The Press.
London, England, 1856-02-09 00:00:00

SPECIAL NOTICE.

KENT MUTUAL ASSURANCE
11 SOCIETIES.
CHIEF OFFICES:-QUEEN-STREET PLACE, NEW CANNON
STREET, LONDON.

The UNITED ANNUAL INCOMES exceed .027,000, and AtL
PROFITS belong to the Assured.

LIFE.

The NEXT Drams or PROFITS will include Parties assuring
before 24th Mareh next.
The NEW BUSINESS of the last Eight Months exceeds £5,000
in Annual Premiums.

FIRE.

The GU►RANTEE FUND is being increased to IlAtr-A-Mir.r.iox.
The ANNUAL INCOME, since last Annual Meeting, has in-
creased beyond £l,OOO.
GEORGE CUMMING, Manager.
N.B. Agents are still wanted for some vacant Localities.

GASELIERS in GLASS and METAL.—
The increased and increasing use of Gas in Private
Houses has induced WILLIAM S. BURTON to collect from

the 'various

all that is new and choice in

13rackets, Pendants, and Chandeliers, adapted to offices, pas-
sages. and dwelling-rooms, as well as to have some designed ex-
pressly for him; these are ON SHOW over his SIXTEEN
LARGE ROOMS, and present, for novelty, variety, and purity of
taste, an unequalled assortment. They are marked in plain
figures, at prices proportionate with those which have tended
to make his Establishment the largest and most remarkable
in the kingdom—viz., from 12s. 6d. (t wo light) tol6i. les.

LAMPS a MODERATEUR, from Os. to R 6 6s.
—The demand for these Lamps having become general,
WI LLIAM S. BURTON has collected from the different makers
here and in France a variety that defies competition. As many
imported from France were found to be inferior in the works,
William S. Burton sent expressly to Paris to select only from
the best makers, and he can now guarantee each lamp he sells
as perfect in all its parts.
Bronze Lamps, full size s lO 0 to s.f(o 0
Porcelain, plain and ornamental 15 0 to 25 0
Crystal, richly cut
Bronze Pillar Lamps, full size
Porcelain ditto 23 6 to 45 0
Crystal ditto 25 0 to 66 0
Bronze Vase Lamps
Porcelain do., many elegautlypainted 26 0 to 125 0
Pure Colza Oil, ss. 3d. per gallon.

THE BEST SHOW OF IRON BEDSTEADS
in the KINGDOM is WILLIAM S. BURTON'S. He has
FOUR LARGE ROOMS, devoted to the EXCLUSIVE
SHOW of Iron and Braes Bedsteads and Children's Cots, with
appropriate Bedding and Mattresses. Common Iron Bedsteads,
from 16s. ; Portable Folding Bedsteads, from 12s. 6d.; Patent Iron
Bedsteads, fitted with dovetail joints and patent sacking, from
178. 6d.; and Cots from 20s. each. Handsome Ornamental Iron
and Brass Bedsteads, in great variety, from 21. 78.6 d. to 15/.155.
The alterations and additions to these extensive premises (al-
ready by far the largest in Europe), which occupied the whole of
last Near, are of such a character that the entire of EIGHT
HOUSES is devoted to the display of the most magnificent stock
of GENERAL HOUSE IRONMONGERY (including Cutlery,
Nickel Silver, Plated Goods, Baths, Brushes and Turnery,
Lampe and Gaseliers, Iron 'and Braes Bedsteads, and Bedding),
so arranged in Sixteen Large Show-rooms as to afford to parties
furnishing facilities in the 'election of goods that cannot be
hoped for elsewhere.
Illustrated Catalogues sent (per post) free.
No. 99, OXFORD-STREET ; 1, la, 2, and 3, NEWMAN-
?BEET ; and 4,5, and 0, PERRY'S-PLACE. Established 1820.

