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London, England, 1852-10-04 00:00:00

LIFE OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.
Early in October will be published, Volume Third of
MISS AGNES STRICKLAND'S
LIVES of the QUEENS of SCOTLAND,
and English Princesses connected with the Royal Succession.
This volume of Miss Agnes Strickland's Royal Biographies contains
the commencement of a personal Life of Mary Stuart, which it is
believed will be found more authentic and complete than any which
has yet appeared. The collection and arrangement of materials for
it was commenced many years ago—even before the publicatien of
the Lives of the Queens of England. It comprises an amount of
curious and important information hitherto inedited, the fruits of
long and arduous research in the State Paper Offices of England,
Scotland, France, and other nations, and in the charter-chests of the
descendants of the noble families of Great Britain ancestrally con-
nected with that momentous period. The result is a Biography
which is likely to be the crowning work of Miss Stricklanfl's great
national undertaking.
Vols. I. and 11. contain the Lives of Margaret Tudor, Magdalene
of France, Mary of Lorraine, and Margaret Douglas, Countess of
Lennox.
The Series will be completed in Six Volumes, post Bvo., embel-
lished with Portraits and Historical Vignettes, price 10s. 6d. each.
William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London.

BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY.
The highest medical authorities recommend Brandy and water
as the best customary beverage, and particularly as an efficient pre-
ventive of diarrhceatic complaints at this season. They equally con-
cur in preferring BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY as the purest and
most wholesome. It is unequalled for preserving fruits, home-made
wines, &e.
Sold throughout the Kingdom, by respectable wine and spirit mer-
chants, in glass bottles, protected by the Patent Metallic Capsules,
and at the DISTILLERY, 7, SMITHFIELD-BARS, in dozens,
bottles and cases included, at 18s. per gallon ; or in stone jars of
two gallons and upwards, at 16s per gallon. pale or coloured.
J. T. BETTS and CO.,
French Brandy Distillery, 7, Smithfield-bars, St. John-street.

MERCHANT'S and TRADESMAN'S
MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
5, Chatham-place, Blackfriars, London,
And all the principal towns in the kingdom.
TRUSTEES.
effery Smith, Esq. I Thomas how, Esq.
David Fergusson, Esq.
Advantages offered by this Society
Policies Indisputable, except in cases of fraud.
All the Medical Fees paid by the Society.
Assurances of every description effected.
Non-forfeiture of Policies.
Assurers unable, or who find it inconvenient to pay their Pre-
miums as they fall due, may have a credit on application to the
Board.
Loans granted on Personal and other Securities in connexion with
Life Assurance.
The Directors being desirous of extending the Agencies in and
round the Metropolis and throughout the Provinces, are ready to re-
ceive applications from influential and active persons, accompanied
with a reference.
GEORGE THOMSON, Manager.
THOS. MUSGRAVE, Secretary.

BRITISH EMPIRE MUTUAL LIFE
AND FIRE ASSURANCE OFFICES,
37, New Bridge-street, Blackfrlars, London.
LIFE COMPANY.
In first five years' ,120 Life Policies were issued for 553,3031., the
annual premiums on which were 32,8761. 17s. sd. The deaths con-
sumed five per cent. only of premiums. After laying aside adequate
fun is for liabilities under policies, a bonus was declared, averaging
in present cash value nearly one-fourth of the premiums received.
During 1852 Life Policies for 173,2511. have been issued, being an ex-
cess over 1851, of 67,376/.
FIRE SOCIETY.

In first four years 6,766 Folicies for 2,724,1201. were issued. Losses
have not exceeded 45 per cent. of premiums. The return in cash to
members amounted to one-eighth of premiums received. During
1852 Fire Policies for 623,0931. have been issued, being an excess
over 1851 of 132,0311.
The expenses of these offices are lower than almost any other
office, combining the pure mutual principle with every modern im-
provement in the assurance system.
Persons assuring their lives in 1852 participate in the next division
of profits.
W. S. GOVER, Actuary and Secretary.

r I 11IE DEPOSIT and GENERAL LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY.
Chief Office, 22, Meorgate-street, London.
Every description of Life Assurance business transacted.
Loans and Annuities granted on most liberal terms.
"Diseased" lives, and lives "declined" by other offices, taken.
Medical referees liberally remunerated for their reports.
C. W. BEVAN, Actuary and Secretary.
N.B. Clergymen and Ministers of all denominations are particu-
larly invited to examine the principles of the Deposit System of As-
surance adopted by this Office.
Agents Wanted.

CREMORNE GARDENS.
On the Banks of the Thames, King's-road, Chelsea.
Waterside Entrance close to Battersea-bridge Pier.
Fare by Steam-boat from London-bridge or any of the interme-
diate Bridges or Wharf Piers, 3d. Strangers should request to bo
landed at Battersea bridge for Cremorne. Fare by Omnibus from
Charing-cross, 31.; from the City and remotes. parts of the East-
end, 6d.
Proprietor, Mr. T. B. SIMPSON.
ANOTHER WEEK'S ENTERTAINMENT.
Positively the Last Week of the Season.
The Pyrotechnic Displays by the Chevalier Mortr.tin.
A. new Grand Spanish Comic Ballet, entitled Le Barbier do Cadiz,
every Evening. at Halt-past Seven o'clock.
An uninterrupted succession of Entertainments from Three o'clock
until near Midnight.
Open at Three o'clock.
Admission, Is.; Children, Half-price.
On Sundays, after Four o'clock, by Refreshment Card, price 6d.
Table d'Hote at Six o'clock, 2s. 6d.
Private Room for Dinners and Coffee.

IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS,
Just published, by 11. Bail Here, 219, Regent-street. London.
No I.
Second Edition, with Additions,
Bvo., in cloth, price 55., by post free, 55. 6d.,
ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRECEA ;
with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors
n relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the
Generative System, or Sexual Ilypochondriasis.
Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD.
"Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practi-
cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first
time, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi-
cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall
detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his
power to correct."—London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851.
—" The editor has conferred a great boon on the sufferers from this
distressing malady by translating this little hook, and by laying bare
the scandalous practices of unqualified adventurers, who profess to
cure a disease of which they know nothing, with no other object
than to fill their own purses. The difference between true Sperms-
torrhcea and the various forms of disease which resemble it are
accurately described, and thus a safe guide is offered for the
treatment of the malady."—Medical Circular, May 5, 1852.
—" We have delayed so long upon the contents of the preliminary
chapter, that we have scarcely left ourselves space for any notice of
the subject specially treated of by Dr. Pickford ; but the moderate
price at which the ' brochure is sold, places it within the reach of
every one interested in the matter."—Dublin Medical Press, April
18,1852.
So. 11. . _

Bvo., in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post free, 4s.
THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Princi-
ples at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate
and apparently Intractable Forms. To which is added, PRACTICAL
OBSERVATIONS ON THE TREATMENT OF SPERMATOUR-
IICEA BY CAUTERIZATION ; its Inefficiency and Danger.

BY F. B. COURTENAY,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
"Those who complain most loudly are those only who know not
how to use the common instruments
geons has been mar(ed with all kinds of violence, an indifference
about the simple cure of diseases, and a passion for operations and
all the excesses and horrors of surgery."—John Bell's Surgical
Observations.—" In proof of his views he (Mr. Courtenay) has
given the history of a great many cases successfully treated, as bad
as any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which ho had operated.
Such are cases ix., xi., xii., and xviii. No. ix. had resisted, for a
period of twelve years, the treatment by dilitation, and was finally
removed in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and xix. appear, both
In duration, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag-
gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet the
treatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently successful."
—Protess(r Lizars on the Treatment of Stricture.

DR. CULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS.
To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho,
147, Fleet-street; Mann, 39, C4rnhill ; or direct from the author ;
price One Shilling each; by post, is. 6d.
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ENJOYMENT OF LIFE.
"Heath, F.ecreation, and Ttational Uso of Time."

CoicrEtrrs :—Early Rising—Spring and Summer Idornings—Ex-
cursions about the Environs of London—The earks, Lanes, Hills,
Forests, Fields, High-roads, and other pleasant places—Country
Trips and Rambles—The Sea—London at Night—Evenings at Home
—Music—The Drama—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing,
Air, Rest, Ease, Occupation, &c., &C.

FRAGMENTS FROM TUE MOUNTAINS. Two Wis.
Vol. I.

VISIT TO THE LAKES SKETCH OF EDINBURGH, &O,

Vol. 11.
TILE I.ArNIS OF KILL &RNEY ; REMINISCENCES OF
DUBLIN, tr,c.
M.
WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID,
"That three score years and ten our courso may run."
A popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner-
vously-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses
the
bitter g, besets the man of pleasure, business, or study, and ern-
.auoa .;davr;tufh
eta. bloc and rules for the diet and physical regu-
bloofld eva egrey

TV.
TER PASSIONS.
!'What passions hu bodv—what improve;
Truths as refined tithe Athens ever heard."
scsLife's Pilgrimage, and infancy to old ago. The air
vent of the passions. Chasstity and its infringements. The casual-
d remediative. Advocacy or earlY marriages.
ties flicentionsness and di &paten, with illustrations graphic, nar-
rltiv% an V.

THE MARRIAGE STATz
Time and
To be or not to be, that is the qu' ti
?socialßlNE :—Laws and obligations of nature,
either society, and reli-
gion regarding marriage, to be observed by cite
choice, on both sides, as to age, temperament, eeBex*
M.R.C.S. (18n) L.S.A.
fie to' secure healthy offspring, with the art of mr:_le?Lion, and
Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion.
them.
Cases, &c. conversion.
By IL J. CULVERWELL, M.D. (1841),
1824). Twenty-five years Medical and. Forensic.. Referee In
matters. Reception hours daily till Five. Evenings, Seven 1M
Nine. 10, Argyll-place. Rezent-street.

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QUARTERLY NAVAL OBITUARY.
The following are the names of officers whose deaths
have been officially reported since the 20th of June,
1852:
Flag Officers—Admiral—Sir John W.Loring, K.C.B.
Rear Admired (Reserved List)—Ralph R. Wormeley.
Retired—Thomas T. Tucker and David Scott.
Captains—lsham F. Chapman and Henry J. Worth.
Reserved Half•pay—Thomas L. Robins.
Commanders—Henry Bolton and John J. M'Donnell.
Reserved Half-pay—Joseph Patsy, James C. Bennett,
John M'Gladery, and Charles Grullett. Retired—James
Hodgson, Thomas Hills, Archibald Black, William Low•
cay, and Henry Brett.
Lieutenants—John P. Wells, Charles W. Hallett,
Charles J. Hoffmeister, Rowland Berington, William G.
Crowder and Robert A. Stupart. Reserved Half-pay—
Henry Muller, Daniel W. Randall, John G. Max James
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