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      METROPOLITAN COUNTIES and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY , 27 , Kegenttreet Waterloo-place , London . 8 DIItECTORS . cmnel Driver , Esq . Thomas Littledale , Esq . t hn Griffith Frith , Me ({ . Edward Lomax , Esq . T 4 r nrv Peter Fuller , Tsq . Samuel Miller , Esq . i hn Palk Griffin , Esq . Edward Vansittart Neale , Esq . iZtPt Hood , Esq . Sir Thomas N . Reeve . Ca . pt . Hon . G . F . Hotham , "R . N . William Studley , Esq . Life Assurances , Annuities , and Endowments . Three-fourths t « rnfits divided amongst the assured . —Prospectuses , post free , n app lication . F . FERGUSON CAWROUX , Manager .

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      -English and cambrian assurance jjj SOCIETY . Chief Office , 9 , New Bridge-street , London . Hranch Offices : —London : 6 , Trinity-street , Borough , and 65 , Sun-street , Bishopsgate-street . Glasgow : 65 , St . Vincentstreet . Dublin : 38 , Lower Ormond-quay . Norwich : 16 , St . Giles ' -street . Bury St . Edmunds : 18 a , Corn-market . Policies Indisputable . HalfPremiums taken . " Diseased , " Military and Naval Lives accepted at equitable ra Annuities , Endowments , and Loans on the most advantageous Claims payable three months after satisfactory proof of death . Profits divided annnually after first seven years . C . W . BEVAN , Manager and Actuary .

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      T HE MERCHANTS AND TRADESMAN'S MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY , 5 , Chathamplace , lilackfriars , London ; 53 , Dale-street , Liverpool ; and all the principal Towns in the Kingom . " TEUSTEES . John Macgregor , Esq ., M . P . Quarles Harris , Esq . I David Fergusson , Esq . Jeftery Smith , Esq . | Thomas How , Esq . DIRECTORS . Chairman—John Macgregor , Esq ., Princes-terrace , Hyde-park M . P . for Glasgow . John Carter , Esq ., South Molton-street . Francis Edwards , Esq ., Westbourne-terrace , Hyde-park . David Fergusson , Esq ., Eastcheap , and Champion-park . Thomas How , Esq ., Eastcheap ; Gordon-house , Turnham-green . Benjamin Hooper , Esq ., Seetliing-lane . Daniel McFarlan , Esq ., Fenchurch-street . William Northcott , Esq ., 13 , Rood-lane , and St . Mary ' s-road , Peckham . Charles Snewin , Esq ., Lloyd-square . MEDICAL OFFICERS . Archibald Billing , Esq ., M . D ., F . R . S ., Park-lane . » R . W . Tamplin , Esq ., F . R . C . S ., S 3 , Old Burlington-street . Daniel Hooper , Esq ., B . A ., M . D . Lond ., 18 , Trinity-square , Southwark . Assurances on Lives and Survivorships ; Annuities for Old Age ; Endowments for Children ; and every description of Life Assurance may be effected in this office . Policies indisputable , except in cases of Fraud . All the Profits go to the Members . Prospectuses may be had at the Offices , orof the Agents . GEORGE THOMSON , Manager . THOMAS MUSGltAVE , Secretary . * * Active persons required as agents where they are not already appointed .

