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•' H 1 CHINESE COLLECTION.
ST. GEORGE'S-PLACE, HYDEPARK CORNER.
This Splendid Collection, consisting of Objects Exclusively
Chinese, surpassing in extent and grandeur any similar display
in the known world, entirely filling the spacious saloon, 22.5
feet in length, by 50 feet in width ; embracing upwards of
Fifty Figures as large as life, all fac-similes,. in groups, in
their native costumes, from the highest mandarin to the blind
mendicant in his patchel garment. Also, many thousand spe-
cimens, both in Natural History and Miscellaneous Curiosi-
ties, illustrating the appearance, manners, and customs of more
than Three Hundred Million Chinese, respecting whom the
Nations of Europe have had scarcely any opportunity of judg-
ing, IS NOW O'3EN for Public Inspection from Ten in the
Morning till Ten at Night.

Admission '34. 6d.—Children

PUBLICATIONS.

In October, in fcp. Bvo.,
TIE PARENT'S HAND-BOOK ; or, Guide
to the Choice of Professions, Employments, and Situa-
tio"s ; containing Useful and Practical Information on the sub•
lent of placing out Young Men, and of obtaining their Educa-
tion with avi,w to particular occupations. By J. C. HUD-
SON, Esq., Author of "Plain Directions for Making Wills."
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

NEW EDITION OF MR. LAING'S LAST WORK.
Publi-hed this day, Bvo., pp. 536, 16s. cloth, the 2d Edition of
1 IVOTES of a TRAVELLER on the SOCIAL
and POLITICAL STATE of FRANCE, PRUSSIA,
SWITZERLAND, ITALY, and other Parts of Europe
during the Present Century.
By S. LAING, Esq. Second Edition.
We cann forbear tendering the Author our cordial thanks
for the pleasure he has afforded us in these very valuable
Notes.' Whatever falls from his pen is full of thought, and
well worthy in every way of consideration."—Eclectic Review.
By the same Author,
A TOUR in SWEDEN in 1838. Beo. pp. 444, 12s. cloth.
RESIDENCE in NORWAY during the Years 1834,
1835, and 1836. Second E lition, 14vo. pp. 494, 14s. cloth.
London; Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

ON DIFFERENT SYSTEMS OF
ASSURAN CE.
Can insurers get superior, equal, or less actual be-
nefit, in a Bonus Society, than from establishments
on other principles ?
Adduce the man who, in 1817, insured at 30, for
1001. in the Equitable (here only specifically named
as the leading type of the Bonus class)-the annual
premium then anti now 21. 13s. 6d. In 1840, what
were his prospects ? He had paid twenty-four times
2/. 13s. 6d., i.e. 641. 45., improved at four per cent. in-
terest to 104/. 10s. 11d., the amount virtually outlaid:
and has still to pay yearly 21. 13s. 6d. Thus the So-
ciety have 1041. 10s. 11d. in hand, and further derive
from him 6/. 17s. 2d. annually (i. e. the 2/. 13s. 6d.
and 4/. 3s. Bd. interest on sum saved). For these he
is promised 1001. at death, and 221. 10s. Bonus, made
up of two and a half per cent. per annum, from 1831,
(the earliest time at which Insurers after 1816 became
entitled to any Bonus), to 1840, together with
1221. 10s. with a prospective two and a half per cent.
if he die before 1850.. Modern rates, if taken in
1817 (as by the ASYLUM Company since 1824), with-
out Bonus, would be, premium 2/. 25., sum paid
50/. Bs., improved to 82/. ls. 6d., . yielding interest
3/. ss. Bd., and the 2/. 2s, together with 51. 7s. Bd., for
100/. at death.-Now to contrast':
( On Old System he
Payments -: has virtually paidXlo4 10 11
(On Modern B2 1 6.
Difference
On Old System, at
Eventual .death, with future
Receipt Bonusnoticedbelow 122 10 0
On Modern lOO 0 0