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London, England, 1857-01-12 00:00:00

MAIN' DRAINAGE of the METROPOLIS.—
NOVO .--The Plans for the Main Drainage of the Me-
tropolis having been referred to Captain Douglas Gallon, R E.,
fames Simpson, Esq., C.E., and Thomas E. Blackwell, C.E., Notice
Is Hereby Given, that all persons desirous of Communicating with
those gentlemen upon the subject may direct letters, plans, &c., to
them, at their office, No. 29, Great George-street, Westminster, on
or before 28th February next.
The following conditions most be observed :
All communications to contain the names and addresses of the
parties forwarding them, and to be written on half sheets of foolscap
paper, on one side only, with two-inch margin on the left.
If plans are sent in, those plans which are district plans must be
on a scale of not less than fbur inches to the mile.
Sections of lines of drainage, present and proposed, to be on a
Scale of 20 feet to an inch vertical, ant not less than 4 inches to a
mile horizontal, and to have the gradients marked on them in all
Cases, with the heights in feet and inches at every chine of gradient.
A blue line to denote Trinity high water mark to be shown on
all sections.
Drawings of works must be on a scale of one-eighth of an inch
to a foot.
29, Great George-street, Westminster, Jan.'lo, 1857.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY.—NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the
BOOKS in which TRANSFERS of STOCK and SHARES of this
Company are registered will tie CLOSED on FR iDIY, the 23d inst ,
asd that all transfer deeds for registration must be deposited in this
lice on or before that day to entitle Proprietors to the forthcoming
Dividend.
H. BOOTH,
CHAS. E. hITEWAIIT,I Secretaries.
Office, Boston Station, January 10, 1857.

By order.

LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY: —TO RAILWAY CONTRACTORS AND
OTHERS.—The Directors are desirous of receiving Tenders for
Widening the Railway between Primro,e-hill Tunnel and Willesden
Station.

Parties desirous of tendering may inspect the drawings and spe-
cifications, and obtain a statement of the quantities, at the Engi-
neer's Office, Elston Station, on Monday, January 19, between the
hours of .10 and 4 o'clock.

Sealed Tenders, addressed to the Secretary, at this Office, to be
Bent in on or before Wednesday, 28th January, at 10 o'clock a.m
The Directors do not bind themselves to accept Axe lowest tender.
By order.
CHAS. E. STEWART, Secretary.
Secretary's Office, Jan. 7, 1857.

ALBERT LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
11, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

Notice is hereby given, that the HALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND
to the 31st ultimo, after the rate of Seven per cent. per annum, will
be in COURSE of PAYMENT to the Shareholders on and after the
12th January instant.

Bth January, 1857.

HENRY WILLIAM SMITH,
Actuary and Secretary

LAW LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
Fleet-street, let January, 1857.
Notice is Hereby Given, that a GENERAL MEETING of the
Proprietors of the Law Life Assurance Soc!ety will be hold at the
Society's Office, Fleet street, London, on MONDAY, the 2d day of
February next, at 12 o'clock at noon precisely, pursuant to the provi-
sions of the Society's Deed of Settlement for the purpose of receiv-
ing the Auditors' Annual Report of the Accounts of the Society up to
the 31st December last; to elect a Trustee in the room of the late
Right Hon. Sir John Jervis, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas, deceased ; and for general purposes.
By order of the Directors.
WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES, Actuary.

UNION ASSURANCE SOCIETY
(FIRE, LIFE, and ANNIJITD 5).
♦.D. 1714.
Cornhill, and 70, Baker-street, London.
College-green, Dublin.---Gronengen-street, Hamburg.
Exchange-street West, and Titheharn-street, Liverpool.
North Nelson-street, k dinburgh.
Instituted in the reign of Queen Anne, A n 1714, with large Invested
Fands.
Dr/LECTORS. Btc.
CnArsKAN—JOHN RE m INGTON MILLS, Esq.
DItPUTT-CHAIRMAN—HENRY ALDWIN SOAMES, Esq.
James Bentley, Esq. John Paynter, Esq.
Thomas Bodley, Esq. John Rogers, Esq.
Daniel Britten, Esq. Henry Rutt, Esq.
Nicholas charrington, Esq. George Spencer Smith, Esq.
S. Preston Child, Esq. ltichd. llorsman Solly, Esq.
William Gilpin, Esq. W. Foster White, I. sq.
Thomas Lewis, Esq. Samuel Wilson, Esq., Atd.
Thomas Mills, Esq., M.P. Stephen Wilson, Esq.
John Morley, Esq,