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      INDUSTRIAL JiRANCH OF THE NATIONAL PROVINCIAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY . I ncorporated by Act of Parliament , 7 and 8 Vic , cap- 110 . With a Guarantee Fund of Fifty Thousand Pounds . Chief Office , 34 , Moorgate-street , Bank , London . TltlSTEKS . John Hinde Palmer , Esq . I Thomas Wink worth , Esq . William Anthony Purnell , Esq . | John Poole , Esq . , DIKKCTOKS . William G . H . Baines , Esq ., Kensington . . Stephen Broad , Esq ., Rye-hill , Peckham . William Curr , Esq ., Uishoptigatu-stn-et Without , and Sydenham . John Oropp , Esq ., Oakland-house , Clapham . Joseph Davison , Ksq ., Friday-street , Cheapside , and Higligate . Wellington Gregory , Esq ., Cheapside . John L ' oole , Esq ., G utter-lane , Cheapside , and Highbury . William Anthony Piunell , Esq ., Oriental Club , and Lee , Kent . AUUITOUS . James Hutton , Esq ., Accountant . Moorgato-street . Henry Chatteris , Ehcj ., Accountant , Grcsham-ftrc-ct . William Henry Kurncll , Esq ., Accountant , Old Jewry . rilYSIUlAN . Henry Letheby , Esq ., M . D .. Professor of Medical Jurisprudence , London Hospital . SlllltiKONS . C ' Thomiiii Olliver Duke , Esq ., Keiiniiigwn . Thomas Carrjackaon , K * q ., Hamilton-place , Mew-road . HaNKI ' . hs —Commercial Hank ol London . BOI . H . 'ITOlt . Kdwaril Kelly Harris , Esq ., M , Lineoln ' s-inn-lield . H . . SUHVl ' . YOK . Henry Ainiesley Voysuy , Esq ., ( Juildiord-strcet , ItuHai : ll-nquare . Manauku—)• VV . Hpraffue , Ksq . The Directors of this Society , in addition to the ordinary IxiHhiesH usually transacted l ) y Life Assiimiicii Societies , have formed a distinct . Mranch for the Industrial Classen , embracing very nynt ,.,,, of Life Assurance , and for that purpose have causeil < : xtniHi \ o tables to be prepared , combining Hi .: lnloretUs ol every claim of AsH . neiB , in a manner more compi eheiiHive than has hitherto been attempted by any hhnilar Society . This system of Lite . AsHUiaiiee hitherto propounded , although admirably well ailapl . cil to the means . mil cnciiuintanceH ol t . li 1 II "' P « ' « M > le of this K rt : at commercial country , vi / .., the liulustn . il Nnicpeuce per Month , or the cost of one pint of beer per week , " ¦ ill mii-. ui-o JC : M to the wilt ; and lainlly , at tin ; death ol a man » K''il ^ f > next birthday ; or , *) ii « Hliillin- " unit Three I ' ence per Month will tuicurt ! to a pcr' ¦ " » o | the same a"t ; the sum ol JC-i () on bin attaining the a e ol M . or | . Im ; huniti miiii wonltl be punl to bin iamily should he « lie '" Ton ; attaining that : n ;< -. NON-KOKKE 1 TU 11 K OF MONKY PAID . Hliouhl a person from any euuiie h l liin rrriniuin h ,- will not lose thebenclil . ol the A * imi mice . *>>»« will l » o allow ,., ! , an often an the value ol the Policy will admit , t" ehm-ff ,, the union ' it thereof on his Policy , or , SIhiiiIiJ a person l ) i- allo-Mllit r unable to continue the Ahburaiict . , the Sttnm haul will not lie forfeited aB in other Oilier . ! , iih ' »¦ will Ih ; K limit :. I . by the DirectoiH , another Policy ol l < tn "mount , l ,,, i ,.,, „ ivuli-nt . to tlui tmniH alieady paid , and exonerated 'on , ., Intnl . ; payments . , , 'hii ItattHol I ' reniiuni lor Deferred Annuities , luiiiowiiicntM ' - »« Children , nnil every other information may be obtained ol the S ( .,-r ,, | . ! uy > llt ( ll ( , onicoHtii the Society , M , Mooi | 'ate-Bli oct , Wank , ,, r o | llny o ) ( . Ik- Auoiitu . '

