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

TRUSTEES.
Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. I Wm. G. Prescott, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. I Baron L.N. de Rothschild, M.P.
TREASURER Or TIIE BENEVOLENT FUND. —John Abel Smith, Esq.,

M.P.

Accumulated fund . • • • • • ....... £95,000
Annual income ...... ...... • • 27,000
Tbis Association offers every advantage to all classes desirous o
assuring.
A Benevolent Fund is attached exclusively for clerks.
WIS. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary.
15, Dloorgate-street, December, D 357.

OFFICERS PROCEEDING TO INDIA,
also CIVILIANS, can effect ASSURANCES on their
LIVES with the COLONIAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY on
the USUAL TE1110,4110 Directors having RESOLVED NOT TO INCREASE
THEIR RATES at this time.
Premiums can be pail to the Comnany's Agents at Calcutta, Ma-
dras, or Bombay, or at any other of their Agencies in the East.

The Directors also advance Loans on good security for temporary
Periods. -

The Colonial have Agencies in every British Celony, where Pre.
Ulhum are received. and claims settled.

WILL. TIIO. THO‘ISON, Actuary.

SAMUEL R. FERGUSON, Resident Secretary
in London.

LONDON . . ... • ................ SI, T.ombard-street (E.C,)
EDINBURGH (Bend-office) .... 5, George-street.
DUBLIN.. •• .. •• . .. 65, Upper S'ackville-street.
59, St. Vincent-street.

ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
6, New Bridge-street, London.
Chairman—HENßY FREDERICK STEPHENSON, Esq.
Deputy-Chairman —RosEaT BIDDELPH, Esq.
AbvsyrSoEs—:
Mutual Assurance.
The lowest rates of Premium on the Mutual System.
The whole of the Profits divided every Fifth Year.
An accumulated Capital of • • • • . •
During its existence the society has paid In Claims..
Reversionary Bonuses have been added to Policies to
the extent of .. .. • • • • • • • •
The last bonus, declared in 1854, averaged 671. per
cent. on the Premiums paid, and amounted to • •
Policies in force .. .. • • • •
The Annual Income exceeds • • • • ••
The next Division of Profits will be made in 1859.
Assurances effected prior to 81st December,lBs9, will participate
In the Division of 1863.
toProspectuses and full particulars my be obtained on application
ALF.XANDER MACDONALD. Se^--.-"•

.. £1,575,000
1,455,000

890,000

327,603
7,437
240,000

E4TABLIFIFTED 1841.

MEDICAL, INVALID, AND GENERAL
. LIFE OFFICE, 25, Pall-m3ll, London.

Empowered by special Act of Parliament.

fly the Annual Report of 1853, it appeared that the number o
policies then in force was 3,434, insuring 1,337,5001., and yielding an
illeoMe of *5,207/.
At the Sixteenth Annual Meeting, held on the 26th November
4657, it was shown that on the 30th June last—
The number of Policies in force was
The amount insured was 2,917,598/. 13s. 10d.
The annual Income was .... •

Two Bonuses have been declared (in 1848 and 1853), adding nearly
Per cent. per annum on the average to sums assured, and by which
Policy of 1,0001. issued in 1842 on a healthy life is 1101 Y increased t,
1,2601.
Profits divided every live years—next division in 1858.
The Society, since its establishment, has paid claims on 781
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
then to assurers. f
Invalid lives assured on scientifically constructed tables.
Policies issued free of Stamp duty, and every charge but the Pre-

Active working Agents wanted for vacant places.
Prospectuses, Forms of Proposals, and ev'ry other informal ion,
'Pay be obtained of the Secretary at tha Chief Office, or on applica-
mon to any of the Society's Agents in the country.
C. DOUGLAS SINGER, Secretary.

rtHE INTERNATIONAL LIFE
ISSUE .NCE SOCIETY,

142, Strand, London.
?"41POWered by Act of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURANCE, SUR-
VIVORSHIP% ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c.
DIRECTORS.
E D M ON D SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D , Chairman.
Win. Kenworthy Browne, Esq. Henry J. Hodgson, Esq.
Samuel King-Church, Esq. John Moss, Esq.
John Elllotson, M.D., Cantab., John Symes, Esq.
P.R.& Joseph Thompson, Esq.

SECRETARY TO THE BOARD.
Alexander Richardson, Esq.
CORRESPONDING SECRET ART.
Annstus Blonde!, Esq.
AUDITORS.

Professor Wheatstone, F.It.ST, and Professor J. Radford Young.

MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL.
J. Fdliotson, M.D., Cantab , F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street.
ACTUARY.
W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., &C.
♦SSISTANT ACTUARY.
Barker Woolhouse, Eat.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street.
SOLICITORS.
Mess's. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Roweliffe, Bedford-row.

The next Quinquennial Division of Profits will be declared In
hay, 1860.

Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 :

Policy
taken
Out in

Bonus in Permanent
Sum addition Banns in Re action 01
Assured. to Sum Cash. tnnnal Pre-
Assured. mium.
£ a. d. J 3 s. 4. .Je s. '
3,000 867 17 7 423 1 4 56 a 8
4,000 749 4 0 325 16 0 32 0
2,000 232 18 0 156 15 0 16 6 0
2,000 151 0 a 102 10 6 10 11 2
2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6 G 7 7

The following are amongst the advantages offered by the Inter-
Itational Life Assurance Society :
The Societ was established in 1838.
TWo-thirdsy of the profits are divided amongst the assured every
acre years.
Its subscribed capital is five hundred thousand pounds.
tolts
investments, at the date of the last annual report, amounted
Its
hundred and seventy-one thousand pounds.
t_t, annual Income is ninety thousand pounds.
The number of, policies now in tore* exce, d six thousand.
About one thousand new policies are added every year
,41lice its commencement the Society has paid in claims upwards
hree hundred and twenty thousand pounds.
- ° ProsStrandpectuses and every other information, apply to the Chair-
4a, rl4 2, .
Chair-
, Strand. London. W.C.

EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman.

TO THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED.
De_ CFIARi ES WATSON, M.D. (Physician to the Bedford Die-
is.7s,l7), 27, Alfred-Place. Bedford-square, London, continues to
.
on receipt of six stamps, " TEIE GUIDE TO SELF-CURE."
.oledlcal Correspondence conducted.
vi 'The first man of the dey in those complaints."—Medical Re-
'llllY. 1856.
The true Guide to those who desire a speedy and private cure."
Irnlversity Magazine.
The NEW AMERICAN DISCOVERY' showing the absurdity of
trtnlish ode of tating such omplaints, will prove a blessin to
a affligcted,m who may c
safely and easily regain pristine healthg by
a
7°Pting the means presented."—Vvening Star.

A ICETIRED PHYSICIAN, whose sands of
life have nearly run out, discovered while in the East Indies
Certain cure for Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis, Coughs, Colds,
and General Debility, The remedy was discovered by him when
bin only child, a daughter, was given up to die. He had heard
Much of the wonderful restorative and healing qualities of prepara-
tions made from the East India Hemp, and the thought occurred to
him that he might make a remedy for his child. He studied hard,
and succeeded in realising his wishes. His child was cured, and is
now alive and well. He has since administered the wonderful re-
medy to thousands of sufferers in all parts of the world, and he has
never failed in making them completely healthy and happy. Wishing
to do as much good as possible. he will send to such of his afflicted
fellow beings as request it, this r clue, with fall and explicit direc-
tions for makin it up and successfully using it. He requires each
arlpllcant to enclose him six stamps—one to be returned as postage
en the recipe, and the remainder to be applied to the payment of
this advertisement: Address to H. James, 14, Cecil-street,
atrand.

OYAL FREE HOSPITAL,-Gray's-inn-road.
John 1
AID of the benevolent is earnestly solicited.
d "hn Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane, is Treasurer, by whom
°nations will be thankfully received : also by the following bankers:
bYessrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co.; Herries and Co. ;
7,,,n50m and Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smyth, Payne, and Co.;
;;913. and Co.; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and
Co Williams, Deaeon, and Co.; Overend, Gurney,Mae-
: 2114 n and Co.; by Messrs. Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; and at
4"e-Tiogpital from Ten till Five.
By order,

S. S. SMITH, Secretary.

NO MORE PILLS NR ANY OTHER M
tlrtEs (w About Physic) of O
Indigestion (Dyspepsia),EDlClNE Constipation,
Flatulency, Phlegm, all Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints,
Hysteria, Neuralgia, Dysentry, Diarrhoea, Acidity, Palpitation,
Ileartburu, Headache. Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms,
Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at sea), Sinking Fits,
Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Com-
be'lnts ate effected by
II BARRY'S delicious REV ALE NTA
f„ ALARICA FOOD, which restores health without purging,
'convenience, or expense, as it saves fifty times its cost in other
retnedies: It is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids
ienerallY, as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor inter-
feresr with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch
'Lad dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and
titiscular energy to the most enfeebled.
'We extract a few out of the many thousand expressions of g.rati-
tUde from invalids :—Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon.
the Lord Stuart de Decies. ~ I have derived considerable benefit
born Du Barry'r Revaleuta 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. Maria Jolly, Wortham
L lg. near Dlss, Norfolk."—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs,
of N azing. Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Hurts, a cure of extreme ner-
Va.laness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.—
Cure No. 48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liver
pool : a cure of ten ee,'s dyspepsia, and the horrors of nervous irrita-
bility. Cure No. 18,216. Dr. Andrew Ure of constipation, dyspep-
Ida, crayons irritability. Cure No. 34,210. Dr. St orland of dropsy
and . ehility. Cave No. 36,212. Captain Allan of epileptic fits.
Cure No. 42.116 Major Edie of enlargement of the liver and total
prostration of strength. Cure No. 36,418. Rev. Dr. Minster of
Cramps, spasms, and daily vomitings, Cure. No. 26,418. Dr. liar-
Vey of diarrhoea and debility. Cure No. 39,625. Dr. Wortzer
Of consumption. Cure No. 32,883. William Hunts, F.sq., barrister,
of paralysis. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, wood merchant,
Of thirty years diseased lungs, 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 Castleatnart, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, and indi-
gestion. Cure No. 54,812. Miss Virginia Zeguera, cured of con-
sumption, after her medical advisers had abandoned all hopes of
recovery. Cure No, lin). "Twenty-flue years' nervousness, con-
stipation, indigestion and debility, from which I have suilered great
Misery, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been
effectually cured by Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. R.
Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London." No. 4,208. " Fight years' ,i.
pepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, for
which my servant had consulted the advice of many, have been
effectually cured by Du Barry's health restoring I ood• I shall be
happy to answer any inquiries. Rev. John Fla yell. R hilinaton Rec-
tory, Norfolk." No. 32,536. " 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 Rees,
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.
tations:—

The Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood granted an injunc-
tion on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Neville, for
imitating "Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food."
Suitably packed for all climates, and with full instructions. In
Canisters, llb 25 M ; 21b as fid ; 51b 119, 121 b 225. The 121 b car-
riage free, on receipt of Post-office order. Barry Du Barry and
Co.. 77, Regent-street, London; Fortnum. 1.1a40n, and Co.. pur-
veyors to her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly; also at 60, Gracechurch-
street ; 330,430, and 451, Strand ; 4, Cheapside ; 149, Bishopsgate-
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