Tue great New York Life Insurance Companies are kept so persistently and prominently before the public, and so well deserve on the whole the ast patronage which they enjoy, that intending insurers are sometimes apt to forget that we have also among us an agency of a British Life Office, which is ready to do practically all that the American offices will do, and which, if its assets do not reach the enormous sums which the peculiar conditions of Life Assurance business in the States have allowed the American offices to accumulate, can point now, in its seventy-fourth year, to its possession of accumulated funds to the extent of over nine millions sterling. We allude, of course, to the Standard Life Assurance Ca. of Edinburgh, which dates from 1825, and of which Mr.
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