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L0ND0N...................... 81, Lombard-street (LC.)
EBINBURGII (Head-office) .... 5, George-street.
DUBLIN
GLASGOW • . •

PROSPECTUS of the next EXAMINATION
for ADMISSION to the ROYAL BALI PARY ACADEMY at
WOOLWICH.

The Examination for the Admission of Cadets to the Royal Mill-
rijAcademy at Woolwich, will be held in London, in the month of
uary, 1858.
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evided a sufficient number of the Candidates are found compe-
te *thirty admissions will be made to that Institution. Candidates
litutf between the ages of seventeen and twenty years. The suc-
cessful candidates will remain under instruction at the Academy
for about two years, or until they are sufficiently advanced in scien-
tific knowledge satisfactorily to pass a final examination, and they
will then receive Commissions in the Ro) al Artillery and Royal En-
gineers. Payment at the rate of 125/. per annum will be required
daring this period of gentlemen not being sons of officers of the Army
or Navy, and for sons of officers, upon a scale according to rank. A
deposit of 221. 103 will be required of the whole.
The subjects of examination will be as follows :
{Tare ' 2,000
3,500
1. Mathematlis Mixed 1,500

Marks.

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2. English
3. Classics Latin 1,000
1 Greek 750 f
. .

.. 1,750

.. 1,750

4. French
5. German
6. Experimental Sciences .. ..
7. Natural Sciences ..
8. Drawing, Geometrical and Lan 'scape

.. 1,000
.. 750
.. 1,000
.. 7 0
.. 1,000

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No Candidate, who does not obta n at least 1,000 marks In Mathe-
matics, 700 of which must be iu Pure Mathematics, will be eligible
for an appointment, and any Candidate who shall not select French
and Drawing amongst the subjects of examination will be required
to pass a qualifying examination In those subjects.
Farther information may be obtained on reference to the War
OMce, Pall-Mall, S.W.
Gentlemen de•irons of becoming candidates should send in their
names to the War Office on or before let January, accompanied
1. By a Certificate of ilapt,sm.
2. By a Certificate of Moral Character.
S. By a statement of the subjects in which they desire to be exa-
mined. H. R. DREWRY.

NATIONAL PROVIDENT INSTITUTION,
48, Gracechurch-street, London.
For Mutual Assurance on Lives, Annuities, &c.
Established December, 1835.
DIRECTORS.
Chairman—SAMUEL HAYHURST LUCAS, Esq.
Deputy Chairman—CHAßLES LUSHINGTON, ESQ.
Francis Bennoch, Esq. Hebert Ingham, Esq., M.F,
John Bradbury, Esq. Robert Sheppard, Esq.
Thomas Castle, Esq. Jonathan Thorp, Esq.
William Miller Christy, Esq. , William Tyler, Esq.
. John Feltham, Esq. 1 Charles Whetham, Esq.
Charles Gilpin, Esq., M.P. I

PHYSICIANS.
J. T. Conquest, M.D., F.L.S. I Thomas Hodgkin, M.D.
VA/firms—Messrs. Brown, Janson, and Co. ; and Bank of England.
Sommoß—Septimus Davidson, Esq.
CONSULTING ACTUARY—CharIes Ansell, Esq., F.R.S.
Abstract of the Directors' Report for the year ending 20th No-

vember, 1856:—
Number of policies issued from the commence-
ment of the institution in Dec., 1835 19,617 0 0
Amount paid in claims

♦mount returned to the assured in abatement
of primiums in the 17 years ending Nov. 20,
1852.... .......................... ........„ p 40,134 11 8

Additions to policies by way of bonus £126,564 0 0

Annual Income, after deducting 33,3381. abatement
of Premiums . £258,735 7 2

Ths amount of capital arising exclusively from the .
premiums paid by tha members, who are them-
Selves the *old proprietary, and among whom
alone the whole pretit is divided £1,351,4;04 5 II

At the last division of surplus profits made up to Nov. 20, 1852,
the reductions varied from 6 to 89 per cent. on the original amount
•f premiums, according to the age of the member and the time the
Policy had been in force; and the bounces ranged in like manner
from 50 to 75 per cent. on the amount of premiums received daring
the preceding live years.
The next DtvisloN will be made up to the 20th November, 1857.
Members whose premiums fall due on the Ist Pet are reminded
that the same must be paid within 30 days from that date.
The I'rocpectus, with the last Report of the Directors, and all
other informatien, may be had on application at the office.
Sept. 16, 1857. JOSEPH MARSH, Secretary.

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W. B. MARSTON, 47, BERNERS-STREET, Or ord-street, Lon-
don, who may be consulted daily, with assured confidence of suc-
cess,

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