The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-05 00:00:00

!Rq4PIICTUS.

This Company is formed with the special object of uniting late
one strong institution, with Re thief office in London, numerous
small local and colonial institutions, requiring consolidation
end additional strength and resonate.
The principle of so uniting small colosial Institutions has been
most successfully applied to colonial and foreign banking com-
panies and as London Is becoming daily more end more the
great " dewing. house" of the commercial world, the different
colonial insurance offices have expetienoed the absolute seem-
city of being effectually represented there, and this represeeta-
lion the/ now realise can only be fully secured, se in the cam of
the colonial local banks, [hi, ugh amalgamation wish some Landes
company of ample mesas and commanding general confidence.
The Director. of the Home and Colonial Company bevy been
applied to by shareholders is these companies to establish such
London institution, and are now in treaty with several very suc-
cessful colonial insurance offices, either for satire ainalgamation,
on very I 'wearable terms, or for that beneficial reciprocity
agency which will at once secure to the Home and Colonial As-
, surface Company a most valuable, safe, and lucrative Dustmen
so a cooperative assurance company.
It may be mentioned, as indicative of the success of the Colo-
' Mal insurance companies, that their selling prices range from
• 100 to ea high as 1,000 per cent. premium, and the increase of
insurance business in the Australian, South African, Canadian,
and Eastern Settlements, is at a rate of progress which has no
parallel In European countries.
The principle of assuring investments made through the •
Company's agency—a principle so successfully carried out by
colonial oeime—will enter as a new teatime into the objects of
the Home and Coloalal Assurance Company ; and u In Its
numerotui agencies in all parte it will possess peculiar facili-
ties for making assured investments for individuals in sound
foreign and colonial securities, the Directors confidently antici-
pate, from the agency and insurance charged in this department
of their business, • very tar,. and steady revenue to their share-
holders.

however, the Home and Colonial Asenrenee Company
vriU specially direct its attention to foreign and colonial busload,
It will not neglect at the same time to cultivate a home business,
a department which will be greatly fostered throegh its colonial
connexion. It will also. as a fire Aseurance Company. share in
that lame Increase of fire insurance business here which may be
expected to follow the anticipated abolition of the heavy and
Impolitic stamp tax at present imposed on polkies of instarsoos.
No promotion money given In connexion with this Company,
and the Directors' remuneration to be left to the Shareholders.
Appileatioas for shares to be made In the following form,
copies of which and of the prospectus to be had of the solicitors
or brokers, or Acting Secretary of the Company.

PORN or APPLICATION FOR SHAUL
,To be retained by the Bankers.)
Nn
To the Directors of the Room and Colonial darorance Company
(Limited).
Gentlemen,—Raelng paid to your bankers the sum of
Comp a deposit of £1 per share on shares In the above
Company, I hereby nutmeg that you will allot me that number.
and I agree to become a member of the Company In respect of
such shares, or in respect of any leas number you may allot me
and to pay on allotment the further deposit of to per share
thereon, and I rego•st that my name m►y be planed on the
register of members for the shares so allotted.
Name in fall
Residence
Profession or business
Date

HOME and COLONIAL ASSURANCE
COMPANY Lhalted).
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. that NO MUTER APPLI-
CATIONS for Shares In this Company ntll be RECEIVED from
I,ndon AFTER TO MORROW the 6th, and from the 000,07
AFTER THURSDAY. the 7th Apprr order.
Temporary Mem. I. lima Inventie, imaacia.
April 5,1.64.

CIIRTAINS.-HOWARD and SONS'
CATALAN' WINDOW CURTAINS, to every nerdy, are
well worthy the &Omaha of the poblle.-113 and V, Bemire-
treet, Oxford-street.

