The Press.
London, England, 1855-06-30 00:00:00

BUSINESS TO BE UNDERTAKEN.

All the usual business of banking will be undertaken ; and
arrangements will be made for extending the transactions of the
bank iu every desirable quarter.
Current accounts will he made up half-yearly—namely, to the
90th of June and the 91st of Decembee—and interest will be
allowed at the rate of 21. per cent., provided the balance shall
not at any time have been below MK If not below 1001., 11.
per cent. Under this amount no interest will be allowed.
DEeosir ACCOUNTIC-With respect to these, the rate of
interest allowed on money placed at seven days' notice will be
H. per cent. under the rate of discount on first•class bills
adopted by the Bank of England, regulated thereby. The
bank will give receipts fur the sums so deposited, or, for the
convenience of depositors leaving England, promissory notes, or
bills, including interest as well as principal, at not less than six
months' date.

The bank will undertake the agency of Country and Foreign
Banks, whether Joint-Stock or Private, and will afford every
accommodation to travellers and others, with respect to Circular
Notes and Letters of Credit. It will receive all kinds of Income
for its customers, including Annuities, Dividends, Military.
Naval, and Civil Officers' Pay. It will undertake the Sale and
Transfer of Stock In the Public Funds, hc., and will be respon-
sible for the safe custody of Title Deeds and other Securities be-
longing to its customers, to which they will at all Coles have
convenience of access.
Applieations for Prospectuses, and Forms of Application for
Shares to be made to the Solicitor of the Association, Thomas
Tayloe, Esq., 27a, Bucklersbury, London ; to the Secretary, at
the Temporary Offices, 40, Pall-mall, London; or at 38, Cannon-
street, London-bridge.
HENRY LAKE, Secretary.

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:
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'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•

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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