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r AW LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE , JLi Fleet-street , next St . Dunstan ' s Church , London , L 2 th March , 1 S 55 . TSTOTICE IS HEREBY TJIVEN , That the BOOKS for the PTfANSFER of SHARES in this Society will be CLOSED in THURSDAY , the 22 nd instant , and will be Rc-opened in Wednesday , tho : lth day of April next- The Dividends ' or tire year 1854 will be Payable on Thursday , the 12 th day ) f April next , and on any subsequent day between the hours > f 10 and 3 o ' clock , i - . ¦ By Orderof the-Directors , - WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES , Actuary .
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MESSRS .-CHAMBERS'S PtTBUCATIONS . MESSRS . W . and R . CHAMBERS -beg * . t * ' intimate that they hare Removed ^ from their terns porary premises in . Bride ' s Passage * Fleet-street , to Ntf '*? , Patebnoster-eow—being the premises -formerly occupied by Messrs . Baldwin , where all their Publications are now issued . Tho Edinburgh branch of Messrs . Cbtambebs ' s businessis carried . oil as usual . London ,. March 26 , 1855 .
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A > RT - UN ION of LONDON ( by Royal -T 3 L Charter ) . —The SUBSCRIPTION LIST CLOSES SATURDAY NEXT , theSlst inst . Prizehdlders select for themselves from the public Exhibitions ; = Every subscriber of one guinea will have , besides the chance of aprize , an impression of a PLATE of " A Water Party" by J . T . WILLMORE , A . R . A ., after J . J . Chalon , E ,: A ., together with a quarto voteim © - of 80 -Illustrations- of- Byron ' a "Childe Harold . " The prints are now ready for : delivery , and the volume may be seen at t ge office Qowm ^ LEWIS POCOCE , J Hon . bees . 444 , West Strand , Mateh , 1855 :
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A LIST OF SURPLUS COPIES of recent -C 3 r * YV 6 riis withdrawn from MUDIE'S SELECT LIBRARY and offered at greatly reduced prices for cash . Charles Ei > WAitf > Mtjdie , 510 , New Oxford-street , London , < and : 7 C , Cross-street , Manchester .
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CRAUFURD HOUSE CLASSICAL , MATHEMATICAL , AND CHEfMICAL SCHOOL , MAIDENHEAD , BERKS . MRi- FEARCB has- pleasure in announcing that the increase of his pupils has led to extensive alceratioirsand enlargement in Craufurd House , combining every arrangement for convenience , comfort , and health . During nine years medical attendance has been required once * The various branches of polite and useful learning are taught in the most approved , expeditious , and- effective methods . Discipline is maintained and good habits are formed by careful training and vigilant superintendence . The pupils speakFrench -constantly , many as easily aa-Euglish . German is spoken . There are Singing and Drawingclasses . A band of Music is being formed . Science is taught experimentally . The younger pupils are under special and appropriate management . The vigour , cheerfulness , and enthusiasm , in cricket , gymnastics , swimming , daily rambles , and frequent excursions into the neighbouring country , attest the scope and encouragement afforded to the development of boyish feelings and physical strength . The terms are from 301 . to 4 , 0 k , per annum . References of the highest respectability will be sent on application .
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Capital : —ONE MILLION Steeling . The Whole Paid-Up and Invested for Half a Century " ( Kioto % n&uvmce , CORNHILL ; and PALL-MALL—LONDON . ; Established 1803 . ? IEE : LIFE ? ANNUITIES : REVERSIONS .
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THE BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW ^ No . XLIL , price 6 s ., will bo published , April 2 .. contents 1 1 . Tub Literature of the Italian Revival . 2 . James Watt and his Inventions . 3 . Giustinian ' s Court ofHexey VIII . 4 .- Our New Religions . 5 . -The Miijtaky System of Fkance . . 6 . The Mystics andthe Reformers . 7 . Memoirs of James Montgomery . 8 . The Wab Controversy—an Exposition . 9 . Our Epilogue on Affairs and Books . London : Jackson and Wai / pokd , 18 , St . Patu ' s-chureh- > --yard ; and Simpkin , Marshall , and Co ., Stationers ' -hahV court .
