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Robert Henry Forman, Esq.
John Hamilton, Esq.
fames Fuller Madox, Esq.
John Matthews, Esq.
C. Octavius Parnell, Esq.
AUDITORS.
George Cumming, Esq. James Turner, Esq.
William D. Starling, Esq. ' IDavid Henry Stone, Esq.
SECRETARY—David Alison, Esq.
Barnum—The London and o unty Bank.
PADDINGTON LOCAL BOARD.
24, Connaught-
ace, Ewarsiroach ue pan,
Captain Creed, Norfolk-creg iingrd fo-aAttare.
Charles Pemberton, Esq.',-E• tbourue-terrace, Hyde-park, and Lin
coin's Inn-fields.•
Thomas Jervis Antos, Esq., York-street, Portman-square.
George Y. Robson, Esq., Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, and New.
square, Lincoln's Inn.

William Adams, Esq.
John Atkins, Esq.
Elenry Augustus Bevan, Esq.
J. Thompson Bramwell, Esq.
Sohn Dangerfleld, Esq.

S, Chas. Hogkton, Esq.
The POLICIES of this-Company,e beingcretary INDISPUTABLE, form
Family Provisions and Negotiable Securities, for their validity is not
dependent, as in the case of ordinary Policies, upon the Import of
previous reports and other documents.
Owing to this important improvement in the practice of Life As-
surance, the progress of this Company has been rapid from the com-
mencement of its business, and is steadily advancing.
Copies of the Report of the last Annual Meeting will be forwarded,
on application, to Solicitors, to whom Commission is allowed.
ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, Manager.

ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION,
'Established by Royal Charter of his Majesty George 1., A.D. 1720),
For SEA, FIRE, and LIFE ASSURANCES.
OFFICES—ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
BRANCH OFFICE-29, PALL-MALL.
GOVERNOR—Thomas Tooke, Esq.
SUB-GOVERNOR—The Hon. John Thornton Leslie Melville.
DEPUTY-GovEarroa—George Pearkes Barclay, Esq.
DIRECTORS.
Charles John Manning, Esq.
Henry Nelson, Esq.
Edward Howley Palmer, Esq.
John Henry Pelly, Esq.
Abraham George Robarts, Esq.
Charles Robinson, Esq.
Thomas Smith, Esq.
William Soltau, Esq.
Joseph Soames, Esq.
William Wallace, Esq.
Octavius Wigram, Esq.
Charles Baring Yung, Esq.

Henry Bainbridge, Esq.
Edmond S. P. Calvert, Esq.
John Garrett Cattley, Esq.
Alexander Colvin, Esq.
Edward Maxwell Daniell, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq.
John Deacon, Esq.
Riversdale Wm. Grenfell, Esq.
Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq.
William Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.
Lancelot Holland, Esq.
Sir John Wm. Lubbock, Bart.

MEDICAL lIEFEREE—SAMUCI. Say, R.S.
Notice.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of Fire Pre-
miums falliug due at Christmas will expire on the 9th January.
This Corporation has held a high position during upwards of a
Century and a Quarter, and affords unquestionable security by its
capital-stock.

Ten Thousand Pounds may be assured on one Life.
The Reversionary BONUS declared on British Participating Life
Policies has amounted on an average to rather more than 2 per
Cent. per Annum on the sum assured, or 46 per Cent. on the amount
of Premium paid ; or equivalent reductions kave been made in the
Annual Premiums.

Endowment Assurances may b 3 effected for securing payment of
a given sum on the attainment of any specified age, or upon death
if that should previously occur.
The customary Fees are allowed to medical practitioners referred
to by persons proposing Life Insurances.

ALEX. GREEN, Secretary.

DXSPUTOD 'arm POLICIES.
" A trial of considerahe interest to Life Assurance Offices and the
public was concluded
YUerday in the Court of Exchequer. The
Eagle Company held a pilicy for an assurance of 539/. in the Albion
Company as security loran tudvanee, the payment of which policy
was now disputed by the Albion, on the ground that at the time it
was effected the fact of :he assured party having been a man of in-
temperate habits was concealed from the office. The chief evidence
tome I upon the question as to the degree of intemperance that had
been exhibited, and the !esift, was, that a verdict was given against
the resisting office, not oily for the amount of the policy, but also for
40/. interest from the d.,! when it became due. The circumstance
of the action being bronzit by one office against another presents a
striking illustration of the uncertainty which may attach to all po-
licies tinder the present tystem, and shows that the only mode by
wlich absolute security em ba obtained by the public must lie in the,
general adoption by Asstrance Offices of the plan of protecting them-
selves in ev,ry csse by dam Inquiries before the grAntim f each po-
licy, and of afterwards assuming the full responsibility of the com-
pleteness of such inquities by holding themselves precluded from
raising any future question. In the pro..,,'ent case two ofil,es are
found to he diametrically opposed In their opinions as tc what can
properly invalidate a 'him, and yet the public are expected to be
able to guare themselves against such contingences. Similar cases
have occurred before, and even if they were more rare, they would
seriously injure the progress of life assurance. The very principle
upon which tile business is founded is the removal 01 uncertainty,
and whenever that principle is counteracted' in the slightest degree,
the people who would be. the first to resort to its advantages are the
first to be deterred."—Thies, July 11, 1850.
THE LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIFE
POLICY COMPANY
No. 72, LOMBARD-MEET, LONDON.
TRUSTEES.
f. Campbell Itenton, Esq., M.P. I Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
Richard Malins, Esq., Q.C. James Fuller Madox, Esq.
William Wilberforce, Esq.
DlnEcTous.