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DECEMBER 1, 1855. PROFESSIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, admitting ou equal terms Persons of every Class and Degree to all its Privileges and Advantages. Offices, 76, CHEAPSIDE, London. (Incorporated.) DIREOTOREI. Chairman—Major HENRY STONES, LLB. Deputy-Chairman—JAMES ANDREW DURHAM, Esq. Wm. Wellington Cooper, Rag. itev. H. Hamilton, De Yee& Andrew Durham, Esq., of Bath tart., Kingstown, near Dublin and Belfast Captain E. Nash Nurcott, R.N. Rev. J. Gleadall, M.A. Thoa. George Williams, Esq. Jacob Montefiore, Esq. E. Gamaliel Winthrop, Esq. AUDITORS. George Bain, Esq., 18, Parlia- I Frederick Wollatt, Esq., Crown meut-street court E. W. G. Evans, Esq., 13, Basinghall-street. Manager—Ben. Massey, Esq. Phyalciana—Thomas Alfred Barker, M.D., 71, Lower Grosvenor. street; Wm. W. Gull, M.D., Guy's Hospital. Surgeon—W. White Cooper, Esq., F.R.C.S., 19, Berkeley-square. Bankers—The Commercial Bank of London. Solicitor—Edward M. Elderton, Esq., 3, Lothbury. With & numerous and influential Proprietary and Shareholders. There are two important clauses in the Deed of Settlement, by which the Directors have power to appropriate one-tenth of the entire profits of the Company Ist. For the relief of aged and distressed parties assured for life, who have paid five years' premiums, their widows and orphans. 2nd. For the relief of aged and distressed original Proprietors, assured or not, their widows and orphans, together with live per cent. per annum ou the capital originally inverted by them. No extra oharge for going to or residing at (in time of peace) Australasia, Bermuda, Madeira, Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, and the British North American Colovies. Medical men in all cases remunerated for their report. Assurances granted against paralysis, blindness, accidents, insanity, and every other affliction, bodily and mental, at mode rate rates. . . . . . A liberal commission allowed to Agents. Annual Premium for assuring £lOO, namely:— Age. s. d. I Age. s. d. 20 llB 0 40 9lB 6 30 2 2 0 50 4 9 1 Prospectuses, with tables and fullest information, may be bad at the Offines of the Company, or of any of their Agents. Applications for Agencies requested. BEN. MASSEY, Manager. Offices, 76, Cheapside, London. MPERIAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 1 ,OLD BROAD-STREET, LONDON. INSTITUTED 1820. WILLIAM R. ROBINSON, Esq., Chairman. HENRY DAVIDSON, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. The Scale of Premtums adopted by this Office will be found of a very moderate character, but at the same time quite adequate to the risk incurred. Four-fifths, or SO per cent. of the Profits, are assigned to Po licies every fifth year, and may be applied to increase the emu in sured, to an immediate payment in cash, or to the reduction and ultimate extinction of future Premiums. One-third of the Premium on Insurances of 3001. and upwards, for the whole term of life, may remain as a debt upon the Policy, to be paid off at convenience; or the Directors will lend sums of 601. and upwards, on the security of Policies °footed with this Company for the whole term of life, when they have acquired an adequate value. Siccuarry.—Those who effect Insurances with this Company are protected by its subscribed capital of 760,0001., of which 140,0001. is invested, from,theriskincurred by members ofhiutual Societies. The satisfactory financial condition of the Company, exclusive of the Subscribed and Invested Capital, will be seen by the fol lowing statement: — At the close of the last Financial Year, the sums Assured, including Bonus added, amounted to 12,500,000 The Premium Fund to more than And the Annual Income, from the same source, to 109,000 Insurances, without particip SAM U EL, may be effected at reduced rates. /MULL. Actuary. FURNISH YOUR HOUSE with the BEST ARTICLES at DEANE'S IRONMONGERY and FUR. NISHING WAREHOUSES. A Priced Furnishing List flee by post. —DEANE, DRAY, and CO. (openi n g to the Monument) London-bridge. Established Am. 1700. QUININE DENTRIFIOE, as recommended by Messrs. Robinson and Underwood, surgeon dentists, fur cleansing and preserving the teeth from caries, toothache, neuralgia, ctc., the accumulation of tartar ; also for purifying and preserving the durability of all kinds of artiticial teeth.