The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-28 00:00:00

FREEMASONS' AND GENERAL LIFE
ASSURANCE, LOAN, ANNUITY, and REVERSIONARY
INTEREST COMPANY, 11, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.
This office unites the benefit of a mutual association with the se-
curity of a proprietary company, and offers to the assured the fol-
lowing advantages :

1. Credit until death, with privilege or payment at any time
previously, for one-half of the premiums for the first five years,
forupo snecassuruinrganicoeasnfso.r the whole of Life—a plan peculiarly advantageous

2. In Loiintritnsactions the lender secured against the risk of the
borrower going out of Europe.
3. Sums assured to become payable at g:ven Ages or Death, if
previous.

4. Policies indefeasible; fraud alone, not error, vitiating them; and
in case the renewal premium remain unpaid, the Assurance may be
revived at any time within Six Months, upon satisfactory proof of
health, and payment of a trifling fine.
5. Officers in the Army and Navy, and persons residing abroad, or
proceeding to any part of the world, assured at low rates.
6. Immediate Survivorship and Deferred Annuities granted ; and
Endowments for Children, and every other mode of Provision for
Families arranged.
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Information and el Prospectuses furnished on application at the Office,
JOSEPH BERRIDGE, Secretary.

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 Patiiament, affords the most
perfect security in a large paid-up Capital, and in the great success
which has attended it shim 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 were effected.
The Bonus added to Policies from March, 1534, to December 31,
1840, is as follows :
Sum Time Sum added! Sum Time Stun Added
Assured. Assured. to Policy. Assured. Assured. to Policy.
£5OOO 6 yrs. 10 mths. £683 68, £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 halfneed be paid for the first Five Years, where the Insu-
rance is for Life.
Every information will be afforded on application to the Resident
Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., of No. 28,
Regent-street, Waterloo-place, London.

STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
Established 1825, and constituted by Act of Parlianient.
Edinburgh-3, George-street.
London-82, King William-street.
DIRECTORS IN LONDON.
The Right Hon. Lord Ernest James Gadesden, Esq.
Bruce, M.P. William Ilaigh, Esq.
Sir James Eyre, M.D. Edward Thomas Whitaker, Esq.
Mat thew Forster, Esq., M.P. George Frederick Young, Esq.
The popularity which this Company has attained may be illus-
trated by the fact, that life assurances to the extent of half a million
sterling were proposed to the Directors, in the year 1844 alone.
This is the year In which the third division of the Company's pro-
fits falls to be made. The necessary investigation is now in progress,
and all persons assuring before 15th November next, will share in
the division.
The Standard is one of the first proprietary offices in this country.
and the success which has attended the business, and its judicious
regulations, are such as to give every prospect ofgreat and increasing
advantages to. all connected with it.
PETER EWART, Resident Secretary.

82, King William-street,

PALLADIUM LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY
7, Waterloo-place .
, London.
DIRECTORS.
Sir John Barrow, Bart., F,R.S. Right Hon. Sir T. Fremantle,
Lord W. R. K. Douglas, F.R.S. Bart., M.P.
Right Hon. Sir Edward Hyde Henry Harvey, Esq., F.R.S.
East, Bart., F.R.S. James Murray, Esq.
Charles Elliott, Esq., F.R.S. Samuel Skinner, Esq.
Joseph Esdaile, Esq.
P. Maxwell Stewart, Esq., M.P.
Sir William Young, Bart.
AUDITORS—Capt. C. J. 13esanquet, R. N,
Jas. Buller East, Esq., M.P.;
~ ALF. Lei •
BANKERS—The London and Westminster Bank.
PuysicrAw--Seth Thompson, M.D.
The TWENTIETH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of this
Society was held on the 10th of April last, when a hi, lily satisfac-
tory REPORT was laid before the Proprietors and Policy Holders,
and unanimously adopted.
The Public will see the advantage of selecting,
matter as Life Assurance, a well-established office, which, from its
continued prosperity, and Its large additions to policies, offers the
greatest inducement to Assurers, combined with the undoubted se-
curity of a numerous and wealthy proprietary. in so important a
ADDITIONS TO POLICIES.
The following Table shows the additions made to Policies for
5,0(01., which had been in force for Fourteen Years, to the 31st
December, 1833 :

Age at
com-
menee-
ment.

Premiums paid in
the Fourteen
• Years.

Additions made to
the Sum Assured in
the Fourteen
Years.

Total Sums now
payable in ease Of
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 G 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

.E 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 po'icies entitled, every seventh year ; or an equiva-
lent reduction made in future premiums.
The Third Septennial Division of Profits will bo declared, to the
31st December, 1845. Persons Assuring previous to that date will
have their proportion of profit appropriated.
Parties travelling in Europe, by sea or land, in time of peace, arc
not charged any extra premium.
Applications lbr Agencies in places where none are established to
be addressed to the Secretary.
NICHOLAS 01217 T, Secretary and Actuary.

