The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-16 00:00:00

FIRE BRANCA:

"The Fire Branch has certain y shown no exhaustion dur-
ing the year 1860 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 £298,314 7s. 3d.
In 1860 the amount of Fire Premiums has arrived at a sum of
£262,977195. 11d., showing an increase of £34,663 12s. Bd., ex-
ceeding 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 X 66,829 17s. sd.
"The Parliamentary Report of Returns of Duty paid to
Government for the year 1860 exhibits the augmentation of
the business in a more prominent way, as it affords the means
of comparison with other 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
Company, 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 equals 30 per
cent. of the entire increase of the whole' of he Metropolitan
Offices combined, whilst of the ProvincialOffi ces it forms up-
wards of 30 per cent. of the total advance of 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, after deducting Guarantees, be nc.,, £15,097
17s, 10d., which is an increase on that item of £1,993 17s. 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 Comeanyhad P-üblished late in the
last year an account of the investigation into the Assets and
Liabilities of its Life Department, tinder a novel fortn, 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
Kingdom, as well as in other parts of the World. Indeed a
most satisfactory and conclusive evidence that such is the caseis 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 self 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 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
Policies then in existence Two ENTIRE YEARS.
Expenses chiefly born by the Fire Branch, in order to
Increase•the Bonus to be Returned.
LIFE BONUSES DECLARED,
Two per Cent. per Annum on the Sum Assured :
THE GREATEST BONUS EVER CONTINUOUSLY DECLARED
BY ANY COMPANY.
SECURITY FOR BOTH FIRE AND LIFE BRANCHES

CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS Sterling.
Accumulated Funds in hand exceed £Bl`+,ooo.
PERCY M. DOVE,
Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-gtreet, Hay-
princimarket, IS NOW OPEN the Season EVERY
EVENING. under the direction offor Monsieur BOULCOURT
be seleal Cornet-a-iston and Co. The wll
p from Verdi, geyerbeern,ductor Rossini, Plotow.music Belie,
and other eminent Composers. During the recess these well
known Rooms have been entirely RE-DECORATED and
14PROvED by Messrs. H. T. SMITH and assistants. The
new Chandeliers by M. Benjamin. Admiss;on, One Shilling.
—All the new Music to be had at the Office, No. 7. Great
Windmill-street.

SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE
WINES.
PORTS—Montero, 6s. per gallon, 15s. per dozen. Priorato,
San Vicente. and Almanza, Bs. 6d. per gallon, 20s. per dozen.
Alto Douro, 10s. 6d. per gallon, 245. per dozen, to 19s. 6d. per
gallon, 425. per dozen. Val de Ptnas, "Os. and 215. per dozen.
SHERRIES—Cordo can, very pale soft light Wine, 6s. per
gallon, 15s. per dozen. Xerezano, Bs. 6d. per gallon, 4s. per
dozen. Other qualities, 245. to 48s. t,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.

TRULY EFFICACIOUS AND MILD.-
Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, pre-
pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr.
Scott, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious
and fiver complaints, indigestion, wind, spasms, giddiness,
dizziness of the eyes, &o. For habitual costiveness, as a fa-
mily aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they
are truly excellent ; mild in their operation and grateful to
the stomach, they create appe 'lte, promote digestion, and
strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert,
20, Jermyn-street. and by most druggists, in boxes, la. lid.,
and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for
Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a
square green package, with " William Lambert," engraved
on the stamp.

TOZEAU'S COPAHINE, or SACCHARATED
C'APSULES.—Copaiba and Cubeba are doubtless the
best remedies, but these drugs are of a repulsive taste and
odour, and occasion colicky pains, nausea, and gastric dis-
turbance. M. Jozeau has succeeded in rendering these valu-
able therapeutic agents t erfectly innocuous by increasing, in
his Copahine all t e curative properties. This preparation
has been adopted by the Pans Academy of Medicine, after
more than a thousand trials in Paris and the different Lon-
don hospitals. viz., Mt. Thomas's, Guy's, and St. Bartholo-
mew's, under the care of Messrs. Lloyd, Poland, and Legros
Clark. —" Lancet," Nov. 6 and Dec. 10, 1857. The Copahine.
which is in form of a pretty pink sugar plum, effects a cure
in abut six days, either in recent or chronic diseases. 100
capsules, 4s. 6d. ; post free, ss. 2d. Post-office order required ;
at J. JOZEAII'S, French Chemist, 42, lisymarket, London ;
22, Rue St. Quentin, Paris ; and all the most important
Chemists.

THE VIGOUR OF YOUTH RESTORED IN
FOUR WEEKS by Dr. RICORD'S ESSENCE OF
LIFE.

This wonderful agent will restore manhood to the most
shattered constitution, whether arising from self-pollution,
excesses, nocturnal emissions, the effects of climate, or natu-
ral causes The time required to cure the most inveterate
case is four weeks ; and, if used according to the printed in-
structions (which are very simple), failure is impossible.
This life-restoring remedy should be taken by all about to
marry, as its effects are permanent. It is acknowledged by
the medical press to be the greatest discovery ever made.
Success in every case is as certain as that water quenches
thirst.
Dr. Rhord's Essence of Life is sold in cases, with full in-
structions for use, at ins., or four quantities in one for 335..
and may be sent to any part of the world, carefully packed,
on receipt of remittance or post-office order payable to Prout
and Co.

Dr. Ricord's Sole Azent in London is Prout, Patent Nredi-
eine Warehouse, 229, Strand (seven doors west of Temple-
bar).
(Entered at Stationers' lialL)

DR.
__BRIGFIT'S APHRODISION.

THE PHOSPIIORTSED NERVINE TONIC.
The NEW CHEMICAL COMBINATION of PHOSPH A
TIC SALTS, Quinine, Iron, &c., adapted for both sexes,
containing all the Essential Constituents of the Blood.
Brain, and Nerve Substance.—Orea' philosophical and
chemical research has led to the discovery of this in-
valu ible remedy in its present perfect state, agreeable
to the palate, and innocent in its action —still pre-
serving its wonderful properties, affording immediate relief,
and ermanently curing all who suffer from WASTING and
WITHERING of the NERVOUS and MUSCULAR TISSUES, SpER-
isIATORRIICEA, DISEASES of the KIDNEY., BLADDER, and all
URINARY DEPOSITS, which cause incapacity and degeneracy,
total and partial prostration, and every other exhaustive de-
rangement of the system. Regenerating and Invigorating
all the important elements of the human frame (when
emasculated by youthful indiscretions), and enabling man at
once to ful 1 his most sacred obligations.

Prices-11s. per bottle, or four 11s. bottles in one, 33g. ; and
in cases containing three 335. bottles, £5, saving £1 12s.—
Parcels securely packed, free from observation, sent to any
part of the world, on receipt of Post-office Order.
Prepared and sold only at the laboratory, 44A, 'staddox-
street, Regent-street, W. (opposite the side of St. George's
Church), London, by RALPH BRIGHT, M , Member of the
Royal College of Surgeons, England ; Licentiate of the Royal
College of Physicians, Edinburgh, &c., &c. ; author of