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eII3NE 30, 1855. . ' 7, fa E fa . 2. c..oi 0 a, a , a••• 00 cn 0 0 I. e 3 3 3 3 3 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 i on dav! E ;7; 1.4 z„, C s, Z. s. d.l SO 16 019 19 2 34 18 026 19 19, 42 3 037 10 10 1 53 6 057 4 2 63 12 072 5 0' d. . 15 15 2 1,20 18 4 1 1 29 11 10 !44 19 2 156 12 0 Annual Pre returns. PALLADIUM LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 7, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL, LONDON. (ESTABLISHED 1824.) Undoubted security, guaranteed by a large capital; an influen tial proprietary; the long standing of the Office, and the satis- factory results of its business. Facility in settlement of claims. Liberty to travel in any part of Europe, without extra premium, in time of peace. Loans equivalent to the value of the Policies. To those who desire to secure the advantages of a prospective bonus, by a small additional outlay, the deed of settlement assigns four-fifths of the profits. Bonuses may be commuted for equivalent reductions of Pre miuiu at the option of the Assured, by which arrangement the amount originally assured may be kept up at a continually de creasing cost. Insurances effected on Joint as well as on single lives, for short terms or otherwise, and to meet any specified contingency. The age of the life assured is admitted on the Policy at the time of effecting the Assurance, or at any other time, on produc tion of satisfactory proof. Every information and assistance will be given to Assurers, either at the Offices, No. 7, Waterloo-place, London ; or by the Society's Agents, established in all principal towns. JERE M I All LODGE, A. 8., Resident Actuary and Secretary. NORWICH UNION LIFE INSURANCE SOCIETY. ESTABLISHED 1808. PRESlDENT—Lient•Oeneral Sir R. J. HARVEY, C.B. SECRETARY—Sir SAMUEL BIGNOLD, M.P. LONDON AGENT--C. J. BUNYON, Esq. The Capital of this Society amounts to 2,100,8621., with a Reserved Fund of 20a,b101. It has paid upwards of d,000,0001. to the Representatives of Deceased Members, and assigned by way of Bonus a Million and a Quarter Sterling. It is a purely Mutual Office, and the Profits are divided quinquennially. The Premiums are Ten per Cent, below the usual rates for ages under forty-tive years. One•half of the first rive rears' Premium may remain as a charge upon the Policy. Annuities are grantee on favourable terms. NEW BUSINESS FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE, 1854: Policies 609, Insuring for Annual Premiums, 313,5871. 7s. 3d. Annuities 58, securing 1,8411. 13s. 4d. New Premiums, being the consideration for granting the same 48,1941.45. 104. For Prospectuses apply to the Society's Offices, Surrey-street, Norwich, and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars. KENT MUTUAL LIFE AND FIRE ASSURANCE SOCIETIES. Chief Offices—QUEEN-STREET PLACE, NEW CANNON STREET, London. BRANCH OFFICES: . __ 'Ugh-street, Rochester I New•street, Birmingham Market•terrace, Hanley Bond-street., Wolverhampton. N.B. Both these Societies are constituted upon the pure and tried system of Mutuality ; accumulating all their Funds for the benefit of the Policyholders; dividing, triennially, their whole Profits among them, and large returns have been lately made; conferring upon them the Control and Management of the Societies; and all Policies are Indisputable. LIFE. TRUSTEES. Alexander Bramwell Bremner, Esq., Billlter.square, and West• . „ hall, Mortlake Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P. and Alderman, Portland•place Win. Squire Plane, Esq., Gravesend The great succoas of this Society since its institution will be seen in the following statement of BONUSES added and of BUSINESS done in four years of actual operations: EXAMPLES OF BONIIS. d. B. d. 69 17 611 19 6 79 12 615 18 6 112 12 622 10 8 171 12 634 0 6 216 15 043 7 0 BUSINESS. May, :854 ....1 May, 1855 .... Number of Policies issued. C 11,934 10 8 6,195 19 5 I Total 1,497 $18,130 10 1 FIRE. TRUSTEES. 