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CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL
LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
The Annual General Meeting of Proprietors will be held at
the Office of the Society on THURSDAY, the 6th day of March
next, at One o'Clock precisely, at which Meeting Six Directots
will be elected.
Any Proprietor desirous of proposing a Candidate for the
Office of Director must send the name of such Candidate to the
Secretary at least fourteen days before the day of meeting. The
ballot will commence at Eleven and close at Two o'Clock.
An Election of all Auditor (on the part of the Assured) will
also take place on WEI IN ESDAY, the WI day of March, between
the hours of Eleven and Two o'clock.

BONUS.
The Sixth Division of Profits will be made in January, I€ 7.
Those who complete Policies before the end of June next will
participate.
GEORGE H. PINCKARD, Resident Secretary.
99, GI eat Russell-street, Bloomsbury,
'J th February,

SPECIAL NOTICE.
The Books of the Society close on let March, and Proposals
lodged at the Head Office, or at any of the Agencies, on or
before that date, will secure the advantage of the present
year's entry, and of One Year's Additional Bonus over later
Proposals.

MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE.
THE WHOLE PROFITS DIVIDED AMONGIST THE ASSURED.

THE SCOT TIS II EQUITABLE
LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.

Instituted 1831.
Incorporated by Special Act of Parliament.
The Fund accumulated from the Contributions of Members
exceeds NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS.

The Annual Revenue exceeds ONE HUNDRED and SIXTY-
THREE THOUSAND POUNDS.

The Amount of existing Assurances exceeds FOUR MIL-
LIONS and a QUARTER STERLING.
The amount paid to the Representatives of Deceased Members
is upwerds of SIX HUNDRED and FIFTY THOUSAND
POUNDS, of which SEVENTY-EIOHI THOUSAND POUNDS
are Bonus additions.

The NEXT DIVISION of PROFITS takes place on the let
of March, 1t456, and Policies effected before that date receive
One Year's additional Bonus over those effected after that date.

ROBERT CHRISTIE, Manager.
WILLIAM FINLAY, Secretary.
Head Ofllce-26, ST. ANDREW-SQUARE, EDINBURGH*.
London Office —126, BISHOPSGATE-STREET, corner of

W. H. SMALRIDGE, Interim Agent.l

GREAT BRITAIN MUTUAL LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY.

14, WATERLOO•PLACE, LONDON, and 30, BROWN-
STREET, MANCHESTER.
Directors.
THE CHISHOLM, Chairman.

CHARD HARTLEY KENNEDY, Esq., Alderman, Deputy
Chairman.

This Society is established on the tried and approved principle
of Mutual Assurance. The funds are accumulated for the exclu-
Pive benefit of the Policyholders, under their own immediate
superintendence and control. The profits are divided annually,
and applied in reduction of the current premiums. Policy-
holders participate in profits after payment of live annual pre-
miums.

The Annual General Meeting of this Society was held on the
30th May, 1855, when a Report of the business for the last year
was presented, exhibiting a statement of most satisfactory pro.
gress. It appeared that during the two last years, 1853 and
1854, between 800 and 900 new Assurances had been effected,
producing an increase of premium income amounting to 14,0001.
per annum. It also appeared that, notwithstanding the extraor-
dinary mortality which prevailed during the last year in conse-
quence of the visitation of the cholera, it had not been found
necessary to reduce, in the slightest, the allowance of 31i per
cent. previously awarded to the Policy-holders.
Credit is allowed for half the Annual Premiums for the first
five years.

A. R. IRVINE, Managing Director.

14, Waterloo-place, London.

LTAIR DESTROYER.-1, Little Queen-street,
11 High Holborn. —ALEX. ROSS'S DEPILATORY, for re-
moving effectually F xperfluous hair from the face, neck, arms,
and hands, withon t the slightest injury to the skm. A.R. will
warrant it not to irritate the flesh in the smallest degree, and the
hair to be entirely destroyed.—Sold in bottles at ss. 6d., ss. 6d.,
and 10s. 6d. ; or applied at the Hair-Dyeing Establishment, as
above. Forwarded for stamps; carriage free, eight extra.

DEAFNESS.—The only medal awarded at
the Great Exhibition o 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 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. Sir
John Patteson, one of her Majesty's Privy Councillors

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, 38. tkl., 65., and 11.1. Wholesale and retail, 13,
Wellington-street North, Strand.