The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-21 00:00:00

Fritz INDEPENDENT FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY Wanted).
Capital, One Million la. 40,000 Shares of VS seek
Al per &are to be paid ea insane, and Al lea. per alma on
lutment.
Calla not exceeding Al per share, at in:arra:a of not litis tam
three months.
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PIN ECTOOS.

Joba Downes, Isq. (llessr;.tivVii;;and Scott). Upper Thames-
stroet director of the hatlonsl Provincial Marina Insurance

Compaa
Hoerr, Hines. Req., merchant. 3e, Lorabardatreet.
John lit ledew, Ky., Cembeidge twnee, Lee-park. Kest
Wiliam Knight, Yaw ,Hesare. 11.1 Law Knight and Co.), 63,
Loaahardotreet.
Henry Lodgard, Esq., Forest-Atli. Kent
0. argot. spoons, tog llessra. G. S. :1) mons and Co.',, 20 tad
21, it. Dnnatan's All
John K. Tibbs. E.g. ;Meant J. K. Tithe and Son . Threadneedle-
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street, Director of the Staffordshire Roiling Stock Conaany.
James Luniani, La. illassra. Jams Lanham and Gab 231.
street Borough.
Jebelfans, Peg. Mesas. VON., Meek, and Co.), IMlllterequare.
Walter Brodie, F. 341., Da, Defamers-terrace, Brds-park, late
member of the House of Representatives, New Zealand.
(Igesennal names in Manchester and Liverpool will be ilOlllll.
Motels added to the Dlroctiota.)
Letagen—The M. tropoUt!n and Provincial Bank, 79, Corn.

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bill. KC.
BOIJCITOII3-11essrs. Utuurtt and Stark. 4, Furniverhus.
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Hulbore.

linotins—lfessts. Scruttc7U—andton, 81, Old Broad-street
AllbaultS—Yarn. Cash and Xdstards, Public Accountants,
13, Tokenlargo-tank

Grp iam, AND 11611;iiiii—Asulaii"--11i: Hobert Steen

Body.
Nicholas-lame. Lombard-street, LC.

This Company has for its purposes the transaction of the
important and reniunerathe business of Tire Insurance, and
that ash to the exclusloa of other branches of business not
ontimelly associated with it, under the same direction and ope-
rating on one and the same capital. The Directors ere satisfied
that the scope for the business of lire Immature presented by
this country and its dcpendencles, is, as a commercial vecola-
tion, de/arsine .1 paramount attention and the contract hying
oast termi sable annually, the profit. or kw whim& determine in
like manner, u ear by year, and exhibit at once a Company's
financial pinatas, and it. resource&
While the partial remissi n of the fire Insurance duty now in
the touteniplaUon of government, cat applicable only to the
insurance of at", k in trade, will atford a comparatively limited
relief f. om the onerous oppression, the directors have resolved
to allow upon payment for 'eery policy and &figments at each
renewal, au inaina.diate drawback, which, in many instances,
win amount to a total extinction of the entire duty of three
shillings per cent.
To the public at large. and to the greater proportion of the
manufacturing and mercantile community. this arrangerreut
will prove a highly acceptable advantage. The drawback
allowed by a few of the older Mikes by way of per sentage on
premiums, at intervals of years, is of importance only to those
who are rated at peen hams ranging chief,/ here one Reines per
oent, upwards, and is participated la only by those who may
have premiums to he renewed at the period of the making of
them returns: whereas by the principle adopted by this Co..
pony, the owners of ihe dews of flak of the more ordiumg
occurrence, are they who will be more the substantially, and at
the seam time prom!), kr benefited.
The concession to be thus made to the pablle will certainly be
the means not only of increasing in their respective aineuala is-
aureate. now existing, but of multiplying to • very large extent
the sassier of Insunuice contracts In this country and its colonial
coneeetions...

Th. insurable property le this kingdom alone. including its
enormous and incresaing importations arising from the win la-
terchsage Uri &is believed to approximate to s.s.oou.oao,oou,
•hereas 41,3u0,000.000 only is insured ; thm leaving nearly
threstourtha of the Montega amount altogether unprotected
lion lens.

rtweuld be dificnit to find any dam of investments which ha.
yielded such Mtge peened, as the shares of well coadected fire
offices the Mures of the older oglece time Increased In value
Immeasily, being, in one case, at a premium of about LUG, end
In ...itor of nrady SAO priest, ow as mums originally paid up.
Ihe Incremed value ef the shares of Mikes established within
the leatctwenty years. steads at from SO to 200 pot cent.
It Is under thus circumstances, and cousidering the immense
field mounted lor eperatkoa to ma, that the ilthethoth have
With advantage of at (atoneable au opportunity to offer to the
public the benefits of the principle of business now adopted by
them, and they have every reason to believe that by
feature sod the public support width that must neceniarleryle
rite, the undertaking will speedily be productive of the best
monetary resells,

The anxutive trill he entrusted to officers of tried experience
Is the eeriness of fire insurance. end the Directors have
already =alum' srrenieteeirts foe the isineediste estebilthorent
of tit e hundred sf

The Directors desire to she the most nagnalitiedthenranee to
the psWtc that nothing or the mature of [Maims obyeetkou to
• yreatot and liberal settlement at dame for eaupanstlon will
ever be entertained or countenanced by them.
Reim of application for thane may be had ett the Other
a the °aspen", or of the Broken, lashes,. or ealanhath In
she 'vest of no allotment being made, the &pukka will be re•
tarsal fa tall