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London, England, 1869-03-29 00:00:00

CONTRACT FOR GOLD LACE.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, 250 March, 1869.
TENDERS will be received on THURSDAY, the
15th April next, for GOLD LACE, to be supplied
under a Contract for Twelve Calendar months certain
an I Three Calendar month's' warning.
The Conditions of Contract and t ll particulars may be
ascertained at this Office.
• By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts.

COM PAG NI E GENER AL E TRANSAT-
L ANT IQIJ E.
4. Ruo de la Paix. Paris.
/TENCH MAIL STEAMERS.
NEW YORK.
Leave every 14 days, from ITa,vre and Brest, for New York.
RATES OF PASSAGE.
From lIAvuE or BREST to NEW YORK..
First Mass 7OO fr.
Second Class 425 fr.
Third Class
From Paris to New York, via Havro or Brest, including
railway ticket, 7251 r.; second class, 440 fr. ; third class
285 fr.

WEST INDIES AND MEXICO.
Leave St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St.
Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, New Orleans, Porto Rico,
Haiti. Santiago de Cuba, Guadeloupe, Martinique.
JAPAN, NORTH ND SOUTH PACIFIC, AND
CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama).
Leave St. Iklazaire on the Bth of each month for Mar-
tinique, St. Martha (United States of Columbia), Colon,
Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama), La Guayra, Porto Ca-
bello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Demerara, Paramaribo,
Cayenne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, &c., San Jose, La Union,
San Francisco, China, and Japat..
Hand books, with full details of all the routes of this
company, can he had of
STRINGER, PEMBBROKE, and Co.,
Agents, 8, Austinfriars, London, B.C.

NBSOLUTE SECURITY POLICIES, UN-
FORFEITABLE, 'UNCONDITIONAL, and UN-
CHALLENGEABLM, issued by the PRUDENTIAL
ASSURANCE COMPANY, 62, Ludgate-hill, London,
E.C. Established 1848.
The Directors of this Company, in deference to an ob-
jection not uufrequently urged by persons invited to as-
sure, that the ordinary mode of Life Assurance is in thoir
opinion defective or uncertain, by reason of the operation
of the customary conditions, have resolved to promulgate
the present Tables, and to issue Assurances under them
which shall be absolutely Unforfeitable, Unconditional,
and Unchallengeable.
For the reason referred to, many persons hesitate or
decline to assure on the ground that, in the event of in-
ability or unwillingness to continue payment Of their pre-
miums, the Assurance will become forfeited. To this
class of the public the system now introduced will espe-
cialls commend itself, being entirely free from all condi-
tions of forfeiture on account of non-payment of premium,
or from any other cause whatever; while at the same
time it absolutely guarantees at decease, when even a de-
fault is made in payment of the premium, a fixed sum in
respect of every pentium paid, bearing the same propor-
tion to the total amount assured as the number of pre-
miums actually paid may bear to the whole number origi-
nally contracted to be paid.
Besides this important advantage, every policy will ex-
pressly state what sum can at any time be withdrawn on
the discontinuance of the assurance.
The assure i will thus always have the option of retain-
ing either an ascertained fixed sum payable at decease,
or, in case of need, of withdrawing a certain amount, ac-
cording t • the duration of the Policy, such amounts being
set forth on every Policy, and rendering unnecessary any
future reference to the Company on these points, as is the
case with ordinary assurances.
Creditors assuring the lives of debtors will appreciate
this feature as one greatly protective of their interests, and
it will likewise commend itself to bankers, capitalists, and
others who are in the habit of making advances collaterally
secured by Life Policies, as they can at any time learn, by
mere inspection, the exact value, either immediate or re-
versionary, of a Policy of this description.
Every Policy issued on this plan will be without any.
conditions as to voyaging, foreign residence, or other usual
limitations. By this freedom from restrictions of all kinds
the objections beforo referred to will be entirely removed,
and the Policies will become at once positively valuable as
actual securities.
In addition to the foregoing statement 'of advantages,
the number of premiums is strictly defined. The longest
term provided for is twenty-fire years, and the shortest
five years, as shown by the Tables. Thus, bankers, credi-
tors, and others holding policies of this class as security,
may always know the utmost amount they may he called
upon to advancefio as to maintain the full benefit of the
Assurances—a matter of great importance where policies
are held as collateral security.
It is only necessary to add that, as a consequence of the
rolietes under these tables being unforfeitable and uncon-
ditional, they will also be unchalleogi•able on any ground
whatever. They may therefore be aptly termed Absolute
Security
RPUoIDicEieNs.TIAL
Ie p
ASSURANCE COMPANY pos-
sesses an income of £215,000 a year Its position is nu•
questionable, and it obtains the largest amount of new
bucinoss of any office in the Kingdom. SPECIAL
AGENTS WANTED.
HENRY HARBEN, Secretary.

