The Press. — London, England, 1856-04-26 00:00:00

BAZAAR Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen his Royal Highness the Prince Albert, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, and numerous Ladies of the highest distinction. A GRAND BAZAAR will be held on TUESDAY. the 3rd of June next, and Two following Days, by the kind permission of the TOXOPHOLITE SOCIETY. in their beautiful grounds in the REGENT'S PARK, on behalf of the HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST, BROMPTON, for the special purpose of promoting the Fund to carry on this National and now extensive Charity, which is entirely sustained by voluntary contributions. The pressure of the times, together with the accommodation given to 130 additional patient., and the opening of the Sanatorium at Bournemouth, are considera tions so important that the Committee appeal to the friends and patrons of this valuable Institution with unusual earnestness to prepare such articles of work as they may consider suitable for She occasion, including paintings,drawings, Ac. ; donations also of music, autographs, minerals, botanical specimens. and other articles and flowers, or pecuniary aid, forwarded to the Hospital, will be gratefully received and acknowledged. Further particu lars will be duly published. PHILIP ROSE, Hon. Secretary. OSBORN P. CROSS, Secretary. Brompten, April, 1856. THE LONDON and WESTMINSTER BANK I issues CIRCULAR NOTES of 10/. each, payable at every important place in Europe. These Notes are issued without charge, and they are cashed abroad free of eommission. The Bank also issues, free of charge, LETTERS of CREDIT on all the principal Cities and Towns in Europe. The Letters of Credit are issued only at the Head Office in Lothbury. The Circular Notes may be obtained at the Head Office, Lothbury, or at any of the Branches : Westminster Branch l, St. James's-square Bloomsbury ditto 214, High Holborn Southwark ditto 3 Wellington at., Borough Eastern ditto ..67, High-street, Whitechapel Maryleboue ditto 4 Stratford-place, Oxford-street Temple-bar ditto 217, Strand. The rate of Interest allowed on Deposits of 5001. and upward. at the Bank or any of its branches, is now Five per Cent. J. W. GI LBART, General Manager. BANK OF DEPOSIT, No. 9. PALL-MALLEAST, LONDON, Entabliebed A.D. 18.44. Parties desirous of Investing Money are requested to examine th plan of the Bank of Deposit. Prospectuses and forms fur opening accounts sent free on application. PETER MORRISON. Managing Director. ALLOTMENT of the TWEN IY-FOURTH ESTATE and the THIRI Y-FOURTH PUBLIC DRAW ING. THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. At the Offices, No. 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, London, on Saturday, May 10, at Noon, the Thirty-fourth Drawing for Rights of Choke on the Society's Estates will take place. The Woodbury Park Estate, Tunbridge Wells, West Kent, will be allotted at the Offices, No. 33, Norfolk•street, Strand, London, on Wednesday, May 21. Valuable Plots on the Estates at Brighton, Malvern, Mal don, St. Margaret's, Weybridge, Enfield, Forest-hill, Tottenham, Reading, Ac., are now on sale. On payment of oat-eighth of the price of each plot., the remaining seven-eighths of the purchase money may be borrowed from the Society; the loan repayments being at the rate of lOs. for every plot costing 521. es. 6d.—Plans of Estates, price 6d., or 7d. by post, will be duly forwarded.— Prospectuses will be sent hoe of charge to any part of the United Kingdom, the Continent, and the Colonies. CHARLES LEWIS ORUN EISEN, Secretary. THE PEN SUPERSEDED.—The most easy, permanent, and best method of marking Linen, Silk, Cotton, Coarse Towels, Books, or anything else, so as to prevent the ink spreading % or the possibility of its washing out, is with the PATENT F.LECTRO SILVER PLATES. Any person can v.. them with ease. initial Plate, le.; Name Plate, 2s. ; Set of Numbers, 2s. ; Crest, Is. Sent post free on the receipt of stamps (with printed direction.), by the Inventor and sole Patentee, 'l'. CULLETON, 2, LONG ACRE, one door from St. Martin's-lane. Price Is. lid. and 2s. 9d. per box. BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS. —This preparation is one of the benefits which the science of modern chemistry has conferred upon mankind ; for during the first twenty years of the present century to speak of a cure for the Gout was considered a romance ; but now the efficacy