DR. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LITER PILLS,
• arm falling remedy, prepared without guy inerearial
Ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, will be found Invaluable
to all who suffer from bilious and liver oomplaista. Indige4foq
wind. spasms, &diners, dizziness of the eyee, &c. Ter habitual
anstiveseem, as a tangly aperieat medlar*, mid as a purifier of
the blood, they are truly excelent In their operatic.* and
grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, premote digestion.
and strengthen the whole nervous system —Sold by W.l•mbert.
chemist, Si, King WililarauL, Charing London, and by most
druftista.l • Doze+. Is. led. and h. W. sure to ask for Dr.
Scott's IMO= awl Liver Pills. The weenies am la • sneers grass
package elf "William Lambart- ..graved on the stamp.

JOZEAUS OOPAHINE MIME, sucoessfully
tried le the Parts and London Hospitals, seder the ears of
Mears Wieder, Mooed. Lloyd. Poland. sad tams Clark
(•• Lama" Soy 0, INV. sleet* s ears to ea IMMO a do dare
either fa recent or chronic dieresa—ea. Id. pot bottle, l=
fin M. at C. JOZHAra, French chemist, 49, Hama**. i
sad 125, Houlevart, Magenta. Park.

FLOWER SEEDS, free per peet—WK WOOD
mad 301r2 syftwad COLLWTIONS, as under :—Hardy
animals. 100 varieties, 101.. 30 ditto, 10s.: 25 ditto, 65.. 12
ditto, its. ad. Half-hardy anneals, 100 varieties. tau 50 ditto,
125. (id ts ditto, 7a . 15 ditto, is Bd. Garman }lower weds
as Imported, In original sealed packets, on lowest terisa Cata-
logues ea appliestion.—Woodlauds nursery and seed warehouse,
Ocklisid. Bran

Ec-PtNOMT in the GARDEN.—Beede carriage
id.—WIL WOOO and KM; complete collection ot
it p.
SUDS, for one year's rapplon
~ c::: galena Hall
the above quantity tor Indtmgolnen and all parti-
culars may be had on vpllattion.—W mad mar/show,
llarenfteld, near 1:clald. Sturm

FLOWER SEEDS, Free per Poet.
BUTLER and MeCULLOCIFB unsivalled areortments.
100 varieties or the meet dialect and beautiful hardy annuals,
for 20a 60 laa for 10a IS varieties. for Is. ed. COVEN r-
GARDEN MARX . LONDON, W.C. Nat-cake orders pay-
able at Ringetreet, Osvenagarden.

BICKERS and SON'S NEW PREMISES,
56, Leteeetevoqnsre, ARE NOW OPEN for the RALE of
PLAIN And FANCY STATIONERY. The fined quality wis-
'sateen . sad all tie novelties of the season.

BIBLES PRAYER-BOOKS,
and clinger( entilCllB, la all styles and sizes a
variety of Photograptde Albums, new and elegantly bound. trots
2a ed. to L2O. 2101123 and SON.

AVELL I N G-B A 8, WRITING-CASES,
inkeands, sad all requisites for the idbrary : Nancy
Leather and Oft goods of every description. and • large selemaan
of Wedding and .bday Presents, Testimonial; de., dc.
SICILIA and 80N.
MESSRS. BICKERS and SON beg to intimate
that the system of small mita and cash prtoes, which
lea given Inch general satisfaction at their bookselilng rota-
MUM:omit during • long period of years, will be adhered to In
this additional het nch of their business. The goods
have hems carefully selected from the stocks of the best =lei;d
s,
and are maticad in plain ilgures at the lowest poosiblo price@ for
cash only. U. LIIIC/3T111,-80,/VAZUL

YAM k CO.'S GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING,
se and 67, OXFORD STREET, W.
TM fashion end gement excellence displayed In this attire Is
universally aeknowleged.
Overcoats and Capes lea 6d. to 425. Od.
Mendes and lounging Jackets 2la. Od. to 421. Od.
Business and Morning Salts . Od , Sea Od. and aSe. ed.
Trousers, 600 patterns to select from
Veda of the same materials

HY.411 and GO.'B ATTIRE to ORDER.
I. and R. OXFORD.RTIALT, W.
The most able ..d experienced cutters sad workmen an em-
ployed. Truceding Trousers, 16a ed. Ved. to match, Pa. &I.
Attire for clerical, academical. medical, and other probesi.,nosi
gestlemea. Ladies' Habits, three to six guinea" A separate
department for linen Page's suits, ipa ; footman's, It.,
eassehaosan, IS.

