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MAY 9, 1857. EXHIBITION 01 THE ART TREASURES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM NOW OPEN AT MANCHESTER. THIS Palace, covering at space of 18.000 squaro yards, coutalne the LARGESf end moat VALUABLE COLLECTION OF WORKS OF ART, Ancient and Modern, ever collected, ant which, there are many reason* lor supposing, can never be hrought together again. REFRESHMENTS are provided on an extensive scale at moderate charges. PRICES Ole A DMISSION:—From the 6th to 16th May (both days inclusive!, 25.61 for each person. On and after Mon lay, the lath May, Is. for each person, except on Thursday iu each week, when the charge will be 2e. 6d. for each person. SEASON TICKET 'S, at 21. 25., entitle the proprietors to ail mission on all occasions when the Ethibition is open to the public; tickets at 11. Is. entitle to a ituission on all but the "reserved days." These Tickets may be procuiel at the Exhi bition Building; or at the offices. 10;, M isley.street. H M.J Ili OF rho Joan' will be open daily at ten o'clock, and will be chased at sunset. A ball will bo rung half an hoar before closing. . _ . . . . . CAEALOGUES. - A General Catalogue, price Is., is sold in the Palace. . . . Bk fH CH.USS are provided at a moderate charge far the use of ladies and icvalide. Arrangements are being made with tha various railway com panies to enable visitors to come direct from any part of the country to the Building. The London and North-Western Railway Company have arranged to convey passengers from Lotion by the ii 15 a.m. train, returning to London in the even ing, allowing four or live hones in the Exhibition. THOMAS HAMILTON, Secretary. Offices, 100, Mosley-s•reet. FXHIEsITION OF AItI"I'REASITItES OF THE UNITED R [SODOM, 1817.—NOTICK TO HOUSE - II OLD ERS : APA KIM NTS.—The Executive Committee having reason to believe that many of their feilowmiilzens will be disposed to offer accommodation ti strangers virithig Man cheater during t..e period of the Exhibition, have determine i to OPEN. for the convenience of visitors, a REGIS FRY of the APARTMENTS wiiich, upon application, may be obtaine.t. All parties disposed are invited t send, witilout delay, th ir pro posals in writin r. in which must be stated the situation of the house, thri number of sitting sod bedrooms. and other accommo dations offered, and the terms reqiiired.—Further information may be obtained at the offices, and all applications must be ad dreaseil to Mr. SAMU EL .lIADEN, registrar of apartments, No. 100, Mosley-street, Manchester.—By order, THOS. HAMILTON Secretary. GLEN te I E I,D PAT ENT STA RC 11, USED IN THE ROYAL LAUNDRY. And prnnonn•ed by HER MAJESTY'S LAUNDRESS tobe THE FINEST STARCH SHE EVER USED. Sold by all (. handlers. Grocers,&e.&e. Qcorr AD[I'S GU IN El WATERPROOF' CLOAKS.—The large Spanish Circular Shape with Hoorl.in tne newest mixtures an I name& w0 , )14, are now on ♦tew.—Chs ROYAL TARTAN WAREHOUSE. 115, Regent sti eat, corner of Vtgo•etreet. Patterns sent to the country tree. LADIES' SPlti Nlir and SU AINI EUCLOAKS, Waterproof, and suite I for walking and the carriage ; also Ladies' Jackets, suited for walking, aiming. ri ling, and yachting, in great choice, of new Scotch material, manufactured expressly for this purpose, and exclusively for SCO I't' ADI E, the ROYAL CLAN ['ARIAN WAREHOUSE, 115, Regent street, comer of Vigo-street. ALLSOPPS PALE ALE IN IMPERIAL PINTS, TTARRINGTON PA.RKER, ,tuts Co. are now delivering the above celebrated Ale. Its surpassing ex cellence is vouched for by the higheet medical and chemical authorities of the day. Supplied in bottles; also in c•taks of 18 gallons and upwards, by HAHRING rtiN PAtiliElt and Co., Wine and Spirit Merchants, si, M iv, la V•'. TO ADULTS who have NEVER LEARNT to DANC E.