The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-22 00:00:00

ARIBALDI FUND, for the purpose of
AA Dr a permanent income for GENERAL GAR I-
_.„ .u,_ and his family after him.
The Duke of iUTHER LAND Chairman.
CRA.S. SPELT, Esq., M.P., Deputy Chairman.
lion. A. KINNA.IRD, M.P., Treasurer.
be,_ Contributions maybe paid to the bankers, Illessrs. Ransom,
ponrerie, and Co., 1, Pall Mall East, and communications to
addrdis2d to the Secretary, Arthur H. Guinness, Esq., at
"Crag's•-court, Charing-cross.
The first list of contributions will appear in the "Times"
Cl/ the 28th inst.
4' Craig's-court, Charing-oross, 29th April, 180.
•—....--_—__
It

OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, (ray's-inn-road
_ in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
wall Terminus, King's-cross.
IPUNDs are urgently REQUIRED.
Treasurer and Banker—E DWARD MASTE RMAN, Esq.,
)Nicholas-lane.

EMIGRATION TO NOVA SCOTIA. in the
middle of the GOLD FIELDS, which have proved
mostprolific. A beautiful Town on a Gentlemin's Seat,
with a fine Road going throuoh i and be utiful Pleasure
Grounds and P isture Grounds al round. Fishing and
1311,Vting' ; no restrictions. Building. Lots very cheap. Every
f:-"l'grence allowed to the poor. Passage money from One
_Three Pounds s'erlinz. Plenty or employment..
For further particulars apply at 21, letter-lane, Fleet-
°i lea, Loudon.

A. B. ADAMS, Secretary.

THE EUROPEAN CATTLE IMPORTING
.0111 PA NY (LI3IITED). Registered under the Corn-
rres
km% 1%2, which limits the liability of the Share-
Jae dere to the amount of Shares held by them.
Capital 4.50,000, in 10,000 Shares of £5 each.
(With power to increase.)

First issue 5,000 Shares.
130130eit 10s. per Share on application, and £I. on Allotment.
Future Calla not to exceed LI per Share, and at intervals
of not less than Two Months. Should no Allotment be
Made the Deposit will be returned in full.

CRAIRMA DIRECTORS.
-H Vice- Admiral Sir Henry John Leeke,
X.C1.8K.,2 m,p., (Chairman of the London and Pro.
_ vincial Marine Insurance Company).
Uharles Boyd, Esq. Barnes Surrey.
sPrederick John 1311 ige, Esq., Medical oMcer of Health,
s.minersinith.
illCousens, Esq. (Messrs. Mitigate, Cousens, and
..cv?1().,) 32, Great St. Helens.
'lard Cowell, Esq (Messrs. Cowell and Sons,) Knights-
bridge.
lienry Fox, Eq.. (Director of the Marine Investment
Company.)
Charles John Packman, Esq. (Messrs. Packman and
Wilson. Newgate Market and Metropolitan Cattle Market.
Captain William K. Smith, 57, Cannon-street, E.C.

BA.KERS.
Metropoßan and Provincial DI
Bank (Limited), 75, Cornhill.
A. J. Murra ,
SOLICITOR.
y
Helen's, B.C. •
Mansfield Baildinc,s Great St.

BROKER.%
Ilesßrs. Sims and Hill 3, Bartholomew-lane, London.
Thomas Morris, Esq.: 3, ludia-buildings, Water-street,
Liverpool,

Messrs. Edwards and James, 188.
King-street, Cheapside,
.

SECRETARY.
Alexander Dalrymple, Esq.
'ewrorary Offices-32, Ironmonger-lane, Cheapside.

ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS.
This Company has been formed for the purpose of im-
porting into the English Market, from the southern parts
pe and elsewhere, a supply of healthy cattle, for
and
h the rapidly increasing population of this country,
um
naturally great consumption of animal food, present
the
field for a largely increased supply.
prevailing mortality amongst cattle in this country,
1.
pleuro-pneumonia or lung disease, and other distem-
-1:7 (attributable, amongst other things, to inefficient
wi'"!alle of transport), has long engaged the attention of
44tiac men, and their reports point to the necessity of
TZ, ‘thing increased supplies from foreign countries, free
~_"ma the prevalent diseases. Practical men will be employed
Y this Company to select and purchase cattle in suitable
localities. In order to avoid the great risk hitherto known to
4771'at from contact with unwholesome carriages, railway
ikneks of an improved construction will be retained for the
`":aPally s sole use from the ports of debarkation, and well
?,rganised depots, with pasturage, &ti , will be provided for
the reception of the Company's stock.
To dairymen this Company holds out great advantages, by
"aPorting Spanish, Jersey and other cows, which have an
established reputation as good dairy stock. The grazier will
81,80 be benefited by the importation of young and well-con-
(taloned animals at a moderate cost; and to the consumer
the object of this Company will be of the highest import-
nee, as it secures a supply of foreign cattle free from dis-
8411e attributable to a want of proper ventilation and stow-
age on shipboard.
Prom the statistical returns, it appears that in the month
of December, 1863 (the worst month in the year), there were
imported into London alone-
-8,229
Oxen
Calves ............ 1,705
21,821
Sheep
Pigs
Horses

Total
_...

