanza, Bs. 6d. per gallon, 2os. per dozen.
Alto Douro, t Os. 6d. per gallon, 245. per dozen, to 19s. 6d. per
gallon, 425. per dozen. Val de Ptnas, •,os. and 2 is. per dozen.
SHER RlES—Cordo an, very pale soft light Wine, 6s. per
gallon, 15s. per dozen. X* rezano, Bs. 6d. per gallon, 20s. per
dozen. Other qualities, 245. to 48s. i,er dozen.
Price per dozen includes bottles and packages.
List, with full particulars, free on application.
Spanish Peninsula Wine Company,
14, Barge-yard Chambers, Bucklersbury.