The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-07 00:00:00

THE COLOSSEUM
RE-OPENS THIS
DAY, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7,
REGENT'S PARK,
UNDER
THE PATRONAGE of HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY and
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT.
The attractions and novelties of this Gigantic Exhibition, con-
sist of the Glyptotheca, or Museum of Sculpture, the Grand Pano-
rama of London, the Classic Ruins of the Egyptian Temples of
Theseus, Vesta, and the Arch of Titus, &c.: the magnificent View
of Mont Blanc, and Mer de Glace, and Alpine TOrrent, &c.; the Con-
servatories, and Gorgeous Gothic Aviary. To which have been
added, the Wonderful Stalactite Caverns at Adclsberg,
splendid Promenades and Fountains, forming together an Exhibition
unrivalled in the world. and various

Open from Ten till Six o'clock.
An entrance also in Albany-street.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
The ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY, exhibited by a working
Model, having a poWer to carry visitors from end to end. A Cu-
ious MECHANICAL HAND on a person who has lost his na-
tural hand. Dr. Ryan's first Seri.s of LECTURES on the Che-
mistry of Domestic Life daily. Professor Bachhoffner's varied
Lectures with brilliant experiments. Lectures on Character, with
MusiCal Illustration% by Mr. J. Russell, accompanied by Dr.
Wallis on the Piano-forte, every evening except Saturday, at Eight
o'clock. New and beautillil Objects in the CHROMATROPE,
PHYSIOSCOPE, PROTEOSCOPE, and DISSOLVING VIEWS.
Submarine Experiments by
the DIVER and DIVING SELL.
Working Models described daily.
Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price.

ROYAL . ADELAIDE • GALLE.RY,
This INSTITUTION will RE-OPEN on TituRsDAY, May 8,
LOWTHER ARCADE, STRAND.
with
Model of Pilbrow's Atmospheric Railway without a valve—Phillips'
Fire Annihilator=Ship-preserver and Life-preserver, shown in
operation, and demonstrated by the inventor—Lectures on Chemistry
and Natural Philosophy—Oxyhydrogen Miscroscope—Electrical Eels
—Pyreidotrope, twenty feet in diamet9r—and Dissolving Views..
In the Evening e. Grand Prctli6tade`tonert, under the direction
of Mr. Sedgwick. -
Admission, One Shilling. Schools, half-price.

BATTLE OF WATERLOO.
New Model, upon a large Scale, representing the Splendid
Charge In the earlier part of the Battle by the British heavy Cavalry
under the 3farquis of Anglesea, and by the British Infantry under Sir
Thomas Picton.
EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY.
• Open from Eleven Morning to Nine Evening.
Admission—One Shilling.
"One may read bulletins, and dispatches, and histories for a month
without obtaining the clear Idea of these movements which a glance
at the Model will convey."—Bell's Weekly Messenger.
Described by Waterloo Men.

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
TEMPORARY OFFICES DURING THE ALTERATIONS,
No. 28, REGENT-STREET, WATERLOO-PLACE, LONDON.
Established by Act of Parliament in 1834.
DIVISION OF PROFITS AMONG THE ASSURED.
This Company, established by Act of Parliament, affords the most
perfect security in a large paid-up Capital, and in the great success
which has attended it since its commencement in 1834, its ANNUAL
INCOME being UPWARDS of 72,0001.
In 1841 the Company declared an addition to the Shareholders of
one-half of their Stock, and also added a Bonus of 21. per cent. per
annum, on the Sum Insured to all Policies of the Participating Class
from the time they we:a effected.
The Bonus added to Policies from March, 1834, to December 31,
1840, is as follows :
Sum Time Sam added Sum Time Sum added
Assured. Assured. to Policy. Assured. Assured. to Policy.
£5OOO 6 yrs. 10 mths. £683 6 8 £5OOO 4 years £4OO
5000 6 years 600 0 0 5000 2 years 200
The Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and
only one-half need be paid for the first Five Years, where the Insur-
ance is for Life.
Directors,Ever
yinEfodrwmaratdiounotty'dll,lEbseq.at and E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., of No. 28,fforded on application to the Resident
Regent-street, Waterloo-place, London.

ARGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
39, THROGMORTON-STREET, BANK.
EMPOWERED by SPECIAL ACT of PARLIAMENT,
li Deputy Chairman.
Pilch2r, Esq
5 and 6 Will. IV., c. 76.
THOMAS FARNCOMB, Esq., Alderman, Chairman. -
WILLIAM LEAF, Es
Richard E. Arden, Esq. James Clift, Esq.
William Banbury, Esq. Rupert Inglehy, Esq.
Edward Bates, Esq. Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman.
Thomas Camplin, Esq.
John Humphery, Esq., Alderman, Lewis Pocock, Esq
M.P.