0341,911 8 4 178,265 6 6 0520,178 14 4 Isaac Belsey, Esq., Rochester William squire Plane, Esq., Gravesend John Saddington, Esq., Gravesend. Upwards of 11,000 Policies have been issued. Policies issued for small sums anti short periods. Guarantee Fund, 0100,000. Policies may be effected daily; and Prospectuses, Annual Reports, Proposal Forms, and all other information, will be supplied upon application at the Chief Offices, the Branches, or at any of the numerous Agencies throughout the United King dom and Foreign Countries, personally or by letter. GEORGE CUMMING, Manager. Agents Wanted in some vacant Localities. THE ONLY HARMLESS APERIENT .- REIN'S DOUBLE-ACTION FOUNTAIN, producing a sontinual stream without the introduction of air. A little water will git e instantaneous relief in cases of obstructions—it is its own reservoir—may be carried in the pocket ready for use to the moat convenient places. Also, Rein's improved Railway Con veuience, fur travellers and invalids, adapted for ladies and gen• tlenieu. Mrs. Rein attends on Ladies at their residences, and at home. To be had only of the it.ventor and maker, who manu• factures every mechanical assistance for infirmities, F. C. Ham, 108, Strand, nearly opposite Enter-hall. THE PRESS. THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON FIRE AEI) LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. Capital, Two Millions. Established in 1826. Empowered by Special Act of Parliament. Ofifoes-417, Castle•street, Liverpool ; 20 and 21, Poultry, London ; and 61, Kimpatreet, Manchester. Trustees. Sir Thomas Bernard Birch, Bart. Adam Hodgson, Esq. Samuel Henry Thompson, Esq. Directors in Liverpool. • . Chairman—Thomas Brocklehank, Deputy Chairmen Jos. C. Fwart, M.P., and Francis Haywood, Engrg. Secretary Swinton Houk, Esq. Directors in London. Chairman Matthew Fonder, Esq. Deputy-Chairman—George Frederick Young, Esq. Resident Secretary—lieidamin Henderson, Esq. Directors in Manchester. Chairman—Samuel Ashton, Esq. Resident Secretary—lt. A. Kennedy, Esq. FIRE DEPARTMENT. D 53. 1864. X 113,612 Insurances may be effected in this Department un terms es low as those of moat other Companies. Farming Stock insured at 3a. per cent., free from the conditions of average, and allowing a Steam Thrashing Machine. LIFE DEPARTMENT, 1853. 1854. £0,918 Annuities Immediate and Deferred. Bonuses guaranteed when the Policy is issued. No Stamp Duty charged. Prospectuses and further information may be obtained at the Offices of the Company, or from any of the Agents. Persons whose Fire Policies with this Company expire on the 94th instant are respectfully reminded that receipts for the re• newel of the same will be found at the Head Offices in Liverpool, London, and Manchester, and in the hands of the Agents. SWINTON BOU LT, Secretary to the Company. BENJAMIN HENDERSON, Resident Secretary, June, 1855. London. INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY COMPANY, 72, LOMBARD-STREET, 21, CONNAUGHT TERRACE, and 38, DENBIGH-STREET, BELGRAYE ROAD. ♦t ihe Seventh Annual Genaral Meeting, held at the London Tavern on the 15th instant, Lord Viscount TORRINGTON iu the Chair, the following Report was received and unanimously approved:— In submitting their Annual Report to your consideration, the Board are enabled again to present a statement showing a highly satisfactory advance in the business of the Company. At the last Annual Meeting it was seen that the progress of the Company had been greater in that than in any previous year ; and it is gratifying to observe that the new business of 154 has again exceeded that of the previous year, while the business of the current year exceeds that of the corresponding months of 1851. This large and steadily progressive amount of business has been obtained notwithstanding the obstacles to the extension of Life Assurance, arising from the pressure of • war taxation bearing heavily upon the means of all classes of the community. While the premiums of the new business of 1e54 exceed those of 1853, the expenses have been less. At the close of the year embraced in the accounts now pre sented the revenue of the Company was a little under, and now considerably exceeds. 