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London, England, 1858-04-08 00:00:00

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.
Octavins Wigram, Esq., Governor.
George Pearkes Barclay, -Bag., sub-Governor.
Sir John William Lubbock, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
=LECTORS.

Henry Bainbridge, Esq.
Edmond S. P. Calvert, Esq.
John Garrett Cattley, Esq.
Edward bfaxwellDaniel, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq.
Charles Farquharson, Esq.
Itiversdale Win. Grenfell, Esq.
Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq.
William Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.
James Stewart Hodgson, Esq.
Lancelot Holland, Esq. . •
MEDICAL ItEreanx—Samuel Say, Esq., F.R.S.
Nexict.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of Fire Pre-
Datums falling due at Lady Day will expire on 9th of April.
FIRE and LIFE ASSURaNCES may be effected with this Cor-
poration on advantageous terms.
In the Life Department, assurances are granted with participation
in profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such participation.
The Reversionary Botts on British Policies has averaged nearly
2 per cent, per annum on the sum assured, or 48 per cent, upon the
Premiums paid.
Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable
by persona who preferred that form of Bonus.
The future division of Profit will take place every Five years.
Any sem not exceeding 15,0001. may be insured on one life.
This Corporation affords to the Assured
Liberal Participation in Profits—with exemption from the
liabilities of partnership.
A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual Socie-
ties—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock.
The advantages of modern practice—with the security of an
Office whose resources have been tested by the experience of
nearly a Century and a-half.
IN CASE OF DEAVI ocearr;ng during the thirty days allowed
for payment of a Life Premium, and before such payment has
been made, the Corporation hold themselves liable under the Policy,
Provided the premium be subsequently paid on or before the thirtieth
day from that upon which it became due.

Charles John Manning, Esq.
Hon. John T. Leslie Melville.
Edward Howley Palmer, Esq.
Sir John Henry Pelly, Bart.
Alexander P. Prevost, Esq.
Abraham George Robarts, Esq.
Charles Robinson, Esq.
William Soltau, Esq.
Joseph Somes, Esq.
William Wallace, Esq.
Charles Baring Young, Esq.

Royal Exchange, London.
JOHN A. HIGHAM, Actuary and Secretary.

INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY.. 142, Strand, London, W.e., Feb. 25, 1858 : estab-
iiskedlB37.—Payment of Premium within Days of Orace,—lt always
has been and still is the practice of this society to pay claims under
Policies of assurance notwithstanding the death of the assured oc-
curring Within the 30 days of grace, and before payment of the
mania premium, provided payment thereof be male, or notice of
the death be given to the otllee before the expiration of such days
Of grace.

For the Court of Directors,
E. S. SYMES, Chairman

THE INTERNATIONAL LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
142, Strand, London.
Empowered by Act orParllatnent, for LIFE ASSURANCE, SUR
VIVORSHIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c.

EDMOND SHEPPARDDIRECTORS
SYMES, M.D., Chairman.
Wm. Kenworthy Browne, Esq. Henry J. Hodgson, Esq
Samuel King-Church, Esq. John Moss, Esq.
John Elliotson, M.D., Cantab., John Symes, Esq.
Joseph Thompson, Esq.
sscarrAlT TO THE HOARD.
Alexander Richardson, Esq.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
Augustus Bloadel, Esq.

AUDITORS.
Proasssor Wheatstone, F.R.S., and Professor J. Radford Young.
MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL.
J. Matson, M.D., Cantab , F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street.
ACTUARY.
W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., r.s.s., he.
ASSISTANT ACTUARY.
Barker Woolhouse, Esq.
RANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street.
soLicrroas.
Moms. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Rowcliffe, Bedford-row
Thr

-ne next Quinquennial Division of Profits NCI be declared in
3ley, 1860.

Examples of Bonus tio to May, 1855

Mr. Tennant gives Practical Instruction in Geology.

ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE
INCAPACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.

