The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-29 00:00:00

V tibiit einu4tittents.

ROYAL COLOSSEUM CONCERT-HALL,
Paradise-street, Liverpool. Proprietor, Mr. HEATH.
This delightful Hall of Recreation open every Evening
with a continual change of Amusements.
The unprecedented success of this Colossal Establishment
is a sure guarantee of the unqualified approbation of the
public. The magnitude of the building, the splendour of the
decorations, the brilliancy of the chandeliers, the glittering
mirrors, the enormous and superb ceiling, gorgeously orna-
mented with classic paintings, have excited the admiration of
thousands who have nightly crowded the Hall.

Prodigious Attraction for the Christmas Holidays.
Marificent Dissolving Views, Phantascopes, &c.
Decided hit of Mr. HILTON, the Celebrated Ventrilo-
quist, who will open his Original, Musical, Eccentrical,
Characteristical, and Mirth-provoking Budget of Ventrilo-
quial Wonders.
First appearance "Of Mr: Y. mUNDAT, the Celebrated
Delineator of Irish Character.

Triumphant :career and unbounded applause of the
World's Wonders, the BROTHERS BILLINGE, and the
BROTHERS FELIX, who will appear in their GRAND
OLYMPIAN TOURNAMENT, nightly.
First appearance of Mr. and Mrs. MUNRO.
The above great artistes will appcarin conjunction with the
following talented Company, in a Grand Musical Melange:—
MADAME ANGELLETTA, Soprano; Mrs. CLIFTON,
Mr. CLIFTON, Mr. BARTLEMAN, Baritone; Mr.
RODERICK.

Artist, Mr. CRAWFORD ; Musical Director, Mr. F.
BOULLAND ; Leader of the Brass Band, Mr. BROWN ;
Director of the Entertainments, Mr. HEATH, Jun.

Enourante No t ireis.

UNITY FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION.
Head Offices-40, Pall Mall, London.

TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF LIVERPOOL
AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD.

THE period between Christmas Day and old,
Christmas Day being one of the most important in
the year for effecting Fire Insurances, I beg most respect-
fully to remind you of the approaching opportunity for
bringing your own policies, and inducing your friends and
neighbours to bring theirs to this office, or to some of the
Liverpool agents.
It has not only become an ambition on the part of each
member of the Unity to be a direct contributor of business to
the concern, but it is also a commercial fact, that every
policy added to the vast number already completed is a new
source of profit, augmenting your own respective dividends ;
and you will find among our acquaintances many who are
not bound to other offices, and who have
To commence Insurances hitherto neglected;
To augment Insurances hitherto insufficient ;
To renew Insurances expiring at this time ;
And some persons have ALL these things to do.
It will be well to remind all your friends that " he who
insures his property has compensation in case of loss ; he
who does not insure has self-reproach instead."
And let it ever be borne in mind, that in asking your
friends to insure with this gigantic Association, you are
suggesting a positive benefit to themselves, seeing that two-
thirds of all the profits of the concern are to be returned
to thelpolicy-holders every five years, not as a capricious or
patronising bonus, but as a debt specially due to them, pro-
portionate is their outlay in insurance.
SHARES IN THE ASSOCIATION.

The whole of the 500,000 original shares, of £2 each,
have been taken up by nearly 5,000 subscribers, and are now
to be divided into 1,000,000 shares of .£l, as directed by the
Registrar-General, in order to be uniform with the new
shares. The deposits on the former are all paid up, and the
.h.roa are at a high premium.
The new shares, 1,000,000 in number, at 2s. 6d. deposit
and 2s. 6 premium, are just beginning to be issued ; and,
as the premium itself is paid into the funds of the whole
association, the old and new members are thereby alike
benefited.
This is a trifling entrance-fee to pay for admittance to a
large concern now solidly establishe 1; and already, although
the new issue was only authorised, by law, so recently as the
28th November, no fewer than 70,000 to 80,000 shares have
been applied for on this basis !
Your friends may, therefore, not only secure for themselves
two-thirds of the profits by insuring with us, but may also
receive the other one-third of the profits by becoming share-
holders, in addition to 5 per cent. per annum interest on their
deposits.
I repeat, that a single half-crown per share, for such ad-
vantages, is indeed a smallentrance-fee, especially as it is paid
into the very funds of which every purchaser of shares be-
conies a co-proprietor.