20,0001. per annum. At the last Annual Meeting a reduction of Twenty-five per Cent. was made upon the premiums of all particippati❑g policies of five years' standing. and it is recommended that the same rule of reduction shall be continued, which will embrace all the participating policies on Which five annual premiums have been paid prior to this date. The claims of last year have been greater, as was to have been expected, than in the preceding year, but considerably under what the expectancy upon which the calculations of the Office are founded would have warranted us to anticipate. Great as the success of this Association has hitherto been, the Directors would again remind the Members that their own inte rests as well as the general benefit of the community may be greatly promoted by the exercise of their individual influence. TORRINGTON, Chairman. London, 72, I.ombard•street, June 15, 1855. CITY OF LONDON LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, for General, Accumulative, and Self-protecting Assurances. Head Officea, 2, Royal Exchange-buildings, London. Capital, a Quarter of a Million. TRUSTEES. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor I The Hon. W. F. Campbell The lion . Corn. West I John Thomas, Esq. This Society, guaranteed by a capital fully adequate to every contingency, and not injuriously large, offers the advantages of the mutual system without the liabilities of copartnership. EDWARD FREDERICK LEEKS, Secretary. RAILWAY ACCIDENT INSURANCE. £16,221 be. have already been paid as compensation for Fatal and other Railway Accidents, by the RAILWAY PASSENGERS' ASSURANCE COMPANY. Mllll6llr.a.as. £l,OOO was paid to the Widow of J. 0., killed on the 24th Feb., 1852, secured by a payment of £1; OM was paid to H.C.ILJ., who had his leg broken on the 31st August, 1:453, secured by a payment of £l. For the convenience of frequent travellers, Periodical In surances are granted, which now cover the risk of Fatal Acci dents while travelling in any class carriage on any Railway in the United Kingdom or on the Continent of Europe, and insure Compensation for Personal Injury in any Railway Accident in the Lusted Kingdom only. To Insure 21,040 at an Annual Premium of 20s. Ditto £2OO ditto ss. A new class of Insurance has also been established in cue of Death by Railway Accident alone, without compensation for fnjury. To Insure £l,OOO at an Annual Premium of ....5s Ditto, any sum not exceeding £l,OOO for the whole of life by a single payment of 6s. per cent.: thus one psymer.t of £3 will secure £l,OOO. The premiums charged include the Stamp Duty, which is paid by the Company under its special Act of Parliament. WILLIAM J. VIA S, Secretary. Railway Passengers' Assurance Office, 3, Old Broad-at., London. THE NEW QUARTERLY REVIEW, and Digest of Current Literature. Price Half-a-Crown. The Now Quarterly Review recurs to the principles upon which quarterlies were first started. It contain. iq each num ber, not half a dozen essays upon books long since read or neg lected, but a complete review of the literature of the preceding quarter, and caretnl notices of all works that are worthy of any attention. The object of the projectors of this periodical has been, and will ever be, to heighten the standard of public taste in this country, and to place a Atli knowledge of the enure* of literature within the reach of every one. Their desire has been that, for half-a-crown a quarter, every one may have a fUll record of the performances of literary men—that fur ten shillings all may have in this review, bound in a volume, a perfect history of the literature of the past year, and a complete record of that year's achievements in science and the arts. CoNTINTS OF No. 15, TOR JULY: Retrospect of the Literature of Owen Meredith's Poems the Quarter French Songs Aliron's History of Europe. Kitigaley's Westward Hof New Volume Moreduo. By W. S. Cornewall Lewis on Early Ito- Eustace Conyers man History Cleve Hall History of the Sappers and Constance Herbert Miners Heiress of Naughton Memoirs of Sydney Smith Stories from a Screen Irving's Life of George Wash• Monarchs of the Main Wont Fiourens on Longevity Memoirs of Lalor Shell Maurice's Learning and Work- Life of Lord Cloncurry lug Courts and Cabinets of George Olympus the Third You have heard of them. By Q. Scutari and its Hospitals Recollections of the Mesa-table Peard's Narrative of the War and the Stage A Trip to the Trenches Miscellaneous Notices Travels in Assam Notices of New French Books Pictures from the Battle-field Notices of New German