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TO AGENTS.—Life Assurance Agents in any
part of England may with advantage become Agents for Fire
Insurance, and thereby greatly extend their Lite Yusiness. The
Directors of the UNITY FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION—an
institution established on new and important principles, and possess-
ing upwards of Two THOUSAND SHAUEHOLDERS,•whose names-and
addresses are published with the Prospectus--are ready to receive
applications for Agencies, accompanied by references. By looking
over the List of Shareholders, applicants will pi obably find several to
whom they are known. For terms, prospectuses, &c. apply to
THOMAS H. B kYLIS, General Manager and Secretary.
Chief Offices, 40, Pall Mall, London.

NORTH OF SPAIN RAILWAY.
Bayonne, Irun, St. Sebastian, Tolosa, Bllboa, Vitoria. Miranda,
Br,viesca, Burgos, Palencia, Vallado:id, Avila, L'Eseurial, Madrid.
Capital 29,925,000 piastres, 315.000 shares of 95-piastres each for
Spain, 500 francs for France, or 201. for England. Deposit 19 piastres
in Spain, 100 lanes in France, or 41. in England. One fifth of the
capital his been subser:bed in Spain, two-fifths in France, and two-
fifths remain for appropriatidu in England.
President—The Duke De Riansares.
Bankers in Paris—Messrs. Rothschild, Paris.
Bankers in London—Messrs. Masterman, Peters, and Co. ; the
London and County Bank.
Bankers in Bordeaux—Messrs. Ezpeleta et Fils.
Agents in London—Messrs. C. Deyaux and Co., 62, King William-
street, City ; to a hom applications for shares may be made.
The •N orth of Spain Railway js about 685 kilometres, or 427 miles
long, including the branch to the port of Bliboa.
The projectors have already obtained the concession for 99 years,
of the Spanish portion, which traverses a distance of 650 kPornetres,
or 406 miles. They have paid 750,000 piastres (157,0001.), the caution
money, and they are in actual treaty with the French Government
for the section from Bayonne to the Spanish frontier ; the length of
which is only 35 kilometres, or 21 miles.
The SPanish Government guarantees to the Company, on a maxi-
mum capital of 30,000,000 piastres (6,315,7891.), a minimum interest
of 7 per cent., Including 1 per ccnr. to be applied to a sinking fund.
The provinces and coma tines traversed by this railway, as well as
the contiguous provinces and communes, have agreed to share with
the i- overnment the responsibility of this guarantee.
The Spanish Government, perceiving the great advantaz;e which
must result to the public revenue by the encouragement of railways,
which develop the various sources ofnational wealth, have faithfudy
adhered to the guarantees they have given ; and even in cases where
companies have not been able to perform their engagements, the
Government has returned to such companies, whether nttive or
foreign, the entire sums paid as cautionary deposit.
In order to secure to the shareholders in the North of Spain Rail-
way the full value of the guarantee of 6 per cent., and 1 per cent.
sinking fund, a general contract has been already made for the pur-
chase of the land, the construction of the whole line, and for rolling
stock, plant, &c., according to the requirements of the Government,
at a price within the guaranteed capital. The contractor has depo-
sited 500,000 piastres o, 165,2631., as a guarantee for the due fulfil-
ment 01 the contract, and is to leave 5 peecent. out of each certificate
in the hands of the directors as a further security, until such reserves
shall amount to the sum deposited.
The contract price covers all expenses incurred in surveys and
otherwise up to the present time, and leaves a fund of about 10 per
cent. of the capital in the hands of the directors, to meet the general
expenses of the undertaking, and to pay interest at the rate of 5 per
cent. per annum to the shareholders during the course of construe-

The North of Spain Railway connects Madrid with several.provin-
etal chief towns, forming points of convergence of various high roads,
such as Vitoria, where seven meet. Burgos, Valladolid, and Avila,
ate also the centres of similar streams of traffic.
The North of Spain Railway traverses most important industrial
districts, such as the provinces of Biscay, Guipuzcoa, and Alava. It
runs also through districts rich in wools, wines, and corn—districts
producing much more than they can either consume, or at present,
export • and which. to gain access to the home and foreign markets,
need only those facilities of economical transport which this railway
will provide.

