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London, England, 1855-05-26 00:00:00

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RAILWAY ACCIDENT INSURANCE.
Sit,r2l be. have already been paid as compensation for Fatal and
other Railway Accidents, by the
RAILWAY PASSENGERS' ASSURANCE
COMPANY.

EX•XPLES.
41,080 was paid to the Widow ofJ.G., killed on the 24th Feb.,
1852, secured by a payment of 11; I'9s(► was paid to 11.C.11.J.,
who bad his leg broken on the 31st August, 1:-53, secured by a
payment of El.
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 Aocident in
the United Kingdom only.
To Insure 11.000 at an Annual Premium of 20s.

Ditto 11::110 ditto 6s.
A new class of Insurance has also been established in case of
Death by Railway Accident alone, without compensation fur
Injury.
To Insure CLOW at an Annual Premium of ....5s
Ditto, any sum not exceeding 41,000 for the whole
of life by a single payment of 6s. per cent.: thus
one paymeht of ri will secure Al pill).
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.st., Loudon

CIRCULAR NOTES, LETTERS of CREDIT,
and BILLS of EXCHANGE.—The LONDON and WEST-
MINSTER BANK issues Circular Notes of RIO each, payable
at every important place in Europe. These Notes are issued
without charge, and they are cashed abroad free of commission.
The Bank also issues, free of charge, Letters of Credit on all the
principal Cities and Towns in Europe, and npon New York and
Chicago, United States, Cape Town, Graham's Town. and Port
Elizabeth, Cape Colony. Letters of Credit and Bills of Exchange
are likewise granted upon Melbourne, Geelong, Belfast, Ballarat,
Castlemaiue, Sandhurst, and Hobart Town, Australia, AT PAR.
The Circular Notes may be obtained at the Bank, or any of Its
branches ; the Letters of Credit and Bills of Exchange are
issued only at the Head Odice in Lothbury.
J. W. GILBART, General Manager.

(1 HUB B' S LOCKS, with all the recent
U Improvements. Strong Fireproof Safes, Cash and Deed
Boxes. Complete lists of sizes and prices may be had on appli•
cation.

CHUBS and SON, 57, St. Paul's churchyard, London; 2R
Lord-street, Liverpool; 10, Market•street, Manchester; and
Horsley-tields, Wolverhampton.

THE CASPIATO, or Folding Bonnet, a new
Invention, for which J. and E. SMITH have her Majesty's
Royal Letters Patent, combines convenience with elegance. It
is packed in a case, le inch deep, thus dispensing with a bonnet
box. Prices moderate. Also every kind of Bonnet in the best
Paris taste. Light Bonnets, vett dowers, at 10s. ed.; Glace
Bonnets, with Sowers, las. Rd.: Mourning Bonnets, with
flowers. 12s. ad.—At J. and E. SMITH'S Show Rooms, 151,
REGENT-STREET, opposite Beck-street. Directions for Self.
Measurement sent free by post.

J)EAFNESS.—The only medal awarded at
the Great Exhibition of 1851 (for Acoustic Instniments,
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 be procured only of the
sole inventor and maker, F. C. Rein, 108, 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.

(ILDRIDGE'S BALM OF COLUMBIA.-
This celebrated compound, universally esteemed for its in-
vigorating powers in restoring the Hair, has received additional
and distinguished patronage from the important features it
possesses in not soiling the mostdelirate bonnet. For promoting
the growth of Whiskers and Moustachios it has long been held
in estimation by Gentlemen, and renders the toilet incomplete
without it. It also prevents the Hair falling off or turning grey;
cleanses It from dandruff; causes it to curl; and in cases of
baldness is peculiarly active.—Price 4s. dd., Gs., and 11s. Whole-
sale and retail.-13, Wellington-street North, Strand.

cAUTIO N. - BOND'S PERMANENT
MARKING INK ; the original, and by far the best, re-
quiring no preparation, offs the surest means of protection for
every variety of household linen and wearing apparel against
loss or. mistake, for which reason be careful to ask for the
genuine article. prepared by the Inventor. JOHN BONI), 28,
LONG-LANE„ WES l' SMITHFIELD. CITY, LONDON. Sold
by most Chemists, Stationers, and Medicine Venders. Price la.
per bottle. To avoid disappointment from the substitution of
counterfeits, be careful to ask for the genuine BOND'S PER-
MANENT MARKING INK, and, further to distinguish it, ob-
serve that NO SIXPENNY SIZE is, or has at any time been,
prepared by him, the Inventor and Proprietor.

