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A POPULAR ACCOUNT of the ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. B:
Sir G. WILKINSON. With tOO Woodcuts.

Already Published,

THE
_GU1LL0T.L.N.V...,..4n Historical Essay. By. Right Ron.
tRO3I 1. t4B.
A MONTH in' NORWAY. By JOHN GEORGE HOLLWAY. 2s.
WELLINGTON—his Character, Actions, and Writings. By
JULES MAIIREL Is. 6d.
L FE of LORD CHANCELLOR BACON. By Lord CAMPBELL.
2s. 6d.
NIMROD on the CHACE. Is.
ANCIENT SPANISH BALLADS. ByJ. G. LOCKHART. 2s. 6d
THE FALL of JERUSALEM. By Dean MILMAN. Is.
LITER tRY ESSAYS and CHARACTERS. By flatcar H.
LAX. 2s.
MIJ4IC and DRESS. By a LADY. IS.
BEES and FLOWE 'S. By a CLEao•tm.w. 2s.
SrORY of JOAN of ARC. By Lord Milton. Is.
A POPULAR ACCOUNT of NINEVEH. By A. H. LAYARD.
ss.

LIFE of THEODORE HOOK. Is.
LU ' s S 11- on HISTORY. 6J.
A VISIT TO NEP tUt,. By LAURENCE OLIPHANT. 25. 6d.
THE EMIGRANT. By Sir F. B. HEAD. 2s. 6d.
I'HE ARP 01 DINING. .Is d.
DEEDS of NAV OARING. By EDWARD GIFFARD. 2s. €d
NIMROD on the TURF. Is. 6d.
ESSAYS from "THE TIMES." 4s.
THE "FORTY-FIVE." By Lord MAHON. 3s.
WELT INGTON. By Lord ELLESMERE.
FABLES of ~ESOP. By Rev. THOMAS JAMES. 2s. 6d.
NIMROD on the ROAD. Is,

To be followed—
BEAUTIES of BYRON—Prose and Verse.
John bcturray, Albemarle street ;
And to be obtained at all Booksellers, and Rai way Stations.

iRIZE CATTLE SHOW of the SMITHFIELD
CLUB. —The A • UAL r.2CRIBITIttIi of Prize Cattle, Seeds.
hoots, Implements, Sec., commenoes •n TUESDAY morning and
closes on Fnday Evening, 6th, 7th, Bth, and 9th Deeember Bazaar
King•streetand Baker-stn et. Open from d .ylight till nine in th,
evening, Admittance, One Shilling.

ATKINSON and COMPANY, CABINET
MASUFACTUREER, UPHOLSTERERS, and CARPET
WARE EIOU-EME 69, 70. 71, 72, 73, 74, and 75, Westminster-
bridge-road, Lambeth, London.

ATKINSON and COMPANY, DRAPERS,
SILK .11.1 ItS, LACEMEzi, &c., 669, 70, 71, 72, 73, 14.
and 75, Westminster-bridge-road, Lambeth, London.—Shawls, Furs
Mantles, Family Mourning, &c.

r 0 LOVERS of FISH.-100 REAL YAR.
a. • ouTEI BLOA. fERS for 6s , package included. The abov,
forwarded to all parts on receipt of pen postage stamps, or Post.
office order (preferred), !or the amount.—Address, THOMA,
LETTIS, Jun., Fish Curer, Great Yarmouth.

OYSTERS-TO EPICURES.

UEENBOROUGH and FAVERSHAM
NI LIVE OYSTERS.
• -

i re most ivceptable Present at this season of the year is a Barre
of the best NATIVE OYSTERS, which are to be obtained at SCOTT'S
Celebrated OY 4TER WARE ROUSE, 18, Coventry-street, Piccadilly
at ss. 6d,per Barrel, warranted to we gh 141bs.

L.AURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL Rooms,
.1.4 (Lessee, CHAS. C. LAURENT, Onslow-house, Fulham-road)

The `above Rooms are now OPEN FOR THE SEASON
and will continue open every evening, with LAURENT',
CELEBRATEI) BAND. Admission, Is. Doors open at half-past 8
Dancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and terAnate at half-past 11.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
PATRON-H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT.

An ENTIRELY NEW HIST€IR IC and MUSICAL LECTURE,
illustrated with DISSOLVING SCENERY, entitled "The ROAD,
the RIVER, and the RAIL," by J. E. CARPENTER, Esq. (th.
Popular Author and Song Writer), ass,sted by Miss BLANCHE
YOUNGE, who will sing several New songs and Ballads, writte,
expressly for her by Mr. Carpenter, every Evening, except Saturday
at Nine o'clock, in addition to the GENERAL EXHIBITION and
VARIED LECTURES of the Institution.

open Mornings and Evenings. Idmission, Is.; Schools, any'
Children under Ten years of age, Half-price.

