“In directing the attention of the Proprietors to the continued and continuing increase of the Fire Department, the Directors on this occasion prefer to cite the proofs afforded by public Official Documents rather than to offer anticipations founded solely on their own investigations. “They are now enabled to exhibit the advance in the British Fire Business of the Company, on the indisputable evidence of the “Parliamentary Return of Duty paid to Government” in the year 1856, recently ordered to be printed by the House of Commons. “The Statistics of that Return establish the fact, than which none can be conceived more fitted to prove that No Insurance Company, ancient or modern, is advancing more speedily than the Royal Insurance Company in the confidence of the British People. THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY’S LIST OF AGENTS. ENGLAND AND WALES. The Directors are willing to appoint Agents of undoubted position and respectability in every Town where not at present represented. Those Marked thus * are Fire Agents only AGENCIES. AGENTS. Abergavenny Mr. Jas. Jones Abingdon G. Davis Do. Cousins * Accrington M. Wilson Acton G. Wiltshire Alcester H. Harrison Alford J. C. S. Milns * Alton H. Gripper Alnmondbury E. Dyson Alnmouth A. Robson Amersham F. Charsley Armley R. Hoyle Ash (Sandwich) W. Stiff * Ashborne J. Smith Ashford Perkins & Pope Do. Mr. T. J. Morris Assington C. Green Ashton-u-Lyne S. Vernon Aston John Parry Atherstone J. G. Arnold Atherton Warburton Attercliffe B. Johnson * Audlem T. Mousley Aylesbury Muddiman Do. Stedman Banbury J. B. Lythall Barrow Walton & Mawson Barnet Mr. S. Harris Barnsley J. Smith Barnstaple S. W. M. W. Guppy Batley Mr. Scholefield Bath T. Weston Bath J. M. Ostler * Bayswater Richardson Bebington J. Colbeck Beccles A. G. Love Bedford G. H. Miller & Son Bedale Mr. E. Fouler Bermondsey H. Austin Beverley J. M. Robinson Bicester E. Heritage Bideford T. Norman Biggleswade J. F. Hunt Billericay John Smith