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      HERE IS YOUR liKMKDV ! HOLLOWAV'S OINTMKNT . —A most iniisie . uloiis CUKE of HAD LEGS , after forty-three years ' HiiU ' cring . Extract of a Letter from Mr . William Galpin , of 70 , St . Mary ' nsttrecl , Weyinouth , ttated May lf > , lnr > l . " To ProfesHor IIoi . i . ou ' ay . "Hiu , — At . the ag « : of eii ; lit . eeii my wife ( who is now sixty-one ) caught a violent cold , which settled in her leg . - " , and ever since thai , tiini ! Uiey have been more of 1 < us mini and greatly hillanicd . Her ui ; ouit ! H w , ; rn distracting , ami for m < ililhn ln ;; el htir hhe Was tltpi l \ < il (; ntii-t ; ly of rest anil sleep , livery renn' < ly that inetlieal men a < lvitiftl was t . ritul , lint without clfe . cl . ; her health sullerctl uevtirely , and tilt ; Htatt ; of lit ; r le ;; w wan UniMe . 1 had ull . ea read your ritlveitiBenienlH . anil atlvihtul her to try your pills and ointment ; and , as a last , resource , iifter every othtir remedy hud proved nitclcsii , slit ; toiirieuletl to tlo so . tiht ; commenced six wciiIih u <> o , ami , Htrangt ; to relate , ih . iiow in gootl health . llt ; r le ;; n art ; painhtnH , without st ; ain or near , and her sleep tnututl anil undiHtiubeil , Coultl you liavt ; wil iit ; nHi-. l ihe . iiull ' erin ^ ii ol my wife ( iiiring Hit ; IiihI . foi ly-l . lue <; yt ; ui d , mnl t ; onl . ra : it ihein with her present eiijoynient . t > l health , you would inilectl I «¦ t ¦ 1 deli ^ ht . eil in having been the means of no greatly alleviating tin ; imHVriiigH t , l a fellow creature . ( 'Signt ; tl » WILLIAM ( JALP 1 N . " Mold by tin ; I'roprieloi , ~ 11 , Strand ( noar T ' t ; inplt ; liar ) , London , and by all re < peetable Vt ; ntli ; r . i of Patent . Medieineii tin ( iu !; bout . ' the < : ivili / t ; d World , in I ' olii and ISoxen , at . hi . l . ^ il ., U : i . ' . Id ., ¦ In . ( id ., 1 ' h ., ' -i ' - iii ., and iUii . each . Then ; is a \ eyy rontiidcrublt ; navin ^ i > k laUiiiff flit ; largor ill / en . N . H . Dii I'i'i . ion : ! lor tlie |; uiilant ; o of Paticutii am ulllxrd tt ) cat : li pot or box

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      UNITED KINGDOM TEMPERANCE and GENERAL PROVIDENT INSTITUTION . OFFICES . 39 , Moorgate-street , London 17 , George-street , Edinburgh . b ' i . Princess-street , Manchester . DIRECTORS . Chairman—Robert Warner , Esq . William It . Baker , Esq . C . H . I . ovell , Esq ., M . D . K . Harrctt , Jim ., Esq . J . T . Pritchett , Estj . William Jansoii , Esq . J . Talbot Tyler , Esq . MKDIOAI . DIKECTOU , J . T . Mitchell , Esq ., Clapham . SOLICITOUS . Messrs . Gatliff and De Carteret , 19 , Coleman-street . DANKHHS . Messrs . Barclay , lievan , and Co ., London . The National JJank of Scotland , Edinburgh . The British Linen Company , ( jlasyow . SKCRKTAUV . Thomas Aston liiinis , Eat ] . From the commencement of the present year 500 New Policies luive been isuuetl , making the total number sincu the establishment of the OHice , in 1840 , morn than . > 7 ( H ) . S PECIAL AI ) VA N TA ( J EH . Lower Premiums than in most other Olliees . The ; Entire Profits divisible among the Assured . ( Maims paid to Widows and Children fret ; ol Legacy anil Probate duty . Tin ; Lowest Rate of Mortality of any Olliee in England . Annuities , Inmietliatc and Deferred , Assurances for tin ; whole of Life , for . Short Terms , on Joint Lives , anil every other description of liUHllHVB . Prospectuses anil Forms of Proposal may bt ; obtained on application to flu ; Secretary , or any of flit ; Agents . N . H . Active ami respectable Agents wanted in every town where none art : appointed .