THE ORTHOCIIRONOGRAPII, patented by
WEBSTER and SON, 74, Conditll, Chronometer Makers to
he Lords of the Admiralty and the East India Company.'
This newly-Invented instrument will determine the correct per-
formance of Chronometers, Watches, and Clocks, and show their dis-
tance from the correct time at any place. The simplicity, porta-
bility,.and the ease with which the results are obtained, will enable
the most inexperienced to ascertain mean time to a correctness not
hitherto attained but by experienced persons in the use of astrono-
mical instruments. It may be adjusted to its position in two minutes.
An explanatory paper, with their publication, forwarded free, upon
inclosing 4 postage stamps. Price 41. 10s.
74, Cornhill.

Chinese Exhibition, and many
CAUTION TO CONSUMEITS.—DRY GAS METERS.
I) EFRIES'S DRY METERS have successfully
helltrpwe'ards of 20,000,000 cubic feet of
stood the tests six years' trial. Among the 10,000 in use,
they have been adopted bribe official authorities of the Houses of
Parliament, Woolwich Dock-yard, Somerset-house, Foreign-office,
Thames Tunnel, United Service, Reform, Conservative, and other
eCtlknebr-hloarusgees,
etshtaebiQuishemene'nstsT.
natthaleibtr.masessbtaodger(rfront of all his
gas have passed through some of these meters without regula-
tion or repair, and which are still working to the entire satisfaction
of the gas company and consumers.
p Meter,e r fe c t
All gas consumers who study econemy and a good light are invited
to avail themselves of the advantages and comfort to be derived from
the use of Defries's Dry Meter, but, to preventi the substitution of im-
nisaerye'
meters.
Testimonials from the most eminent and scientific men and large
andimitations, oobsry ite
I shni his necessary
consumers can be had on applieatkm (or will be o,rwarded by post),
free of expense, at the Manufactory, 67, St. Martin's-lane, London.
Warranted to keep correct in all weathers.

THE PERFECT SUBSTITUTE for SILVER.
years been found equal to silver in appearance and
The material RIFPON and BURTON offer to the Public has
or the last ten
weetness, and superior to it in durability. Of the prices of tea-sets,
waiters, candlesticks, and all articles hitherto madejn silver, a detailed
catalogue, with engravings, will be scut (gratis) poSt free.
Fiddle Threaded Victoria
Pattern. Pattern. Pattern.

Table Spoons and Forks, full size, per 12 04 .... i
0,11 .
6.:
Od.
7s. Od.
ENDERS,
28s. Od. • 30s. Oct
Dessert do. do. do ••• • • • 10s. Od. 21s. Od. 255. Od.
Tea do. do.d ss. Od. I ls. Od. 128._0d.
do. 3ss
do
Gravy do.
dozen • • • • • • • • ....... • • • • •..
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FSTOVES, and FIRE IRONS.
.The largest assortment of Stoves and Fenders as
well as General Ironmongery, in the world is , new on sale
at RIppON and BURTON'S extensive warehouses, 39, 0x-
......
ford-street, corner of Newman-street (just removed from Wells-
street). Bright steel fenders, to 4 feet, from 30s. each ; ditto, ditto,
with ormolu ornaments, from 60s. ; rich bronzed scroll ditto, with
steel bar, 10s. 6d. ; iron fenders, 3 feet, 4s. Gel. ; 4 feet, 6s. ; do.
bronzed, and fitted with standards, 3 feet, .9s. ; 4 feet, 11s; ; wrought
iron kitchen fenders, 3 feet, 4s. 6d.; 4 feet, 68. ; bright register t ' 8 oves,
with bronzed ornaments and two sets of bars,from 5
ditto, with ormolu ornaments, from 9/. 10.5. ; black dining-room
register stoves, 2 feet, 20s. ; 3 feet, 30s. ; bed room register stoves,
2 feet, 16s. ; 3 feet, 245. The new economical Thermic, .stove, with
fender and radiating hearthplate, from 8/. ss. ; fire-irons for cham-
bers, Is. 9d. per set ; handsome ditto, with ev.t head, 6s. 6d. ; newest
pattern, with elegant bronzed heads, 118. A variety of fire-irons,
with ormolu and richly-cut heads, at proportionate prices. Any
article in furnishing ironmongery, 20 per cent. under any other house,
wh i7ii).( extent and variety of the stock is without any equal. The
money returned for every article not approved of. Detailed cata-
login's, with engravings, sent (per post free, EitabiLated (in mug_
street) 1520. . • 7 • .

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