Books Weld's Vacation Tour in Canada History of the War (Continued) London : THORAII Boswonrit, 215, Regent-street. HAMILTON'S MODERN INSTRUCTIONS fur the PIANOFORTE,. Eighty.lhird Edition, pries 4s. " The most cotnplete instruction book extent." And his MODERN INSTRUCTIONS for SINGING. Fourth Edition, be. MISS M. LINDSAY'S VOCAL COMPOSITIONS. The Lord will Provide (sacred song), 2s. ed.; Excelsior, words by Longfellow, 2s. Cl.; Duet or Trio, Ss.; Hpeak Gently, 2s. W.; Duet., 3s. ; Pulaski, duet, words by Longfellow, 35.; A Psalm of Life, duet, words by Longfe:low, 3s. PIANOFORTES FOR HIRE, at 15s. per month, and upwards. Also, a great variety of Pianofortes a little used to be sold at vary moderate prices. Price•lists, with drawings, gratis and postage free. Loudon: Houma CocKs and Co., New Burlington-street, Music Publishers to her Most Gracious Msjesty Quern Victoria and to his Imperial Majesty Napoleon 111. RUNT ON STAMMERING. Just published, price 3s. 04. ; by post, 45., A TREATISE on the CURE of STAMMER• (1. ING ; with a Memoir of the late T. Hunt, Emu, Author of "The System for the Curo of Defective Articulation," by JAMES HUNT, M.R.5.1,, Sc. " Mr. Hunt's rases arc proofs of his skill in curing this ma lady. "—A thenouts. • ' The mass of evidence is sufficient to satisfy the most *cep tical."—Morning Post. "A valuable treatise."—John London: LONGMAN and Co.; and by post only from the Author, at his Institution for the Cure of Stammering, No. 8, New Burlington-rtreet (late of Regent-street). Just published, New end Improved Edition, pries Is. THE CURABILITY of CONSUMPT I ON. Being a Series of Papers, presenting the most prominent and important Practical Puints in the Trestineut of the Disease. By F. H. RAMADCIE, M.D., Fellow of the College of Physicians, late Senior Physician to the Royal Infirmary for Diseases of the Chest, &c. Also, by the suns Author, A TREATISE on ASTHMA and DISEASES of the HEART, price las. ad. London: LONGMAN, Bnows, GREEN, and LONGMAN'S. THE NATION, the ORGAN of IRISH RIGHTS and IRISH INTERESTS; la published Weekly at 6,LOW ER ABBEY-STREET, DUBLIN, TERNS:—Dingle copy, ed. Subsoriptionc —Yearly, 11. R. . Haltyearly, 191. ; Quarterly, 6s. 6d. l'ayablein advance. AGENCI ES at the following places:— LONDON. MARY ANDRIWN, 13, Duke:;tiaet, Little Britain. GEORGIC OHPWOOD, 89, BlelhOVIHHIlf-street. JOHN Moans, 19, Lidoester-squars—Elist side. Mr. Farnstisron, 11, Dnke•etreet, Linculu'elnn. Also at Birkenhead, Bradford, Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester. Sheffield, Wigan, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and all the pencil:4l Towns and Cities of England. AT MR. MECHI'S ESTABLISHMENTS, 112. REGENT-STREET, 4, LEADENHALL-STREET, and CRYSTAL PALACE, are exhibited the finest 'whams, of British Manufactures in DRESSING-CASES, Work-boxes, Writing-cases. Dressing-bags, and other artilles of utility or luxury, suitable for presentation. A separate Department for Papier Macho Manufactures and Bagatelle Tables. Table Cutlery, Razors, Scissors, Penknives, Strops, Paste, etc. Ship ping orders executed. An extensive assortment of superior Hair and other Toilet Brushes. THE CASPIATO, or Folding Bonnet, a now Invention, for which J. and E. HMITH have her Mejesty's Royal Letters Patent, combines convenience with elegance. It is packed in a case, 11 inch deep, thus dispensing with a bonnet bor. Prices moderate. Also every kind of Bonnet in the best Paris taste. Light Bonnets, w'th flowers, at 10a. ed.; Olsoili Bonnets, with flowers, 113 s. Ad.; Mourning Bonnets, with flowers, 128. 6d.—At J. and F.. SMITH'S Mow Bourns, 151, REGENT-STREET, opposite Beak-street. Directions for Self- Measurement sant free by post. DEAFNESS. —The only medal awarded at the Great Exhibition of 1/451 (for Acoustic Instruments) was to F. C. REIN, for his new ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENTS for the DEAF. They are made of different power, to suit 011. treme and every degree of Deafness. To be procured only of the sole inventor and maker, F. C. Rein,loB, Strand, nearly opposite Exeter-ball, where the Instrument can be tried, and numerous tentimocials seen, amongst many one from the Right Hon. Sir John Piaui" one of her Majesty's Privy Councillors.