The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-30 00:00:00

EqT kTILISITF,D 1841.
MEDICAL, INVALID, AND GENERAL
LIFE OFFICE, 25, pall-mall, London.

Empowered by special Act of Parliament.
BY the Annual Report of 1853, it appeared that the number o
rendes then In force was 3,434, insuring 1,337,500/., and yielding an
bleame of 55,2071.
, At the Sixteenth Annual Meeting, held on the 26th November
0157, It was shown that on the 30th June last—
The number of Policies in force was • 6,255
The amount insured was .... 2,917,5081. 13s. 104.
The annual Income was • ........... 125,113/. 3s. Bd.

Two Bonuses have been declared (in 1848 and 1853), adding nearly
Der cent. per annum on the a verago to sums assured, and by which
1: Policy of 1,0001. issued In 1842 on a healthy life is now increased t,
1,2604

Profits divided every five years—next division in 1858.
The Society, since its establishment, has paid claims on 781
policies, assuring 312,8841.
Assurances are effected at home or abroad on healthy lives, at as
Moderate rates as the most recent data will allow.
...Indian Assurances at very moderate rates, and great facilities
riVen to assurers.
Invalid lives assured onf scientifically constructed tables.
Policies issued free of Stamp duty, and every charge but the Pre-
%Wm.
Active working Agents wanted for vacant places.
Prospectuses, Forms of Proposals, and every other information,
:AY be obtained or the Secretary at the Chief Office, or on applica-
tion to any of the Society's Agents in the country.
C. DOUGLAS SINGER, Secretary.

THE INTERNATIONAL LIFE
ASSUR ONCE SOCIETY,

142, Strand, London.
—POWered by Act of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURANCE, SUR-
VIVORSEIIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c.
DIRECTORS.
EDMOND SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D.Chairman.
'vizi • 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.

SECRETARY TO THE BOARD.
Alexander Richardson, Esq.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
Aigustus Blondel, Esq.

AUDITORS.
l'rofessof Wheatstone, F.R.S., and Professor J. Radford Young.

MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL.
J. Elilotson, M.D., Cantab , F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street.
ACTUARY.
W. B. B. Woolliouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., &c.
♦SSISTANT ACTUARY.
Barker Woolhouse, Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street.
SOLICITORS.
Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Rowcliffe, Bedford-row.

I„?'be next Quinquennial Diyision of Profits will be declared in
-.IT, 1860..

Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 :

Policy
taken
,Ont in

Bonus in Permanent
Sum addition Bonus in Re .action of
Assured. to Sum
_Cash. Annual Pre-
Assured. mium
x .8. d. .03 v. b.
3,000 867 17 7 42. 1 4 50
4,000 749 4 0 325 16 0 32 0 4
2,000 232 18 0 156 15 0 16 6 0
2,000 154 2 8 103 16 8 10 15 2
2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6 67 7

The following are amongst the advantages offered by the Inter-
„,,,unal Life Assurance Society :
The Society was established in 1838.
xvro-thirds of the profits are divided amongst the assured every
7 year..
ts subscribed capital is five hundred thousand pounds.
to Its investments, at the date of the last annual report, amounted
e hundred and seventy-one thousand pounds.
? annual income is ninety thousand pounds.
The
number of policies now in force exceed six thousand.
;bout one thousand new policies are added every year
wthnce Its commencement the Society has paid In claims upwards
hUndyid and twenty thousand pounds id in claims upwards
1,2 r Prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Chair-
-`u, 142, Strand.
142
Strand, London. W.C.

EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman.

TO- THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED.
QUID- ES WATSON, M.D. (Physician to the Bedford t Dis-
tarl), 27, Alfred-Place. Bedford-square, London, continues,to
:. on receipt of six stamps, " THE GUIDE TO SELF CURE"
Correspondence =ducted.
ye 4ne first man of the dey in these complaints."—Medical Re-
-185-
true Guide to those who desire a speedy and private cure."
/*versity Magazine.
1.14,fie NEW AMERICAN DISCOVERY' showing the absurdity of
the '-nglish mode of treating such complaints, will prove a blessing to
14.,afflicted, who may safely and easily rezain pristine health by
-"ling the means presented."—Eveaing Star.

ARETIRED PHYSICIAN, whose sands of
. life have nearly run out, discovered while in the East Indies
itZrtftin cure for Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis, Coughs, Colds,
his General Debility. The remedy was discovered by him when
Ranhchild, a daughter, was given up to die. He had heard
tion'.." of the wonderful restorative and healing qualities of prepare-
-2nade from the East India Hemp, and the thought occurred to
, 'bat he might make a remedy for his child. He studied hard,
li„falleceeded in realising his wishes. Ills child was cured, and is
1,37 alive and well. He has since administered the wonderful re-
-ITY to thousands of sufferers in all parts of the world, and he has
oer in making them completely healthy and happy. Wishing
1.61;1° as Much ood as possible, he will send to such of his afflicted
siZvW beings g
as request it, this r cipe, with fell and explicit direc-
i:ns for makin it up and successfully using it. He requires each
41)21elint to enclose him six stamps—one to be returned as postage
the recipe, and the remainder to be applied to the payment of
advertisement: Address to H. James, M.D., 14, Cecil-street,
Shand.

ItOYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road.
Joh
—The AID of the benevolent is earnestly solicited.
n =asterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane, is Treasurer, by whom
nations will be thankfully received : also by the following bankers:
~Mea
ars. Coutta and Co. ; Drummond and Co.; Berries and Co. ;
..`,,nBOM and Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smyth, Payne, and Co.;
."*,!3'llu and Co.; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay aml Co.;Denison and
; Williams, Deacon, and Co.;Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Mas-
k an and Co.; by Messrs. Nisbet and Co Berners-street ; and at
.ne Hospital from Ten till Five. "
By order,

S. S. SMITH, Secretary.

NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE
etfliES (a ithout Physic) Of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation,
Flatulency Phlegm, all Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints,
gm., neuralgia, Dysentry, Diarrhoea, Acidity, Palpitation,
suma.an,Hr,•ead. ache. Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms,
Cough.
.othzetness (during pregnancy or at sea), Sinking Fits,
Plaints
p" ate effa4ronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Com-
by
BARRY'S delicious REVALENTA
Arijuir
Inconvenience CA FOOD, which restores health without purging,
remedies. It !ior expense, as it saves fifty times its cost in other
generally,
as
i; moreover, the best food for infants and invalids
feres with a never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor inter-
and dinner, and 4 d liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch
rattscular energy l'oestores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and
the most enfeebled.
We extract few out of the many thousand expressions of grati-
tude from invalids :—Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon.
nomril p
the Lord Stuart de Decies. " I have derived considerable benefit
Barry', Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it duo to
Stuart de and the
public to authorise the publication of these lines.
Deeles."— Curi., No. 49,832. " Fifty years' indescribable
agony frost dyspepsia, nerusness, asthma, cough, constipation,
flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach and vomiting, have
been removed by 13 andn Barry's
L ig, near Din, Nortolk excellent Food. NtariaJolly, Wortham
."—Cu re No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs,
Of ,lazing Yicarage, Waltham Cross, Ilerts, acureof extreme ner-
Va.:snots, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous
Cure No. , 48,314. Miss" Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre,nearaructilvse;
boot : a Mire of ten ye'a's dyspepsia, and the horrors of nervous tilt*
bility. Cure No. 18,z16, Dr. Andrew Tire of constipation, dy p -
Ma. erveus irritability. Cure No. 3i,210. Dr. Sherland of seP.
dropsy
and ~ebllity. Cure No. 36,212. Captain Allan of epileptic tlts.
Cure No. 42,116 Major Edit, of enlargement of the liver and total
Prostration of strength. Cure No. 36,418. Rev. Dr. Minster of
!ramps, spasms, and daily vomitings, Cure. No. 26,418. Dr. Ear-
Vey of diarrhoea and debility. Cure No. 39,628. Dr. Wurtzer
of consumption. Cure No. 32,883. William Hunts, Esq., barrister,
" Paratyals.• Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, wood merchant,
of thirty years diseased lungs, tilt spitting of blood, liver derangement,
-
partial deafness. Cure No. 4 ,514 Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester,
Of two years' diarrhoea. Cure No 52,612. The Dowager Countess
of Castkatuart, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, and indi-
gestion. Cure No. 54,812. Miss Virginia &piers, cured of con-
eultption, after her medical advisers had abandoned all hopes of
recovery. Cure No, 180, " Twenty-five years nervousness, con-
atiPation. indigestion and debility, from Which I have suffered great
'nisery, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been
effectually cured bp Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. R.
/Leaves, 181, Fleet-street, London." No. 4,208. "Fight years' dis-
Pepsis'. nervousness, debility, with cramps, span's, and nausea,
Which my servant had consulted the advice of maanny.h av
have
been
effectually cured by Du Barry's health restoring Food. I shall be
happy to answer any inquiries. Rev. John Flavell, Ridlington Rec-
tory, Norfolk." No. 32,836. "Three years' excessive nervousness,
With pains in my neck and left arm, and general debility, which ren-
dered my life very miserable, has been radically removed by Du
Barry's health restoring Food. Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of RM.
Skibbereen." Cure No. 3,906. " Thirteen years' cough, indigestion,
and general debility have been removed by Du Barry's
excellent
Revalenta Arabica Food. James Porter, Athol-street, Perth."
Important Caution against the fearful dangers of spurious imita.
fattens:—

The Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wrod granted an !mune.
tion on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Neville, ter
imitating " Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food."
Seitably packed for all climates, and with full instructions. I,
canisters, lib is 9d ; 21b 48 fd ; 51b lis , 121 b 225. The 121 h car-
riage free, on receipt of Post-office order. Barry Du Barry anc
Co.. 77, Regent-street, London; Fortnum, Mason, and Co.. pur-
veyors to her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly,; also at 60, Gracechurch.
street ; 330.430, and 451, Strand ; 4, Cheapside ; 149, Blehopsgate-
street ; and 150 and 158 Oxford-street.