Pr
RHEallitinm. of King's College.
PHYSICIAN—Dr. Jeafteson, 2, Finsbury-square.
SURGEON—W. Coulson, Esq., 2, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
CONSULTINO ALOc;A.
In addition to the subscribed Capital of 300,0001., the Assured have
the security of the Company's income of nearly 60,0001. per annum,
yearly increasing, and an accumulating Assurance Fund invested in
Government and other available securities, of considerably larger
RATESR Yt fO"Fs °
amount than the estimated liabilities of the Company.
The rates of premium are reduced t the lowest scale compatible
with the security of the Assured, and o the stability of the Company,
thereby, in effect, giving to every Policy Holder an immediate and
certain Bonus without risk, in lieu of the deferred and frequently
delusive prospect of a periodical division of Profits.
ANNUAL PREMIUM TO ASSURE £lOO.

For One Year. For Seven Years. I Whole Term.

£0 17 8
1 1 8
1 5 0
1 14 1
3 2 4

£0 19 1 X 1 11 10
127 2 0 7
1 6 9 2 14 10
1 19 10 4 0 11
317 0 6 010

One-third of " Whole Term" Premium may remain unpaid at
5 per cent. compound interest, as a debt upon the policy for life, or
may be paid off at any time w;thout notict.
In Assurances for AckAnces of Money, as security for ,'ebts, or
as a provision for a family, when the least present outlay is desirable,
the varied and comprehensive tables of the Argus Office will be found
to be particularly favourable to the Assured.
The Medical Officers attend daily at a Quarter before Two o'Clock.
EDWARD BATES, Resident Director.
A liberal Commission to Solicitors and Agents.

pALLADI U,M LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY.
7, Waterloo-place, London.
DIRECTORS.
Sir John Barrow, Bart., F.R.S., Right Hon. Sir T. Fremantle,
Lori W. R. K. Douglas, F.R.S. Bart., M P.
Right Hon. Sir Edward Hyde Henry Horsey, Esq., F.R.S.
East, Bart., F.R.S. James Murray, Esq.
charies Elliott, „Esq., F.R.S. Sarauel.Skinner, Esq. -
Joseph Esdaile, Esq. P. Maxwell Stewart, Esq., M.P.
Sir William-Young, Bart.
AUDITORS—Capt. C. J. Bosanquet, R.N.; Jas. Buller EaSt, Esq., M.P.;
John Young, Esq., M.P.
BANKERS-The London and Westminster Bank.
. PnYervesti-Seth Thompson, M.D. • •'
Th 4 TWhNTIETII ANNUM-, " GENERAL -MEETING of this
Society was lield.on the loth of:April last. when a highly satisfac-
tory REPORT was laid before the Proprietors and Policy Holders,
Advantage of-selecting, selecting,
andT 41ln
Pa nuibml Octiwsl3i
ll' ad
s:ep
thete d .
octant a
continued prosperity; and its -Tart& andltiOnt to policies.
from its
matter as Life Assurance, a well-established office, which,
greatestimlueement to: Assitirt-rs,,cemblnci with the undoubted se-
curity of a numerous and wealthy proprietary. -
ADDITIONS TO ,POLICIES.
Rowing Table shOws the additions made to Policies for
in so impor
which had been in force for Fourteen Years, to the 31st
I', 18,38 : offers the

The fol
5,0001., N
December

Age at
coin-
mence-
ment.

Promiums paid in
the Fourteen
Years.

Additions made to
the Sum Arsured in
the Fourteen
Years.

Total Sums now
payable in case 01
death.

£1,192 18 4
1,350 8 4
1,525 8 4
1,682 18 4
1,869 11 8
2,094 3 4
2,377 1 8
2,727 1 8
3,173 6 8

£586 6 7
681 2 7
768 5 1
787 2 8
813 15 6
854 6 5
923 18 1
1,011 2 9
1,129 15 7

£5,586 6 7
5,681 2 7
5,768 5 1
5,787 2 8
5,813 15 6
5,854 6 5
5,923 18 1
6,011 2 9
6,129 15 7

A bonus of Four-fifths, or Eighty per Cent. of the estimated .pro-
fits is added to Policies entitled, every seventh year; or an equiva-
lent reduction made in future Premiums.
The Third Septennial Division of Profits will be declared, to the
31st December, 1845. Persons Assuring previgus to that dato
will
have their proportion of profit appropriated.
Parties travelling in Europe, by sea or land, in time of peace, are
not charged any extra premium.
NICHOLAS GRUT,
Applications for Agencies in places where none are established to
be addressed to the Secretary.
Secretary and Actuary.