—A lady of celebrity receives daily, and under takes to TEACH ladies and gentlemen in 19 pi ivale le•tsons to go through all the fashionable BALL ROOM DA SC ES with ease of manner and grace of deportment, including the uecest.ary manner of entei ing and leaving a room, curtsey, &c. Classes and private instruction until nine o'clock in the evening. Apply for the instructress of dancing at the poat•ottice, 91), Oxford street, Regent.cii cue. Po he Best Food for Children, Invalids, and Others. I)OBINSON'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 tas become of general use to every class of the community, and Is acknowledged to stand unrivalled as an ern:- nently pure, nutritious, sud light food for infants, children, ano Invalids. Much approved for making a delicious custard-pudding and excellent for thickening broths or soups. (10BINSON'S PATENT GROATS t for more than thirty years have been held in constant and tnereaOng public estimation Rs the purest farina) of the oat, and as the best and most valuable preparation for making a pun a td delicate gruel. which forms a light and nutritious supper for the aged, is a popular cure for colds and influenza, is ot general use in the sick-chamber, and, alternately with the Patent Barley, is art excellent food for infants and children. Prepared only by the Patentees, ROBINSON, BELLVILLE, and co., Purveyors to the Queen, 64, Red Lion-street, Holborn, London. Sold by all respectable grocers, druggists, and ()there, In town and country, in packets of Gd.and la., and in famP3 canisters at 25., 4n_ and Ina. each. lIOUT ICULTU HAL IMPLEMENTS and GARDEN TOOTS of every description for the amateur or practical gardener, and of warranted quality. Deane, Dray and Co., have prepared for the present season a new ILLUS TRATED PRICED UST of the above (to be obtained gratis on application, or poet free), including Lawn Mowing Machines, Gaiden Engines, Boyd's Patent Self-acting arid Vulcan Scyt!ies, Garden Rollers (from 30e.), Flower Stands, Garden Beate, dm. Galvanised Game Nett ng from 6d. per yard. Ornamental Wire Work made to order, Garden Arc Lee, Flower liaskets. &c. London agents for LingliaMs Permanent Labels. pi iee from ]e. per box, containing 100; also Raynor's celebrated Priming Knives. Deane, Dray and Co., (opening to the Montunent), London Bridge, Established, A.D. 1700. THE PRESS. • VICTORIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 18, KING WILLIAM-ST RF,F.T. CITY. Established 1888. 13enj.imin Ilawes, Esq., Chairman. Thomas Nesbitt, Esq., Deputy Chairman, Charles Baldwin, Esq. W. K. Jameson, Esq. George Denny, Esq. I John Noßoth, Esq. J. C. Dinistiale, Esq. IM. Staniland, Esq. J. P. Gabsiot, Esq.. F.R.S, Daniel Sutton, Esq. Aaron Goldsmid, Esq. 0. 13. Bellingham WoolSey Sidney Gurney, Esq. Esq. The business of the Company embraces every desert - din:l of risk connected with Life Assurance. The Premiums are mode. rate, and may be paid quarterly. half-yearly, or otherwise. Credit allowed of one•toird of the Premiums till death, or NU the Premiums for five years, on Policies taken out for the whole of life. Residence in most of the Colonies allowed without payment of any extra Premium, and the rates for the East end West Indies are peculiarly favourable to Assurers. Loans are made on Mortgage of Freeholds, Leaseholds, and Life Interests, Arc.—also to Policy-holders with unexceptionable Personal Sureties lour-fifths or 80 per cent. of the entire Prolts are appro priated to Assurers on the Froth Scale. WILLIAM RATRAY, Actuary. QPEU[AL AGENCY.