The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-21 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, E.!q. (Messrs. William Knight and Co.),

83, Lombard-street.
Lnigard, 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.),
2 High-street, Borough.
Jabez Voss, Esq. (Messrs. Voss, Meek, and Co.),

square. -
Walter Brodie, Esq., 13. Delamere•terrace, Hyde-park,
late Member of the House of Representatives, New
Zealand.
(intlaential names in Manchester and Liverpool will be
13 A 1,— immediately added to the Direction.)
Km:Ls—The Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, 79,

Cornhill, B.C.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Bennett and Stark, 4, Fumival's
Inn, Holborn.
1344R:Ens—Messrs. Scrutton and Son, 81, Old Broad-street.
AUDITORS—Messrs. Cash and Edwards, Public
Gz.NT Accountants, 13, Tokenhouse-yard, E.C.
---4RA.L AND RESIDENT MANAGER—Mr. Robert Steers.
SECRETARY—Mr. George Drew Hodges.
OFFICES-29, Nicholas-lane, Lombard •street, E.C.
This Company has for its purpose the transaction of the
important and remunerative business of Fire Insurance,
_end that only, to the exclusion of other branches of busi-
-4t esB not unusually associated with it, under the same direc-
pn, and operating on one and the same capital. The
'rectors are satisfied that the scope for the business of fire
insurance presented by this country and its dependencies,
18, 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
Yeart and exhibit at once a company's financial position
and its resources.
-While the partial remission of the fire insurance duty
tow in the contemplation of Government, and applicable
'Daly to the insurance of stock-in-trade, will afford a cora-
-1 laratively limited relief from the onerous oppression, the
-Directors have resolved to allow upon payment for every
Policy, and afterwards at each renewal, an immediate draw-
bek which, in many instances, will amount to a total ex •
eaction 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-
aent will prove a highly acceptable advantage. The draw-
back allowed by a few of the, older offices by way of per
ventage on premiums, at intervals of years, is of im-
Portance only to those who are rated at premiums ranging
thicily from one guinea per cent. upwards, and is partici-
Dated in only by those who may have premiums to be re-
hewed 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
tea very large extent the number of insurance contracts in
`4lli country and its colonial connections.
The insurable property in this kingdom alone, including
'dß enormous and increasing importations arising from the
*tiae interchange of tariffs, is believed to approximate to
;_0,000,060,000, whereas £1,300,000,000 only is insured ;
altogether
leaving nearly three-fourths of the insurable amount
""°,gether unprotected from loss.
It would be difficult to find any class of investments which
.148 yielded such large profits as the shares of well-con-
ducted fire offices. The shares of the older offices have in-
•;r4eased in value immensely, being, in one case, at a pre-
ettlin of about 1,300,
and in another of nearly 2,000 per
dit• on the sums originally paid up. The increased value
the shares of offices established within the last 20 years
VG at from 80 to 200 per cent.
It i 8 under these circumstances, and considering the. int-
to:4Be field presented for operations to come, that the direc-
tors have taken advantage of so favourable an opportunity
tmoffer to the public the benefits of the principle of business
13,1‘;':t adopted by them; and they have every reason tot
`ve that by its special feature and the public suppor
whichspeedily
that must necessarily invite the undertaking will
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be productive of the best monetary results.
WP executive will be entrusted to officers of tried experi-
elro 1.,11 the business of fire insurance, and the directors have
~fiuY matured arrangements for the immediate establish-
. The directors
five hundred agencies.
Et,a'e-A directors desire to give the most unqualified assur-
object° the public that nothing of the nature of frivolous
to_ ions to a prompt and liberal settlement of claims for
thegliailaenlation will ever be entertained or countenanced by
oft°ti_rize cf application for shares may be had at the offices
liiCompany, or of the Brokers, Bankers, or Solicitors.
event of no allotment being made, the deposit will
vuurned in full.

POR3I OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the Independent Fire Insurance
Company, Limited.
etit'enien,---Having paid to your * the sum of
the above being a deposit of £1 per share on shares in
that Company, I hereby request that you will allot me
by ~nlifnber ; and I agree (according to the form prescribed
1,1,1r,e Articles of Association) to accept such shares, or any
allo,number you may allot me, to pay £1 les. p 'r share on
to otetit, and to execute the Articles of Association when
Itertired ; an i I request that my name may be placed on the
t.lster of Shareholder for the shares so allotted.
Name in full
Residence ...
Prolesaion or business
Date
Pa
ot
Dail 'office orders and bankers' cheques (crossed to the Corn-
co,„'s
ny bankers) to be made payable to the Secretary of the
:!!:!Secretary," or "Baßker," as the cue Pm be.

