The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-23 00:00:00

pHEASANT REARING for 1864
CHAMBERLIN'S AROMATIC SPANISH MEAL,
ARKER RICE, PELLET, D. S. MEAT GREAVES, pr -
pared with CAYCAR EXCELSIOR, is the most efficacious
food for rearing and feeding Game, preventing gapes, snarls,
and death.
BOOKS on Feeding and the proper Man age me n t of Game,
from hatching to m.turity, with over 200 testimon, els from
the nobility and gamekeepers, with prices, posted free on e-
ceipt of two stamps, by Mr. James Chamberlin, Spanish Wine
Merchant, opposite the Exchange, Norwich.
CFIAMBER i IN'S CANADIAN POULTRY MEAL for
all the year round, 16s. per cwt., including bag. The use of
this food keeps the chickens in perfect health; and the in-
crease of eggs, of the richest coloustarsd flavour, is marvellcus.
Dog Greaves, Its. per cwt. Pleaste price when ordering.
N.B.—Advices received daily of the efficacy of the Spanish
Meal and Cayoars. One gentleman writes, " All my young
pheasants last season were sickly, and several died ; those
that were strong enough to eat your Spanish Meal recovered
in two days, and became fine and beautiful birds."

OHO ESTATE, HOUSE, AND GENERAL
SBUSINESS AGENCY OFFICES.—Persons requiring
Freehold or Leasehold Property, or having Business and
Houses to be dispose' of, should apply to Mr. CHARLES
MURRAY, Auctioneer and Valuer, 2i, Gerrard-street,
Soho, W.
Valuations for Probate Administration, Fire Claims, Rail-
way Compensations, &o. Rents Collected.

HE ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CREDIT
T COMPANY (Limited).
Incorporated under the "Companies' Act, 1862," by which
the liability of the shareholders is limited to the amount
of their shares.
Capital £2,00,000, in 40,000 shares of £5O each.
First issue,ooo shares. Deposit Li er share on applica-
tion, and £4 on allotment, of which 10,0 W shares hrve been
already subscribed fur.
Subsequent calls not to exceed £2and at intervals of
not less than three months.
It is not intended to call up more than £ll per share but
as the operations of the Company require additional capi-
tal, further issues of shares will be made,
.a preference
being given to the then existing shareholders
DIRECTORS.
John Barrow, Esq., Normanton Hall, Director Amsterdam
Water Works Company.
Joseph Bray, Esq., Pyrgo Park, Romford.
Ferdinand Ja ques, Esq., Banker, Berl n.
Charles E. Mangles, Esq., Chairman West India Royal Mail
Company.
George Palmer Robinson, Esq., Director Alliance Bank.
George Sheward, Esq., Leinster-square, Bayswater,
Thomas Stenhouse, Esq., Chairman Discount Corporation.
George Barnard Townsend, Esq., Director South Eastern of
Portugal Railway Company.
BANKERS.
The Alliance Bank, Lothbury, London Manwnbuildings,
Liverpool ; and Ring-btreet, chester.
SOLICITORS.
Messr.. Desbornugh, Young, and Desborou,gh, 9, Sise-lane.
Messrs. Swift and Co., 32, Great George-street, Westminster.

BROKERS.
Messrs. Dezoete and Gorton, 2, Austin-friars.
SECRETARY (PRO TEM
Mr. Chester Earles.

TEMPORARY OM CES•
2, Copthall-chsmbers, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street.

ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS.
The Directors having received the support of eminent
foreign capitalists and banking establishments, and the c'-
operation of many of the leading firms in thi, country con-
an-
nected with public works, are aireidy in a position to
nounce that they have secured a business which will of Itself
yield a large return on the capital.
The general objects of the company arc the same as those
of other compan es of a kindred nature which have been
lately established in this country, and which, by the judicious
employment of capital, hwe been enabled to secure for the
shareholders such large dividends.
Prospectuses may be obtained at the temporary offices of the
company, or of the brokers.
_ _ _

THE ENGLISH and FOREIGN CREDIT
COMPANY (Limited).
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the LIST of AP-•
PLICATIONS for SHARES in this Company will be
CLOSED, for London, on WEDNESDAY, the 27th inst.,
at Four o'clock, and on THURSDAY, the 28th bast, for the
Country.

By order,
CHESTER si A ELES, Sec. pro tem.
2, Copthall-chambers, Antel-court, Throgmorton-
street, 22d April, Mt.

THE INDEPENDENT FIRE INSURANCE
1, COMPANY (Limited). Capital One Million Stirling,
in 40,000 Shares of £25 each. £1 per Share to be paid on
application. and £1 10s. per Share on allotment. Calls not
exceeding £1 per Share. at intervals of not less than Three
Months.

DIRECTORS.
John Downes, Esq. (Messrs. Downes and Scott), Upper
Tharnes.stre3t, Director of the National Provincial
Marino Insurance Company.
George Haines, Esq., Merchant, 36, Lombard. street.
John Ingledew, Esq., Cambridge House, Lee Park, Kent.
William Knight, Etq, (Messrs. William Knight and Co.),

83, Lombard-street.
Henry Ledgard, Esq., Forest-hill, Tient.
George S. Symons, Eeq.
(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.),
231, High-street, Borough.
Jabez Voss, Esq. (Messrs. Voss, Meek, and Co.), Billiter•
square.
Walter Brodie, Esq., 1H
Delamere •terrace, 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.
SURVEYOR—James Edmeston, Esq.: Crown-
court, Old Broad-street.
BROKERS—Messrs. Scnitton and Son, 81, Old Broad-street.
AUDITORS—Messrs. Cash and Edwards, Public
Accountants, 13, Tokenhouse-yard, E.C.
GENERAL AND RESIDENT MANAGER—Mr. Robert Steers.
SECRETARY--Mr. George Drew Hodges.
°Prices-29, Nicholas-lane, Lombard •street, E.G.
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 capital. The
Directors are satisfied that the scope for the business of fire
insurance presented by this country and its
of dependenciesount
,
is, as a commercial speculation, deserving param
attention ; and, the contract being one terminable annually,
the profits or loss arising determine in like manne
al r, yearition by
year, and exhibit at once a company's financi pos
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
for a
everycom-
paratively limited relief from the onerous oppress ion, the
Directors have resolved to allow upon payment
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 n
pr `portion of the
manufacturing and mercantile community, agement will prove a highly acceptable advantage. The draw-
back allowed by a few of the older offices by way of per
centage on premiums, 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 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
L5,000,0(10,000, 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
tends at from 80 to 200 per cent.
s 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 favourable an opportunity
to 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 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 a prompt and liberal settlement of claims for
compensation will ever be entertained or countenanced by
them.
Forme of 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.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION.
DR. ROBERTS' POOR MAN'S FRIEND
is confidently recommended to the Public as an unfail-
ing remedy for wounds of every description, burns, scalds,
chilblains, scorbutic eruptions, sore and inflamed eyes. cte.
Sold in pots. ls. lid., 2s. Pd., I is., and 225. each. Also his
PILULE ANTISCROPHUL/E, confirmed by sixty years'
experience to be one of the best alterative medicines ever
offered to the public. They form a mild and superior Family
Aperient, that may be taken at all times v. ithout confine-
ment or change of diet. Sold in boxes, le. lid., 2s. 9d., 48. dd.,
us., and 225. each.
Sold wholesale by the proprietors, Beach and Barnicott,
Bridport, the London houses. and retail by all respectable
MeCliCirke vendors in the United Jiingdom and Colonies.