The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-06 00:00:00

PROSPECTUS.

This Company Is formed with the special object of uniting into
one strong institution. with its chief office In L Altlon, numerous
small I.sal and colonial institutions, requiring consolidation
and additional strength and resource.

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The prtheiple of so tinning small colonial Institutions has been
mast successfully applied to colonial and foreign banking com-
panies : and as London is becoming daily more and more the
great " clearingMnnse" of the commercial world. the different
colonial Insurance offices have experienced the absolute neces-
sity of being effectually represented there. and this representa-
tion they now realise can only be fully secured. so In the case of
the colonial local banks• through amalgamatloe wish some London
company of ample means and commanding general confidence.
The Directors of the Home and Colonial Company have been
applied to by shareholders In these companies to establish such
Loickm Institution, and are now In treaty with several very sac•
candid colonial luminance otn^es, either for entireamalgamation.

on very (*.numb e terms, or for that beneficial rceiproclty of
aeency which will at once secure to the Home and Colonial As
enrance Company a most callable, safe. and incentive business
as a cmoperatire assurance cotnpany.
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It may be mentioned, as indicative of the success of the Colo-
vial insurance companies. that their wiling prices range from
10 to as high as 1,000 per cent. premium. and the increase of
Insurance business in the Australian, south African. Canadian,
and Fastens neltlements, Is at a rate of progress which has no
parallel in European countries.
The principle of amusing investments made through the
Company's agency—a principle so successfully carried out by
colonial offices—will enter as a new feature into the objects of
the Home and Colonial Assurance Company ; and an in Its
numerous agencies In all parts It will possess peculiar facili-
ties for making smeared Investments for Individuals in sound
foreign and colonial securities. the Directors cooftdently antici-
pate, from the agency sad insurance charged in this department
of their business, a very tar.e and steady revenue so their share-
holders. _ _

however, the Home and Colonial Assurance Company
will specially direct its attention to foreign and colonial baldness,
it will not neglect at the same time to cultivate a home business,
a department which will be greatly fostered through its colonial
connexion. It will also. as a Mire Assurance Company. share in
that large Increase of Are Insurance hairiness here which may be
expected to follow the anticipated abolition of the heavy and
Impolitic stamp tax at present imposed on policies of Insurance.
No promotion money given In connexion with this Company,
and the Directors' remuneration to he left to the Shareholders.
Applications for shares to be made In the following form,
copies of which and of the prospectus to be had of the solicitors
or broken, or Aetlog-eeeretary of the Company.

TORY Or APPLICATION WM SHAUL
(To he retained by the Bankers.)

To the Macßae of the Home and Colonial thavance Company
(Limited,.
Gentlemen,—Haring pall to your booth's the sum of
being a deposit of Li per share on shares In the above
Company, I hereby request that yon will Ant me that number.
and I scree to become a memher of the Company in respect of
such shares, or in respect of any ler number you may allot me
and to pay on allotment the further deposit of Lt per share
thereon, and I requ•st that my name may be placed on the
mister of members for the shares so allotted,
Name in full
Residence
Profession or business
Date