Royal Insurance Abnanack for 1867. (Kronheim and Co.)— This almanack
is a yearly register of the astonishing progress of the English insurance system in one of the most prosperous, if not now the most prosperous, of our Insurance Societies. The very first page shows what that progress in the case of the life department of this society has been. In the fifteen years from 1845 to 1859, the premiums amounted, to only 332,9931., in the six years from 1860 to 1865 they amounted to 713,644/. In the same six years the acccumulated life and annuity funds, after paying all claims, have very nearly trebled, having increased from 262,904/. to 724,581/. The fire premiums have increased largely in the same six years, but their profits seem to vary much more than the others. Thus, in 1861, the losses were 88 per cent. on the premiums, and in 1864 nearly 79 per cent., while the average of eight years is 64 per cent. The accumulated funds of the company for the two departments united seem to be growing at a rate that shows caution in the directors.
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