Commercial Union......£1,074,747...54.6% Liverpool and London... 1,540,747...55.7% North British and Mercantile 1,433,829...55.77% Pheeni: - 1,114,889...59.7% Sun.. 1,012.340...58.1 It is not surprising that the results accomplished by some of the more successful offices tempt promoters to try new ventures, but it must be confessed that the records of many offices for many years offer equally significant warnings, and the difticulties in the way of a new company added the not infrequent I-s on.the trading account, should deter investors from risking their money in newly. promoted fire otices.—Pall Mull Gazette.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.