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      P ROFESSIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY . Admitting , on equal terms , persons of every clas 3 and degree to all its benefits and advantages . Capital—Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds . Chairman—Major Henry Stones , LL . 13 . Deputy Chairman—James Andrew Durham , Esq . With upwards of Fourteen Hundred Shareholders . There are two important clauses in the Deed of Settlement , by which the Directors have power to appropriate ONE-TENTH of the entire profits of the Company : — 1 st , —i- 'or the relief of aged and distressed parties assured for life , -who have paid five years ' premiums ,. their widows and orphans . 2 nd . —For the relief of aged and distressed original proprietors , assured or not , their widows and orphans , together with 5 per cent , per annum on the cap ital originally invested by them . All policies indisputable and free of stamp duty . Rates of premium extremely moderate-. No extra charg-e for going to or residing- at ( in time of peace ) Australasia—Bermuda—Madeira—Cape of Good Hope—the British North American Colonies—and the Mauritius . Medical men in all cases remunerated for their report . Assurances granted against paralysis , blindness , accidents , insanity , and every other affliction , bodily and mental , at moderate rates . A liberal commission allowed to agents . Annual premium for assuring ; £ 100 , namely : — Age—20 £ 1 10 9 Age—10 £ 2 13 G 30 £ 1 19 6 50 £ 3 18 ( i Prospectuses , with tables and fullest information , may be haa at the offices of the Company , or any of their agents . Applications for agencies requested . EDWARD BAYLIS , Resident Manager and Actuary . Offices , 16 , Cheapside , London .

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      T RAFALGAR LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION . Every description of Life Assurance business transacted . Loans granted on personal and other securities . Detailed Prospectuses , containing the names and addresses of nearly seven hundred shareholders , rates of premium , an explanation of the system now originated , together with useful information and statistics respecting Life Assurance , may be had on application at the offices . Parties desirous of becoming Agents or Medical Keferees are requested to communicate with the Secretary . By order of the Board , THOMAS II . BAYLIS . Offices ; 40 , Pall-mall , London .

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      MITRE GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE , ANNUITY and FAMILY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION , 23 , Pall-mall , London . The sum usually charged at the age of 25 to assure £ 1000 in such Offices as adopt the principle of granting Bonuses at stated intervals , will , in the MITRE , assure nearly £ 1400 . Here is an IMMEDIATE . BONUS of what requires more than twenty years to attain in other cases . Endowments granted on liberal terms for School and College Education , Professional Premiums , Marriage Portions , &c . Oct . 1851 . WILLIAM BRIDGES , Actuary and Secretary .

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      SURPRISING CURE of ASTHMA of TEN YEAllS' STANDING by DR . LOCOCK'S PULMONIC WAFERS . Sir , — "I have for the last ten years been afflicted with an asthma , during which time I have spent from £ 40 to £ 50 on medical advice alone , and all of no avail ; and I gave up all hopes until I tried Dr . Locock's Wafers . I purchased two small boxes and one large one , three months since , by -which I am perfectly cured , &c—IIenuy Bishton . Prince ' s-end . " — Witness , Mr . J . Williams , chemist , &c , Tipton . To singers and public speakers they are invaluable for strengthening and clearin" the voice . They have a most pleasant taste . Price Is lid " s ' 9 < l-t and 11 s . per box . Sold by all druggists . Also , DR . LOCOCK'S ANTIBILIOUS WAFERS , a mild anil gentle Aperient Medicine , having a most agreeable taste , and of great efficacy for regulating the secretions and correcting the action of the Stomach and Liver . Price Is . l ^ d ., 2 s . Jd ., and 11 s . per box .

