The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-19 00:00:00

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DIRECTORS.
John Downes, Esq. (Messrs. Downes and Scott), Upper
Thames-street, Director of the National Provincial
Marine Insurance Company.
George Haines, Esq., Merchant, 36, Lombard. street.
John Ingledew, Eeq , Cambridge House, Lee Park, Kent.
William Knight, E. q. (Messrs. William Knight and co.),
83' Lombard-atreet.
Henry Ledgard, Esq , Forest-hill, Kent.
George S. Symons, Esq.
.(Messrs, G. S. Symons and Co.),
20 and 21, St. Lunstan s-hill.
John E. Tibbs, Esq. (Messrs. J, E. Tibbs and Son),
Threadneedle-street, Director of the Staffordshire Roll-
ing Stock Company.
James Lunham, Esq. (Messrs. James Lunham and Co.),
231, High-street, Borough.
Jabez Voss, Esq. (Messrs. Voss, Meek, and Co.), Billiter-
square.
Walter Brodie, Esq., 13. Delamereoterrace, Hyde-park,
late Member of the House of Representatives, New
Zealand.
(Influential names in Manchester and Liverpool will be
immediately added to the Direction.)
BANKERS—The Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, 79,
Cornhill, E.C.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Bennett and Stark, 4, Furnival's
Inn, Holborn.
BROKERS—Messrs. Scruttom and Son, 81, Old Broad-street.
AUDITORS—Messrs. Cash and Edwards, Public
Accountants, 13, Tokenhouse-yard, E.C.
GENERAL AND RESIDENT MAVAGEB--
Mr. Robert Steers.
SECRETARY—Mr. George Drew Hodges.
TEMPORARY OFFICES-48, Lombard .street.
This Company has for its purpose the transaction of the
important and remunerative business of Fire Insurance,
and that only, to the exclusion of other branches of busi-
ness not unusually associated with it, under the same direc-
tion, and operating on one and the same eapital. The
Directors are satisfied that the scope for the bust Jess of fire
insurance presented by this country and its depentlencies,
is, as a commercial speculation, deserving of paramount
attention ; and, the contract being one terminable annually,
the profits or loss arising determine in like manner, year by
year, and exhibit at once a company's financial position:
and its resources.
While the partial remission of the fire insurance duty
now in the contemplation of Government, and applicable
only to the insurance of stock-in-trade, will afford a com-
paratively limited relief from the onereus oppression, the
Directors have resolved to allow upon payment for every
policy, and afterwards at each renewal, an immediate draw-
back, which, in many instances, will amount to a total ex •
tinction 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 arrange-
ment will prove a highly acceptable advantage. The draw-
back allowed by a few of the older offices by way of per
tentage on premiums, at intervals of years, is of im-
portance only to those who are rated at premiums ranging
chhtly from one guinea per cent, upwards, and is partici-
pated in only by those who may have premiums to be re-
newed at the period of the making of these returns ; whereas
by the principle adopted by this Company, the owners of
the classes of risk of the more ordinary occurrence, are
they who will be the more substantially and at the same
time promptly benefited.
The concession to be thus made to the public will cer-
tainly be the means not only of increasing in their respec-
tive amounts insurances now existing, but of multiplying
to a very large extent the number of insurance contracts in
this country and its colonial connections.
The insurable property in this kingdom alone, including
its enormous and increasing importations arising from the
wise interchange of tariffs, is believed to approximate to
£5,000,060,000, whereas £1,300,000,000 only is insured ;
thus leaving nearly three-fourths of the insurable amount
altogether unprotected from loss.
It would be difficult to find any class of investments which
has yielded such large profits as the shares of well-con-
ducted fire offices. The shares of the older offices have in-
creased in value immensely, being, in one case, at a pre-
mium of about 1,300, and in another of nearly 2,000 per
cent. on the sums originally paid up. The increased value
of the shares of offices established within the last 20 years
stands at from 80 to 200 per cent.
It is under these circumstances, and considering the im-
mense field presented for operations to come, that the direc-
tors have taken advantage of so favourkble an opportunity
to offer to the public the benefits of the principle or business
now adopted by them ; and they have every reason to
believe that by its special feature and the public support
which that must necessarily invite the undertaking will
speedily be productive of the best monetary results.
The executive will be entrusted to officers of tried experi-
ence in the business of fire insurance, and the directors have
already matured arrangements for the immediate establish-
ment of five hundred agencies.
The directors desire to give the most unqualified assur-
ance to the public that nothing of the nature of frivolous
objections to prompt and liberal settlement of claims for
compensation will ever be entertained or countenanced by
them.

Forms cf application for shares may be had at the offices
of the Company, or of the Brokers, Bankers, or Solicitors.
In the event of no allotment being made, the deposit will
be returned in full.

FORA OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the Independent Fire Insurance
Company, Limited.

Gentlemen,—Having paid to your the sum of
, being a deposit of £; r er share on shares in
the above Company, I hereby request that you will allot me
that number; and I agree (aecoraing to the form prescribed
by the Articles of AssoMation) to accept such shares, or any
lees number you may allot me, to pay £1 lus. p r share on
allotment, and to execute the Articles of Association when
required ; an i I request that my name may be placed on the
Register of Shareholder for the shares eo allotted.
Name in full
Residence
Profession or business
Date

MR. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr.
JOHN PARRY, TO-NIGHT, at Eight, in THE
Y nAIM I t). To conclude, last taw times, with Mr. JOHN
PARRY'S DESCRIPTION of MKS. RO3ELEAF'S
LITTLE EVENING PARTY. ROYAL GALLERY of
ILLIITTRATION, 14, Regent-street. Every Evening.
(except Saturday), at Eight. Thursday and Saturday After-
noons at Three.