—The CONSTITUTION IJ LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION issues Policies upon the principle of SUSTENTATION, by which the Assured are by right entitled to an absolute provision, under circumstances of inability to continue the payment. of their premiums, against. the prevention of their Policies from lapse or forfeiture. Applications from persons of respectability and active busi ness habits for Agencies In Town or Country are requested to be made at the Office. FRANCIS NORTON FRITH, Manager. 7, New Coventry-street, Leicester-squiire. London, W.C. AX FLOWE EDA - ‘ I Great Exhibition, li4Sl.—Messrs. MINTORN, Modellers of \Vax Flowers to the Queen, 10G, NEW BONI) S Established tw.nty years. Every material for the above elegant art. Price lists and orders forwarded to all parts of the country. French Paper Flowevs.—Every m aerial for the above.—lnf,, NE W BOND STREET, and Cou.ervatory Counter, PAN• THEON. Oxford street. QC H WEPPE'h MALVERN SELTZER ki WATER. Manufactured by J. SC H WEPPE & Co. (the sole lessees), from the Pure Water of the Holy Well, possesses all the celebniied properties of the Nassau Spring. Sc FINV EPPE'S SODA, MAGNE:IA, POTASS WATER, AND LEMONADE, are manufactured as usual. Every Bottle is protectel by a special Label. LONDON, LIVERPOOL, BRISTOL, AND DERBY. DEAFNESS. —The only medal awarded at the Great Exhibition of 1851(for Acoustic Instruments was to F. C. REIN, for his new ACOUSTIC I NSTRU Nt lIS forthe DEAF. They are made of different power. to suit ex ireme and every degree of Deafness. To be procured° nly cattle tole inventor awl maker, F. C. Rein ,108,Stt and, nearly opposite .xeter-hol). where the Instrument can be tried and numeronw testunoziais seen, amongst mend one from the Hight Hon. Sir iLmn PAtteson.one of h'r Ntainov'p Privy rtri.ineiline, MATURAL MINERAL wATEtts of VICHY. The Vichy Waters Company having the grant from the French Government for the exclusive tight of sale of these Waters, bottle them at the Springs, and consivi them direct, to their genuine state, to their English Depot, "7, Margaret-street, Cavendish-square. The efficacy of these Waters in Stomach, Liver, and Renal Diseases, Gout, HilellMatitSlll. Diabetes. &0., are too well known to need comment. Tile PASTILLES or I.OZ F.NG ES, which are so celebrated for promoting digestion. prepared from the saline constituents of the waters at the Vichy Laboratory, and the SALTS for drinking, or for a bath, are also kept at the London Depot, 27, MARGARET STREET, Caven dish-square. ft AUTIO N. Tradesmen, Merchants, V Shippers, Outfitters, .Cc.—Whereas it has lately come to my knowledge that some unprincipled person or persons have, for some time past, been imposing upon the Public by selling to the Trade and others a spumous article tinder the name of BOND'S PERMANENT MARKING INK, this is to give notice that I am the Original and Sole Proprietor and Manu facturer of the said article, and do not employ any Traveller, or authorise any persons to represent themselves as coming from my Establishment for the purpose of selling the said Ink. *** This Caution is putdished by me to prevent further im position upon the Public. and serious injury to myself.—E. I3OND, Sole Executrix and Widow of the late John Bon I, 23 Long-Isne, West Smithfield, London. DR. GRANVILLE, F.R.S., Author of "The Spas of Germany," "On Sudden Death," d‘e. dv. ON DR. DE JONGH'S LIGHT-BROWN COD LIVER OIL. " Dr. Granville has used Dr. de Jonah's Light-Brown Cod Liver Oil extensively in his practice, and has found it not only efficacious, but uniform in its qualities. Ile believes it to be preferable in many respects to Oils sold without the guarantee of such an authority as De Jongh. D.i. GRANVILLE HAS FOUND THAT 'MIS PARTICULAR KIND PRoTH - CES THE DESIRED EFFr:CT IN A SHOSTERTIME THAN OTHERS.AND THAT IT DOES NOT CAUSE THE NOISEA AND INDIGESTION TOO OFTEN CONSEQUENT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE PALE NEWFOUNDLAND OILS. The Oil being, moreover, much