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      PI LES ! A positive cure is now placed in the reach of every sufferer from this distressing and truly disagreeable affliction by the use of Dr . COOPER'S infallible but perfectly simple remedy , which may be used without the least inconvenience or danger , by patients of both sexes and all ages , with the utmost certainty of success ; and by it Dr . C . will o-narantee instant relief and permanent cure lor the most a « "ravatetl cases of either blind or bleeding piles . Dr . COOPER Professor of Medicine and Physician Extraordinary to the Eastern Counties Royal Medical Institution , has had 15 years' experience of the efficacy of this remedy , having- during that period applied it in some hundreds of inveterate cases weekly , both in private practice and in various Hospitals in Bug-land , on the Continent , and in America , and can positively assert that it lias never failed in a single case , therefore , he with confidence offers it to the public , and will semi it ( post free ) to any part of the kingdom upon receipt of Post-office Order for 7 s . " G < 1 ., payable at the Colchester Office , and addressed to ALFltED COOPER , M . D ., High-street , Colchester , Essex . N . B . —In every case Dr . C . guarantees a certain cure for the above sum , his only motive for making this public announcement beinsr purely for the benefit of suffering humanity .

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      T ^ RAMFTON'S PILL HEALTH . Price . L Is . lid . per box . This excellent Family Pill is a Medicine of long-tried efficacy for correcting all disorders of the stomach and bowels , costiveness . flatulency , spasms , loss of appetite , sick headache , giddiness , sense of fulness after meals , dizziness of the eyes , drowsiness , and pains in the stomach and bowels . Two or three doses will convince the afflicted of its salutary effects . The stomach will speedily regain its strength ; a healthy action of the liver , bowels , and kidneys will rapidly take place ; and—instead of listlessness , heat , pain , and jaundiced appearance—strength , activity , and renewed health will be the quick result of taking this medicine according to the directions accompanying each box . Persons of a full habit , who are subject to " headache , giddiness , drowsiness , and singing in the ears , arising from too q-reat a flow of blood to the head , should never be without them , as many dangerous symptoms will be entirely carried off by their immediate use . For Females these pills are most truly excellent , removing-all obstructions , the distressing headache so very prevalent with the sex , depression of spirits , dulness of sight , nervous affections , blotches , pimples , and sallowness of the skin , and give a healthy and juveuile bloom to the complexion . To Mothers they are confidently recommended as the best medicine that can be taken during pregnancy ; and for children of all ages they are unequalled . As a pleasant , safe , and easy aperient , they unite the recommendation of a mild operation with the most successful effect , and require no restraint of diet or confinement during their use . By regulating the dose , according to tin : age and strength of the p ' atient , they become suitable for every case , in either sex , that can be required ; and for Elderly People they will be found to be the most comfortable medicine hitherto prepared . Sold by T . PROUT , 229 , Strand , London . Price Is . l . ' . d . and 2 s . Oil . per box ; anil by the Venders of Medicine generally throughout the kingdom . —Ask for IRA Ml' TON'S PILL of HEALTH , and observe the name and address of " Thomas Prout , 22 'J , Strand , London , " on the Government stamp .

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      HO M ( E O P A T FIY . —All the irmmcopatliic Medicines , in Globules , Tinctuies , anil Trituration , art : prepared with the greatest can ; and accuracy by JOHN AfAWSON , Ilnnifttopathic ( , 'hemi . sl ., 4 , Ilood-stri'ft , New east lfon-Tynr ; and ( id , Fawct'tt-stifi-t ., Sunderlantl ; from whom they may be obtained , in single tubes , neat pocket , discs , anil boxen , Riiilablc for families and the profession . " Laurie ' s" and all other worka on Homoeopathy , together with cases ami tubes , Kent , post-free to all parts of the kingdom . Dispensaries ami flic profession supplied on liberal terms . . / tist . published , anil maybe hail lrt'i : of charge , a small pamphlet on I loimeopat . ln , by . 1 . SilK Buckingham , F . sc | .

