Feb. 17.] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



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SATURD AY FEBR UARY 17, 1844. 



rTTJAL L1FE~ASSURANCE SOCIETY, No. 



37 Old Jewry, London.-Established 1834. 

 ' Directors 



S Adams Beck, Esq. 



James Burchell, Esq. 



John Clayton, Esq. 



Solomon Cohen, Esq. 



John Cole, Esq. 



Sir Charles Douglas, M.P. 



K. Godson,Esq.,M.A.,QC.,M.P 



CaDt sirA.P.Green,R.N.,KC.H 



i*P*- ou Trustees. 



W. Chapman Harnett, Esq. 

 Jonathan Hayne, Esq. 

 Valentine Knight, Esq. 

 Colonel Robinson. 

 Samuel W. Rowsell, Esq. 

 Folliot Scott Stokes, Esq. 

 James Whiskin, Esq. 



John Clarke, Esq. 

 RicbarJ Groom, Esq. 



Phillip C. Moore, Esq. 

 Henry Thomas Windsor, Esq. 



Actuary: Peter Hardy, Esq., F.R.S. 

 vrtract from the Report of the Directors of the Society, to a Ge- 

 neral Meeting of the Members, holden the 17th January, 1844 : 

 "It the end of the six years which have been completed since 

 ♦*• ni of December, 1837, there are in existence m the Society 

 three times as many polices as there were in existence at the 

 end of the year 183/. The capital sums assured under these 

 «niiriea are nearly doubled in amount. The corresponding income 

 Krved from annual premiums is also nearly doubled The ac 



cumulated property of the Society is four times as great as it was 

 »t the end of that year, and the present divisible surplus is nearly 

 air times as muchas that declared in the division of the year 183/." 

 The Directors invite the public to compare the following Table 

 of the Additions made to the Ten oldest existing Policies in the 

 Societv up to the 31 st of December, 1843, wnh the additions 

 made by other Societies within the same time :- 



c 



1 



a 



< 



s 



3 



£ 



1000 



2 2000 



32000 



4 2000 



6 1500 



6 500 



71000 



8 2000 114 

 10 1500 43 

 13 500 



Petek Hardy, Actuary. 



NATIONAL MERCANTILE LIFE ASSURANCE 

 SOCIETY, Arthur-street West, London Bridgb. (Es- 

 tablished in 18370 Directors. 



Chairman.— Robert Currey, Esq. 



Edward Baker, Esq. 

 Jasper Capper, Esq. 

 Thomas Dakeyne, Esq. 

 Giles Redmayne, Esq. 

 James Spicer, Esq. 

 Henry Sterry, Esq. 



Thomas Bax, Esq. 

 Joseph Cooper, Esq. 

 Russell Jeffrey, Esq. 

 William R. Spicer, Esq. 

 Joseph Sterry, jun., Esq. 

 Robert Wilcoxon, Esq. 

 Bankers. 

 Messrs. Prescott, Grote, and Co. 



ADVANTAGES. 



A BONUS of two-thirds of the Profits allotted to the Assured. 

 LOWER RATES OF PREMIUM charged for Assurances 



Without profits. 



PREMIUMS payable Annually, Half-yearly, or Quarterly. 



ASSURANCES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION maybe effected. 

 Among others, the important one, originated by this Society, of 

 securing a sum to the Assured himself on his attaining any given 

 age, or to his family in the event of his earlier death. 

 . h P0CKET DIARY containing detailed particulars, may be 

 nad on application at the Office, or of the Society's agents. 

 , Jenkin Jones, Actuary and Secretary. 



AUSTRALASIAN COLONIAL and GENERAL 



wi UFE ASJ 5URANCE and ANNUITY COMPANY, 126, 

 Bishopsgate-street, Corner of Comhill. 



Capital ^200,000, in 2000 Shares, 

 p tj„«. j « Directors. 



Row? 2 * ? 8q - F - R ' S - I Gideon Colquhoun, Esq. 



Henri « r T, k8 ' Es( l- C. E. Mangles, Esq. 



John\r kl n' Es * Kichard Onslow, E ,q. 



John Henry Capper, Esq. | William Walker, Esq. 



CoLoviAt u Banker s.~ UnionB^nk of London. 



- «al baxkrrs.— The Bank of Australasia (incorporated by 



PnTsin*x? « hBrter » 1835 >- No - 2 - Moorgate- street. 



itiAN.— Patrick Fraser. Esq., M.D., No. 62, Guildford-st. 



ASSURANCF f?™ "u Rv — Ellward R yley, Esq. 

 favourable rat effected with this Company at unusually 



the Assured p ' a .^? r(nn £ every variety of accommodation to 

 scales of nrp • rtici P ati °u in Profits, ascending and descending 

 ""um whirh lUTt l' P errn »ssion to retain one-third of the pre- 

 the as'suranp- ls charged as a debt against the policy, tables for 

 cutors of thp * m PayaMe i» the event of death to the exe- 



*ees of *< *n * red » or ^ himself upon the attainment of the 



To km ir f ' 

 for the vshof A iY TSt ° the AUSTRALASIAN COLONIES assured 

 *lon to prccp 6 i thiS Com P ar, y offers the advantages of permis- 

 w ithout : ex'tr l °' to reside in » and to return from those colonies 



AH quest! prcmium , and to pay their premiums there, 

 the Secret, r • tin 5 to Assurance and Annuities, addressed to 

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 disease \ To w es '_ tne amou,, t varying with the particular 

 R&tes. ' ' '" 



members of Consumptive Families Assured at Equitable 

 E. G. P. Neison, Actuary. 



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