HYAM and CO.'S SIIITS for BOYS, 66 and
Q, OXFORLSSTREET, W.,
an mach bdulrbd by Parents and Guardians for quality, fashion,
and soencway. Knickerbocker, Westminster, Osborne, and
Windsor suit., 16a 61 to 86a . Eton, Harrow, and Rugby mita,
264., 1105., 864. and Ks. A trying-on room handsomely Sued up
in cosuisrlon with this department

NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greaterot and
most useful invention of the day, *OVA A MAIIELL.t.—
Mears JOHN OCON ELL and Co., Three Ting-court, Lombard.
street, London. perfumers to her Majesty, respectfolly Wier to the
public this truly marvellous fluid, width gradually restores the
human hale to Its pristine hue—no matter at whatsge. The Ague
Amanita has none of the propertom of dim . It, on the contrary.
la beneficial to the system, and when the hair to once restored
one application per month will keep It In perfect colour. Price
f I Is. per bottle, or In halt bottles, 10a 64 John Ooenell & Co.
have been appointed perfumers to H.R. H. the Princess of Wales.

WHEN ARE SPECTACLES REQUIRED?
This query b worthy consideration by every one notions
to retain the inestimable Weesieg—eight for en comet know-
ledge le to the proper time for 'Wog Spectacles MS depend the
eertainty of preemie clear Milne to the end of life. When ita
defielmicy la determined a nicety of diamimlnaUem most be used
In adeptleg Immo of the maid power that will supply the toes, no
Irreparable ',awry will result. Optical quacks, like seediest quarks,
do inestenlable mischief by their Menrant pretension, as le
czeg by the Maims of country hawkers sod unabated vendors
ty, thee, it were wiser to ask adviee rather from some
*Oaths of repute, and avail risk to one's sight. The old firm
of Moen. Bards sad Son (established 1:60,, opposite She British
liessam.gate, London, having specially attended to the math-
gesture of speetseles, are competcnt to edam no all that per-
tains te Me remedying defective vision by the eseewate adaptation
the lenses, matbeintheidly tree, of the requisite power, nod
also by the Judicious selmtion of a spectaele trace. (which b like
wise teeportaall of the form most becoming the thee.

Top lIPTURES—The PATENT SELF-
ADIrSTING GERMAN TIMM adios effectually with-
out any complications, Is recommended by the faculty for the
entre mid relief of hernia. The necessary quality of a good truss
Is a• efficient resisting power, without unnecemary pressure on
the part affected, which desirable object is alone obtained in •
truss ansairainhered with dram egdr•l springs. ag pad betdod.—
l. •fad Co., I, Piccadilly. W.

ROWLANDS' MACASSA R OIL.
This elegant, fragrant, and pellucid AI Is universally In
high repute for Its unprecedented seemu during the last sixty
years le promoting the growth, restoring and beautifying the
human hair. It prevents hair from falling off or turning grey,
strengthens weak hair, cleanses It from scurf and dandriff, and
max,s tx.ogoiirolly eon, puede, and glossy. la the growth of
the whiskers, beard, sod mustachio. it is unfailing In Its stimu-
lative operation. ler children It Is especially reconsmendal. as
teeming the keels of a beautiful head of lvdr, while its Introduc-
tam tato the nursery of royalty, and the high esteem la which'
Is universally held, with numerous testimonials constantly re-
ceived of It. efficacy, afford the hest and surest proofs of Its
media—Price Ss. fa, 75., :04. 6d., equal to four small. and :Is.
per trottle.—Bled at 110, Usttesagarden, and by chemists end
perfumers—Ask for Lowlands' Mamma OtL