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London, England, 1855-08-04 00:00:00

Chairman—Samuel Ashton, Esq.
Resident Secretary—R. A. Kenuedy, Esq.

FIRE DEPARTMENT.
1433. 1854.
£113,619
Insurances may be effected in this Department on terms as
low u those of most other Companies.
Farming Stock insured at 3s. per cent., free from the conditions
of average, and allowing a Steam Thrashing Machine.
LIFE DEPARTMENT,
18b3. 1554.
E 6,1113
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.
SWINTON BOULT, Secretary to the Company.
BENJAMIN HENDERSON, Ruident Secretary,
London.

NOTICE OF DIVIDEND.
BANK 0 F DEPOSIT,
8, PALL-MALL EAST, LONDON.
Established A.D. 1844.
The WARRANTS for the HALF•TEARLY INTEREST, at
the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, to the 80th of June, are ready
for delivery, and PAYABLE daily between the hours of Eleven
and Three o'clock.
July 10, 1865. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director.
Prospectuses and forms fur opening accounts sent free on
application.

DEAFNESS.—The only medal awarded at
the Great Exhibition of 1851 (for Aooustlo Instrnmentei
was to F. C. REIN, for his new ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENTS
for theDEAF. They are made of different power, to suit et-
treme and every degree of Deafness. To be 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 many one from the Right Hon. SD
John Patteson, one of her Majesty's Privy Councillors.

CGLES'S ALGA MARINA, a Concentrated
Essence of the Seaweed, is an invaluable external remedy
for Rheumatism and Rheumatic Gout; also fur weakness, con•
tractions, scrofulous swellings, deformities, tumours, rte.
" Lady Elizabeth Tufton is able to testify to the great benefit
which Coles's Alga• Marina has been to William Simian: he had
lost the use of his limbs, and he is now completely reoovered.-
11, Great Cumberland-street, August 10."
"Having for some time suffered severely from Rheumatism, I
procured a bouts of the essence, applied it, and have not sines
had the slightest recurrence of my distressing pains.—Thomas
Dennis, Grange-road, Bermondsey."
Sold in bottles, 28.9 d., 4s. fgl., and Ile. each, by T. Keatirt,
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post free by enclosing six stamps.

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SCOTTISH EQUITABLE (MUTUAL)
LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Incorporated by Special Act of Parliament.
THE TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
of this SOCIETY was held at Edinburgh, on Tuesday, May 1,
ISO. The Report by the Directors, among other isforramilon,
cosigned the following particulars :
During the year closed ou let March last-
-828 Policies have been issued.
The Sums Asesured thereby amount to 284,C01.;
And the Annual Premiums thereon to 9,0411.
The position of the Society at Ist March was as follows:
Existing Assurances
Annual Revenue
Accumulated Fund.
This Corporation has been in existence Twenty-four Years.
It proceed* on the principle of Mutual Costribution, the Surplus
of Profit being wholly divisible among the members.
The total additions to Policies made at and preceding March
1,1843, amounted to
tux HUNDRED AND SIX THOUSAND EIOHT HUNDRED AND
111TE•1IVE POUNDS.

The amount paid to the Representatives of Deceased Item•
berg is upwards of

_
811 HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS.
Copies of the report, and all other information, may be had on
application at the Head Mee, or Agencies.
Agent iu London—W. COOK, 1116, Sishopagate-street Within.
VIEW or TUE PROGRESS AND POSITION or THE SOCIETY.

Amouut
Assured.

Annual
N.evenue.

♦t Ist Much, 1837
1643
n 1849
1851

£740,483
1,707,716
3,067,376
4,392,733

528,908
03000
114,106
1W394

ROBERT CHRISTIE, Mu
WILLIAM FINLAY, Soon
Head Ofllce--20, ST. ANDREW-SQUARE, EDINBU

PROFESSIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY, admitting on equal terms Persons of story
Class sud Degree to all its Privileges and Advantages.
Offices, I'd, CHEAPSIDE, London. (incorporated.)
DIRECTORS.

Chairman—MaJor HENRY STONES, LLB.
Deputy-Chairman--JAMES ANDREW DURHAM, Esq.
Wm. Wellington Cooper, Esq. Rev. H. Hamilton, De Vinci.
Andrew Durham, Esq., of Bath %err., Kingstown, near Dublin
and Belfast Captain E. Nash Noroott, R.N.
Rev. J. ()leaden, M.A. Thos. George Williams, Seq.
Jacob lioutetiore, Esq. E. Gamaliel Winthrop, Esq.
AUDITORS.
George Bain, Esq., 18, Parka- I Frederick Wollatt, Esq., Crown-
meut-street court
E. W. G. Evans, Esq., 13, Buinghall-street.
Manager—Ben. Massey, Esq.
Physicians—Thomas Alfred Harker, M.D., 71, Lower Grosvenor-
eet ; Wm. W. Gull, M.D., Guys 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 l'roprietary 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 and distressed parties assured
for life, who have paid live 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 five per
cent. per annum on the capital originally luvested by them.
No extra °barge for going to or residing at (in time of peace)
Australasia, Bermuda, Madeira, Cape of Good Hope, Maurittus,
and the British North knierican Colonies.
Medical men in all oases 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 0100, namely :
Age. £ a. d. Age. l s. d.
20 ll3 0 40 *lB 6
90 2 2 0 60 4 2 1
Prospectuses, with tables and fullest information, may be had
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Applications for Agencies requested.
BEN. MASSEY, Manager.
Offices, 76, Cheapside, London.

LOANS ON MORTGAGE DEBENTURES.
—The DIRECTORS of the WYCOMBE RAILWAY
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or Five years.
The Wycombe Railway is leased to the Great Western Railway
Company for 999 years, at a rent of 3,GiAI. per annum.
Proposals to be addressed to the Secretary.
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