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INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE.

India Office, Ist December, 1868.
NOTICE is Hereby Given, that an examination
of Candidates for 20 appointments as Assistant-Surgeons
in her Majesty's Indian Medical Service will be hold at
Chelsea Hospital on the Bth February, 18G9.
Copies of the regulations for the examination of Candi-
dates, together with information
.regarding the pay and
retiring allowances of Indian Medical Officers, may be ob-
tained on applicati n at the Military Department, India
Office, Westminster, S.W.
T. T. PEARS, Major-General,
Military Secretary.

EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament.
For Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity in
Situations of Trust.
Chairman— General Sir FREDHILIp SMITH, gm, F.R.S.
Policies payable during Life—lndisputable--Not liable to
Forfeiture.
Annual Income exceeds Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Pounds.
The Annuity Tables, offering special advantages to Annuitants,
and full particulars of the popular Principles of this Society, will
be found in the New Prospectus, which will be forwarded to
applicants post free.

HENRY LAKE, General Manager.
316, Regent-street, and 17, Waterloo-place Pall mall, London.

A.D. 1720.

ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION.
(Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First),
For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITIES.
Offices—ROYAL EXCHANGE, London.
Branch Office-29, Pall Mall, S.W.

OCTAVIIIS WIGRAM, Esq Governor.
JAMES STEWART 119DGSON, Esq Sub-• Governor.
CHARLES JOHN MANNING, Esq Deputy-Governor.

DIRECTORS.

Robert Barclay, Esq.
John Garratt Cattley, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq._

William Tetlow Hibbert,
Esq.
Wilmot Holland, Esq.
EgArton Hubbard, Esq.
Nevile Lubbock, Esq.
George Forbes Malcolmson,
Esq.
Lord 3 osceline Wm. Percy.
Charles Robinson, Esq.
Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
Joseph Somos, Esq.
William Wallace, Esq.
Charles Baring Young, Esq.
fuel Solly, Esq., F.R.S.

Edward James Daniell; Esq.
William Davidson, Esq.
Lancelot William Dent, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq.
Fredk. Joseph Edl mann, Esq.
Charles Hermann Goschen,

Esq.
Riversdale Wm. Grenfell,
Esq.
Francis Alex. Hamilton, Esq.
Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq.
Medical Referee, Sami

FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected on
advantageous terms.
The Duty on Fire Assurances has been reduced to the
uniform rate of ls. 6d. per cent. per annum.
No charge is made by this Corporation for Fire Policy
or Stamp, however small the Assurance may be.
F 44 rIdING STOCK.—No Extra Charge is made for the
use of Steam Thrashing Machines.
The Reversionary Bonus on British LIFE POLICIES
has averaged nearly 2 per cent. por annum on the sum
assured.
Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums
payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus.
The Divisions of Profit take place every Five Years.
Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured ou one
Life.
This Corporation affords to the Assured
Liberal participation in Profits, with the guarantee
of a large invested Capital Stock, and exemption
under Royal Charter from the liabilities of part-
nership.
The advantages of modern practice, with the secu-
rity of an Office whose resources have been tested
by the experience of nearly a CENTURY AND A
HALF.
ROYAL EXCIIANOE, LONDON.
ROBERT P. STEELE, Secretary.

NO MORE LORD lIISIHOP3.

A pamphlet with this heading has just been publishes
by Mr. Stanford, of Charing Cross. The author describes
hims,lf as a member of the Church of England d fifty
years' standing, and belonging to a family which has
been Church of England for the last five generations. He
declares against the disestablishment and disendow-
ment of the Church of England, but in its own interest
demands the retirement of the bishops from the House
of Lords. His reasons are, that the possession of a seat

in Parliament, and the obligations and usages connected
with it, tend to draw the bishop from diocesan duties,
which are sufficient to take up the whole of his time ; that
his temporal dignity tends to make him difficult of
access, and removes him from sympathy with the lower
clergy ; that it also tends to make him a political
character. These and other considerations the writer
states with great force. The reform he advocates is,
be declares, in the minds of many, though scarcely ever on
their tongues. From peer to peasant the opinion is
forming and rapidly spreading, and ere long will be
uttered in loud and decided tones by the nation, that
the time has arrived when bishops of the Established
Church in England should cease to wield a special
political power, and no longer have seats in the
House of Lords. The author has not noticed what seems
to us the most powerful reason of all for the change he
proposes, that it would remove the chief obstacle to that
large increase in the number of bishops by the subdivision
of dioceses which is most urgently called for by the
increase of population, and with that of Church work.