and safety of this medicine is so fully demonstrated, by unso licited testimonials from persons in every rank of life, that pub lic opinion proclaims this u one of the most important dis coveries of the present age. These Pills require neither atten tion nor confinement, and are certain to prevent the disease attacking any vital part. Sold by Prout and Harsant, 229, Strand, London.; and all Medici: - s Vendors. DR. DE JONGH'S LIGHT BROWN COD LIVER OIL. Prescribed with complete confidence and the greatest success by the Faculty for its purity, speedy and uniform efficacy, entire freedom from nauseous flavour, and marked superiority over every other variety, in the treatment of CONSUMPTION, BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA, GOUT, RHEUMATISM, SCIA TICA, DIABETES, DISEASES OF THE SKIN, NEURAL GIA, RICKETS, INFANTILE WASTING, GENERAL DEBILITY, AND ALL SCROFULOUS AFFECTIONS. EXTRACTS FROM SELECT MEDICAL OPINIONS:— HENRY LETHEBY, Esq., X. 8., Medical Officer of Health to the City of London, &c. &c. " The Oil corresponds in all its characters with that named ' Halle Brune,' and described as the best variety in the masterly treatise of Dr. de Jongh. From my investigations, I have no doubt of its being a pure and unadulterated article." ARTHUR H. HASSALL, Esq., N.D., F.L.S., Chief Analyst of the Sanitary Commission of the Lancet, etc. Be. "So great is my confidence i.t the article that I usually pre scribe it in preference to any other, in order to make sure of obtaining the remedy in its purest and best condition." Sold by ANSAR, HARFORD, and C0.,77, STRAND, London, Dr. de Jungles sole British Consignees; and by many respect- able Chemists throughout the United Kingdom. Half-pints (10 ounces), 2s. 641.; Pints• (20 ounces), 4s. 9d.; Quarts (40 imnees), 9a IM P AL M F.ASTI RE. CAUTION.—Each bottle is sealed with a stamped metallic capsule, and bears beneath the pink outside wrapper a label with Dr. de Jongh's stamp and signature. ALL OILS OFFERED ♦a DE. DE JONOH . B, Olt AS 07 THE SAME KIND, WITHOUT SUCH MAIMS LIE VIAUDIJIANT 1111.0111TIONS. THE PRESS. PROFESSIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, admitting on equal terms Persons of every Class and Degree to all its Privileges and Advant ages. Offices, 76, CHEAPSIDE, London. (Incorporated.) DIRECTORS Chairman—JAMES ANDREW DURHAM, Esq. Wm. Wellington Cooper, Esq. Jacob Montefiore, Esq. Andrew Durham, Esq., of Bath Captain E. Nash Norcott, R.N. and Belfast Thos. George Williams, Esq. Rev. J. Gimbal, M.A. E. Gamaliel Winthrop, Esq. AUD TORS. George Bain, Esq., 18, Pirliii-lThOn:as Wilson, Esq., Cheap. meut-street side E. W. G. Evans, Esq., 13, Basinghall-street. Manager—Ben. Massey, Esq. Physicians--Thomas Alfred Barker, M.D., 71, Lower Grosvenor eet ; 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 a numerous and influential Proprietary and Shareholders. No extra charge for going to or residing at (in time of peace) Australasia, Bermuda, Madeira, Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, and the British North American Colonies. Medical men in all cases remunerated for their report. Assurances granted against paralysis, blindness, accidents, insanity, and every otherailliction, bodily and mental, at mode tale rates. A liberal commission allowed to Agents. Annual Premium for assuring 4100, namely:— Age. 6 s. d. Age. 6 s. d. 20 ll5 0 4U 216 6 30 2 2 0 50 4 2 1 Prospectuses, with tables and fullest information, mny be had at the Offices of the Company, or of any of their Agents. Applications for Agencies requested. BEN. MASSE Y, Manager. Offloen, 76,( heapeide, London. EQUITY AND LAW LIFE ASSURANCE 1 SOCIETY, N 0.26, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, LONDON. TRUSTEES. The Right Hon. the LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR. The Right Hon. LORD MONTEAGLE. The Right Hon. the LORD CHIEF BARON. The Hon. Mr. JUSTICE COLERIDGE. The Hon. Mr. JUSTICE ERLE. NASSAU W. SENIOR, Esq., late Muter In Chancery. CHARLES PURTON COOPER, Esq., Q.C., LLD., F.R.S. GEORGE CAPRON, Esti, EXAMPLES of the BONUS upon POLICIES declared to the 31st December, 1854 : Date of Policy .. I hiar.lB, 1845. I I April 24,1845. Nov. 7, 1846. Age atEntry..... 