The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-11 00:00:00

AUDITORS.

Pewtress,.Tor.eph W., Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, Tritton, cud Co.
somcirons.
Messrs. Watson and Sons.
The extraordinary success of the BRITISH EMPIRE MUTUAL
FIRE ASSURANCE SOCIETY has exceeded the highest expecta-
tions of its friends.
The whole of the profits are divided among the assured members.
One-fifth of the premiums have paid all losses.
Assurances effected without trouble or unnecessary expense at the
head ,nd provincial offices. •
There are some towns in which the Directors are open for re-
spectable and efficient agents.
The BRITIsii EMPIRt MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE. COM-
PANY is under a separate direction, though conducted on the same
principles.

L r, Rol.ert, Esq.

WILLIAM SUTTON GoyEnt
Actuary and SCcretary,

DISPUTED LIFE POLICIES.

A trial 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 539/. in the Albion
Company as security for an advance, 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 concealed from the office. The chief evidende
turns I upon the question as to the degree of intemperance that had
been exhibited, and the result was, that a verdict was given againit
the resisting office, not only for the amount of the policy, but also for
401. interest from tlie.date when it became due. The circumstance
of the action being brought by one office against anotherpresents a
striking illUstration of the uncertainty which may attach to all po-
licies under the present system, and shows that the only mode by
winch absolute security can ho obtained by the public.must lie in the
general adoption by Assurance Maw of the.plan ofprofeAing them-
selves in every ease by due inquiries before the grantim— I each po-
licy, and of afterwards assuming the full responsibility of the com-
pleteness of such inquiries by holding themselves precluded from
raising any future question. - In the present case two offices are
found to be diametrically opposed in their opinions as to 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 business Is feunded is, the removal of uncertainty,
and whenever that principle is counteracted in the slightest'degree,
t e people who would be the first to resort to its advantages are the
first to be deterred."—Times, July 11, 1850.

THE LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIFE
POLICY COMPANY
No. 72, 'LOMBARD-STREET, LONDON.
TRUSTEES.
f. Campbell Renton, Esq., M.P. I James Fulle Richard Spo r
Madox, oner, Esq.,Esq. M.P.
Richard Malins, Esq., Q.C.
William Wilberforce, Esq.
DIRECTORS.
Robert Henry Forman, Esq.
John Hamilton, Esq.
fames Fuller Madox, Esq.
John Matthews, Esq.
C. Octavius Parnell, Esq.
AUDITORS.
4eorge Cumming, Esq. James Turner, Esq.
William D. Starling. Esq. !David Henry Stone, Esq.
SacaErsay—David Alison, Esq.
BANKERS—Messrs. Spooner, Attwoods. and Cs.
PADDINGTON LOCAL BOARD.
24, Connaught-terrace, Edgeware.road.
Rev. James Sherbold Boone, A.M , Stanhope-street, Hyde-park.
Captain Creed, Norfolk-crescent, Oxford-square.
Charles Pemberton, Esq., Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, and Lin-

William Adams, Esq.
John Atkins, Esq.
Henry Augustus Bevan, Esq.
I. Thompson Bramwell, Esq.
Jahn Dangerileld, Esq.

coin's Inn-fields.
Thomas Jervis Amos, Esq., York-street, Portman-square.
George Y. Robson, Esq., Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, and New
square, Lincoln's Inn.

Secretary, Chas. Hogkton, 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
previous reports and other documents.
Owing to this important improvementin the practice of Life As-
qtrance, the progress of this Company has .beetyranid from the com-
mencement of its business, and is steadily advancing.
Copies of the Report of the last Annual Meeting will he fcrwarded,
on application, to Solicitors, to whom Commission is allowed.
ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, Manager.

TO PARENTS and GUARDIANS.—A portion
of the extensive Premises in Itegent•street, occupied by
Messrs. NICOLL, will in future be devoted for the production of
ROY'S' awl YOUTHS' CLOTHING, such to exhibit unusual good
taste, style, and finish, besides having a further recommendation in
their durability and very moderate cost.
College Caps and Gowns, with every kind of Garment calculated
for pleasure, duties, or exercise, and such as are wortrby Young
Gentlemen at the Colleges and Great ['tattle Schools. These are al-
ways ready to be met with at the Warerooms of 11. J amd D. NI-
COLL, Merchant Clothiers, Paletet Patentees. and Manufacturers of
Cloth, it• gent-street (from 114 to 120 inclusive), and 22, Cornhill.
CAuTioN.—Many have assumed the use of the word " PALETOT,"
bat Messrs. NICOLL are the Sole Patentees of the design and ma-
terial (in Winter or Summer Substances) employed in the manufac-
ture of this inexpensive and gentlemanly article of costume.