"BETTER LATE TH 1N NEVER,"

LEWIS'S ALTERATIVE PILLS will be found
1.4 on trial, after ev ry other means has failed, t cure the more

inveterate cases of tliHods is t;der, Indigestion, and every derange
men, of the • iver, Stomach, IC,dne, s, or Secretory system. They
are entirely vegetable, and, whili reinoving obstructions, purify th
brood. clear, the complexion, relieve the chest of phlegm, strengthe,
the nerves, and restore tone to the whole system Prepared an
sold by HINGsTOS, LEWIS, and Co , lA, Old Bond-street, price
Is. 1%d., 2s 9d., 4s 6d ,&c . retail by all medicine vendor-. - Sent
by post on rec dpt orposta ie stamps.

DECAYED TEETH AND TOOTHACHE.--
Patronise! by Her Majesty and 11. R 11. Prince Albert.—Mr.
110‘VARD'S PATENT NV lITE SUCCEDANEUM for stoppin.
Decayed Teeth, howewir large the cavity. It is placed in the too 11
in a soft state, without any pressure or pain, soon becomes as hard
as enamel, ind iins in the tooth many years. Full direction •
for use are enclosed. Sold by Savory, 220, Regent-street ; Sanger
150, and Hannay, 63, Oxror f-street and at 17, George-stree.
Haimver-iquare, and all me licine vendors in the kingdom. Pric.
2s. 6d.

THE MOST CERTAIN PREVENTION OF CHOLERA YE

Dlg(l` VERF.D.
FURTHER GREAT REDUCTIO,/ IN PRICE

CRE WS'S DISINFECTING FLUID is the
Best and Cheapest.—The lanvoved Chloride of Zinc for th
purification of Dwelling-houses Stables, Dog Kennels, Ship's Holds.
Cesspools, •rains, w ater-closets, &c. ; the Disinfection of ski
Rooms, Clothing, Linen, and for the prevention of Contagion.
The extraor4inary power of this Disinfecting and purifyinp
agent, is now acknowledged, and irs use recommended by the Collegi
or Physicians. Unlike the action of many other Disinfectants,
destroys all noxious smells, and is itself scentless The tnanufactia
rer, having destroyed a monopoly fostered by the false assumption o
the title of a patent, has to warn the public against all spurious
imitations. Each Bottle of Crews's Disiniecting Fluid contains
densely conceetrated solution of Chloride of Zinc. which may 11(
diluted for use with 200 times its bulk of water. Vide Instruction•
accompanying each bottle. . . . . .

It Is sold by all Che.nists and Shipping Agents in the United King-
dom, in Imperial Quarts at 2s. ; in pints, Is. ; half pints, at 6d., am
in larger ves,els at ss. per Callon.
Az. nts—Messrs. Drew, Heyward, and Barron, Bash-lane, Can-
non•street.

Maautactured at 11. G. GRAY'S, Commercial Wharf, Mile End,
London.

SECOND EDITION.-WITH ADDI t lONS.

Just published, Bvo., In cloth, price 55., by post free, ss. 6d,

)N TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA.
with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errort
r relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of ti
cmcrathre System, 1r Sexual Hypochondriasis.
Translated from •he German of Dr. PICKFORD

Dr. Plcktor, 'a known to English readers by his frequent pract

3 contributions to German medical literature This is the flr,
t me, he informs as, that be has addressed himself to the non-med'
at reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall etect an•
Aber equally flagrant evil which it may be in his •owe, to correct'
—London Medical Gazette. May 30, 1851. The tribe of ' Quiet Syma
hirers,' and' edical Fri ends,'are mercilessly exposed ; and if this book
'mild find its way into the hands of those who stiffer fr ,m the corn.
~taint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds woule
,e saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of
ass importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize—
much money ......This volume is well qualified to put an end to the
empirical system of treating Spermatorrhaea, and to place the treat•
merit upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore
likely to do much good."—Medieal Circular, June IG, 1852.
London: 11. Balliere, 219, Regent-street.

ON THE SECRET CAUSES OF SELF-ACQUIRED MISERIES
AND DISAPPOINTED HOPES.
THE SILENT FRIEND.
In Six Languages—Fiftieth Edition.
CONTAINING THE REMEDY FOE PREVENTION OF DISEASE.

illustrated by One Hundred Anatomical Coloured Engravings and
Cases.

