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

Cornhill, B.C.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Bennett and Stark, 4, Furnival's
Inn, Holborn.
Bain-Ens—Messrs. Scrutton and Son, 81, Old Broad-street.
A UDITORS —Messrs. Cash and Edwards, Public
Accountants, 13, Tokenhouse-yard, B.C.
GENERAL AND RESIDENT MANAGER—Mr. Robert Steers,
SEC.' LETARY—Mr. George Drew Hodges.
TEmpoi:Aay OFFICES-48, Lombard .street.
This Company has for its purpose the transaction of the
important and rem.
mierative business of Fire Insurance,
and that only, to the b:xclusion
and of other_branches of busi-
ness not unusually associs, ted with,
the same capital. it,The under the same direc-
tion, and operating on on,'
Directors are satisfied that the
scope for the business of fire
its dependencies,
insurance presented by this coma
try and
is, as a commercial speculation,
doerving of paramount
attention ; and, the contract being oneterminable annually,
the profits or loss arising determine in likc 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 onerous oppeession, 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
centage on premiums, at intervals of years, is of iL't-
portance only to those who are rated at premiums ranging
chisily 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 benefi'ed.
The concession to be thus made to the public will ca.•
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..
manse 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 moneary 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.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the Independent Fire Insurance
Ccmpany, Limited.

Gentlemen,—Having paid to your the sum of
£ , being- a deposit of XI rer share on shares in
tile 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
lees number you may allut me, to pay £1 its. p r share on
allotment, and to execute the Articles of Association when
reqttired ; an 1 I request that my name may be placed on the
Register of shareholder for the shares so allotted.
Name in full
Residence
Profession or business
Date

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P Y lAMI D. To conclude, last few times, with Mr. JOHN
PARRY'S DESCRIPTION of MKS. ROSELEAF'S
LITTLE EVENING PARTY. ROYAL GALLERY of
ILLU,TRATION, 14, Regent-street. Every Evening,
(except Saturday), at Eight. Thursday and Saturday Al ter-
nop.s at Three.

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SY LEA.—Every Tuesday Morning, at Three, and
every Saturday Evening, at Eight. Stalls can new be
BeCur ed.

fl OYAL ITALIAN OPERA,
Covent-garden.
Froiri this time until the end of the season there will be four
nights in each week, viz., every Monday, Tuesday, Thurs-
day, and Et atarday.
Signor Wachtel—Signor G raziani—Herr Schmid.
'VMS EVENING (TUESDAY), 19th of April, w,ll be
performed, for the second time this season, Rossini's grand
opera, GUGLIELMO TELL. Matilde, Mdlle. Marie Battu ;
Guglielmo Tell, Signor Graziani, his 2d appearance in that
character; Jemmy, Madame Rudersdorff ; Mel,thil, Signor
Pohmini ; Walter. Herr Schmid; Ge . sler, Signor Tagliafico ;
Tin :Pescatore, Signor Neri- caraldi ; and Arnoldo, Signor
Waohtel, his 2d appearance in that character in England.

Conductor, Mr. Costa.
L a Tyrollenne will be danced by Mdlle. Saivioni, Mdlle.
Carmine, and Mdlle. Navarre.
Commence at half past Eight.

Pit tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre sta Is, 103. ed., 75., and ss. ;
amphitheatre, 2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had
at the box-office under the portico of the theatre, which is
open from ten to five, and at the principal musicsellers' and

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

P. B. Chatterton.
THIS EVENING, AN APRIL FOOL. Mr. G, telmore.
Alter which, will be produced the G:eand Stage
Revival of Shak+pere's Chrsinicle or Historical, Play, entitled
the First Part of

HENRY THE FOURTH.
The east will include impersonations by those emincit
.rtists, Mr. PHELPS, Mr. NValter Montgomery, Mr. Waiter
Lacy, Mr. A ddiso ~ 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, 31 sa It( se Leclercq, And Mrs. Edmund Fal-
coner, supported by all the Members of the Drury-lane ecm-
luny.

Concluding with MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS,

lIIHEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.-
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, April 19, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN':
31essrs. t•othern, Buckstone, Chippendale, Rogers, Clark,
Gordon, Braid, &c. ; Mesdames Angel, Lindley, hill, Harrh,
Snowden, &c
After which, the new Easter piece, entitled VENUS AND
ADONIS. Messrs. Co:mpton, Wm. Farren, Coe, &c. ; Mes-
dames Louise Keeley, Snowden, Nelly rower, Hill, Wright,
Rogers, &c.
To conclude with TURNING THE TABLES.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining.
THIS EVENING, DONNA DIANA.
,After which, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS.
'''Potnioa, by the Brothers Webb.
:1:0 conclude with, 22d time, a new Farce, by J. M. Morton,
-,;ttlentitlect DRAWING-ROOM. SECOND FLOOR, AND

The Two

R°YA.I, LYCEUM THEATRE.
THlunder the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter.
'with '.. rS-'trEVENING, the performances will commence
DAY AFTER THE FAIR :
crionbe, Garden, Moreland, and Miss K LavenuMessrs. Width-
A 'der which, at Eißht o'clock, the 135th Night of BEL
-DEMONIO, a Love Sto y, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from
Stendhal's "Italian Chrrenicle ." Principal characters by
Messrs.
elanarles, J. Broughsm, Emery, Morton,
Raymond, Mo
Kate Terry, Miss . Smith, Clifford, ;3ollett, Sims ; Miss
E. Layeu, Mrs. Lee, Miss Elsworthy.
The Public are entreated to take notice that No Charge is
Diade to the occupants of
p aces,
Boxes, Box- l or Stalls, either
gor play bills or for the sate keeping of hat 4 and cloaks, ar.d
taat the attendants in all Parts of the house are forbidden to
receive any gratuities whatever.
Box-office open daily front 11 to', Commence at 7.
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NIPt FECHTER b." to
annonnes that the
whole prcfits of the First Night's
Hm Represen ta iou oalet will be divided between the NATIONAL SHAK-
f
Iit'EARE COMMIT I'EE and the DRAIIATIC COLLEGE
Mr. FECHTER'S indisysition pre-
SCHOOLS FUND.
'venting the production of Hamlet on the Evenin R. of he 23d,
the LITEU3I THEATRE 117,11 be closed that night.

EIV 'THEATRE-RU YAL, ADELPHI.--
- Sole Prooriwtor and Manager, M. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS : Mr. J.
L. Toole, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Milington, and Miss K.-Kelly.
At 8, LE NH : Miss Bateman, supported by Messrs.
A.
Stirlitg, R. Phillips, Billing tun, Stuart, Eburne, Stephens on ;
-Miss . Simms and Mrs, liiilinigton.
To eonclude with T iIE AREA BELLE : Messrs. J. L. ToW.
P. Bedford, ft. Romer, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. IL Lewis. e,