The Press.
London, England, 1855-12-15 00:00:00

VICTORIA LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY, 18, KING WILLIAM-STREET, CITY.

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Established 1838.
BENJAMIN HAWES, Esq., Chairman.
THOMAS NESBITT, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
Charles Baldwin, Esq. W. K. Jameson, Esq.
George Denny, Esq. John Nelluth, Esq.
J. C. Dimsdale, Esq. M. Stainlaud, Esq.
J. P. Gassiot, Esq. F.R.S. Daniel Sutton, Esq.
Aaron Goldsmid, Esq. 0. B. Bellingham Woolsey, Esq.
Sidney Gurney, Esq.
The business of the Company embraces every description of
risk connected with Life Assurance. The Premiums are mode-
rate, and may be paid quarterly, half-yearly, or otherwise.
Credit allowed of one-third of the Premiums till death, or
half the Premiums for five years, on Policies taken out for the
whole of life.

.Four-fifths or 80 per Cent. of the entire Profits are appro-
priated to Assurers on the Profit Scale.
WILLIAM RATRAY, Actuary.

PROFESSIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY, admitting on equal terms Persons of every
Class and Degree to all its Privileges and Advantages.
Offices, 76, CIIEAPSIDE, London. (Incorporated.)
DIREOTORS.
Chairman—Major HENRY STONES, LLB.
Deputy•Chairman—JAMES ANDREW DURHAM, Esq.
Wm. Wellington Cooper, Esq. Rev. H. Hamilton, De Vesci-
Andrew Durham, E sq., of Bath terr., Kingstown, near Dublin
and Belfast Captain E. Nash Noreott, R.N.
Rev. J. Gleadall, M.A. Thos. George Williams, Esq.
Jacob Montetiore, Esl. E. Gamaliel Winthrop, Esq.
AUDITORS.
George Bain, Esq., 18, Perna- I Frederick Wollatt, Esq., Crown-
meut-street court
E. W. G. Evans, Esq., 15, Basinghall-street.
Manager—Ben. Massey, Esq.
Physicians—Thomas Alfred Barker, M.D., 71, Lower Grosvenor.
stt eet ; Wm. W. Gull, M.D., Guy's Hospital.
Surgeon—W. White Cooper, Esq., KR.C.5.,12, Berkeley-square.
Bankers—The Commercial Bank of London.
Solicitor—Edward M. Elderton, Esq., 3, Lothbury.
With a numerous and influential Proprietary and Shareholders'
There are two important clauses in the Deed of Settlement, by
which the Directors have power to appropriate oue.tenth of the
entire profits of the Company :-
Ist. For the relief of aged and distressed parties assured
for li,e, who have paid five 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 invested by thew.
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 other affliction, bodily and mental, at mode-
rate rates.

A liberal commission allowed to Agents.
Annual Premium for assuring $lOO, namely:—
Age. A a. d. Age. Z a. d.
20 ll3 0 40 216 6
30 2 2 0 . .. 50 4 2 1
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Prospectuses, with tables and fullest information, may be had
at the Offices of the Company, or of any of their Agents.
Applications for Agencies requested.
BEN. MASSEY, Manager.
Offices, 76, Cheapside, London.

LOMBARD ADVANCE FUND.
Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1553.
Chief Office, 43, QUEEN-SQUARE, Bloomsbury, London.
LOANS granted from £5 to ,41,000 on Real or Personal Property.
Good Bills Discounted on moderate terms.
Money advanced on Dock Warrants, Railway Shares, and all
kinds of tangible Securities.
Debenture Notes issued, bearing for the ensuing year Interest
at Seven per, Cent. per annum.
The Public are requested to observe that this Society combines
in itself the elements (as also the profits) of Life Assurance,
Loaning, and Banking, and is therefore enabled to deal liberally
with its Borrowers, and also to pay a large Dividend to Share-
holders and Depositors.
Application, if by letter, addressed to Mr. CHARLES FRY,
Secretary, enclosing six postage strunps.

FURNISH YOUR HOUSE with the BEST
ARTICLES at DEANE'S IRONMONGERY and FUR.
NISHINO WAREHOUSES. A Priced Furnishing List flee by
post--DEANE, DRAY, and CO. (opening to the Monument)
London•bndge. Established A.D. 1700.

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 ELECTRO SILVER PLATES. Any person can use
them with ease. Initial Plate, Is.; Name Plate, 2s. ; Set of
Numbers, 2s. ; Crest, se. Sent post free on the receipt of stamps
(with printed direotionr), by the Inventor and sole Patentee, T
CULLETON, 2, LONG ACRE, one door from St. Martin's•lano

QUININE DEN'rRIFICE, as recommended
by Messrs. Robinson and Underwood, surgeon dentists,
for cleansing and preserving the teeth from caries, toothache,
neuralgia, tkc., the accumulation of tartar; also for purifying and
preserving the durability of all kinds of artificial teeth.—Sold,
wholesale and retail, by T. BURDEN, chemit-t, 6, Store-street,
Bedford-square ; and by all chemists and perfumers lu the
kingdom. Prioe 2s. 9d. Spurious imitations can be avoided by
observing the name of" Burden" on the label.

OLDRIDGE'S BALM OF COLUMBIA,
acknowledged for the last thirty years to be the most effec-
tual remedy produced for restoring the hair and promoting the
growth of whiskers and moustaches, has received recently most
distinguished patronage from the Ladies for the feature it pos-
sesses in not soiling the most delicate headdress or bonnet. For
children it is invaluable, forming the basis of a beautiful head of
hair. In bottles, ss. 6d., 65., and 11s. Wholesale and retail, Is,
Wellington-street North, Strand.

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 ex•
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
testimocials seen, amongst many one from the Right Hon. Sir
John Patteson, one of her Majesty's Privy Councillors*