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      MAWSON'S HOMOEOPATHIC COCOA . —The Cocoa-nut , or nib . contains a very large , proportion of nutritive matter , t ; onaiHting of a farinaceoun substance , and of a rich ami pleasant oil . This oil is esteemed on account of its being lean liable than any other oil to rancidity . lloinu : opat , liic physicians are unileil in ( heir recommend . ition of cocoa as a beverage ; . and the t . estinioiiiiilf from other sources air luminous and ol Ihe hiijheat character . II " its so highly esteemed l > y l . inuaMis , the i hief of Nat . ni'ilists , that he named it , Thcobroma— " l'ood for Uic ' joiIs . " Dr . I ' areiia says , " It is a very nourisliiiii ^ bevt rage , ilevoitl of the ill properlien possessed by both tea and t ollee . " Dr . Kpps , tin' popuhir lecturer on Physiology , say : i ' . — "Mothers , while tiiirlilin ;; , hIioiiIiI never take Collee ; they should suckle on Cocoa . I have the testimony of mothers who have so Mick led , and they state that they found , with Cocoa without , Utter , they prod need <| ui ! c sufficient milk , ami the rhildnii suckled with such tliet . were in better health than tlio . i- sucMeil on a previous occasion , when 15 eer , and Culler , and I ca lormeil the liquid part of their tliet . " Tin ; name author adds : — " ( loeoa iii l . ht ; best of all flavoured drinks . It in highly nutrition ;; . " I Jr . Hooper nays : — "This food is admirably calculated for the sick , and to ( host ; who art ; in health it . is a luxury . " Mnny persoiiH have been turned against the use of Coeo . i anil Chocolate from having tried the ninny , ami very generally iii /' <* rior article vended at . the ifiocers' shops under that name . The picparation bei e otl ' erctl by . IOII N IVl A WSOiM contains all 1 hi- nufliliiun properties of tin- nut without any objectionable admixture . II . is , therefore , leconinicuilcil as an agreeable anil wholesome substitute for Ctill ' ec , In which if is eel lainly much HUperior , ; ih if is' iiltit ) to the Cocoas siold a : t "Soluble Cocoa , " "Make Cocoa . " . 'ic . It . in li ^ 'lil ., < -illiy "' < li « < "il . ioii , iu , " "< 'i ; uble , nutiitioUH . iuHl reipiircH lil . llc Unit : or trouble in piepaiin- fur use . Tkktimoniai .. — " Having used the llonitcopathie . Cocoa prepared by Mr . Mawson , I have no hesitation in givinjjit . my fullest recommendation . " Thomas I lay It ; , M . I ) . Hold , Wholesale and Itel . aii , by . IOIIN MAWSON , llomu ; iipatliic ' Chemist , I , 1 lood-titi ect , Ncwi-antle , ami tit ) , Fa \\ c . et Ih ( l ret , . Snuilclliillil . Atli ' . NTS .-North Shields—Meant ! and Kon , tlru ^ fjistn . Suntlc ' rlau ' il --Mr . John Hills , |; r <> oer , South Shields—Moll and Mny , ilru ^;; isl . i < . Pcnrith—Mr . ( ieor « c Ramsay , ill iitff { iitl ,. SSI . nc . klon — . lohu Dodtfi'Oii anil Co . drwgtfintH . Durham- —Hcawiu ami Mtinkn , ilrufj tf istM . Darlington—Mr . H . ltarlow , tlril [ , 'f { lnt . ( Jaiji , It ;_ jvlr . Hairhton , ilrii | -, i ; i"l . Aijontu wanted I

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 20, 1851, page 1219, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1914/page/23/