The North of Spain Railway will establish a thorough communi-
cation between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Starting
from Bayonne and Biboa it will proceed through Irun, St. Sebastian,
To'osa, and Vitoria to Miranda At Miranda it reaches the river
Ebro, which Is now being canalised down to the port of Alfaques,
on the shores of the Me di terranean. At Madrid also it will be placed
in communication with the great line of railway now in course of
construe non between the capital and Valencia.
Another very important feature or this great undertaking is that
at Valladolid it will reach the river Douro, which runs to Oporto;
end lastly, at Madrid, it will be brought into connexion with the
Ararjuez Railway, which will be continued first to Badajoz to meet
the Portuguese line to Lisbon, next to Cordova, and thence to
Seville and Cadiz.
To e,timate the advantages which such data promise to the North
of Spain Railway, the distinction between epanish, English, and
French railways must be kept in view.
First,—The cost of construction is greater in England or France,
because land is of a higher value than in Spain. Labour is much
dearer in England and in France thin in Spain. Rails tvso and
engines bear in France a price somewhat extravagantly high, in
consequence of the protection given to home industry, whist into
=pain they are imported from England free of duty..

Secondty, —The return from railways in England or France are of
much slower development than in Spain, because in the former
countries railways have to compete with already existing and long
established means of conveyance, whilst in Spain railways, from the
moment of their opening, absorb the o+ hole of the traffic.
The returns are less profitable in England and France than in

Span, because they can be secured only by incessant reductions
upon the tariffs of the numerous competing means of transport ;
whist In Spain the tariffs will, to a certainty, be largely remune-
rative, since they can reasonably be fixed at 50, 100, and even 200
per cent above the Englsh and French tariffs, and still remain
much cheaper than the old means of transport, and be accordingly
appreciated.

These distinctions are well founded, and have received confirma-
tion from the results of all the existing railways in ripain ; hence
the Railway Company from Valencia to Alcira has teen compelled,
after a few months' traffic, to double the rolling stock, which Lad
been estimated sufficient for several years. Upon the line from
Langreo, in the Asturias, the exorbitant tariff of 20 centimes per
kilometre and per ton sufficed to put down all competing means of
transporting the coal of the basin of Sama to the port of Gijon ; and,
lastly, the line from Madrid to Aranjuez, only 51 kilometres long,
and which runs to no centre of production or commerce, had in
1852, the first year of its working, a traffic of 300,000 passengers,
and 110,000 tons of mere' andise.
'i he estimates of the receipts to be expected from this line have
been framed under the special superintendence of the provincial,
consular, and municipal corporations •of Biscay, and establish upon
the existing traffic an immediate return of 5,150,000 piastres, or
1,08 ,2101., which, after deducting 45 per cent. for working ex-
penses, leaves a net profit upon the capital of the Company of 10
per cent. This estimate, however, is wholly irrespective of the in-
crease which improved means of transport invariably ensures.
. . . .

The Board of Direction will be nominated in the statutes of the
mpany, and will consist of eight Spanish, four French, and three
English Directors. Three French Directors have been appointed,
TiZ.

M. Ardouin, banker, Paris,
M. De Grimaldi, Paris, and
M De Ezpeleta, Pads and Bordeaux.
London, April 9, 1853.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARE'S,
North of Spain Railway Company.
To Messrs. C. Devaux and Co.

Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares in the above
undertaklnz, and I hereby agree to accept the said shares, or any
less number you may allot me, and to pay the sum of 4/. on each
share allotted, at the time to be specified in your letter of allotment.
Dated this day of 185
Residence . . .

NORTH OF SPAIN RAILWAY.—Applica•
tions for Shares in this Company may be made to Messrs. C
DEvoux & Co , 62, King William-Street, City.
13th April, 1853.

IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS,
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THE CURE OF STRICPURE OF Tag URETHRA, on Princi-
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and apparently Intractable Forms.
BY F. B. COURTENAY,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

"In proof of his views he (Mr. Courtenay) has given
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in enratten, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag-
gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet the
treatment adopted by Mr. Conrtenay proved eminently successfid."
—Professor Lizars on the Treatment of Stricture.

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MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF
YOUTH AND MATURITY.
CR. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
Doctor of Medicine, and 141atric,ilated Member of the University 01
_Edinburgh, honorary Member of the London Hospital Medic
Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Ball, London, &c., &c.
HAY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on
the various disorders of the nervous and generative system,
resulting from juvenile irregu'arities and excesses, which have pro-
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ture decay at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of dis-
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in the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist-
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existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous
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endless modifications owe their almost entire origin.

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incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed
the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties
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and how the evil and its con.,.equences may be avoided, and above all,
that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional
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DOCTOR LA'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged
In an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate com-
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of the taunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has had
the confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct
attention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is
tree. In selecting thi 4 department of practice, he has been amply
ree aided by the great success that has attended his efforts in the
treatment of these cases, which are too generally confided to the
care of unqualified and ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated
publications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues
of their patent no-trums, have inflicted serious injury on those who
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