LIFE.
Reduced rates for young and middle ages, with guarantee of a
company in existence upwards of 140 years, and a large accumulated
capital. The last Bonus (1855) gave additions to policies varying
from 25 to 78 per cent. on the previous seven years' premiums
Lower rates, without profits. Two-thirds only of the premiums may
be paid until death. Decreasing and increasing rates of premium, and
half-yearly or quarterly. Medical fees allowed.

FIRE.
Insurances at the usual rates, and profits returned on policies taken
out for seven years by p ompt payment. Lo-ses occasioned by ex-
plosion of gas made good. The offices close on Saturdays at two
o'clock. excepting in the fifteen days after each quarter-day.
Insurances now expiring must be paid on or before the 9th Janu-
ary, at the office in London, or of the respective agents.
WILLIAM R. LEWIS, Secretary.

TN the matter of the Joint-stock Companies
Wiading-up Acts, 1848 and 1849, and of the l'rotestant Life
and Fire Insurance Association:
By direction of the Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard Torin Kindersley,
the Judge of the High Court ofChancery to whose Court this matter
is attached, and by whose order the winding-up of the above-named
association is proceeding, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That
His Honour purposes, on MONDAY, the nineteenth day of January,
1857, at Twelve o'clock at noon, at his chambers, No. 3, Ston-:-
buildings, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex, to proceed to make a Call
upon all the Contributories of the said Association, and the said
Judge purposes that such call shall be for Four Pounds Ten Shil-
lings per share.
All parties interested are entitled to attead at such day, hour,
and place, to offer objections to such call.
Dated this 2d day of Januaty, 1857.
CHAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk.
WILLIAM KINSEY, Solicitor for Alfred Ainger, the
Official Manager, 9, Bloomsbury-place.

ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SIXTH SALE.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, London, January, 1857.
FOR SALE, by order of the Honourable the
Commissioners of her Majesty's Customs, at the Commercial
Sale Rooms, Mincing-lane, on MONDAY, Jan. 19, TUESDAY, 20th,
WEDNESDAY, 21Ft, THURSDAY, 22d, FRIDAY, 23d, and MON-
DAY, 26th, at twelve at noon precisely, the following GOODS for
home consumption, viz.:—

. ,
Agate Ornaments, Berlin Embroidery, Bags, Brushes, Books,
Brandy, Cambric Handkerchiefs, embroidered ; Clocks, brass, black,
bronze, and ormoulu, Coffee, Cordials, Cotton Articles, Elastic Web-
bing; Embroidery or Needlework, Habits, Sleeves, Collars ; Furni-
ture, viz., Chest of Drawers, Tables, Cabinets, Chairs, Ice. ; Flowers
(artificial); Geneva, Gloves, Hair (pig's), Hair Guards, Hat Linings,
Ivory Ornaments'and Brooches ; Jewellery (mock), viz., Bracelets,
Brooches, Pins, Chains, &c.; Lace Articles; Leather Articles, viz.,
Harness, Saddles, Boots and Shoes; Mats (table), Needles, Org n,
Opera Glasses and Optical Instruments, Paper, Pipe Stems, Perfumed
Spirits, Picture Mouldings, Portemonnaies, &c.; Prints. Rum, Regan,
Saccades, &c.; Shawls (wove) ; Spirits, plain and mixed, Silk Manu-
factures, viz., Velvet, Braid, Vestments, Canvas, Trimmings, China
Gauze, &c.; Sugar, Tallow, Tapestry, Tea, Timber, Toys, a Vessel,
Watches (Gold and Silver), Water (Mineral), Waterproof Clothing,
Wine, and various other Goods.
For Exportation or for Home Consumption, on payment of the
Duties:—Books, Sugar, Spirits, Tea. Wiae, and other Goods.
For Exportation only :—Sweetened Spirits, &c.
For the benefit of the Crown :—lron, Rope, Canvas, Sugar, Spirits,
Wine, &c.

