The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-20 00:00:00

Thomas DIRECTORS.
Dublin, Bewley, Esq (Thomas Bewley and Co.) merchant,
T• W. Tiradley, Esq. (T. W. Bradley and Co.), merchant,
London.
1V- M. Cadell, Esq. (Duff, Cadell, and Co.), merchant, Li-
verpool and London.
Francis Codd, Esq,, J.P., merchant, Dublin.
John Costerton, Esq. (late of Hong Kong, China), Cleve.
land-square, Hyde .p ark.
Rowland Hamilton, Esq., merchant, of Calcutta and China,
Oriental Club, Hanover square.
JohnlVilliatu Esq., merchant, London.
chant,B Lfnqdy L'
eigh, Esq. (J. Studdy Leigh and Co.), mer-
ondon.
Thonarts Mallinson, Esq., J.P., director of the Halifax and
Huddersfield Union Bnking Company, Huddersfield.
lite.viard Martin, Esq. (J. Martin and Son), merchant and
shipowner, Dublin (director of the Hibernian Joint-Stock
Company)-
Ili de Montigny, Esq. (Remi, Schmidt, and Co.), mer-
chant, London and China.
Moylan, q.,
Es J.P. merchant, Lord Mayor elect,
and Governor of Hibernian Joint-Stock Banking Com-
Dublin.
"1-Y2- Edgcumbe Randle Esq., director of the Plymouth
Great Western Docks dompany,Cleveland. square, Hyde.
Park.
George Palmer Robinson, Esq., director Chartered Mercan •
tile Bank of India, London, and China, London.
J• R. Stehbing, Esq., J.P., President Chamber of Com-
merce, Southampton,
W. P. D. Stephens, Esq., merchant and shipowner, Cleve-
land-gardens, Hyde-park.
Thomas Stenhouse, Esq., merchant, Liverpool.
G. C. Warden, Esq. (G. C. Warden and Co.), merchant,
London.

UNERWRITER.
The services of on oft he ablest and most experienced
underwriters will be secured.
MAN-KERS.
The London Joint-Stock Bank, London.
The Hibernian Joint-Stock Banking Company, Dublin.
' h e National Bank of Scotland and Branches.
The Royal Bank of Liverpool, Liverpool.
I.'ho Bank of Manchester (L mited), Manchester.
Ziegars. A.UDITOD.S.
Harding, Whinney; and Gibbons, public
accountants.
One other to be appointed by the Shareholders at the
general meeting.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Cotterill and Sons, London.
Messrs. D and T. Fitzgerald, Dublin.
Messrs. Banatines and Kirkwood, Glasgow.
BROKERS.
Messrs. Huggins and Rowsell, London.
Messrs. M'Ewan and Auld, Glasgow.
Messrs. Bruce and Symes, Dublin.
Henry B. Hassall, Esq., Liverpool.
Robert M'Ewen, Esq., Manchester.
TEMPORARY OFFICES.
Adelaide-chambers, 52, Graeechurch-street, London.