THE BEST SHOW OF IRON BEDSTEADS
in the KINGDOM is WILLIAM S. BURTON'S. He has
TWO VERY LARGE ROOMS, devoted to the EXCLUSIVE
SHOW of Iron and Brans Bedsteads and Children's Cots, with
appropriate Bedding and Mattresses. Common Iron Bedsteads,
from 16s. ; Portable Folding Bedsteads, from 12s. (d.; I'atent Iron
Bedsteads, fitted with dovetail joints and patent sacking, from
as. 6d.; and Cots from 20s each. Handsome Ornamental Iron
and Brass Bedsteads, in great variety,from 21. 135.6 d. to 131.155.
BATHS AND TOILETTE WARE.
WILLIAM S. BURTON has ONE LARGE SHOWROOM
devoted excinsivelyto the DISPLAY of BATHS andTO/LETTE
WARE. 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 have tended to make his establish.
ment the most distinguished in this country. Portable Showers,
7s. ; Pillar Showers, $l. to 7.4.; Nursery, lbs. to 325. ; Sponging,
15s. to 325.; Hip, 14s. to 31s. 6d.. A large assortment of Gas,
Furnace, Hot and Cold Plunge, Vapour. and Camp Shower Bathe.
Toilette Ware in great variety, from lbs. 3d. to 435. the Set of
Three.
WILLIAM S. BURTON has SIXTEEN LARGE SHOW
ROOMS devoted to the show of GENERAL FURNISHING
IRONMONGERY (including Cutlery, Nickel Silver, Plated and
Japanned Wares. Iron and Brass Bedsteads, and Bedding), so
arranged and classified that purchasers may easily and at once
make their selections.
Catalogues, with Engravings, sent (per post) free. The money
returned for every article not approved of.
39, OXFORO.STREET (corner of Newnan-strut), Nos. 1,2,
and 3, NEWMAN•STRE ET, and 4 and 3, I' ERRY'S.PLAC E.

Hr. Hallam's Histories—Cheap Edition.
On the 31st of May will be published, Vol. L, post 6V0., 6s.
(to be completed in Ten Monthly Volumes),
THE HISTORICAL WORKS of HENRY
HALLAM.
POPULAR EDITION.
This Edition has been undertaken Rom the urgent demands
made upon the Publisher from time to time for cheaper copies
of these works, which have 03W become class books at the Uni-
versities and Public Schools, and it is hoped that the present
mode of publication will place them within the means and
reach of all classes of readers.

The Worke will appear as follows :
HISTORY of EUROPE during the MIDDLE
AGES. 3 vole.

CONSTITUTIONAL HISTQRY of ENGLAND.
3 vols.

LITERARY HISTORY of EUROPE. 4 vols.
JOlll4 Id umuy, Albemarle•street.

Exhibition of Art-Industry in Paris.

THE ART-JOURNAL for JUNE contains an
Illustrated Report of the most beautiful anti interesting
Contents of the Exhibition lu Paris. The KNOPAVINus
from the ROYAL PICTURES in the AnT-Joussat. tot Jona
are:—" Portsmouth Harbour," after C. Stanfield, RA., and
" Ariel," after H. J. Townsend. The Sculpture is " The Nymph
of the Rhine," from the statue by Schwanihaler. The Exhibi-
tion of the Hoye! Academy and the two Water•Colour Societies
are noticed at full length; also artielos on " Kaulbach's Muir
traUons of Shakspere"—British Industries," by Robert Hunt,
F.R.S.—" The Exhibition of French Pictures In London," ,to &a.
VIRTUE, Hatt, and VIRTUE, 2J, Paternoster-row.

On the let of June, 1856, will be published, price Oue Shilling,
with Two Illustrations by H. K. Browne (Phiz), Part VIII. of
HARRY COVERDALE'S COURTSHIP,
11 AND ALL THAT CAME OF IT : 'hewing how this
misguided young man fell from the ways of good fellowship and
(in)sobriety ; how Air his sins he was condemned to—Matri-
mony ; together with a detailed SOOO4llll of his sufferings in that
state of bondage! By FRANK E. SMEDLEY, Author of
*Frank Fairlegh," " Lewis Arundel," &c.
VIRTUE, HALL, and VIRTUE, 25, Patentoster•row.