LAW CLASSES.
In connexion with the lectures classes will be conducted
undor the guidance and superintendence of the lecturers,
and will proceed concurrently with the lectures. The
number of subscribers to each class will be limited, and
the ivAruction given will be confined to an examination
of tLe students upon the subject of a preceding lecture, or
on portions of a given book bearing on the same subject.
A sufficient number of classes will follow each lectur,,, and
be of such duration as shall provide for the efrcient instruc-.
tion and examination of the students. The teaching of the
lectures_ will thus be amplified, and impressed on the
memory by the classes; and the system of constant ex-
amination will test, from time to ime, the progress made
by the students. •
LECTURES on COMMON and MERCANTILE LAW,
by CHARLES HENRY ANDERSON, Esq., Barrister-

ai-Law.
The Course will consist of Nine Lectures upon tho fol-
lowing subjects :
a. Simple Contracts.
b. Contracts under Seal.
c. The Contract of Sale.
d. Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, and Checks ;
with the distinction between negotiable instruments and
other simple contracts.
e. Freight and Contracts of Affreiglatmetit,- with the pe-
culiarities of Charter-parties and Bills of Lading.
f. The Loss of a British Vessel and its consequences—
I. To the Owner of the Vessel.
2. To the Owner of the Cargo.
3. To the Underwriter. •
g. In connexion with the foregoing will be considered
the Rule of the Road at Sea as contrasted with that on
Shore: also the Law of Negligence and the Liability of a
Master for the acts of his Servant.
In his private classes the reader will use as text-books
—The Law of Contracts (Smith), An Action at Law
(Smith), A Digest of Common Law (Anderson).
LECTURES on CONVEYANCING and the LAW of
REAL PROPERTY, by T. LL. MURRAY BROWNE,

Esq., Barrister-at-Law.
This Course will consist of Nine Lectures:—
Lecture I. Introductory.—Practical Hints on tho perusal
and examination of Abstracts.
Lectures 11., 111., IV. Settlements.-1. Settlements of
Personal Estate; a. investment of Trust Funds ; b.
Usual Trustee Clauses, Appointment of New Trustees; c.
Usual Powers and Covenants, &c. d. Remarks on the
Effect of -Recent Statutes-2. SC ttlemeuts of Real Estate ;
a. Estates for Life and in Remainder, Waste ; b. Jointures,
Portions, &c : c. Usual Powers : Remarks on the Leases
and Sales of Settled Estates Act ; d. The Succession Duty
Act-3. Disentailing Deeds, the existing Law of Entail-
4. Practical Suggestions in connexion with the subject of
Settlements.
Lectures V., VI. IN Usual Frame and Contents
of a Will-2. Principles of Construction of Wills-3.
Practical Hints on Drawing Wills.
Lecture VII. Copyholds.-1. Introductory Remarks,
Fines-2. Surrenders and Covenants to Surrender-3.
Admissions-4. The Enfranchisement of Copholds.
Lectures VIII., IX. Miscellaneous Deeds.-1. Credi
tors' Trust Deeds-2. Separation Deeds— 3. Articles of
Partnership, &c.
In these lectures and classes the Introductions and
Notes to Mr. Davidson's Precedents will be especially
referred to.
As elementary works, Mr. Joshua Williams's Books on
Real and Personal Property are recommended.
EQUITY LECTURES, by Sir GEORGE YOUNG, Bart.,

Barrister-at-Law.

This course will consist of Nine Lectures :
Lecture 1. Review of Equity, and suggested arrange-
ments for purposes of Study.
Lecture 11. The Jurisdiction in matters of Account;
generally, Apportionment and Contribution.
Lecture 111. The Jurisdiction in matters of Account,
continued : specially, between Principal and Agent.
Lecture IV. The Jurisdiction in matters of Account,
continued: specially, between Partners.
Lecture V. The Jurisdiction in matters of Administra-
tion : 1. The Administration of Assets.
Lectures VI., VII. The Administrative Jurisdiction,
continued: 2. The Administration of Trusts, as enlarged
by recent statutory enactment.
Lectures Injunctions.
Books recommended : —Story's, Equity Jurisprudence,
chapters 8,9, 10, 13, 1.:, 23 ; Raddan's Administrative
Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery.
Smith's Manual of Equity and White and Tudor's Lead-
ing Cases in Equity will be the books principally referred
to during the course.
The subscription payable for he Lectures—
For all the Foreach
three courses. course.
By clerks of members .........£2 2 0 £l. 1 0
By clerks of gentlemen not
members ........................ 33 0 111 6

By all other persons not being
members
The subscription payable foi the law classes
For all the
branches of For each
instruction. branch.
By every subscriber £s 5 0 £2 12 6
Members of the Society may attend the lectures without
To prevent interruption
subscribing.
at the lectures, subscribers
cannot be admitted to the hall after the lecture has com-
menced.

2 2 0

E. W. 'Williamson, Secretary.
Law Society's Hall, Oct., 1868.
N.B. Gentlemen may subscribe for and attend the lec-
tures and classes, either separately or collectively ; but as
the instruction . given in the classes will have special re-
ference to preceding lectures, it is recommended that those
who desire to attend the classes should also attend the
lectures.

FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.—LONDON
FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN
STITITTION.
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President—ltev'
of the Homes in 1868 a CANON DALE.
ear-
nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon
quet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard street, Francis Nicholls,
It:sq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, E.O.
R. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road, N.W.
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CONTRIBUTIONS for the suppo