—Sold, wholesale and retail, by T. BURDEN, chemist, 6, store-street, Bedford-square ; and by all chemists and perfumers in the kingdom. Price 2s. 9d. spuri•ius imitations can be avoided by observing the name of " Burden" on the label. (ILDRIDGI?,'S BALM OF COLUMBIA , V acknowledged for the last thirty years to be the most effec• tool remedy produced for restoring the hair and promoting the growth of whiskers and moustaches, has received recently most distinguished patronage from the Ladies for the feature it pos sesses in not soiling the most delicate headdress or bonnet. For children it is invaluable, forming the basis of a beautiful head of hair. In bottles, Is. 6d., 6a., and lls. Wholesale and retail, 13 Wellington-street North, Strand. GAS EXPLOSIONS PREVENTED by using k.,1 the Tubes and Fittings manufactured by JOHN RUSSELL and Co., whose goods are all well tested and warranted. The first Manufacturers of the LAPW EMBED FLUES for LOCO MOTIVE and MARINE BOILERS. The FIRST PRIZE of the Paris Great Exhibition was awarded to them for GAS TUBES and FITTI MIS, and TUBES for MARINE and LOCOMOTIVE BOILERS. JOIIN RUSSELL and CO. are the Original Manufacturers, and at present the holders of the Patents for Tubes. Warehouse, 69, Upper Thames street, London,. Manufactory , the Old Tube Works, Church-hill, RE S P IR A T OR S. -F C. REIN'S CORK RESPIRATORS for the MILLION. —They are not. affected by the atmosphere nor the acids of the stomach, will remain perfectly dry while worn, and allow free respiration. 13y its use it is impossible to breathe any other than warm and per fectly pure air. It will be found highly beneficial on leaving heated rooms, crowded assemblies, ttc., for the Prevention of Coughs, Colds, Consumption. and all Affections of the Throat and - Lungs. Price 3s. bd., sent free to any part of the kingdom. Address F. C. Rein, at his Paradise for the Deaf, 108, Strand, London.—The Trade supplied. Also, Rein's Double-Action Fountain, Railway Convenience, Elastic Stockings, Trusses, and all other mathancal for iniirmitlos. N.l3.—Mrs. Itein attends tu Ladi es. THE PRESS. GREAT BRITAIN MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 14, WATERLOO-PLACE. LONDON, and 30, BROWN STREET, MANCHESTER. Directors. THE CHISIIOLM, Chairman. RICHARD HARTLEY KENNEDY, Esq., Alderman, Deputy Chairman. This Society is established on the tried and approved principle of Mutual Assurairee. The funds are accumulated for the exclu sive benefit of the Policy-holders, under their own immediate superintendence and control. The profits are divided annually, and applied in reduction of the current premiums. Policy holders participate in profits after payment of live annual pre miums. The Annual General Meeting of this Society was held on the 80th May, 1855, when a Report of the business for the last year was presented, exhibiting a statement of most satisfactory pro gress. It appeared that during the two last years, 1853 and 1851, between 800 and 900 new Assurances had been effected, producing an increase of premium income amounting to 14,0001. per annum. It also appeared that, notwithstanding the extraor dinary mortality which prevailed during the last year In conse quence of the visitation of the cholera, it had not been found necessary to reduce, in the slightest, the allowance of 311 per cent, previously awarded