The above goods may be viewed at the Queen's Warehouse, Cus-
tom-house, and Cox's-quay, Thames-street; at the London, St. Katha-
rine, East and West India Docks ; Tobacco Ground ; and Gordon's
Sail Loft, Princes-stairs, Rotherhithe ; on Thursday, the 15th, Friday,
the 16th, and •Saturday, the 17th of January, from Ten in the morning
until Three in the afternoon, and en the days of sale from Tea in the
minting until Twelve at neon.
Take Notice, that goods sold at this sale will not be delivered until
after two clear days of the day on which they are sold, and that no
lots can be paid for at the office of the Receiver-General after Two
•'Clock in the afternoon. and that on the days of sale money will not
be received by the Receiver-General after eleven o'clock in the fore-
noon.

Catalogues may be had at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-house,
Thames-street, price one shilling each.

CANCER HOSPITAL, London and West
• Brompton.—Secretary's Office, 167, Ficcadilly.—This Institu-
tion has been established exclusively for the treatment of the poor
afflicted with cancerous diseases. Ont-door patients to attend at 167,
Piccadilly, on Tuesdays, at 2 o'clock. In-door patients are admitted
at the Brompton Establishment, for one month, and for a longer
period if recommended by the medical officers. The number of per-
sons under treatment as in or out-door patients have averaged for
the last three years about 400 cases each year. Since the foundation
of this Hospital in 1851, 1,799 poor persons, suffering under every
form of this dreadful malady, have received the benefits of this
Charity. A Weekly Board manage Its affairs, and every informa-
tion connected with the Institution may be obtained on application
to the Secretary. Contributions to enable the Committee to continue
this great work of benevolence are urgently solicited, and may be
paid to William Loxham Farrar' Esq., the Treasurer, 66, Lincoln's-
inn-fields ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand ; and at the Secretary's
Offices, 167, Piccadilly.

By order.

W. J. COCKERILL, Secretary.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road.
Patron—The QUEEN.—Founded 1828.
The sick Poor are admitted on their own application alone; no re-
commendati.n is required,
of this Charity. either During the Past month the following number received the benefits
application:— they as out or in-deor patients, on their personal

Week ending 7th November 2,154
Ditto 14th November 2,043
Ditto 21st November ...• • • 1,972
Ditto 28th November 2,309
29th And 30th November...

T
of which 2,775 were new in November •cases, the •. 8'747
went) having been admitted
previowdyremainder (still under treat,
The clergy of all denominatio
patients, ,ns have unlimited access to the
Heavy expenses are inevitably incurred in affording such
exten-
sive
relief. The Committee, therefore, earnestly
entreat the aiclof
the public.
The management of the Hospital is in the hands of 30 Governors,
yearly elected from the general list. of subscribers, at the .annual
General Meeting in January. A Board is held every Thursday at 4 o'clock (Rev. J. B. Owen, Chairman), to conduct the basin,
,
when any subscriber may attend, if so disposed, the Board being at
all times desirous of receiving suggestions or giving explanation.
The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on volun-
tary contributions and legacies, which are received by the Treasurer,
John Masterman, Esq., M.P., Nicholas-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutta
and Co.;Drummond and Co.; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ;
Prescott,i Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Glyn and Co. ;
Jones Loyd and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Denison and Co. ; Williams,
Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Ber-
ners-street ; Masterman and Co.; and at the Hospital.
Clothing for the destitute patients will be thankfully received.
By order. J. B. OWEN, M.A., Chairman.