PROSPECTUS.
This Company has been established for the purpose of
affording, by the combination of the greatest despatch with
the closest economy, additional security to the widely ex-
tended and continually increasing commerce of the prin-
cipal seaports of Great Britain and Ireland.
So great has been this increase of trade during the last
thirtY Years, that the present means of insuring the vast
amount of property constantly afloat and in transit from
Port to another (against sea risks) are inadequate for
the security and convenience of the commercial world.
The public are daily becoming more and more alive to
the advantages afforded by well- managed and bona fide
joint-stock insurance companies ; and the policies of such
"'Monies, affording, as they do, greater security and
greater facilities for speedy settlement, are now almost universally preferred to those of individual underwriters.
The success of the companies hitherto formed for marine
insurance is patent to every one. The shares of those now
In operation are, for the most part, at a considerable pre-
jurti, ranging in some cases as high (according to the
;took Exchange list) as 700 per cent. The Indemnity
"'flu ual Company's shares, for instance, with £5 13s 6d paid,
now realise about £l5O ; the Marine, £l5 paid, worth about £9O
!The following extracts from returns by the Board of Trade
till give an idea of the constantly increasing importance of
the ocean carrying trade *:—
the Valueof exports, being the produce and manufactures of
:(11144 Kingdom :
In 1834
In 1844
In 1854
In 1860
This table exhibits an average annual increase in our
export trade, for the last five years, of between six and
seven millions sterling.
With regard to imports, it appears that the value of the
principal articles imported into this country, in the year
1860, was £210,648,643.
To this let us add (as far as we can ascertain) the value
of the foreign and colonial produce exported from this
Country. In 1854 it was£lB,64B 978, and in 1858£24,174,023,
exhibiting an increase of upwards of a million a year.
The Customhouse returns of the shipping cleared out
:P.:" cargoes from the ports of the United Kingdom in the
foreign and colonial trade are as under :
In 1834
In 1844
In 1854
9,507,721 tons
In iB6l (first 9 months) 8,633,431 tons
Showing a steady augmentation of about 500 per cent, in
the last quarter of a century.
The coasting trade still further enlarges the field of en-
terprise to marine insurance companies. In 1834 it
amounted to 10,334,249 tons ; and although much of this
traffic has been necessarily diverted therefrom by our rail-
waY system, yet in 1860 it had grown to 17,014,399 tons,
and for the first nine months of 1861 to 12,9.59,865 tons.
The discoveries of gold in California and in our Austra-
lian colonies have also opened a new source of business to
marine offices. Official returns of the bullion trade prove
that, independently of what passes to and from by private
121,ands, the large sum of £170,393,989 has entered and left
the ports of the United Kingdom during the last three
Years,
The best and safest
kep means of effecting marine insurance
have not therefore tpa with the demands of the public,
nd to assist in giving security and facility to insurers liv-
ng in all parts of the country the National Marine Insur-
ccComp
any has been established, and arrangements will
f?, ade whereby every port of importance shall be pro-
vided with the means of effecting marine insurance hitherto
attainable only in London.
Dublin and Glasgow especially have no marine insurance
p
c_oreanies, and it is notor that the numr of indivis
anal underwriters in thoseious great trading martbs is totally in-
?"commensurate with the large amount of ocean and coast-
2ge insurances which are constantly required to be effected
‘re, thus showing there is ample scope for the establish-
usent of another marine insurance company.
It is also intended to appoint competent representatives
(under sufficient restrictions) at the different trading ports
lu the East Indies, China, Janan, and Australia ; the num-
ber of insurance companies being quite inadequate to the
Tcquirensenis of the now greatly extended trade with and
between those countries, and presenting a wide field for the
operations of a marine insurance company.
The policies will, in accordance with the practice of other
'Joint Stock Marine Insurance Companies, be so drawn up
as to limit the liability of each shareholder to the amount of
his shares.

The staff of officers to be selected by the Directors will be
c9mposed of gentlemen thoroughly competent to discharge
their respective duties.
Applications for shares must bo accompanied with a
tanker's receipt for the deposit of 10s. per share. No appli-
cation will be entertained on which such deposit has not
been paid, and in the event of no allotment being made, it
will be returned without deduction.
Applications may be forwarded, as per annexed form, to
the Secretary, and through any of the bankers or brokers to
the Company, from whom copies of the prospectus and forms
of application may be obtained.
London, November, 1861.

FRM OP APPLICATION FOR FLARES.
To the Directors of the National Marine Insurance Com-
pany.
Gentlemen,—Having paid to your bankers the sum of
£ , I hereby request that you will allot me shares
of 20 each in the National Marine Insurance Company,
and I hereby agree to accept such shares, or any smaller
number that may be allotted to me, to pay the remaining
10s. on the shares sr, allotted, and to sign the deed of
settlement when required.—l am, gentlemen,
Name in full
Adddress in full
Date

Received, the day of , 1861, on account
of the Directors of the Natimal Marine Insurance Com-
pany, from the sum of , being the
dep.sit made in accordance with the terms of the prospec-
tus, on an application for an allotment of shares in
the undertakin,"
£ 0.
, bankers.
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