The Spiritualist newspaper > No.137, April 9th 1875

u THS SPIRITUALIST. April 9, 1875.
THE LIVERPOOL PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
Office-Beakers foe 1875.
President.—James Wason, Esq. Vice-President.—Mr. John Lament.
Secretary.—Mr. Edward Hope, 74, Russell-street, Liverpool.
Treasurer.—Mr. William Davies.
Committee of Management.—Dr. William Hitchman, Messrs. John Priest'
E. Oasson, James Coates, John Williams, Henry Jones, J. Haslam, E. G-
Irving, Mrs. Gay, a,nd Miss Hilton.
Trustees.—Mr. Joseph Shepherd, Mr. John Lament, Mr. J. Chapman.
Auditors.—Mr. Bretherton, Mr. H. J. Charlton.
rjlHE object of this Association is the discovery of truth
JL in connection with Psychology.
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mHE FIRE
RE - INSURANCE CORPORATION,
LIMITED.
CAPITAL £200,000 (FIRST ISSUE, £100,000),
Divided into 20,000 shares of £10 each, half of which will be payable as
follows, viz.:—£1 deposit on application, £2 on allotment, and £2 in four
months after allotment. It is not expected that any further calls will
at any time be made, and in no event can they be made in larger sums
than £1 per share, or at intervals of less than three months.
The Directors invite subscriptions for 2,250 shares (£22,500) in the Capital
Stock of the Company, the same being a portion of that part of the first
issue which yet remains for allotment.
The Directors of the Fire Re-Insurance Corporation, Limited, in inviting
Subscriptions for the Shares mentioned above, deem it desirable to state
that:—
Each one of them, before joining the Board of the Corporation, made
bona fide application for Five Hundred Pounds’ worth of Shares, paying for
the same in the manner required in the Prospectus.
Since becoming Directors of the Corporation they have each (by subscrib¬
ing the sum of One Thousand Pounds to the Corporation’s Guarantee Fund)
increased their financial interest in the Corporation to the sum of One Thou¬
sand Five Hundred Pounds.
Every Share issued by the Corporation has been allotted upon bona fide
applications only. Not one Share has been given away.
DIRECTORS.
Wyndham H. N. Hoste, Esq., 7, New-square, Lincoln’s Inn.
Frederick Perigal, Esq. (late Admiralty), Chalcots, Belsize Park, N.W.
John Tapson, Esq., Brighton.
William Power Trench. Esq., Ealing, W.
W. L. Williams, Esq. (W. Williams and Son, Bread street, E.C.)
Bankers—London and County Bank (and Branches), Lombard-street,
London, E.O.
Solicitors—Learoyd and Learoyd, Albion Chambers, Moorgate-street,
London, E.O., and Huddersfield. Yorkshire
Auditor—W. G. Goodlifie, Esq. (late Accountant-General, India Office),
149, Palmerston-buildings, Old Broad-street, E.C.
General Managers—C. W. Pearce, F.S.S., and Joseph Freeman.
Head Offices—2, Queen’s-buildings, Mansion House, London, E.C.
Agencies—Manchester, Glasgow, Amsterdam, and Vienna.
ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS.
This Corporation has been formed for the purpose of transacting the
business of “ Re-Insurance” with Fire Insurance Companies.
Re-Insurance is a guarantee given by one Fire Insurance Company to
another to pay to it, in consideration of receiving a proportionate amount
of the premium, a portion of any loss it' may incur under such of its policies
as are covered by the guarantee.
The remunerative nature of the business of carefully managed Fire
Insurance Companies is well-known to their Shareholders.
The returns made by order of Parliament, and other official documents,
show that their aggregate annual premium income always exceeds by a
large amount the sums paid for claims.
The following summary, compiled from the published returns in 1873, of
72 companies, strikingly exhibits this profitable working:—
Excess of
Income
over
Claims.
£
2,466,684
2,656,782
2,843,720
Balance available for dividend and expenses, £7,967,189.
No.
Companies.
Income for
one year.
Claims
Paid.
British
United States.
Continental .,
£
5,404,825
5,337,811
5,170,768
£
2,938,141
2,681,029
2.327,048
The business of the Corporation being to re-insure a portion of the surplus
business of such companies, and receiving from them a premium income
exactly proportionate to the amount of business re-insured, it will share
proportionately in their profitable working.
The Corporation is already transacting a satisfactory and steadily increas¬
ing business; its premium income for the year 1875-6 being expected to
exceed £20,000.
The rate of profit that may be fairly anticipated is shown in the following
Table of the business position of the undermentioned Re-Insuranob Com¬
panies. The Dividends paid by these for the last two years average 17J
and 22 per cent, respectively.
Name.
Premium
Income.
Excess of
Premium
Income
Over
Claims
Paid.
Dividends
Paid Last
2 Years of
Return.
Alliance of Vienna..
Security
Swiss
Vienna
Magdeburg
Pannonia
Frankfurter
Aachen
Cologne
£
86,636
247,272
37,022
97,253
114,504
115,808
25,054
31,244
82,572
£
61,404
142 632
14,667
66,609
41,287
63,597
11,498
12,827
37,585
26§
16§
17
7f
20
9
33|
6
17*
33*
20
20
14
26§
13
41*
12
The Formation Expenses of the Corporation were unusually small, and
no Promotion Money has been paid.
Applications for Shares will be received at the London and County Bank,
Lombard Street, London, E.C., or at any of its branches; or at the Offices
f the Corporation.