Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1883-06-12

| OF the total premiums received fully 81 per
cent. have been absorbed by fire losses,
while 80 per cent have gone to pay agents
commissions, expenses of management, etc.,
leaving only three per cent. as profit This
represents the average profit of the thirteen
leading companies of England, some of
which not only did not make anything. bat
actually made deficits. This bad showing for
the English companies is said to be due more
| to loose business methods and reckless COM
petition than to fire losses. large number
| of fires has occurred in Great Britain within
| the past year, some of them involving heavy
| losses, but at the same time 67 per cent
which is the proportion that the aggregate
| losses bear to the total income, is regarded
| by English underwriters as about the normal
figure.
In March, 1876, the French Minister of
Justice issued an order for the foundation of
library of foreign law, and a committee
was appointed to select the volumes. The
| library was Installed in spacious gallery in
/ the Ministry of Justice, and librarians COM
petent to converse in several European Ian
guages were provided. The first object was
l ",
but the committee was also furnished with
| funds to translate into French the chief civil
| and criminal codes of the world, and to pro-
I vide these with adequate commentaries. The
i library is free to all comers. The commit
1 tees report just published shows that the
| German commercial and criminal codes have
| been translated, annotated and published
| and that the Russian code of judicial organi-
l zation, the penal code of Holland, and the
| fundamental charters and constitutions of
| the United States are in the press. Portions
of the codes of Austria Germany, Portugal,
Hungary, the United States and the Argen-
| tine Republic are ready, and will be sent to
| the printer within month or So as well as
careful digest of European jurisprudence
| affecting literary and artistic copyright, pat
ents and trade marks
The payment of the June interest at the
United States treasury has just taken place,
| and the Washington correspondent of the
Boston Advertiser has got old of some in
] terestfng information concerning large hold
ers of United States bonds. w H. Wander.
bilt has $37, 900, 600. while year ago he
owned just $50, 600, 900. Mrs. A. T. Stew
art has the next largest amount,
perhaps $50, 200, 900, but some of hers
are coupon bonds of which no re-
ord is kept. Jay Gould owns $13, 900, 900
registered bonds and large amount in cou-
pons which he uses for collateral. Mr..
Flood, of California, has $15, 900, 600. A Bos-
ton estate and three or four New Workers.
hold $40, 900. 900 each, Moses Taylor's estate
g., 900, 900 and Whitelaw Reid's father-in-
! law, D. o. Mills, $4,000, 600. The Roths-
childs in all their banking houses hold $780,
600, 600, or more than one-fourth of our
whole debt. Baron Leopold and Sir Nathan
have each $50, 200, 900, the head of the Wen
ma house &25, ZOO, 900 and Lady Hannah
| Rothschild brought to the Earl of Rosebery
| SIC, 900, 600 in American four-and-a halls
when she married him two years ago. Bar
on ess Burdett Coutts Bartlett has 500, 600, 900
of our four-and-a-halfs and the Duke of
Sutherland has bought S5, 600, 900 since bis
recent visit here. When the Rothsehilds
| took the French loan of 1872, the firm bor-
/ rowed 500, 100000 francs in gold upon
| $1oO, 600. 600 in our bonds, the first time in
their history that SO large a sum was loaned
| on the notes of foreign country.