The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-25 00:00:00

LAW LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE,
L FLEET-STREET, LONDON,
2n MAucu, 1857.
...NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the B K OOS far the TRA NS-
!ER of SHARES in this Society will he re-opened on Wednesday,
the Bth day of April next. The Dividends for the year 1856 will be
payable on and after Monday, the 6th day of April next.
By Order of the Directors.
WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES, Actuary.

yfr ET ROP 0 LITAN COUNTIES and
GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent-
Street, Waterloo-place, London. Capital, 100,0001.
TRUSTEES.
lit.lln. Spencer FL Walpole,M.P. Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
Henry Peter Fuller, Esq. I E. Vansittart Neale, Esq.
Life Assurance business transacted in all its branches.
33N.8. The bonus declared P t the last division of profits averaged
Per cent. on all the premiums paid.
F. FERGUSON CA.MROUX, Manager.

pROVIDENT CLERKS' BENEVOLENT
FUND.—Estahltshed 1840. •

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TRUSTEES.
~._1.11Q5. Baring, Esq., M.P. I Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
Thomson Esq.,
liankey,
M.P. f The BarOn L. de Rothschild, M.P.
Treasurer—John Abel Smith, Esq , M.P.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that, parsuant to the resolution
Of the Annual General Meeting, held on the 11th of February last,
DY 'which a sum of 751. per annum was voted for additional annuities
'0 Persons duly qualified, an ELECTION of ANNUITANTS will take
Place at this office on THURADAY, the 28th day of May ner.t.
Alt persons intending to offer themselves as candidates must send
in their applicatirns, with testimonials, on or before the 2d day of
April next, according to a printed form, to be obtained at the office,
15. Moorgate-street, London.
By order of the Board.
WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary.

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15, Moorgate-street, March 16. •
Persons assuring their lives with the Provident Clerks' Mutual
Life A ssurance Association, or becoming members of the Provident
lerks' Benevolent Fund, by a life subscription of 10 guinea, or by
an annual subscription of one guinea, on or before the day of election,
be entitled to a vote for each candidate to be elected.

ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.-
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. That this Company has
BEI URNED to its OFFICES. which have been Rebuilt, No. 29,
Lombard-street, at the corner of Clement's-lane. Offices in Liverpool :
—Royal Insurance-buildings, North John-street, and Dale-street.
FIRE BRAN('H.
2'he Fire Premium in 1856 amounted to about 150,0001, placing the
Company among the very largest Offices in the Kingdom ; indeed it
is believed that there are only three es four of leer shish ennni If. in
Fire .Revenue. Insurances are received upon nearly all descriptions
of property in the United Kingdom, the Colonies, and most Foreign
Countries ; the rates of premium are exceedingly moderate, and
governed in each case by a careful consideration of the risk proposed.
LIFE BRANCH.
The Life Revenue during the past year amounted to a',out 40,0001.;
the new premiums alone exceeding 10,0001. A bonus was declared
In 1854 of 21. per cent. per annum on the sum assured, awraging
about 80 per cent cf the premiums paid, being one of the largest ever
declared. All the Insurances effected during the present year will
Participate in the next bonus in 1859.
ph• paid-up and invested Capital, including Life Funds, amounts
to nearly Half a Mil ion Sterling.
PERCY M. DOPE, Manager.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, secretary to
the London Board.

THE GENERAL LIFE AND FIRE
ASSURANCE COMPANY.
Established 1837.
Empowered by Special Acts of Parliament.
62, King William-strect, London.
Capital, 1,000,0001.
DIRECTORS. •
George Bonfield, Esq. I Chas. llindley, Esq., M.P.
T. Challis, Esq., Alderman, M.P. James Pilkington, Esq., M.P.
Jacob Geo. Cope, Esq. Thomas Viper, Esq.
Joseph. Dawson, Esq. Thomas B. Simpson, Esq.
John Dixon, Esq. E The Right Hon. Chas. P. Viiliers,
11en la
„ min Edgington, Esq. M.P.
John T. Fletcher, Esq. Edward Wilson, Esq.
The LADY-DAT Fire Renewal Receipts are now ready, and may
ID; bad on application at the Head-office of the Company, or to any
0 its agents t hroughout the country. '
Losses by Explosion of Gas made good by the Company.
In the LIFE DEPARTMENT FOUR-FIFTHS of the PROFITS,
sivisible by the Company's Deed of Settlement, allowed to Assurers;
and the Company transacts all business relating to Life Assurances,
Deferred Annuities, anti Family Endowments, on the most liberal
terms consistent with sound principles and public security.
No charge for Stamps on Life Assurance Policies.
~.oLOANF; granted on personal security, and the deposit of a Life
4- MY to be effected by the borrower.
To all Agents, Solicitors, Auctioneers, and Surveyors, a liberal
Allowance is made.

By order of the Board.
THOMAS PRICE, Secretary.

BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY has ever since
its Introduction to the public been recognised, both by scientific
teen and the trade, as the best article ever manufactured in this
Country. Its claims to such pre-eminence are based upon its unrie -
vaned puiity, and its closer assimilation than any other to th
flavour of the finest Champagne Brandy.
There has been no Brandy,made from wine in France,-either in the
present year or in the preceding one. Owing to the successive failures
'in their vintages, the French wine grower gets a higher price for his
Wine. ciinsumed as such, than he can realise by its being distilled
Into Brandy ; and forasmuch as the foreign Brandy of recent impor-
tations is hut the product of British grain and beetroot spirits, the
Prestige hitherto exclusively enjoyed by French Brandy as having
been distilled from a particular French wine no longer exists, and is
no longer worthily assignable to it now that it is bunglingly made
from other materials. The supply of wine fcr distillation into Brandy
having failed, the French distiller is constrained to recur to a manu-
facture In which he needs the quarter of a century's experience
which has been exercised upon that of BE TS'S PATENT
BRANDY, to render his article r spectably 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 Betts that
these facts should be widely spread, for recent importations are of
a quality so inferior as to di-grace the name they bear, and are
twice the price of BETTS'S PA TENT BRANDY, which is supplied
by, the trade, in capsuled bottles, to private families in any quan-
tity, down to the single bottle. ExciFe regulations prevent its
sale from the Distillery, 7, Smithfield-bars, St. John-street, in
any less quantity than two gallons.