We beg leave to submit to the Insurance public our Directory of Life Insurance Companies transacting business throughout the principal countries of the world, showing the progress of their business since organization, and their standing at the beginning of the present year. A comparison of the business of 1870, of over one hundred and fifty Companies, with that of 1869, shows a decrease both in the number of policies issued and in the amount insured, as will be seea from the following Table: 1869. COUNTEIES. i No. Polio silasm d. United States. G-reat Britain. Germany, c. 181,683 50,086 95,696 A mount I nsured. $485,485,838 24,158,687 Th. 81,856,206 Polic s Issu d. 179,746 45,328 66,516 A mount I nsured. Ho. Polio s Issu d. $406,209,756 1,937 20,252,467 4,758 Th. 59,944,595 29,180 A mount I naared. $79,276,082 3,906,220 Th. 21,911,611 The failure of several prominent American and English Companies, and the late war between France and Germany, undoubtedly had a depressing tiffeot upon the busi Qess.
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