Policy I Bonus in Permanent NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE
taken Age; Sum addition Bonus in Re,,uction of 7.IIIRES(n ithout Physic) of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constt
out in Assured. to Sum Cash. Animal I're- Flatulency, Phlegm, all Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Corm Assured. rnium. Hysteria, Neuralgia, Dysentry, Diarrhoea, Acidity, Palpi
...—....._ ____
--
.£
lie:tram. .. Headache, Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Ss. d. Xs. d. Xs. d. Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy on at sea), Sinkin
1838 55 3,000 867 17 7 42., 1 4
1841 56 3 8 Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children)
48 4,000 749 4 0 325 16 0 32 0 4 plaints al e effected by
1845 59 2,000 732 18 0 156 15 0 16 6 0 u BARRY'S delicious REVALE 3 r,-
1948 60 2,000 154 2 8 103 16 5 10 15 2 . r
1461 55 2,800 f 120 17 0 72 14 6 67 7
~:Als ARICA FOOD, which restores health without p 1

The following are amongst the advantages °tiered by the Inter-
national Life Assurance Society :
The Society was established in 1838.
Two.thir.l3 of the profits are divided amongst the assured every
Eve years.
Its subscribed capital is five hundred thousand pounds.
Its investments, at the date of the last annual report, amounted
to one hundred and seventy-one thousand pounds.
Its annual income is ninety thousand pounds.
The number of policies now in wrest exceed six thousand.
About one thousand new policies ars added every year.
Since its commencement the Society has paid in claims upwards
of tkree hundred and twenty thousand pounds.
For prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Chair -
omen, 142, Strand.

U2___ , Strand, London, W.C.
,

EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman.

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id Physical Debility, resulting
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iy.iltierrivnaiitotia critical passage from youth
physicalnrsel"' the Physiology of Mar-
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complaints, with numerous engravings and cases. Y of these
- - • •-

By :A MUEL LA'NfRRT,
37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON,

Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary
Member of the London 'logolial Medical Society, Licentiate of
Apothecaries' Hall, London, Sec., Sze.:
out theeon-
'The essential object of this treatise is to point
sequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, a
,n
d fearful
excesses,
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No. 118, for Half• Guinea Waistcoats.
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Mantles.
No. 144 contains their other new Department for Clothing young
gentlemen with the taste, excellence, and economy whereby Messrs.
NICOLE have secured wide spread confidence.
The Wholesale Warerooms are at the rear of the Regent-street
premises, viz , 29, 30, 31, and 4!, WARWICK-STREET.
The City Depot is at 21 and 22, CORNIIILL.
The addresses of the various Agents are duly advertised in the
journals of th • United Kingdom and the Colonies.

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—These articles are found o be the best protection against frost,
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l'atterns forwarded 'free on application to BENJAMIN EDGING-
TON, Marqu.e, Tent, and Rick Cloth Manufacturer, No. 2, Duke-
street, Southwark, S.E.; West-end Establishment, 32, Charing-
cross.

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of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Inkstands,
beautiful Inlaid Tables, Paperweights, &c., in Italian 41abaster.
Warble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imported and manufactured
by JAMES TENNANT, Mineralogist to her Majesty, 149, ,trand,
London.

Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of Shells, Mineral,
and Fossils, which will greatly facilitate the interesting study of
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each.

New and improved Edition, enlarged to 196 pages, Illustrated by 100
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free by post, Is.,
rrHE SILENT FRIEND : A Medical Work
114 on the phys al xhaustion and decay of the frame, from thi
effects of solitary indulgence, infection, and the injurious conse-
quences from the use of Mercury; with observations on the obliga.
bons of marriage, and directions for obviating certain disqualifica-
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hall-street, London.
The CORDIA L BALM of SYRIACITM is employed inbothsexes
to renovate t he impaired powers of life. Its action is purely balsamic;
is power in reinvigorating the frame in all cases of nervous and
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The CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, an anti-syphl-
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the varied forms of secondary symptoms, such as eruptions on the
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tonsils, and uvula; threatened destruction of the nose, palate, &c.
fts action is purely detersive, and its beneficial influence on the
,ystem is undeniable. Price I is. and 335. per bottle, also a saving
Of Ils.
PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS constitute an effec-
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er box.

Sold by Daniel Church, 78, Gracechurch-street, City; Bartlett
Hooper, 43, King William-street (four doors from London Bridge) ;
G. F. Watts, 17, Strand; Sutton and Co., 10, Bow-churchyard;
W. Edwards, 67, St. Paul's-churchyard; J. Sanger, 150, Oxford-
treet Ilannav and Dietrichsen, 63. Oxford-street ; Butler and
!,Tarding*, 4, Cheapside ; Prout and Harsant, 229, Strand ; and all
madicine vendors throughout the United K ingdom.