BRITANNIA' LIFE ASSURANCE COM-
PANY, I, Princetbstreet, Bank, and 448, West Strand, Lon-
don, March 1, 1845.
resolution
Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of a ,
a
passed
unanimously at two successive General Meetings of Proprietors
MUTUAL ASSURANCE BRANCH of this Institution has been
established on terms peculiarly advantageous to the Assured, and
that such Branch is supported by the entire subscribed capital of the
Company, together with the accumulated hind of Premiums derived
from upwards of Six Thousand Policies, already effected in the Pro-
prietary Branch.
Full particulars are stated in the Prospectus, which, with every re-
quisite Information, may PETER
be obtained on application at the office.
MORRISON, Managing Director.

To the PROPRIETORS of the BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE
proposed extension of the operations of
COMPANY.
has enjoyed the decided and (I
GENTLEMEN,—In calling your attention to the annexed Notice of
the establishment of a Mutual Assurance Branch, I beg leave to
tCoomsapya)ndyeserved approbation of the public,
address a few observations to you relative to the past transactions,
and the probable result of the
the Company.
their
riebushsionrtess of eight years. In
treTehtalt
maythe h"eßprienetanitntiea;
is clearly proved by the unprecedented fact of upwards of 6,000
stpoaetehis establishment.
policies
hiolvrmelvnegr, to
show the high degree of credit and influence pos-
sessed by the Company, it is only necessary for me to state, that two
highly respectable and Well-established Life Assurance Companies
have hitherto o been compelled to decline, that
The former of these transfers took place in the year 1840 ; the
have successivelbey
latter in the course of the past year,
It is in consequence of this last-mentioned transfer, which included
a large number of Policies effected on the mutual assurance plan, and
also in consequence of the numeroust applications for Assurances on
the Directors at length determined on the establishment of a Mutual
this plan, which they
etbranbssfeerredec:lt'het
Assurance Branch, on the plan set forth in the Prospectus, after it
had been submitted to, and unanimously approved by, two succes-
sive General 3leetings of Proprietors, Special_
y convened on the
occasion. Mutual Assurance
The general objection to . Societies, that (in their
afford that
infancy, at least) they do not at complete security to the
Assured which is supplied bythe subscribed capital of Proprietary
Establishments, is completely removed in the Mutual Branch of the
"Britannia" company ; for not only are the Mutual Policy-holders
protected by the entire subscribed capital of the Proprietary Branch,
but the large and continually-increasing
fund, accumulated from the
Premiums on 6,000 Policies already effected in that Branch, consti-
tutes an immediately available fu Ail
e Payment of the claims of
the ASsured, who will thus enjoy al the security afforded by an old
established office, and, at the sameme, become entitled to all the
benefits to be derived from that system of Mutual Assurance which
experience has proved to be at the time the safest and the best.
Another serious objection to the Mutual Assurance Plan (as gene-
rally acted on) is the high rate of premium required to be paid, in
the flat instance, in order to
frsgur:lind—
not only for the payment
of the claims, but also for the on of large bonuses among the
so iso
policy-holders. This objection
l a
th entirely removed by means of
the half credit system detailed In e prospectus. For, by allowing
half the amount of the first five annual premiums to remain for five
years in the hands of the person assured, and applying the bonus (to
which lie would othenvise become en t to the gradual liquida-
tion of the debt thus incurred with he Company, the policy-holder
enjoys the
rare advantage of a very 1,, w rate of premium, in the first
a
instance, combined with that of
full participation, eventually, in
the profits. is opportunity of
In availing myself of this opportunity congratulating my co-
shareholders on the extraordinatry success which hitherto has at-
tended the operations of the Br ta.neidua Life Assurance Company, I
trust I shall, at no very distant peri , have still further to congratu-
late them ou the complete success of the Mutual Assurance Branch,
which, after the most anxious care and attention, has been founded
on a plan calculated, in every possible way, to benefit and accommo-
date the public.
I cannot, in justice to the Pirectors, conclude this address without
calling your attention to the able and cordial co-operation which has
been afforded to me on their part, not only on the present important
occasion, but also in every other instance in which their advice and
assistance have been needful for promoting the interests of the nsti-
t ution. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient servant,
PETER MORRISON', Managing Director.
Britannia Life Office, 1, Princes-street, Bank,
London, Nth Ilarebt 1845.