more palatable, Dr. Oranville's patients have themselves expre.sel a preference for Dr. de Jongh's Light-lirown Cod I.iver Oil." 1, Cnrson•streel, Mayfair, .Tanuary 711 t, 1856. DR. DE JONGH'S COD LIVER OIL Has now, in consequence of its marked superiority over every other variety, secured the entire confidence and almost universal preference of the most eminent Medical Practitioners as the most speedy and effectual remedy forcossemmoN.DRONCHITIS, ASTHMA, GOUT, RHEUMATISM, SCIATICA, DIABETES, DISEASES OF THE KICIN, NEURALGIA, RICKETS, INFANTILE WASTING, GENERAL DEBILITY, ♦ND ALL SCROFULOUS AFFECTIONS. Sold ONLY in TNIPENIAL Hal6pints, 2s. 6d.; Pints, 41. 9d.; Quarts, 95.; capsule(' and labelled with Pr. Tie JONGR'S stamp andsignature WITHOUT WHICH NONE CAN POSSIBLY BE GENUINE, by many respectable Chemists throughout the United Kingdom. WHOLESALE. AND RETAIL DEPOT, ANSAR, ITARFORD, and CO., 77, STRAND, LONDON, W. C. DR. DE .10N011 . 3 SOLE BRITISH CONSIGNEES, By whom the Oil Is daily forwarded to ell parts of the Metropolis. F:STAHLTIMED 1941.1 467 ArEDICAL INVALID AND GENERAL al LIFE OFFICE, 23, PALL MALL, L',NDON. , . Empowered by Special Act of Parliament. At the FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. held on 27th November, l8:m, it was shown that on tl.e 30th June last : The Number of Policies in force was 5,739 The amount Insured was . A 2,752,197 7s. '2d. The Annual income was . . 18,557 16s. 24. Two Bonuses have been declared (in 164.1 and 1853), adding nearly Two per cent. per annum on the average to sums as sured, and by which a Policy of 1,0(101. issued in 1642 on a healthy life, is now increased to 1,2601. Since the last division of Profits in 1853, the accumulated funds have increased by more than 10,0001., offering consider ableativaitages to present assurers. Profits divined every five years—next division in 11 4 58. The Society. since its establishment, has paid claims on 651 Policies, assuring 251,00/. Assurances are effected at home or abroad on healthy lives at aspolerate rates as the most recent data will allow. Indian Assurances at very moderate Imes, and great facilities given to assurers. Invalid lives assured on scientifically constructed tables. Policies issued free of Stamp duty, and every charge but the Premiums. Agents wanted for vacant places. IS Prospectuses, Forms of Proposals, and every other informa tion, may be obtained of the Secretary at the chief Office, or on application to any of the Society's Agents In the Country. C. DOUGLAS SINGER, Secretary. 41,000 IN CASE OP DEATH, A FIXED ALLOWANCE OF 2.3 PF.R WEEK, In the event of INJURY by ACIIDENTS of every description may be secured by an Annual Payment of i 3 for a Policy in THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE COMPANY. Smaller Amounts may be stemmed by proportionate payment+. No Charge for Stamp Duty. Railway Accidents alone mar be insured against by the Journey or by the Year at all the principal Railway Stations where also Forma of Proposal and Prospectuses may be had ; and of the Provincial Agents; and at the bead °dice, London. N.B. Ids usefulness of tole Company is shown by the sum pate as Compensation for Accidents, 11:4722. WILLIAM J. VIAN, Secretary. Railway Passengers' Assurance Company Empuweied by Special Act of Parliament, Other, 1, Old Broad.street, TWENTY SHILLINGS PER DOZEN. DENMAN'S SOUTH AFRICAN PORT DENMAN'S SOUTH AFRICAN SHERRY. . . . . . " }fining tasted these Wines, we say to those who like wine nossessihg richness without sweetness, dryness with out acidity, awl body without brandy, by cli means give tliem a Vide Bell's Weekly Messenger, January 17, :B;i7. . . Bottles included. Packages allowed fur when returned. Terms cash. A sample Bottle for Tw•enty•four Stamps. Country orders mug contain a remittance Cheques to be crossed " Bank of London." J. 1. DENMAN, Niue and Spirit importer, .5, FEN CHLIRCH-sTREET, Couuting•house entrance, that dool on the left up Hatlwapplace. RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS.— BR. BARKER'S celebrated Iti..3IEBY is protected by three patents, of England, Fran,e, and Vienna; and from its great success in private practice is now made known as a public duty through the medium of the press. In every case of single or double rupture, in either sex, of an • age, however bad or long standing, it is equally appli cable, effecting a cure in a few days. without inconvenience, and will be hailed as a boon by all who have been tortured with trusr es. Sent most free to any part of the world, with instruc tious fur use, on recei. t. of 10s. 6 I. by post.otlice oilier, or stamps, by CHARLES BARKER, M.D., 10, Broak.street, Holborn, London.--Any infringement of this triple patent will be pro ceeded against, and restrained by injunction of the Lord High Chancellor. T W. BENSON'S WATCH. CLOCK, and CH RONONIETER MANUFACTORY, and 34, LUD GATE HILL, Loudon. Established 1749. J. W. BENSON, Manufacturer of GOLD and SILVER WATCHES of every description, construction, and pattern invites attention to hie magnificent and unprecedented dis play of Watches, which is admitted to be the largest and best selects I Stock in London. 11. consists of Chronometer, Duplex, Patent, Detached 1 ever, Horizontal, and Vertical Movements, jewelled, cite., with all the latest improvements, mounted in superbly-finished engine-turned and engraved Gold and Silver Cases. The designs engraved upon many of the cases Ate by eminent artists, and call only be obtained at this Manu factory. It the important requisites, eupe iority of finish, com bined with accuracy of performance, elegance, durability, and reasonableness of price, are wished for, the intemlin4 Purchaser should visit this Manufactory, or send for the ILLUSTRATED PAMPHLET, published by J. W. BENSON (and sent post free on application), which contains sketches, prices, and direc tions as to what Watch to buy, where to buy it, and how to use it Several hundred letters have been received from persons who have bought Watches at this Manufactory, bearing testimony to the correct pet formances of the same. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. Fmm the Morning Pod, Oct. SO, 1856.—" Exhibits exquisite artistic feeling in ornamentation, and perfection of mechanism In structure." From the Writing Chronicle, Oct. 30.—" Excellence of design and perfection in workinenship." Front the Morning Adrcrtiaer, Nov. I.—" The high repute which Mr. Benson has obtained for the qualities of his menu• facture stands second to none." From the Morning Herald, Nov. ii.—" The high standing of Mr. Benson as a London manufacturer must secure for him a large amount of public patronage." From the Globe. Nov. 3.—" All that can be desired in finish, taste, and design." GOLD WATcHF.S, Horizontal Movements, Jewelled, kr. accurate time-keepers, 91 154, 41 15s, 51 15s, to 151 Vas each. Gold Lever Watches. joweded and highly•tinished movements, el 04, 81 Ba, 101 1(4, 2/ :2s. 141 14s, led 111 s, to 40 guineas. SILVER WATCHES, Horizontal Movements, Jewelled, Jce., exact timekeepers, 21 2s, 21 15s, 11 15.. to 51 5s etch. Silver Lever Watches, highly finished, jewelled movements, 31 10s, 41104. 51 10s, 71 10s, 8/ 10a. 101 10a, to 20 guineas. A Two Years' Warranty give., with every Watch, and sent, carriage paid, to Scotland, Ireland, M ales, or any part of the k`rgdonn, upon receipt of Postd.iffice or Bankers' order, made payable to J. W. BENSON, (31 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London. Merchants, Shippers, and Watch Clubs supplied.j Old Watches taken in Exchange. * 1