to the Policy-holders. Credit is allowed for half the Annual Premiums for the first live yeszs. A. R. IRVINE, Managing Director. It, Waterloo-place, London. VICTORIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 18, RING WILLI A NI-STREET, CITY. Established 1538. BENJAMIN HAWES, Esq., Chairman. THOMAS NESBITT, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. Charles Baldwin, Esq. W. K. Jameson, Esq. George Denny, Esq. John Nelloth, Esq. J. C. Dimadale, Esq. M. Staniland, Esq. J. P. Gassiot, Esq., F.R.S. Daniel Sutton, Esq. Aaron Goldamid , sq. 0. B. Bellingham Woolsey, Esq. Sidney Gurney, Esq. The business of the Company embraces every description of risk connected with Life Assurance. The Premiums are mode. rate, and may be paid quarterly, half-yearly, or otherwise. Credit allowed of one-third of the Premiums till death, or half the Premiums for live years, on Policies taken out for the whole of life. Four-fifths or SO per Cent. of the entire Profits are appro priated to Assurers on the Profit Scale. WILLIAM RATRAY, Actuary. THE ONLY STOVE WITHOUT A FLUE. 1 JOYCE'S PATENT—For warming Churches, Halls, Con - ervatories, Shops, Water-closets, &c. &e. Sole Proprietor, S. NASH, 963, Oxford-street, and 119, Newgate-street, Ironmonger. S. NASH manufactures a portable YA POU R BATH, recommended for Invalids, &a. ac., by medical authorities, price 11. lls. ed.— Prospectuses by poet, free. DEAFNESS. —The only medal awarded at the Great Exhibition of 1851 (for Acoustic Instruments) was to F. 0. REIN, for his new ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENTS for the DEAF. They are made of different power. to suit ex. treme and every degree of Deafness. To be procured only of the sole inventor and maker, F. C. Rein, 108, Strand, nearly opposite Exeter-hall, where the Instrument can be tried and numerous teatimocials aeon, amongst many one from the Right Hon. Sir John Patteson, one of her Majesty's Privy Councillors. FORD'S EUREKA SHIRTS. — "The Eureka' is the moat unique and the only perfect fitting shirt made.' Observer.—Belot quality, six for 405.; second quality, six for 31s. If washed ready for use, Xs. extra. CAUTION :—Ford's Eureka Shirts are stamped, " 38, Poultry, London," without which none are genuine. Catalogues, with particulars, post free.—RlC HARD FORD, 38, POULTRY, London. 212° WfILNERS' HOLD FAS T in and FIRE-RESISTING SAFES (non -conducting and vapourusing), with all the improvements, tinder their Quad. ruple Patents of 1840.5144 and 1855, including their Gunpowder- Proof Solid Lock and Door (without which no Safe is secure) The Strongest, Best, and Cheapest Safeguards extant. MILKERS' PHCENIX (2120) SAFE WORKS, LIVER POOL, the most complete and extensive in the world. Show rooms, 6 and 8, Lord-street, Liverpool. London Depot, CA, Moorgate-street, City. Circulars free by post. THE LEADING and POPULAR ARTICLES .I. of DRESS manufactured by B. BENJAMIN, Merchant Tailor, 74, REGENT-STREET :—The PELISSIER OVER COAT, price 285., invented and adapted for the season; the Reversible Waistcoats, price 145., buttoning four different sides ; the 475. Suits, made to order from Scotch, Heather, and Cheviot Tweeds, all wool, and thoroughly shrunk; the Two-Guinea Dress or Frock Coats, the Guinea Dress Trousers, and the Half- Guinea Waistcoats. N.B.—A perfect fit guaranteed. The Best Food for Children, Invalids, and Others. ROBINSON'S PATENT BARLEY , for making superior Barley-Water in Fifteen Minutes, has not only obtained the Patronage of her Majesty and the Royal Family, but bas become of general use to every class of the community, and is acknowledged to stand unrivalled as an emi nently pure, nutritious, and light food for infants, children, and invalids. Much approved for makings delicious custard-pudding, and excellent for thickening broths or soups. 