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

No. 22,411.

To ?ERSONS SEEKING LANDED
ATES, TOWN AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES,
FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND
PROPERTIES GENERALLY—
To ER HAD GRATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls
throughout the kingdom, or at the Auction and Estate Offices,
No. 6?, Chancery-lane, London, Messrs. E. and H. Lumley's
"FREE PROPERTY nEGISTER," containing a varied Selection
ot landed and house pi-0011es notv in the market, from
the nobleman's Mansion, with its manorial domain, to the
cottage with its few acres.
Owsums or PROPERTIES wishing to Sell or Let can em-
brace the opportunity that the medium of this Register
affords, by sending the particu!ars of their properties to the
Estate Offices, t 7, Chancery-lane, London, as the Messrs.
Lumley can in most cases introduce Immediate customers,
where the property is ot an eligible ohara ter,
ing- the disadvantages of delay and its attendant incon-
veniences.
THERE IS NO CHARGE incurred, unless a tenant or pur-
cnaser is introduced throueil Messrs. Lumley's Agency,
tact then only the usual moderate commission.
Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London.

PHEASANT REARING for 1864
CHAMBERLIN'S AROMATIC SPANISH MEAL,
ARKEIt RICE, PELLET, 1). S. MEAT GitEAVES, pr -
pared with CAYCAR EXCELSIOR, is the most
apes, efficacisnarlsous
food for rearing and feeding Game, preventing g,
and death.
BOOKS on Feeding and the proper Management of Game,
from hatching to maturity, with over 200 tsstimon'als from
the nobility and gamekeepers, with prices, posted free on re-
ceipt of two stamps, by3fr. James Chamberlin, Spanish Wine
Merchant, opposite the Exchange, Norwich.
CHAMBER IN'S CANADIAN POULTRY MEAL for
all the year round, 16s. per cwt., including-The use of
this food keeps the chickens in perfect health ; and the in-
crease of eggs, of the richest colour and flavour, is marvellous.
Dog Greaves, Ws. per cwt. Please state price when ordering.
N.B.—Advices received dailyefficacy he Spanish
Meal and Caycars. One gentleman writes, "of t
All my young
pheasants last season were sickly, and several die
those
that were strong enough to eat your Spanish 31eal recovered
in two dap, and became fine and beantitul birds."

SOHO ESTATE, HOUSE, AND GENERAL
BUSINESS AGENCY OFFICES.—Persons requiring*
Freehold or Leasehold Property, or having Business and
Houses to be disposed of, should apply to Mr. CHARLES
MURRAY, Auctioneer and Valuer, 26, Gerrard-street,
Soho, W.
Vluations for Probate Administration, Fire Claims, Rail-
waya Compensations, &c. Rents Collected.

THE ENGLISR AND FOREIGN CREDIT
COMPANY (Limited).
Incorporated under the "Companies' Act, 1862," by which
the liability of the shareholders is limited to the amount

of their shires.
Capital £2,(00,000, in 40,00) shares of X. 50 each.
First issue 20,000 shares. Deposit £1 per share on applica-
tion, and L 4 on allotment, of which 10,0u0 shares hAte been
already subscribed fur.
Subsequent calls not to exceed Z 2 10s., and at intervals of
not less than three months.
It is not intended to call up more than £l5 per hare; but
as the operations of the Company require additio l 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 , g 0 Park, Romford.
Ferdinand Ja (pies, Itsq., Banker, Berl n.
Charles E. Mangles, Esq., Chairman West India Royal Mail
Company.
George l'aimer Robinson, Esq., Director Alliance .
George Sheward, Esq., Leinster-square, Bayswaterßank,
Thomas Stenhouse, Esq., Chairman Discount Corporation,
George Barnard Townsend, Esq., Director South Eastern of
Portual Railway Company.

BANKERS.
The Alliance Bank, Lothbury, Londo blanchesbuildings,
Liverpool ; and King-street,er.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Desboreugh, Young, and Desborough, 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 OFFICES.
2, Copthall-chambers, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street.

ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS.
The Directors having received ihe support of eminent
foreign capitalists and banking establishments, and the c
operation of many of the leading firma in thi. country con-
nected with public works, are already in a position io an-
nounce that they have secured a business which will of itself
yield a large return on the capital.
The general objects of the company are 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 WEDNEDAY. the 27th inst.,
at Four o' olook, and on THURSDAYS the 28th inst , for the
Country.

By order,
CHESTER MARLES, Sec• pro tern.
2, Copthall• chambers, Angel-court, Torogmorton-
street*, 22d April, ISO.

THE INDEPENDENT FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY (Limited). Capital One Millio.i Stirling,
in 40,000 Shares of £'2s each. £1 per Share to be paid on
application, and £1 10s. per Share on allotulent. Calls not
exceeding £1 per Share, at intervals otnot -fee-dthin Tb r.e
Months.

DIRECTORS.
John Downes, Esq. (Messrs. Downes and Scott), Upper
Thames-strait, Director of the National Provincial
Marine Insurance Company.
George Haines, Esq., Merchant, 30. Lombard. street.
John Ingledew, Eq., 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, Eel. (Messrs, G. S. Symons and Co.),
20 and 21, St. Dunstan's-hill.
John E. Tibbs, Eeq. (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. 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.G.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Bennett and Stark, 4, Furnivars
Inn, Holborn.
SURVEYOR—James Edmeston, Eeq., F.1.8.A., Crown-
court, Old Broad-street.
BRoxEns—Messrs. Scrutton 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.
Orrices-29, Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, E.C.
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 dependencies,
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 cinemas oppre for ssion, the
Directors have resolved to allow upon payment y
policy, and afterwards at each renewal, an immediate draw-
back, which, in many instances, will amount to a total es
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
of im-
centage on premiums, at intervals of years, is
portance only to those who are rated at premiumss
pa ranrtici-
ging
chiefly from one guinea per cent. upwards, and i
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 beneficed.
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, includingthe
its enormous and increasing importations arising from
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
tends at from 80 to 200 per cent.
It is under these circumstances, and considering the ime
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 menetay 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
objcctions to a prompt and liberal settlement of claims for
eompenlation 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.

IMPORTANT INFORJiATION.
DR. ROBERTS' POOR MAN'S FRIEND
is confidently recommended to the Public as an unfail-
ing remedy for wouns of eruptions,y description. burns, scalds,
chilblains, scorbutic sore and inflamed eyes, &C.
Sold in riots. ls. lid., 2s. td„ s., and e +ch. Also his
PILUIJE AY! ISCROPHULLE, 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 'a at all times
in ithout confine-
ment or change of diet. Sold baxes, Is. lid., 2s. Id., 40. 6d.,
11.5., and 225. each.
Sold wholesale by the proprietors, Beach and Barnicott,
Bridport, by thc Loudon houses, and retail by all respectable
MCdiCiiaQ Yellara in the tJulted Kingdom and Colonies.