The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-20 00:00:00

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, Esq , Cambridge House, Lee Park, Kent.
William Knight, Esq. (Messrs. William Knight and Co.),

83, Lombard-street.
Henry Ledgard, Esq., Forest-hill, Kent.
George S. Symons, Esq. (Messrs, G. S. Symons and Co.),
20 and 21, St. Dunstan'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.),

211, High-street, Borough.
Jabez Voss, Effi. (Messrs, Vess, Meek, and Co ), Billiter •
square.
Walter Brodie, E!,q., 13. Delamere •terrace, Hyde-park,
late Member of the House of Representatives, New

Zealand.
.nfinential names in Manchester and Liverpool will be

immediately added to the Direction.)

BANKERS—The Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, 79,
Cornhill, E.C.
SOLICITORS—Mossrs. Bennett and Stark, 4, Furnival's
Inn, Holborn.
Biloxi..Ens—Messrs. Scrut ton and Son. 81, 0!d Broad-street,
AuDiTolis —Messrs. Cash and Edwards, Public
Accountants, 13, Tokenhouse-yard, B.C.
GENERAL AND RESIDENT MANAGER—Mr. Robert Steers,

SECRETARY—Mr. George Drew Hodges.
°Prices-29, Nicholas-lane, Lombard -street, E.C.
This Company has for its purpose the transaction of the
important and renuncrative business of Fire Insur inc?,
and that only, to the exclusion of other branches of busi-
ness not =snag! associated with it, under the same direc-
tion, and operating on one and the same capital. The
Directors are satisfied that the scope for the business of fire
insurance presented by this country and its dependencies,
is, as a commercial speculation, deserving of paramount
attention ; and, tht 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 'Jarful 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 onerous oppression, the
Directors have resilved to allow upon payment for every
policy, and afterwirds at each renewal, an immediate thaw •
bsck, which, in many instances, will amount to a total ex •
tinction of the entre duty of three shillings per cent.
To the public at large, and to the greater proportion of the
manufacturing ani mercantile community, this arrange-
ment will prove a highly acceptable advantage. The draw-
back allowed by afew of the, older offices by way of per
centage on preiniums, at intervals of years, is of im-
portance only to those who are rated at premiums ranging
chiefly from one guinea per cent. upwards, and is partici-
pated in only by :hose who may have premiums to be re-
newed at the pericd 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.
Tine concessiot 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 tariff's, its believed to approximate to
£5,000,000,000, vhereas
£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-
ductedimmensely, fire offices. The shares of the older offices have in-
creased in value being, in one, case, at a pre-
miumof about 1,300, and iu 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 advantageto offer to the public the benefits of the principle of 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
of so favourable an opportunity
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 moat unqualified assur-
bilegral settlement of claims for
of the nature of frivolous
compensationa n
objectionsce to th et
oawp publicirlo'l n
itehypaett.r. a nbneodt
entertainedhl or countenanced byi
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.

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

Gent'emen,—llaving paid to your • the sum of
, being a deposit of Xt per share on shares in
the above Company, I hereby request that you will allot me
that number; and I agree (according to the form prescribed
by the Articles of Association) to accept such shares, or any
less number you may allot me, to pay £1 ICs. p r share on
allotment, and to execute the Articles of Association when
required ; an t I request that my name may be placed on the
Register of Shareholder for the shares BO allotted.
Name in full
Eesiden:e.
Profeftion or business
Date

Post• office orders and bankers' cheques (crossed to the Com-
pany's bankers, to be made payable to the Secretary of the
Company.
• " Secretary," or " Ba' ker," as the case may be.

OHO ESTATE, HOUSE, AND GENERAL
BUSINESS AGENCY OFFICES.—Persons requiring-
Freehold or L-asehold Property, or havintr Business and
Houses to be dispose I ot, should apply to Cllr. CHARLES
MURRAY, Auctioneer and Valuer, 20, Gerrard-street,
Soho, W.
Valuations for Probate Administration, Fire Claims, Rail-
way Compensations, &c. Rents Collected.

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Nos. 1 to 5, according to the degree of, sulphur they contain.
sold at the depot, 2, Rupert-street, Coventry-street, Lond.9ll,
W., and at all chemists, rroopectuses and testimonials sent
on application.