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London, England, 1855-04-13 00:00:00

BRITISH PROVIDENT LIFE and FIRE
ASSURANCE COMPANY, 4, Chatham-place, Blackiriars.
Capital, 100,0001., in 10,000 shares of 10/. each.

DIRECTORS.

Captain Thomas Malkin, Eandharst-lodge, Queen's-road, Gloucester-

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gate, Regent's-park. _ -
John Britten, Esq., 21, Basinghall-street, and Collingtres, North-
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amptonshire.
William Burchett, Esq., Cheapside and Hammersmith.
Joseph Gimson, Esq., 1, Harewood-place, Harewood-square.
George Lane, Esq., Finchley.

AUDITORS.
A. Brinsley Sheridan, Esq., Manager of the Times Life and Gua-
rantee Company, 32, Ludgate-hill, and Bel!field-home, Parson's-
irreen, Fulham.
Thomas Wilson, Esq., 103, 104, and 105, Cheapside, and 7, York-
terrace, Peckham, director of the Anchor Life and Fire Assurance
Company.
Alexander Webber, Esq., Davies-street, Berkeley-square, and 47,
Upper Baker-street, director of the Times Life and Fire Assur-
ance Company.
J. Britten, jun., Esq., 21, Basinghall-street.
Bankers—Royal British Bank.
Physician—William Grove Grady, M.D., M.R.C.S.E.,
Surgeon—William Harding, Esq., 4, Percy-street, Bedford-square.
Standing Codsel—Henry l'. ilinde, Esq, Hall-staircase, liner

Temple.
Solicitor—Henry Empson, Esq., 61, Moorgate•street.
Manager—John Sheridan, Esq.

EVERY VARIETY OF LIFE ASSUR.tNCE BUSINESS
'1 RANSACTE

Policies indisputable.—NO error, mistake, or omission will ha
allowed to vitiate the life policies of this society:
Assurances are effected on the following and all other practical
contingencies of human life, and every facility offered so as to adjust
the payments to the respective means of the assured :
l. Assurance of 201. and upwards on single, ju ut, and survivorship
lives, the amount being payable on the death of he assured party.
2. Assurances for short periods, such as on •, five, or.ten Tears. .
3. Endowment assurances, payable on the party attaining a given
age, or dying previously.
4. Assuranc?s fo: the whole term of life, by increasing or de-
creasing premiums. _ _

5. Endowments of 17:1, and upwards, payable to children on at-
taining 14 0. 21 years of age. _ _

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6. Annuity assurances, by which a given yearly allowance win
be ,ranted, and an agreed portion of the purchase matey returned
to the representatives of the annuitant on dealt occurring.
7. Annuities— immediate, deterred, or survivorship; i y which a
yeat Iy allowance may be secur. ed to the purchaser at once, or urat
his attaining a given age, or upon the death of another party named
in the contract. .

8. Assurance against Accidents,—Assurances are granted to pro-
vide against disability resulting from accidents, a feature peculiarly
suited to persons whose occupations are hazardous.:
9. Provisions at Death. —ln order to supply the wants too
general.), consequent upon the death of the heads of families in
humble circumstances, and espe tally to defray funeral expenses, an
agreed portion of wh le- ife policies, which do not exceed 501. each,
will be paid, upon satisfactory proof being given to the Society of the
decease of the assured.

Division of Prod: s.—Life assurances may he effected with or with-
out a participation in the profits. Policy holders of 1001. and up-
tvards o❑ the participatii g scale will be entitled periodically to a
share et the profit of that class of assurances; such profits to bi
a•l&il at the discretion of the directors as a bonus to the original
sum assured, applied to a reduction of future premiums, or to be
receivabie at once in money. The first investigation will be made
at the end of seven years from the commencement of the Intsinesz,
and thereafter annually, when four-fifths of the divisible profits aris-
ing from the pa ticipating assurances will be appropriated atningst
the holders of policies, in proportion to their amount, and-the period
in whick they shall be respectively entitled to participate.
Privileges of Members.—The holders of policies of assurance upon
their own lives, on the participating scale, for tile whole term for
4991. or upwards. and endowment assurances for the like in, are
membtrs of the Society, and as such entitled to attend and vote at
all general meetings.
Savings Fund Depttrtment.—To enable members to deposit small
su, s which they may wish to Invest at a remunerative rate of inte-
rest. and ;o obtain such deposits back with their accumula•io s after
the expiration of a fixed term of y. ars.
All further particulars may be obtained of the Company's Agents,
or at the Heal Office, of Jain Itheridau, Manager.

HOMCEOPATHY versus ALLOPATHY.
To Messrs 31oRtsorr, British College of Health,

New-road, London
GENTLEMEN,—It appear; that a few days ago several noblemen
and gentlemen hal as interview with Lord Paumure on the subject
of having a homoeopathic hospital at Smyrna, which interview has
been the cause of creating war to the knife be•ween the gentlemen of
the guinea trade. In the " Lancet",of last Saturday, the whole band
of homCeopaths are denounced as quacks of the vilest die, &c. This
is a pleasant prospect certainly for John Bull. Which is he to
believe ? the homoeopathic or allopathic doctors ? Lord Grosvenor is
to be ousted from Middlesex, and I don't know what else—so says
the" L'ancet." Now, I appeal to the country wheth rit is not most
disgusting to see these doctors continually at war with one another ;
and all for what Wby, the guinea trade. These scientific gentle-
men, as they style themselves, are all fighting about who shall get
the guineas from the pocket of Jolot Hull; but as to caring a rush
about the real truth iu medicine, such a thing does not enter their
heads ; for surely, otherwise, we should not seethe unseemly articles
which they level at one another. lam no friend to homoeopathy,
but I hope Lord Grosvenor and the others will assert their right on
this question, and thus vindicate the medical liberty of the subject,
which is a right inherent in every free-born Eng ishman. and which
was so firmly maintained by the immortal James Morison, the
Hygeist, whose system will yet triumph over all others! for it is
emphatically an universal system, and one which for ever abolishes
all poisons in mediciw, and therefore the guinea trade. The public
must benefit from this split amongst doctors.
Yours, Br.c., A HYGEIST.
London, April 9, 1855.
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