30. Annual Premium Sum Assured.... Bonus added.... I £217 6 I aria 8 £4814 4 1 £lOOO 0 0 I 41000 0 0 81000 0 0 I £[5710 0 I Vat 0 0 £2ll 10 0 Forms of Proposal, Prospectases, and every information, may be had upon written or personal application to the Office. SCOTCH SPUN SILKS FOR LADIES' and CHILDREN'S SPRING and SUMMER WEAR, in all the CLAN TARTANS and newest Fancy Patterns. made in_rmanent colours and an extra quality, expressly for SCOTT ADIE. Aluo, TARTAN IRISH POPLINS, in great choice, at SCOTT ADIES ROYAL CLAN TARTAN, SCOTCH SHAWL, and WATERPROOF CLOAK WAREHOUSE, 115, REGENT-STREET, corner of VIGO STREET. Patterns sent to the country free. THE BEST AND CHEAPEST in England are to be obtained of TEAS PHILLIPS and COMPANY, Tea Merchants, 8, KING WILLIAM-STREET, CITY, LONDON. STRONG CONGOU TEAS-2s. bd., 2s. 10d., 30., 3s. 2d. A general Price-Current is published every month, containing all the advantages of the London. Markets, and is sent free by post on application. SUGARS are supplied at market prices. TEAS and COFFEES to the value of 40s. or upwards sent carnage free to any railway station or market town in England. DEAFNESS. —The only medal awarded at the Great Exhibition of 1851 (for Acoustic Instruments, was to F. C. REIN, for his new ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENTS for the DEAF. They are made of different power, to suit ox treme and every degree of Deafness. To bo procured only of the sole inventor and maker, F. C. Rein,loB, Strand, nearly opposite Exeter-hall, where the Instrument can be tried and numerous testimonials seen, amongst molly one from the Right Hon. Sir John Patteson, one of her Meinstv's Privy Councillors 212° kfILNERS' HOLDFAST 111 and FIRE-RESISTING SAFES (non-conducting and vapourising), with all the improvements, under their Quad ruple Patents of 181041-54 and 1833, including their Gunpowder- Proof Solid Lock and Door (without which no Safe is secure). The Strongest, Best, and Cheapest Safeguards extant. MILKERS' PHUtNIX (2120) SAFE WORKS, LIVER POOL, the most complete and extensive in the world. Show rooms, 8 and 8, Lord-street, Liverpool. London Depot, 44, Moorgate-street, City. Circulars free by post. Sold also by HOBBS, ASHLEY, and CO., 97, CHEAPSIDE. The Best Food for Children,lnvalids, and Others. ROBINSON'S PATENT BARLEY, for making superior BarlepWater in Fifteen Minute. h•• not only obtained the Patronage of her Majesty and the Royal Family, but has become of general use to every class of the community, and is acknowledged to stand unrivalled as au emi nently pure, nutritious, and light food for infants, children, and Invalids. Much approved for making a delicious custard-pudding and excellent for thickening broths or soups. ROBINSON'S PATENT GROATS for more than thirty years have 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, BELLVILLF, and CO., Purveyors to the Queen, 64, Red Lion-street, Holborn, London. Sold by all respectable grocers, druggists, and others, n town and country, in packets of 6d. and Is., and in family canisters at 25., Os., and 10s. eaoh. SATURDAY; - 1 UNITY JOINT-STOCK MUTUAL BANKING ASSOCIATION. COMMENCEMENT OF BUSINESS. THE ROYAL CHARTER of this Institution baying be en received, the BANK will COMMENCE BUSIN ESS on Thursday. the Ist of May, at the Cheif Offices, Unity-buildings, 10, Cannon , street, City; and at the Liecester•square branch, 1, N ew Coventry•street, TERMS 'OF BUSINESS. CURRENT ACCOUNTS.—lnterest at the rate of 2 per cent will be allowed upon the minimum monthly balances when the balance has not been below 3001 at any time during the half ear; 1 per cent. when the balance is below 30(,l. Accounts will be made up each halt-year ending 30th of June and 31st of December. SPECIAL ADVANTAGES.—In addition to the above -named fixed rate of interest, there will be paid, after each half•yearly meeting, as interest on the minimum monthly balances, a sum equal to the profits paid to the sharenolders, viz. 50 per cent. DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS.—Amounts from 51. and upwards will be taken upon deposit at call, and interest allowed thereon at 1 per emit below the rate of discount at the Bank of England, but the maximum not to exceed 5 per cent. This late of interest exceeds that allowed by the Savings Banks, while the system presents the additional advantage that the amount deposited or any part thereof can always be removed without notice. Money will be received on deposit for fixed periods, at rates to be agreed upon. By order, GEORGE CHAMBERS, General Manager. Chief Offices, UNITY-BUILDINGS, 10, Cannon•street, City, April 22, 1866. KENT MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. QUEEN-STREET PLACE, NEW CANNON STREET, London. April 25, ittsB, NOTICE is hereby given, that the ORDINARY ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the above Society will be held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, in the City of London, on TUESDAY, the Gth day of May, 1850, at Two o'clock precisely, for the purpose of receiving and considering the Annual Reports of the Directors and Auditors, and for transacting the other bu siness required to be transacted by the Deed of Settlement and Rules of the Society and the Acts of Parliament under which the Society is enrolled and incorporated. GEORGE CUMMING, Manager. N.B. The new business transacted since last Annual Meeting amounts to upwards of 6,2001. a year; making the gross income of the Society above 24,8001. a year. PARTICULAR to address at full length BENJAMIN EDGINOTON, 2, DUKE-STREET. SOUTHWARK. ➢IARQUEES, TENTS, and RICK-CLOTHS. CRIMEAN TENTS.—A large quantity, suitable for gardens, lawns, &0., to be sold at greatly reduced prices. Twelve test square, td.; thirty-three feet in circumference, 31. Iss. To be seen erected at BENJAMIN EDGINGTON'S, 2, Duke-street, Southwark. 1 1 11 E FORTY-SEVEN SHILLING SUITS 1 made to order, from Scotch Heather and Cheviot Tweeds, all wool and thoroughly shrunk, by B. BENJAMIN, Merchant Tailor, 74, hegent-street. THE PELISSIER OVERCOATS, 21s. and 285., adapted for the season ; the Two-Guinea Dress or Frock Coins ; the Guinea Dress Trousers; and the kialf-Guinea Waistcoat. — A perfect lit guaranteed. NOVELTIES FOR THE SPRING. Rich FLOUNCED SILK DRESSES, 18 yards in the dress, with woven patterns on the flounces. 52.. Gd. and 555. td. Elegant Flounced and Bayadere Chene Silks in all the new colourings. Special Novelties for Court Costume in Moire Antiques, Pom padour and Chene. A beautiful assortment of Plain Silks in every shade, includ ing the new colours, Mer d'Azotf," Orbs Russe, Dupes for Court Trains (specially manufactured'h of the most elegant designs. Ball and Evening Dresses in every light material, including a large assortment of French Plumete, Tambour mud Broches, Tarlatan Muslins, with or without flounces, from Us. upwards. New Walking•dresses in Tissue de Chene, Bareges and Muslin. of every description. ISEWF.LL and CO. COMPTON - HOUSE , Fifth-street and Old Compton-street, hobo. BEDSTEADS, BATHS, AND LAMPS. WILLIAM S. BURTON has SIX LARGE SHOW. ROOMS devoted exclusively to the Separate Display of Lamps, Baths, and Metallic Bedsteads. The stock of each is at once the largest, newest, and most varied ever submitted to the public, and marked at prices proportionate with those that hare tended to make his establishment the most distinguished in this country. Bedsteads irom 12s 6d to 1210 s each Shower-baths from Lamps (Moderateur) from 6s Od to 61 63 each (All other kinds at the same tate ) Pure Colza Oil 4s 8d per gallon THE PERFECT SUBSTITUTE FOR L SILVER.—The Real NICKEL SILVER, introduced twenty years ago by WILLIAM S. BURTON, when plated by the patent process of Messrs. Elkington and Co., is beyond all comparison the very best article next to sterling silver that can be employed as such, either usefully or ornamentally, as by no possible teat can it be distinguished from real silver. Fiddle or Thread or Old Silver Brunswick K ing's Pattern. Pattern. Pattern. Table Spoons and Forks, per doz. Ms. 4ss. 60s. Dessert ditto and ditto Tea ditto fea and Coffee Sets, Cruet and Liqueur Frames, Waiters, Candlesticks, Ac., at proportionate prices. All kinds of Replaung done by the patent process. CHEMICALLY PURE NICKEL NOT PLATED. Fiddle. Thread. King s Table Spoons and Forks, per dozen.. 12s. .. 295. .. ".• Dessert ditto and ditto Tea ditto The alterations and additions to these extensive premises (al. ready by far the largest in Europe), which occupies the whole of . last sear, are of such a character that the entire of MOM HOUSES is devoted to the display of the moat magnificent stock of GENERAL HOUSE IRONMONGERY (including Cutler', Nickel Silver, Plated Goods, Baths, Brushes and Turnery, Lampe and Gaseliers, Iron and Brass Bedsteads, and Bedding) , so arranged in Sixteen Large Show-rooms as to afford to parses furnishing facilities in the selection of goods that cannot be hoped for elsewhere. Illustrated Catalogues sent (per post) free. No. 39, OXFORD.STREET ; 1, It, 2, and 5, NEWMA sr Mar; and 4,5, and 6, PERRY'S-PLACE. Established 1 406