The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-25 00:00:00

THE INDEPENDENT FIRE INSURANCE
OUNPA NY Untied%

Capital, One SIIIIIonST;eLif,A ha;ll:oolliiharee of a'.2.5 each.
per share to be pad on Z, and I. per ahareoa
Cana DOi exceeding dl per ahem. at interval* cd not len than
three menthe
ctnncroas.

John D0.1:1411. Eq. (Mesars.l3;;ea and Scott% rpper Thames-
otreet, direttor of the hatlonal Provincial Marine Insurance

Company.
George Haines. Req., merchoot, he, Lomberd.otreet.
John inoledew, keq., Corabridsohomae, Lempark, Kent.
William [sight, Yoq. wtw.m £ntgLt &ad Co.). t 3,
Lorabordotreet.
Hoary Le Bard, Cogs, Pored-hilt Kent.
Gory. S. Symons. itori ,Hasera. 0. 8. Symons and Co.), 2.0 and
21, St Dnintan's hill.
John IL Tibbs. Esq. 'Weems. J. L Mb, &videos', Threadneedle-
street, Director of the 11taffordshlre kolliu ctuck Lompoc).
Janes Lualumo, kaq. l Mauro. Jams Lonhani and Co.„ nigh-
street, borough.
Jabea Kiq. ,11esors Von, Meek, and Co.:. Rllliter.rquare.
Walter Brodie Lc] 12, Delamere-Wrrale, Ity'lc.pork, late

member of the flowe oeftepresestatieesNSllleatiee-ii:-
(7ellnentlsl sasses Is listisbeeter and Livempool sill be louse-
dletel) added to tbsDlrsellos.:_

BAscimr—Teo sank. Corn-

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lioucrrons—Measra. I.lenurlt and Stark, 4, Parnlvarnlnn.
Holborn.

SciviTug—James Edment...on",-iis;i7l:.l. A., Croins-coart, OW

-a:o.d—i:eK:

Dawasha—Masara. flaruttauaa7lB.7ll, 81 Old Broad.street.
ACDiTuIt.S--Monsit. Cash land Edwards, Public Accouutarda,
11, Tokenbuuselard, EX.
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CIESIESI AND RESIDENT NI AN Malt -Mr. Roller' Steers.
PURIM • ET—Mr. George Drew Hodge*.
Oftlees—V, Nicholas-lane, lumbard.strwt, LC.

This Company has for its purposes the transaction of the
rap giant sad remunerative business of Fire Inannume, and
that only to the est:Makin of other timbales of teamed. not
unusually amociatel with it, underrthe saute direction and go.
ration oil our and the ►tine capital. The Directory are sat •ned
that the scope for the business of fire insurance presented by
this cote, try and its depeudencles, is, aa a commercial specula-
tion, deserving of paramount attention ; and the contract being
one terminable annually, the profits or lout arising. determine to
like manner. y ear by year, sad exhilitt at ewe a Company's
financial positiou, and as resources.
While the partial remissl•n of the fire insurance duty now In
the conteniplanon of government, and applicable only to the
insmance of stems -k in trade, will afford a comparatively limited
relict f.con the onerous oppression, the directors have resolved
to allow upon payment for every policy and afterwards at each
renewal, en immediate drawback, which, in many instances,
will amount to a total *attraction of the entire duty of three
shallop per mut.
To the public at large, and to the greater proportion of the
manufacturing and mercantile community. this arraugenseut
will prove a highly acceptable atlymeage. The drawback
allowed by a few of the Meer aims by way of per caddise on
premiums, at intervals of years, is of Importance only to those
who are rated at premiums ranging Wetly from one guinea per
gent upwards, and is participated in only by those who way
have premium to he renewed at the period of the making of
these Mures. whereas by ths principle adopted by thin Com-
pany, the owners of the elegises of net of the more ordinary
eoearrence, are they who will be more the substantially, and at
the same time promptly benefited.
The concession to be thus made to the public will certainly lie
the means not only of increasing In their respective amounts In-
wannera now existing, but of mtatiptyleg to a very Large Intent
the member of insurance contract* to this country and its colonial
etinuectiumi... . . .

The insurable property in this kingdom alone. Including its
enormous and 111crcyllig Importations arising from the wise In-
terchange of tariffs. u bulk red to approximate to 4.5,000.000,000.
whereas .C1.300,000:000 only Is lustared : thus lesrloc nearly
three fourths of she Insurable amount altogether unprotected
from tom.
. .

.....
It • ould be difilealt to fled any clam of invest manta which bee
yle idei each huge pronto •• the shares of well coodected are
others. The sh..ree of the older others has • increased in value
Immensely. being, in oue case, at a premium of about 1.300, and
In another of nearly 2,000 percent oa the sums originally paid up.
The iwcressed value of the sham of offices established srit
the last twenty years, steads at from Seto 010 per cent.
It la under Was circumstances, and considering the Immense
geld presented for operations to mow, that the directors have
taken antoge of so favourable an opportaility to oder to the
public the benefits of tie principle of badness now alopted by
ahem and they bars every reason to believe that by ita special
feature and the public support which that must necessarily in-
vite, the undertaking will speedily be productive of the beat
monetary reptile.
The crecuUve will be entreated to ofteers of Died experience
la the business of are Ins sad the Directors bare
already matured arrangemeate for immediate establishment
of live hundred agencies.
The Directors desire to give the most unmanned auerasoe to
the public that nothing of the 11141111 of btrolons °Wolk.= to
a prompt and liberal setikareat of dabsa for composeadsou will
ever be eaterlobeed oreouatesenoad by them.
Yonne of application for shares soy be bad at the Offices
of the Company, or of the Brokers, Bankers, or holiciton. In
the event of so allotment beleg Nude, the deposits will be ro
toned In fall.

T AMBIERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM, an
.5.4 effectual remedy. wit oat oonfining the bowels or sleet-
IM Yeti, truly oillemalow end pleaseut, I. admitted t•
lu the beet nosticiwo lee hunedlately relieving casks, wish,
sonanned eases of witty, aid Incipient consumption. it be-
gamily cures perwas erbium the faculty pronoun's ineustili.
adolrably 'flays the tickling "kick provokes frequent=
la approusking untsaniption its effects are *wily
Nessus delot sleep. atom lying down far few 'lseism-
OWL ON relief in a fen Waal= after tains M—
ead sold by W. LA %ARUM. died* a. WI.
Ilausloiseh Oaring-crow London. mad by all dnytld., Is
bottle,. laid.. sad Wee quantities La ash IL Id. he partieuler
sad sak pe lasabsres Astaassais Balms. TM was sad address
we swayed as Os damp