The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-15 00:00:00

Immediate Annuities are also granted by the Society on liberal
terms. IS will be seen by the following extracts from the Tables,
showing the runual amount of annuity upon every 1001. deposited :
Age' 50, £7 S. I Age 60, £9 14s. 3d. I Age 70, £l4 2s. 2d.
The Annual Report, with Tables of Rates, Ste.. may be had at the
Office, or any of its Branches in the Country ; or, on application, will
fOrwarded post free.

W. S. B. WOOLKOLTSE, Actuary.

DISPUTED LIFE POLICIES.

" A tr!al of considerable interest to Life Assurance Offices and the
public Was concluded yesterday in the Court of Exchequer. The
Eagle Company held a policy for an assurance of 5391. in the Albion
Company as security for an advanee, the payment of which policy
was now disPUted by the Albion, on,the ground that at the time it
was effected the fact of the assured party having been a man of in-
temperate-habits was doncealed from the-office. The chief evidence
turtle! apolathe question as to the degree of intemperance that had
been exhibited, and the result was, that a verdict was given against
the realiting oflice, not only for the amount of the policy, but also for
401. interest from the data when it became duel The circumstance
of the action being brought by one office against another presents a
striking illustration of the uncertainty which may attach to all po-
licies unler the present system, and shows that the only mode by
which absolute st&trity can be obtained by the public must lie in the
general adoption by Assurance Offices of the plan of protecting them-
selves-in evkry ease jDy due inquiries before the grantirn • f each po-
licy, and of afterwards assuming the full responsibility m the com-
pleteness" of such inquiries by holding themselves precluded from
raisins any future question. In the present case two offices are
found to he diametrically opposed in their opinions as t€ what can
properly- invalidate a claim. 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 the tusinessis founded is the removal of uncertainty,
and whenever that principle is counteracted in the slightest degree,
the people who '‘vlict be the first to resort to its advantages are the
first to be deterred."—Times, July 11, 1850.

TE HE LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIFT:
POLICY COMPANY
, No. 72, LOM.BARD-S MEET, LONDON.
TRUSTIES.
J. Campbell Renton, Esq., M.P. I Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
Richard 51alins, Esq., Q.C. I James Fuller Madox, Esq.

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William Wilberforce, Esq.
DIZECTOILS.
Robert Henry Forman, Esq.
John Hamilton, Esq.
James Faller Madox, Esq.
John Matthews, Esq.
C. Octavius Parnell, Esq.
AI7DITOXB.
J Aim es Turner. Esq.
i David Henry Stone, Esq.

William Adams, Esq.
John Atkins, Esq.
Henry Abgastus Bevan, Esq.
J. Thompson Bramwell, Esq.
John bangerneld, Esq.

George Cumming, Esq.
William Lk Starling. Esq.

Szcairakair—David Alison, Esq.
BANICERS-- Messrs. Spooner, Attwoods. and G.
PADDINGTON LOCAL BOARD.
24, Connaught-terrace, Edgeware -road.
Rev. James Sherbold Boone, A.M., Stanbope. street, Hyde-park.
Captain Creed, Norfolk-crescent, Oxford-square. _ _

Charles Pemberton, Esq., Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, and Lin-

coin's Inn-fields. - -
Thomas Jervis Antos, Esq., York-street, Portman-square.

George Y. Itooson, Est., Eastbourne-terrace, Hy-de-park, and New-
nuare, Lioeolu'i

Secretary, Chas. Iloghton, Esq.

The POLICIES of this Company, being-INDISPUTABLE, fOrm
Family Provisions and Negotiable Securities, for their validity is not
dependent, as in the case of ordinary Policies, upon the import of
previtam reports and other documents.

Owing tcithis Important improvement in the practice of Life As-
snrivice, the progress of this Company has been rapid from the com-
mencement of its business, and is steadily advancing.
COples of the Report of the last Annual Meeting will he fcrwarded,
on application, to Solicitors, to whom Commission is allowed.

ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, Manager.

ARGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
39, THROGMORTO.7-STREET, BANK;
And 14, PALL-MALL.
Chairman—Theßight 1100. the LORD MAYOR.
Deputy-Chairman—WlLLlAM LEAF, Esq.
Richard E. Paden; Esq. iJ. JlumphPry, Esq., Aid., M.P.
William Banbury, Esq. ;Rupert Ingle.li,y, Esq.
Edward Bates, Esq. :Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman.
Tbomas•Carm.:in, Esq. .Jeremiah ['licher, Esq.
Jame§ Chit, Esq, !Lewis Pocock, Esq.
AUDlTORS—Professor Ball, M.A. ; J. B. Shuttlerrorth, Esq.
Jeaffreson, 2 Finsbury-square.
StraotoN—W. Coulson, Esq., 2, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
COI4SUDTING Actraav—Protessor Hall, M.A., of King's College.
anDiNo CouNsEr. —Sir John Itomilly, M.P., Solicitor-General.
Sotacyroa—William Fisher, Esq., 19, Doughty-street.
ADVANTAGES OF ASSURING WITH THIS COMPANY.
In addition to a large subscribed capital, Policy holders have the
security of an Assurance Fund of more than a Quarter of a
Million, and an Income of 70,00 W. a year, arising from the isms of
upwards of 6,500-Policies.
BONUS, OR PROFIT BRANCH.
Persons Assuring on the Bontia system will be annually entitled
to SO per cent. of • the profits en this broad} (after pa,yment of five
yearly Premiums) ; and the profit assigned to each Policy may
either be added to the sum =tired; or applied in redaction of the
Annual premium.
NON-BONUS, OR LOW PREMIUM BRANCH.
The Tables en the non-participating principle afford peculiar ad-
vantages to the assured, not offered by any other Office—for where
the abject i, the least possible outlay, the payment of a certain sum
is secured to the Policy-holder, on the death of the Assured, at a re-
duced rate of Premium.