The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-01 00:00:00

DIRECTORS.

gen*, Bainbridge, Esq. Hon. John T. Leslie Melville.
e:drnond S. P. Calvert, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq.
Tohn Garrett Cattley, Esq. Edward Howley Palmer. 'Esq.
Edward Maxwell Daniel, Esq. Sir John Henry Pally. Bart.
William Davidson, Esq. Alexander P. Prevost, Esq.
Alexander Bruce, Esq. Abraham George Robarts, Esq.
iiversdale Win. Grenfell, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq.
Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq. William Solthu, Esq.
William Tetlow Hibbert, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq.
lames Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Thomas Tooke, Esq.
Lancelot Holland, Esq. William Wallace, Esq.
Charles John Manning, Esq. Charles Baring Young, Esq.
MEDICAL Rue/tax—Samuel Solly, Esq., F.R.S.
NOTICE.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of Fire Pre •
minims falling due at Lady-day will expire on the 9th April.
FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Cor-
poration on advantageous terms.
In the Life Department, assurances are granted with participation
in profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such participation.
The Reversionary Bonus on British, Policies has averaged nearly
2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured, or 48 per cent. upon the
Premiums paid.
Equivalent redactions have been made in the Premiums payable
by those persons who preferred that form of Bonus.
The future division of Profit will take place every Five years.
Any snrn not exceeding 15,0001. may be insured on one life.
This Corporation affords to the Assured
Liberal Participation in Profits—with exemption from the
liabilities of partnership.
A rate of Boons equal to the average returns of Mutual Socie-
ties—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock.
The advantages of modern practice—with the security of an
Office whose resources have been tested by the experience of
nearly a Century and a-half.
Royal Exchange, London.
JOHN A. HIGHAM, Actuary and Secretary.

IFIETTS'S PATENT BRANDY has ever since
its introduction to the public been recognised, both by scientific
men and the trade, as the best article ever manufactured in this
c 'nary. Its claims
,such pre-eminence are based upon its unri-
valled purity, and its cI ser assimilation than any other to the
flavour of the finest Champagne Brandy.
There has been no Brandy trade from wine in France, either in the
present year or in the preceding one. Owing to the successive failures
of their vintages, the French wine grower gets a higher price for his
wine. consumed as such, than he can realise by its being distilled
into Brandy ; and forasmuch-as the foreign Brandy of recent impor-
tatioßs is but the product of British grain and beetroot spirits. the
prestige hitherto exclusively enjoyed by French Brandy as having
been distille I from a particular French wine no longer exists, and is
no longer worthily assignable to it now that it i 4 bunglingly made
from other materials. The supply of wine fcr distillation into Brandy
having failed, the French distiller is constrained to recur Bo a manu-
facture In which he needs the quarter of a century's experience
which has been exercised upon that of BETTS'S PATENT
BRANDY, to render his article respectably competitive, and he has
not had it. Under these circumstances the Messrs. Betts challenge
that their PATENT BRANDY is superior to any now made abroad.
It is to the interest of the public and the Messrs. P.etts that
these facts should be widely spr, ad, for recent importations are of
a quality so inferior as to di grace the name they hear, and are
twice the price of BE TTS'S PA I ENT BRANDY, which is supplied
by the trade, in capsuled bottles, to private families in any quan-
tity, down to the single bottle. Exclse regulations prevent its
sale 'rem the Distillery, 7, Sm'thfield-bars, St. John-street, in
any less quantify than two. gallons.