00BINSON'S PATENT GROATS IL for more than thirty years Dave been held in constant and increasing public estimation as the purest farina) of the oat, and as the best and most valuable preparation for making a pure and delicate gruel, which forms a light and nutritious supper for the aged, is a popular cure for colds and influenza, is of general use in the sick-chamber, and, alternately with the Patent Barley, is an excellent food for infants and children. Prepared only by the Patentees, ROBINSON, BeLLVILLE, and CO., Purveyors to the Queen, 64, Red Lion-street, Holborn, L on d o n. Sold by all respectable grocers , druggists, and othe fautrs, in town and country , in packets o f CA. MI la., and iu canisters at 25., Os., and 106. each. 1133 GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.- Toe Directors hereby give notice that they will receive MONEY on LOAN, to pay oil Debentures falling due, and are prepared to accept Tetders for the same for a period of Three Five, or Seven Years, at Fire per Cent. per Annum. Applica. tion may be made to the undersigned. By order of the Directors, CHAS. A. SAI'NDERS. Secretary. Paddington Station, And November, 1863. THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.- I Enrolled under 6 and 71William 1V.j0ap.39, u the CORSE R. VATIV E BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETY. Notice is hereby given, that the THIRTEENTH QUARTERLY and THIRD ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the members of the Conservative Benefit Building Society will beheld at EX ETER HALL, STRAND, ou THURSDAY, 13th DECEMBER, 1855, at Three of the clock In the Afternoon, Viscount RAN ELAOIi in the Chair, to receive the Annual Report of the Executive Committee and the audited statement of Amounts ' and for gineral purpose.. Pursuant to Rule 81 (late 93), the following members of the Executive Committee will retire from the Board in rotation, but are eligible for re-election, and will pre sent themselves for re-election accordingly, viz. Viscount Ingestre, the Hon. it. Bourke, Thomas Booker Itlakemore, Esq., M.P., T. K. Holmes, Esq., J. W. Iluddleston, Esq., Colonel Taylor, M.P. By Order of the Board, CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary. Offtoes, - 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, London, Nov. 94th, 1815. DRIZE CATTLE SHOW of the Smithfield Club. The Annual Exhibition of Prize Cattle, Seeds, Roots, Implements, &0., commences on Thuds/ Morning and closes on Friday Evening-11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th December—BAZAAß, KING STREET and BAKER STREET. Open from daylight till nine in the evening. Admittance One Shilling. 11111 E PEN SUPERSEDED.—The most easy, L permanent, and beet method of marking Linen, Silk, Cotton, Coarse Towels, Rooks, or anything else, so as to prevent the ink spreading, or the possibility of its washing out, is with the PATENT ELECTRO SILVER PLATES. Any person can use them with ease. Initial Piste, Is.; Name Plate, 25.; Set of Numbers, 2s. ; Crest, ss. Sent post free on the receipt of stamp! (with printed directions), by the Inventor and sole Patentee, T CULLETON, 3, LONG ACRE, one door from St. klartin's-laUs "LITHE QUEEN," a NEW and ELEGANT I CLOAK, Manufactured and Sold by FARMER and ROGERS, 171, 173, 175, REOFINT-STREET. From the Court Journal, Nov. 3.—" Amongst the many novelties produced for the present season, none have been so much admired and gene. rally appreciated as their new cloak, 'The Queen.' The MR, when on the figure, is extremely graceltd, and combines a regd.- situ degree of warmth with that taste and moderation in pries which so largely distinguish this modern emporium." and SON'S 129. I LAMPS (for the Table), complete s. globe, give the fall light of fbnr candles. light of slit candles, lbs. 6d. 