7.IIIRES (vs ithout Physic) of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation.
Flatulency, Phlegm, all Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints,
Hysteria, Neuralgia, Dysentry, Diarrhoea, Acidity, Palpitation,
Ileartbur. Headache, Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms,
Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy on at sea), Sinking Fits,
Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Com-
plaints at c effected by
k U BARRY'S delicious REVALENTA
AIsAiIITA FOOD, which restores herilth without purging,
lneenvenier,ce, or expense, as it saves fifty times its cost in other
remedies. it is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids
generally, as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor inter-
feres with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch
and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and
muscular energy to the most enfeebled.

We extract a few out of the many thousand expressions of grati-
tude from invalids:—Cure N 0.71, of dyspepsia, from tke Right Hon.
the Lord Stuart de Decies. " I have derived considerable benefit
from Du "'lam'? Revalento Arabica Food, and consider it due to
yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines.
Stuart de Decies."—Cur;, No. 49,832. " Fifty years' indescribable
agony from dyspepsia., nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation,
flatulency, spasms, and sickness at the stomach and vomiting, have
been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. 111ariaJolly, Northam
Ling, near I)ies, Norfolk."—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs,
o! Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Ilerts, a cure of extreme ner-
v-)..isness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.—
C ire No. 48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liver -
po Y.: a cure of ten year's dyspepsia, and the horrors of nervous irrita-
bility. Cure No, 18.216. Dr. Andrew Ure of constipation, dyspep-
sia. ervous irritability. Cure No. 34,210. Dr. Sherland of dropsy
and ebility. Cu -f No. 36,212. Captain Allan of epileptic fits.
Cure No. 42.116 Major Ede of enlargement of the liver and total
prostration of strength. Care No. 36,418. Rev. Dr. Minster of
cramps, spasms, and daily vomitings, Cure. No. 26,418. Dr. Harvey
of diarrhoea and debility. Cure No. 39,628. Dr. Wurtzer of con-
sumption. Cure No. 32,883. William Hunt, Esq., barrister, of para-
lysis. Cure No. 46,270. Sir. James Roberts, wood merchant, Frimley
of thirty years diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement,
partial deafness. Cure No. 4..,814. Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester,
of two years' diarrhoea. Cure No 52,612. The Dowager Countess
of Castleatuart, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, and indi-
gestion. Cure No. 94,812. Miss Virginia Zeguers, cured of con-
sumption, after her medical advisers had abandoned all hopes of
recovery. Core No, 180. "Twenty-five years' nervousness, con-
stipation,pi:ipei,.ve,
aes,,n,,iii,, syri
Ins.:od„,ii.i:iveenitntsi.t.:s,itihr,acilnt,d debility,L debility,
itfil',e,ry, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been
si, caually cured b 3 Du Itarry's Food in a very short time. W. R.
s", I:aligidbtn yaueaserasldfiosr-
et
orre:, :01 rflocl :';r any
' nwili tillcranotp.s4,,s2lo).Bi.,g.mf
with pains in consultedthe advice .o many, have been
happy to ,n 3: by Du Barry's health restoring Food. I shall be
Barry's health restorT
inquiries. Rev. John Maven, Ridlington Rec-
myAbo. 32,836. "Three years' excessive nervousness,
my life
veryeck and left arm, and gene; al debility, which ren-
dered
iserable, has been radically removed by Du
Cum
i\%g Food. Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ress,
y .3906. " Thirteen years' cough, indigestion,
have been removed by Du Barry's excellent
Foai,od.
sJames Porter, .Athol-street, Perth."
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grofanspteudriaonusiniminintac.
Important Caution
tations:—
~ Du Barry's lteralentaag
The Vice-Chancellor Sir Wt the
Arabicanst Alfred Hooper Neville, fer
tion n the 10th March, 1854,
Suitably packed for all climates,and with
Food."
9d • 21b 4s 6d - 5 ' with full instructions. In
canisters, Ilb 2s , , lb Ila 121 b
:lags tree, on recmpt to Post-otnee ' 225. The 121 b car-
order. Barry D 11' t I ond a ,:rry an ,1
Imitating
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