',Cm Edition, enlarged to 200 pages, price 2s. 6d., by post, from the
Establishment, 3s. 6d. In stamps,

rIPHE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
L the exhaustion and physical decay of the system, produced by
excessive indulgence, the consequences of infection, or the abuse of
mercury, with directions for the use of the preventive lotion, lel
iowed by observations on Marriage, and the disqualifications which
prevent it. Illustrated by 100 Coloured Engravings. By It. and L.
PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-street, Oxford-
street, London. Puhlisbed by Sherwood and Co.. 23, Paternoster-
row, and sold by Hannay, 63, and ganger, 150, Oxford-street ; Gor-
.lon, 146, Leadenhall-street ; 95, Earringdc. -street ; W. Sutton, 10,
Row church-yard ; liutler, 4, Cheapside ; R Johnson, 68, Cornhill.
PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the reproductive
organs, and is illustrated by 28 Coloured Engravings.
PART 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive It -
dulgence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing
mental and bodily weakness. nerv,,u4 excitement, and generati, e
incapacity. Illustrated by 10 Explanatory Engravings.
PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in
the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for
their treatment. This section is illustrated by 62 Coloured Engrav-
ings.

PART IV. contains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a
simple application, by which the danger of infection is obviated.

PAST V. is devoted to the eonsideration of m,wrriage and its ditties.
The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the whole
subject critically and philosophically inquired into.
THE 'OR DIAL BALM OF ,YRI ,C UM is exclusively employed
n treating nervous and sexual debility, impotence, &c., lls and 335.
per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Esgence, an anti-syphilitic
remedy, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary
symptons, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, I Is. and 335. per
bottle. Perry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and I Is.
per box, a certain remedy for gonorrhcea, gleet, stricture, and
chronic inflammation of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter,
1/. A minute detail of the case is required : age, habits, and posi-
tion in society. Si. Packets, with advice, to be had at the Establish-
ment only, by which the fee, 1/., is saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons,
arc in attendance, daily, at 19, Berners-street, Oxford-street, Lon-
don, from Moven till Two, and Five to Eight; on Sunday from
EST= tO One.

TIMES LIFE ASSURANCE and GUARAN..
jI T COMPANY, 32, Ludgate-hill, London. Incorporated
under 7 and 8 Victoria. cap. 110.

HONORARY PRESIDENTS.

CHARLES HINDLEY, Esq., M.P., Dartmouth-house, Westminster,

JAMES KE.RSHAW, Esq., M.P.. Stockport.
TRUSTEES.
James Alexander Douglas, Esq., 11, Queen-square.
Ambrose Moore, Esq., Endsleigh-street, Tavistock-square.
James Nisbet, Esq., Berners-street, Oxford-street.
CHAIRMAN—The Inn. Francis Villiers, Berkeley-square.
DreuTr CHAIRMAN—James Wyid, Esq., Charing-cross.

" The Times " Company affords guarantee to persons requiring the
same at the lowest possible rate, and divides four-Atha of the profits.
Thus, by applying the justly popular principle of mutuality to public
guarantee, the premiums, instead of being a tax upon honesty, be-
come 11 means of saving and Investment.

Rates—From 7s. 6d.-u,,wards. No charge for stamps or extra
,erthrges. An allowanCe made In the gulrantee premium, where a
life assurance and guarantee are combined.
LIFE ASiLTRANC
Lire assurance, annuities, and endowments. Payments taken
monthly as well as quarterly, &c. Policies indisputable, save in
cases of fraud. Arrangements can be made with this office to pre-
vent the loss of a policy where the assured is unable, from temporary
embarrassment, to keep up the payments.
H. B. SHERIDAN, Manager.

GENERAL INDEMNITY INSURANCE
COMPANY.
Provisionally Regista, ed, and to be Incorporated by Royal Charter
H. Act of Parliament, for the 4 :uarantee against Losses arising from
:robberies, Forgeries, Fraud;, Debts, Insolvency, Fire, and Non-pay
'lent of Rent.

Life Assurance is alio effected on improved and safe principles.
flapital, 500,000/. (with power to increase to 1,000.0001.) in 100,050
shares f 5/. each ; deposit, 1/. per sh'ire.
Offices—Cannon .Areet West, London.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Humphreys, Son, and Morgan.
SECRETARY —William H. Longmore, Esq.
This Company has been established for the purpose of combining
i one office, and concentrating under one management, the various
moles in which the principle of Insurance is capable of being appded.
The busines, of the General Indemnity Insur ,nce Company com-
prises all• the forms of Insurance at present in ac.ion, and includes
-ome new and important fea urea not previously brought before the
public. These are divided between its tree man departments in the
N Mooring manaer:—
I st. Insurance against Robberies. Forgeries, Frauds, &c.
td, Insurance against Losses by bad Debts and gn .rantee of Rents.
( This department Includes the Collect on of Debts and Rents without
guirant, e, at a,moderate commission. The winding-up of Bankrupt
and nt Estates, and advances to Assurers, on the security of
realised assets not immediately available for the purchase and sale
of Bstats• ,
3d.:Fire and Life Insatance in all its branches.' Thstirances to
Itortgagers, providing for re-payment of mortgage-money; An-
nuities and Loa! a to Policy-holders on real and personal security.
The Fire I ,apartment includes a new feature of considerable import-
ance.
Insurance against loss of Business Profits in consequence of
ire.