'the finest' gallon, fbr eash These prodigies of char and serviceable lamps) are specimens e' a very large number of an article are • a small profit. An immense stock of i advertised (that are fit to be need) to or bronze, in two large .how•rooms SON'S General Lamp Factory, 190, I.ondon.—Establiabed 37 years. VEATIN G' S PALE NEWFOUNDLAND It COD LIVER OIL, of very fine quality, made by Messrs. Charles Fox and Co., and recommended by Professor Taylor, of Ours, and by Professor Thomson, of St. Thomas's, Hospitals. Half•pints, Is. Cd.; Pints, Is. 6d.; Quarts, 4s. 6d. Five-pint bottles, 10s. M., imperial measure. Sold at 79, St. Pau 's Churchyard. ••• Orders from the country should expressly state " KEATING'S COD LIVER OIL.' DISH COVERS and HOT-WATER DISHES in every material, in great variety, and of the newest and most recherché patterns. Tin dish covers, Gs 6d the set of six ; block tin, 12s 9d to 2fts 3d the set of six; elegant modern pat terns, 349 to 58e Gd the eat ; Britannia metal. with or without silver plated handles, 76s 6d to 1106 Gd the set; Shellle/d plated, 101 w 161 108 the set; block-tin hot water dishes, with wells for gravy, 128 to 30s; Britannia metal, 22s to 774; electroplated on nickel, full size, 111 lie. 91 HE PERFECT SUBSTITUTE FOR L SILVER.—The Real NICKEL SILVER, introduced twang years ago by WILLIAM S. BURTON, when plated by the pat e n l process of Messrs. Ellington and Co., Is beyond all comparlimd the very best article next to sterling silver that can be employed as such, either usefully or ornamentally, as by no possible test can it be distinguished from real silver. Thread or Fiddle Brunswick King's Pattern. Pattern. Pattern. Tea Spoons. per dozen las. .. 265. .. 32d. Dessert Forks ~ llOB. • . 40s. .. 465. Dessert Spoons „ Table Forks „ Table Spoons „ Tea and co ff ee sets, waiters, candlesticks, &c., at proportiomate prices. All kinds of replating by the patent process. CHEMICALLY PURE NICKEL NOT PLATED. Fiddle. Thread. King's Table Spoons and Forks,full size, per 124. .. 225. .. 1104. dozen Dessert ditto and ditto Tea ditto HOT-AIR, GAS, VESTA, JOYCE'S STOV ES. Stoves for the economical and gale heating of halls, shore. warehouses, passages, ba•tetnents, and the like, being at this season demanded, WILLIAM S. BURTON invites 'mention to his unrivalled assortment, adapted (one or the other) to every conceivable requirement, at prices from 101. each to 90 guineas. His variety of Register and other Stoves, Fenders, and Kitelsen Ranges, is the largest in existence. The alterations and additions to these very extensive pre mises (already by far the largest in Europe),whieh have °coupled the whole 3ear, are now nearly co mpleted; they are of etch a character that the entire of EIGHT HOUSES Is now devoted to the display of the meet magnificent stock of GENERAL HOUSE IRONMONGERY (Including Cutlery, Nickel Silver, Plated and Japanned Wa res, Iron and Braes Betieteeds. end Bedding), arranged in SIXTEEN LARGE SHOW-ROOM., so as to afford to parties furnishing facilities in the seloodeauf goods that cannot be hoped for elsewhere. Catalogues, with Engravings, sant (per post) tree. No. 39, OXFORD-STREET ; 1, la, 1. and I, WRWMAII STREET; audi 4 , 5, and 6, PERRY'd-PLACE. Stabliebed 1820 lid. MODERATOR its with stand and engraved 'Tidies. A ditto giving the finest Colza Oil, es. ed. per cheapness (warranted good or what can be done then made at a time, and sold at r lamps, from the cheapest to the most costly, in chins s attached to TUCKER and Strand (near Temple-bar) N THE ASYLUM LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE, 72, CORNHILL, London. ESTABLISHED 1824. Policies. on Healthy and Diseased Lives, at Home and Abroad, for Civil, Military, and Naval Employments. The Office being on purely Proprietary principles, no Part nership among Policy-holders is involved. For Prospectuses, Proposal Papers, ac., apply to MANLEY HOPKINS, Resident Director.