JESSY LEA.—Every Tuesday Morning, at Three, and
every Saturday Evening, at Eight. Stalls can new be
secured.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA,
Covent-garden.
From this time until the end of the season there will be four
nights in each week, viz., every Monday, Tuesday, Thurs-
day, and Satarday.
Signor Wachtel—Signor Graziani—Herr Schmid.
THIS EVENING (TUESDAY), 19th of April, w,ll be
performed, for the second time this season, Rossini's grand
opera, GUGLIELMO TELL. Mal tide, Mdlle. Marie Battu ;'
Guglielmo Tell, Signor Graziani, his 2d appearance in that
character; Jemmy, Madame Ruderadorif; Mel th ‘l, Signor
Polonini ; Walter. Herr Schmid; Ge sler, Signor Tag,lialico ;
Un Pescatore, Signor Neri- araldi ; and Arnoldo, Signor
Wachtel, his 2d appearance in that character in England.

Conductor, Mr. Costa.
La Tyroltenne w.ll be danced by Mdlle. Salvioul, Mdlle.
Carmine, and Mdlle. Navarre.
Commence at half past Eight.
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Pit tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre eta Is, 10s. 6d., 75., and 55. ;
amphitheatre. 2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had
at the box-office under the portico of the tnea,re, which is
open from ten to five, and a; the principal musicsellers' and
librarians'.

THEATRE ROYAL DR U R Y-L AN E.
Managers, Messrs, Edmond Falconer and

F. B. Chatterton.
THIS EVENENG, AN APRIL FOOL. Mr. G. Belmore.
Atter which, will be produced the Grand Stage
Revival of Shakspere's Chnnicle or Historical Play, entitled
the First Part of

HENRY THE FOURTH.
The cast will include impersonations by those emintAt
trtists, Mr. PHELPS, Mr. Walter Montgomery, Mr. Walter
Lacy, Mr. A ddisor,, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Itobert Roxby, Mr.
Barrett, Mr. E Phelps, Mr. Rayner, Mr. H. Vandenhoff, Mr.
Belmore, Mr. Ellerton, Mr. Fitzjames, Mr. Neville ; Miss
Edith Wynne, M ss Rcse Leclercq, And Mrs. Edmund Fal-
coner, supported by all the Members of the Drury-lane Com-
pany. •

COncludlng with MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS,

711HEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.—
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, April 19, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN':
Messrs. Sothem, Bnckstone, Chippendale, Rogers, Clark,
Gordon, Braid, &c. ; Mesdames Angel, Lindley, Rill, Barth,
Snowden, &c.
Alter which, the new Easter piece, entitled VENUS AND
ADONIS. Messrs. Compton, Win. Farrel], Coe, &c. ; Mes-
dames Louise Keeley, Snowden, Nelly Power, Hill, Wright,
Rogers, &c.
To conclude with TURNING THE TABLES.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Sole Leaee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining.
THIS EVENING, DONNA DIANA.
After which, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. The Two
Dromios, by the Brothers Webb.
...To conclude with, 22d time, a new Farce, by J. M. Morton,
414, entitled DRAWING-ROOM. SECOND FLOOR. AND
Aft P,

RoyAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Sole Management of Mr. Pechter.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence
with 'nix DAY AFTER THE FAIR: Messrs. Width-
combe, Garden, Moreland, and Miss E. Lavenu.
A Ater
DEMONi which, at Eight o'clock, the 135th Night of BEL
o
, a Love Chronicle Twelve Tableaux, taken from
Stndhara
"Italianl ." Principal characters by
Messrs.e Jordan, Charles J. Brougham, Emery, Morton,
Raymond, morwead, Smith,
Clifford, Oollett, Sims ; Miss Kate Terry, Miss E. Lavenu, Mrs. Lee, Miss Elsworthy.
The Public are entreated to take notice that No Charge is
;made to the occupants of Boxes, Box-places, or Stalls, either
foz play bills or for the Bate keeping of hats and cloaks, ar d
taat the attendants in all
receive any gratuities whatever.
Parts of the house are forbidden to
Box-office open daily from 11 to 5. Commence at 7.

mg. FECHTER b'gs in annonnes that the
whole profits of the First Night's Representa ion of
Hamlet will be divided between the SHAK-
SPEARE COMMIT TEE and the DRAMATIC COLLEGE
SCHOOLS FUND. Mr. FECHTER'S indisp lotion pre-
venting the prOduetiOe of Hamlet on the Evenin-4 of he 23d,
the LYCEUM THEATRE will be closed that night.

,NTEW THE ATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHI.-
Bola Proprietor and Msnacrer, mt.. .. T., _...
ebster
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Mr. J.
THIS EVENING, ICI ON FABLE pRANCAIS
L. Toole, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. BilWigton, and Bliss K.Tielly.
At 8, LEAH: Miss Bateman, gmPlY)rted by 3le3srs. A.
Stirling, R. Phillips, Billington, Stuart, Eburae, —. F.t.ePhenson
Miss . Simms and Mrs. Billington.
To emaelude with Tilt: AREA BELLE : Messrs. J. L. Toole,
P. Bedford, tt. Romer, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. H. Lewis.