For each of these Departments a special Prospectus is prepared, to
which the public are referred for the minute details.
All applications for Shares and other information to be addressed
to the Secretary.

Now Ready, in 2,400 imperial octavo pages, price 365., with Mad
corrected from recent Surveys,
POST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY for
1854. The work Is printed in entirely new type from the
Jasion and Glasgow Letter Foundry. and has been so greatly ex-
ended that the "Street Directory" contains 13 ~842 distinct names
or firms; these will be found correctly classified in ail the other
ri cipal divisions, Commercial, Trades, Law, and Court, all of which
are increased in proportion to the great extension of the " Street
Directory."
" The Fos t Office Directory has long been the wonder of the pub-
' li.hing world, a monument of private enterprise and ingenious labour
rholly without parallel."—Morning Herald. Nov. 4, 1853.
" Battersea, Bow, Brixton, Bro ley (Middlesex), Camberwell,
amnridge Heatb, Clapham-road, Dalston, Deptford, Hackney, Hol.
',may-road, Kenti-h.town Kingaland, New-cross, South Lambeth,
ratford, Wandsworth. road, &c., &c., are essentially parts of 'the
treat metropolis,' and, as such, should obviously be included in any
Directory of London. . . . In the Post-office Directory,' there-
fore, the inhabitants of these places appear in all the alphabetical
lists, so that the residence and calling of any one can be instantly
tr4ced In whatever part of the suburbs he may be lodged. This
renders the work one of the most useful that can be possibly ima.
idled for any purpose of metropolitan life." —Observer, Nov. 13, 1853
" The indices are very numerous, and immensely facilitate refer-
-nice to the various sub-divisions of the book."—Morning Advertiser,
November 4, 1853.
" A mine of useful and entertaining knowledge."—Daily News,
November 17, 1853.
" Deserves much praise for the accuracy which pervades it, and for
the lateness of the information."—Morning Chronicle, November 4,
(853.

" The completest Directory yet produced, both as regards classifi-
cation and typographical execution."—lllustrated News, November
5, 1853.

"If it be true, as all our readers will be ready to admit, that
there is no country like England, and no place like London, it is a
most consistent climax to add, and no guide book like the "Post
Office Directory."—John Bull, November 5, 1853.
" One of the most remarkable and useful works of the age."—
gerapath's Journal, November 5, 1853.
" This monster volume is a perfect desideratum for the office and
the counting-house."—Mining Journal, November 5, 1853.
" Greatly increased in size by the introduction of a large number
of streets in the suburbs."—Weekly Dispatch, November 5, 1853.
" The edition of this wonderful work has, to speak commercially,
been enlarged some ten or fllteen per cent."—Speetator„ November
1, 1853.
"(lives no insignificant idea of the wonders of a city that de-
,nands such a work to register its multifarious contents."—Atlas,
goy 5, 1853.
" The whole information has been brought up with great care arm
kCCIIIIACY to the 19th of September."— Sunday Times, November
, 1853.

" A notice of this gigantic volume, ptoportioned to its size and
sraluc, would occupy our whole paper—, e say its soze and value, for
.ey hold a perfectly equal measure."—Standard, Nov. 7, 1853.
" Already the Messrs. Kely and Co. had actually distanced the
cos' enterprising of their competitors. They have new rendered it
epostercus for any other compiler to dream of emulating their ex-
. raorlinary enterprise."—Sun, November 7, 1853.
Its marvellous accuracy and minutene,a of detail, fills one with
,tonishment." - Morning rest. November 7, 1853.
" This annual miracle appears again."—Globe, Nov. 8, 1853.
it is unrivalled indeed quite unapproached by any competitor
have seen."—Examiner, Nov. 12, 1853.
" Upon a gentleman of our acquaintance stating to us that the two
;neat wonders of the age are the electric telegraph and chloroform,
were induced to observe that there was vet a third, and that—
Po,t -office London Directory." -- Bell's Weekly Messenger,
;iay. 12, 1853.
01 the a,curacy of the Court Directory, we can ourselves speak
.with confidence."—Court Journal, Nov. 12, 1853.
A mo.t va,uahle, commodious, and almost indispensable work "
—Weekly Times, Nov. 13, 1853.
" The biggest as well as the best book of our acquaintance."--
'unch, Nov. 19, 1853.
" It would be quite 'superfluous for us to dwell at length upon the
Aupe for excellence of this work."—Economist, Nov. 19, 1853.
" Has no rival in the publishing world."—Britannia, Nov. is,
1853