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London, England, 1857-10-24 00:00:00

COURSE OF EXORANGE.-YESTERDAY.

tmsterdam.. .• 11 16% Gibraltar
Ditto, three months .. 12 Leghorn 30 35
aotterdara ....•...•..• L Genoa ................ 25 85
Antwerp •• •• •••• •• •• •• 25 55 Jlilan •• •...
Brussels •• •• •••••••••• 25 55 Venice— ••••• • •• , ••••
ZiaMblirgh •• •• •• •• •• • • 13 104 Naples ••••„..„....... 4241
Altcna •••• •• •• •• •••• e• • • P2lOllllO •• •• •• •• •• •• 4.41 127
Paris.• ••••••••••• •• .. 25 37% Messina ..• . 127
Do. three months .• •• 25 8741 Lisbon .. ... 52!,
Maneillm •• •.•• •• •• ea 25 87% Oporto •• •••••• •• •••• •• 52y,1
floardeaux ..•• Rio Janeiro ..... .......
Frankfort-on-Maine •• 119% :Buenos Ayre5..........
Berlin •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 'New York,6o dayesight •
Vienna 10 48 Philadelphia
frieste •••• •• •... . • 10 48 Pawn OP BULLION PER OZ.
Petersburg 354 Foreign Gold in Bare £3 17 9
adrid •• 49 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0,
Cadiz 49% Mexican Dollars .... 0 5 °7B
13 rrilena ............ New Dollars 0 0 0
......, .. Silver in bars 0 6 I%

M. Magimel, inspector-general of Finance, and charged
ad interim with the general movement of the funds, hall
lean appointed to represent the Department'Of the Fi-
nance in the Committee of Surveillance of the Colonial
Banks in the room of M. Andouille, ruminated three
months ago sub-governor of the Bank of France.

BIRTHS,
OF A BON.
On the 211 inst., at 39, Atnpthill-square, the wife of w•
11. Winsor, Esq.. - -

On the 20th inst., at the Vicarage, Kenilw.orth, the wife
of the Rev. W. F. Bickwore.
OP A DAUGHTER.
On the 22d inst., at the Barnes, the wife of Richard ti•
PenibErton, Esq.
On the 22(1 inst., at Sheffield-gardens, Kensington, the
wife of W. B. Paterson, Esq.
• mAitR IE D.
On the 22d inst., at St. Cites's, Camberwell. William
Lafley Raymont,- Esq., of Trafalgar-road, Ne'w Peckhetor
to Fanny, only daughter of E. Froggat, Esq., Old Kent'
road.
On'the 2!d inst., at St. Mark's, IC( nnington., Henri */..!
Owen, Esq. of St. Alban',.-road, Kensington, to Elizabeth
Anne, second daughter of Charles Brooke Teague, Esq. 4)'
the Lodge, South Lambeth.

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DIED.
On the 22d inst., at Hillingdon, Middlesex, at the reit
dance of her younger daughter, Mrs. Arabella Hall (oh
Wigmore-street), aged 74 years.
On the 22d inst., at Wallington, Surrey, Sir Charles g'
Rich, Bart., aged 74.
On the 22d inst., Ellen, wife of Mr. henry VizetelliP
Chalfant Lodges Catnpden-bill, Kensington.
On the 211 iust., at 2, Queen's-row, Pentonrille, gr.
Rees Davie',

On the 22d ina., at Berkeley, Glocestershire, Como°.
der Augustus T. Maces, R.N., aged 68.
gall,
On the 22d inst., James Gilbert,.Esq., of Tourney
Lydd, Kent, aged 84.
On the 20th inst., at 76, Leadenhall-street, city, Mr. 10,
Manual, aged 34.
On the 21st inst.,
Willis, of 8, Newo,te-street, aged 61.
suddenly, at Bredgar, Kent, Mr. A.
On the 17th inst., at Southampton, Peter Barfoot,
of Midlington House, Droxford, Rants, a magistrate 0
that county,

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L : Priat,e3 and Pubiialied by MURDO YOUNG
of No. 112, Strand, Frietor, at 2714 Siu (Mice, 14
11%, ~,rund, in the Precinct of the Savoy. in the comet'
of Middlesex, Saturday, October 24, 1857.

1111,ROSPECTIIS of the next EXAMINATION
1. for ADMISSION to the ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY at
WOOLWICII.
The Examination for the Admission of Cadets to the Royal Mili-
tary Academy at Woolwich, will be held in London, in the month of
January, 1858.
›,rovided a sufficient number of the Candidates are found compe-
lepl. thirty admissions will be made to that Institution. Candidates
titan 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 Royal Artillery and Royal En-
gineers. Payment at the rate of 1251. per annum will be required
during 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 22/. 10s will be required of the whole.
The subjects Of examination will be as follows :
I
1. Mathematics Pure 2,000
{ Mixed 1,500 j
2. English ' . • •• ••
3. Classics Latin 1,000
Greek 750 f
4. French .. .• 1,000
5. German .. 750
6. Experimental Sciences 1,000
7. Natural Sciences .. 7 0
8. Drawing, Geometrical and Lan 'scape .. 1,000
No Candidate, who does not obtan at least 1,010 marks in Mathe-
Mattes, 700 of which must be in 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
Office, Pall-Mall, S.W.
Gentlemen de.lrons of becoming candidates should send in their
names to the War Office on or before Ist January, accompanied
1. By a Certificate of Rapt,sm.
2. By a Certificate of Moral Character.
tntneZ. By a statement of the subjects in which they desire to he exa
11. R. DREWRY

Marks.

.. 3,50)

• • 1,250

.. 1,750

NATIONAL PROVIDENT INSTITUTION,
48, Gracechurch-street, London.
For Mutual Assurance on Lives, Annuities, &c.
Established December, 1835.

DIRECTORS.
Chairman—Ski/11EL lIATIDDIU3T LUCAS, Esq.
Deputy Chairman—Cnsimns LIISIMIGTON, Esq.
Francis Bennoch, Esq. Robert Ingham, Esq., M.P.
John Bradbury, Esq. I Robert Sheppard, Esq.
Thomas Castle, Esq. Jonathan Thorp, Esq.
William Miller Christy, Esq. , William Tyler, Esq.
John Feitham, Esq. I Charles Whetham, Esq.
Charles Gilpin, Esq., M.P. I

PRYSICIANS.
d. T. Conquest, M.D., F.L.S. I Thomas Hodgkin, M.D.
8./muse—Messrs. Brown, Janson, and Co. ; and Rank of England.

,
SOLICITOR—Septimus Davidson, Esq.
CONSULTING ACTUARY—CharIes Ansell, Esq., F.R.S.
Abstract of the Directors' Report for the year ending 20th No-

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vember, 1856 :
2Tumber of policies issued from the oommence-
. ment of the institution in Dec., 1835 . 19,617 0 0
Amount paid in claims

Amount returned to the assured in abatement
of premiums in the 17 years ending Noy. 20,
1652
.... £240,134 11 8

140+1014 policies by way of livitUS.

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