It will thus be seen that fully 1,000 head of Cattle are
daily imported into London from the Continent, proving
that the objects of this Company ere based upon a great
existing commerce, and an increasing demand ; and frcm a
most moderate estimate it appears that a very large profit
may be confidently anticipated on the capital of the Com-
pany, after deducting the expenses of administration (a
det +fled estimate may be inspected at the Temporary Offices
of the Company. It is well known that large fortunes have
been realised by Cattle Importers, even when their opera-
tions have been carried on with the present insufficient
means of transport, whereby a large portion of their stock
become unfit for the markets, and it may be fairly assumed
that a well organised undertaking. combining a good prac-
tical management and sufficient capital, will be attended
with most profitable results to the Shareholders.
Applications for Shares may be made to the Bankers,
Brokers, Solicitor, or the Secretary at the Temporary Offices
of the Company, where Prospectuses can also be obtained,
No application will be attended to unless accompanied by a
dep ,sit of 10s. per Share.

THE INDEPENDENT FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY (Limited). Cap'tal One 3111110 Stirling,
in 40,000 Shares of £25 each. LI per Share to be paid on
aplication. and £l. 10s. per Share on allotment. C not
expceeding £1 per Share, at intervals of not less thanalls Three
Mouths.

DIRECTORS.
John Downes, Esq. (Messrs. Downes and Scott), Upper
Thames- sire it, Director of the National' Provincial
Marine Insurance Company.
George Haines, Esq., Merchant, 36, Lombard. street.
John Ingledew, E-q , Cambridge House, Lee Park, Ken),
t.
William Knight, Esq. (Messrs. William Knigat and eo.
,83, Lombard-street.
"eury L'dgard, Esq., Forest-bill, Kent.
1
Messrs, G. S. Symons and Co.),
George S. Symons, Esq. (
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 1, High-street, Borough.
Billiter-
albez Voss, Esq. (Messrs. Voss, Meek, and Co.),
Squa.
Walterre 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.C.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Bennett and Stark, 4, Furnival's
Inn, Holborn.
StutvEron—James Edmeston, Esq., F.1.8.A., Crown-
court, Old Broad-street.
BROKERS_Messrs. Scrutton and Son, 81, Old Broad-street.
Ammons—Messrs. Cash and Edwards, Public
Accountants, 13, Tokenhouse-yard, E.C.
GZNERAL 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 Insur•ince,
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
na manner, year
position by
year, and exhibit at once a company's fincial
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 oppression, 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'
Unction of the entire duty of three shillings per cent.
To the public at large, and to the greater proportion of the
Manufaciuring and mercantile rommunity, this arrange-
Inent 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 premtums ranging
chi‘fly from one guinea per cent. upwards, and is parting
in only by those who may have premiums to be re-
ewed at the period of the making of these returns ; whereas
• by the principle adopted by this Company, the owneis of
the classes of risk of the more p-dinary occurrence,
same
are
they who will be the more substantially and at the
time promptly benefi,ed.
The concession to be thus made to the public will
pec-
cer •
be the means not only of increasing in their re,s
.Ivo amounts insurances now existing, but of multiplying
1,4,).4 very large extent the number of insurance contracts in
this count's, and its colonial connections.
The insurable property in this kingdom alone, from the
fro
its enormous and increasing importations wising including
Yfise interchange of tariffs, is believed to epproxituste to
,00.),000,000, whereas £1,300,000,000 only is insured ;
thus 4: leaving
nearly three fourths of the insurable amount
altogether unprotected from loss.
Its would be difficult to find any class of investments which
.I°'a yielded such large profits as the shares of well-con-
ducted fire offices. The shares of the older offices haysin-
creased in value immensely, being, in one case, at a pre-
luiuui of about 1,300, and iu another of nearly 2,000 per
tit. on the sums originally paid up. The increased value
of
.f the shares of offices established within the last 20 years
_tands at from 80 to 200 per cent.
7 lt is under these circumstances, and considering the ime
laense field presented for operations to come, that the direc-
tors have taken advantage of so favourable an ovportunity
Lo 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 mone'uy 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-
tnent 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
C.'eraPentation will ever be entertained or countenanced by
m
Forms cf application for shares may be had at the offices
of the Company, or of the Brokers, Bankers, or Solicitors.
; the event of no allotment being made, the deposit will
D(3 returned in full.