A coupon of 3 per cent., due Ist October, 1864. will be at-
' tacked to the scrip, and will be received in part payment of
the instalment of it per cent., due 15th October ; and sub-
scribers will have the option of paying the instalments under
discount, at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, on any of the
days fixed for payment of the instalments.
The bonds will be expressed in francs, as well as in sterling,
so as to admit of their negotiation in Paris and other Conti-
nental markets. To afford facilities for the negotiation in
France, his Excellency, M. Fould, the French Minister of
Finance, has authorised that a pubic subscription shall be
open. d in Pa is and the principal towns of France.
He has also instructed the syndics of the Stock Exchange
of Paris, Lyons, Marseilles, Toulouse, and Bordeaux to admit
the scrip and bonds of the loan to their daily negotiations,
and to order the dealings therein, both for cash and the ac-
count, to be quoted on the official lists.
Each bond will have attached to it half yearly interest
coupons. payable on Ist April and Ist October of each year,
in London, in sterling*, at the bank of Messrs. Glyn, Mills,
and Co., and in Paris, at the fixed exchange of .251. 20c. per
pound sterlin r, at the bankers of the Mexi an Government.
If the instalments be not paid at the respect,ve due dates,
interest at 10 per cent. per annum will be charged until pay-
ment. Should any instalment not be paid within o,e calen-
dar month after its being due, the scrip, and all previous pay-
ments thereon will be forfeited.
Out of the proceeds of the loan a sum equal to the four halt
yearly payments of interest thereon falling due Ist 0 tober,
1864, Ist April and Ist October,lB6s, and Ist April, 1866, will
be retained in the Caisse des Depots et Consignations of the
French Government at Paris. The Mixed Financial Com-
mission hereinafter described will be s i.e. Jelly charged with
the duty of proviuing, out of the funds so retained, for the
payment in London and Paris of the said four ha f yearly
dividends.
Also, out of the proc eda of the loan, and under precisely
similar arrangements, funds will be retained fon the next
four half year y payment of interest on the 3 per cent. Mexi-
can Bonds held under the decree of October, 185 , and on the
new 3 per cent. bonds representing the capitalised arrears of
interest thereon, as agreed to by the holders of the existing
bonds a, their recent meeting in Lend n.
For the liquidation of the loan now to be contrac'ed, a
sinking fund, equal to 1 per cent. per annum on the nominal
capital of the loan, will be provided from Ist April, 1860. and
applied to the purchase in L .ndon and Paris, of bonds of the
various classes issued to represent the loan.
A Mexican Financial Commission will be at once estab-
lished in Paris, and wi.l be empowered to do all official acts
necessary for the completion and is sue of the scrip and bonds
arising out of the loan, and also for the capitalisation of the
arrears of in .erest on the old bonds, and for other financia.
purposes.
This commission will con ist of Count de Germiny, Senator,
Honorary Governor ot the Bank of France ; Mr. W lliam
Hope, General Manae.•,er ot the International Financial So-
ciety,. as Provisional -English Comm,ssioner and a member
to be specially delegated by the Emperor of Mexico.
The documents relatirg to the authorisation of the loan
may be inspected al the offices of Messrs. Bircham, Dalrymple,
Drake, and Ward, solicitors, 46, Parliament-street, West-
minster.
In case of any application not receiving an allotment the
deposit made on application will be returned in full; and if
a less amount be allotted than is applied for the deposit will
be applied towards the further sump ayable on allotment,
and the surplus balance, if any, returned to the applicant.
Appli ations, accompanied by the prescribed deposit, will
be received by Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-
street, London. and the International Pnancial Society
, Limited) ; or by the Societe Generale de ere lit Mubilier, at
Danis, until Saturday next, the 23d April. Lists will also be
or erred thruughout the departments of France by all the car-
respf ndents of the Societe Generale de Credit Mobilier, and
of the Credit Foncier of France.
At Turin..by the Societe Generale de Credit MobilierE
At Madrid 11 spagn hallool.
At Amsterdam..de Commerce et d'lndusgle.
Forms of application and prospectuses may be had of
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street, or the In-
ternational Finanelll Socitty (Limited , 51, Old Broad-street.
London, April 16, 1861.

FORM OF APPLICATION, No
To be retained by the Bankers.
E 11PIRE OF MEXICO.
Anglo-Fiench Six per Cent. Loan-17,70,000, representing
a Nominal Amount of £12,365,' 00.
To Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., and the International
Financial Society (Limited).
Having paid to Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., the sum of
£ , being the required deposit of 5 per cent. on
I request that you will allot me £5 in the above loan,
and I hereby agree to accept that amount or any less sum
that may be allott, d to me, and to pay the further instalments
thereon, in accordance with the terms of your prospectus of
16th April, 1864.

Name in full
Ad cress in full
Occupation
Date ••••••• ....... .. 1864.

BANKERS' RECEIPT, No .
To be refained by applicant.
EMPIRE OF MEXICO,
Anglo-French Six per Cent. L0an—£7,790,000, representing
a Nominal amount of £12,385,000.
67, Lombard-street, London. April, 1864.
Received of the sum of .£ on account of the
above loan, beina the deposit of 5 per cent. on an application
for .£ of the above lo an.
For Glyn, Mills, and Co.,

*** The applicant will please 1111 up the blanks of this ap-
plication and the receipt before presenting the payment.

EMPIRE 0 F M EXICO.—
ANGLO-FRENCH SIX PER CENT. LOAN.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that NO further APPLI-
CATION for ALLOTMENTS of the above LOAN will be
received after SATURDAY, the 23d inst.
For the International Finan-
cial Society (Limited).
GLYNS, MILLS, and CO. WALTER A. MlCSecretaryHA.EL,
London, April 20, 1864.

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MEMORIAL BUST.
By FELIX M. 31 ELL ER, Professor of Sculpture, Govern-
ment School of Art, published under the special sanction of
the National Shakespeare and Stratford-on-Avon Tercente-
nary Committees, by HOWELL, JAMES, and CO,
Copies will be issued, in the order of registration, to sub-
scribers only, and are executed in—
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Bronze 8 11 ,g Three Guineas
Subscribers' names received by the agents in Lo,,don and
chief provincial towns (where copies of the Bust may be seen),
or by the publishers,
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