NEW DAILY NEWSPAPER.-
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HENAT 1 U N,
the ORGAN of IRISH RIGHTS and IRISH INTERESTS,
is published Weekly at 6, LOWER ABBEY-STREET, DUBLIN .
Tatum—Single copy, 6d. Subscriptions:—Yearly, 11. Ida.;
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AGENCIES at the following places :
LONDON.

MART ANDRZW/O, IS, Duke•street, Littleßritaln.
GEORGE ORPWOOD, 82, Blshopsgate•street.
JOHN HORN), 19, Leicester-square—East side.
Mr. FITHIRATON, 31, Duke•street, Lincoln's lon.

Also at Birk enlioad,Brtidford, Birtni.ngham, Leeds, Liverpool,
Manchester. Sheffield, Wigan, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and all
the peneipal Towns and Cities of England.

yvTESTBOURNE COLLEGE,
BAYSWATER-ROAD,
Mee OPENED on the 43rd of April, 185.5, u a SCHOOL for the
Sons of Gentlemen, under the Patronage of the ARCHBISHOP
of CANTERBURY, the BISHOFS of LONDON, WINCHES-
TERN and LINCOLN; the Right Hou. Sir JAS. STEPHEN,
President, &c. &o. _ _ .

The eeremony of the PUBLIC OPENING of this Institution
is POSTPONEL until next month, when an Inaugural Lecture
will be delivered, and dl interested in the SUCC•1111 of the College
will be invited to attend.

The Masters already in attendance are :
Be,. Charles Mackenzie, A.M., Prebendary of St. Paul's.
H. J. Ward, Rig., A. 8., Emmanuel College, Cambridge: E.
T. H. Bullock, A.M., King's College, Cambridge—English li letety
and Literature. Adolphe Pagon, Esq.—French. Herr Zeral,
Ph. Dr.—German. James Bedford, Esq.— Drawing. Flank
Mori, Esq.—Vocal Part Music. Mr. W. J. Hall—Writing. And
Mr. Creagh—Gymnastics and Fencing.
The Half Term commences ou Wednesday, the Ca of.fune.
The Fees are Six Guineas, Seven guineas, or Eight guineas a
Term, according to instruction. There is an Entrance Fes of
Two Guineas, and a charge of One Guinea per annum for Sta-
tionery. Arrangements are made for Pupils to dine on the pre-
mises, and several of the Masters receive Boarder,.
C. MACKENZIE, A.M., Principal.

PIMME It AIR DYE otters the
Guarantee of Fifteen Mtn' constant suceess to those who
are disappointed with other so-called dyes. It is easy to apply,
perfectly safe, and imparts In a few minutes to the Hair, Whis-
kers, ttc., a natural and permanent black or brown shade.—
Price hs.6d. and 6s. Sold by all Perftiniers and Chemists, and by
E. RIMMEL 19, GERRARD-STREET, 80H0.

QEWELL and Co., COMPTON HOUSE, Soho,
k. 3 have the honour to announce that they intend showing,
this day, an unparalleled STOCK of rich NEW FLOUNCED
SILK DRESSES.
This being the most fashionable Dress of this season, Sewell
and Co. have made extensive purchases, and are enabled to
offer ladies upwards of one thousand of these favorite robes in
the richest qualities and newest designs. including a beautiful
selection of evening colours, at 44 and 63 guineas the dress, the
mane as usually sold at 7 guineas.
44,46,46, Old Compton-street; 46, 47, Frith-street, Soho..

A CLEAR COMPLEXION.—GODFREY'S
LI EXTRACT OE ELDER FLOWERS Is strongly recent-
mended for softening, beautifying, and preserving the akin, and
giving it a blooming and charming appearance, being at once a
most fragrant perfume and delightful cosmetic. It completely
removes tan. sunburn, redness, &c., and by its balsamic AM
healing qualities renders the skin soft, pl iable. and free from
dryness, scurf, Ike.; clears it from every humour, pimple, fir
eruption, and, by continuing Its use a short time. the sift be-
comes and continues soft and smooth, and the complexion ther
and beautiful. In shaving it is invaluable, gait annihilates every
pimple and all roughness, and affords great comfort if applied to
the face during the prevalence of cold easterly winds. hold in
bottles price 2s. ttd., with directions for using it, by all wedelns
vendors and perfumers.