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times W ; FRESHFIELD , Esq .: M . P .: F . R . S . — Chairman . Fowler NEWSA . HE , Esq . —Deputy-Chairman . George Carr GLYN , Esq .: M . P . —Treasurer .
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CHE NEW TABLES adopted hy the GLOBE include Two Scales of Life Premiums , Participating I'd ' Non-Participating , combining , with moderate Rates , lose principles of Solidity and Security , which have disnguished this Company from its forjnation .-Two-Thieds of Profits apportioned as Bonus . One-Third of the Premium may remain Unpaid as a ebt upon the Policy . Facilities afforded to Insurers . Insurances to the extent of TEN THOUSAND 'OVIN D S ' on a Single Approved Life . Every classrof FIRE- and LIFE * Insurance Business ¦ ansactcd . Prospectuses , — with full Tables and Details—avid Forms ., ¦ may be had at the Company ' s Offices , or of the Agents . WILLIAM NEWMARCH , Secretary .
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SOUTH AUSTRALIAN BANKING COMPANY . IiioorporatetLbyjiRoyal Charter , 184 ft . - The Oourtof Directors gran * LETTERSotfCJKEDITand BILLS , upon the Company ' s Bank at A » EJ 3 AiaaBat ' PXk . Approved-drafts negotiated and sent f or ^ collection . Business > with' the "Australian colonies generally conducted through -the Bank ' s Agents . Apply at the Company ' s- Offices , 54 ; ; Old-Broadtstreet ; London . WILLIAM PURDYyManager . London , March , 1855 .
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THE ECLECTIC REVIEW for APRIL , Price Is ; Cd .,. contains : I . Professor Forbes , his Biography and Opinions . II . Life in Russia .. III . Massey ' s Ballad of'Babe Christabel . IV . The German- Kirchenthe . V . Memoirs of the Xute and Writings cf James . Montgomery . VI . Marryatt ' s Mountains' and Mole Hills . VII . The French and English Soldiers . Review of the Month , &c , &C , &c . . Waed and Co ., 27 , Paternoster-row .
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PHE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON FIRE L AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY . CAPITAL , TWO MILLIONS . Established in -1836 . Empowered by Special Acts of Parliament . OFFICES : 7 , CASTLE STREET , LIYEEPO OX , 20 and 21 , POULTRY , LONDON , AND 61 , KING STREET , MANCHESTER . TRUSTEES : Sir Thomas Bernard Birch , Bart ., dam Hodgson , Esq . | Saml . Henry Thompson , Esq . DIRECTORS IN LIVERPOOL : Chairman . — Thomas Brocklebank , Esq . eputy-Chairmen . —Jos . C Ewart & Francis Hey wood , Esqrs . Secretary . —Swintbn Boult , Esq . DIRECTORS IN LONDON : Chairman . —Matthew Forster , Esq . Deputy-Chairman . — George Frederick Young , Esq . Resident Secretary . —Benjamin Henderson , Esq . ' DIRECTOHS IN MANCHESTER : -. _ , Chairman . —Samuel Ashton , Esq . Resident Secretary . —R . A . Kennedy , Esq . FIRE DEPARTMENT . 1853 . 1851 . . 13 , 612 Premiums Received . £ mg , 096 Insurances may bo effected in this department on terms low as those of most other Companies . Farming : Stock Insured at 39 . por cent ., free from tho mditions of average and allowing a Steam Thrashing xchino . LIFE DEPARTMENT . 1863 . 1851 . : oi ) l 3 . Prrmipms on New Business . £ 10 , 207 Annuities Immediate and Deferred . Jonuses Guaranteed when the Policy is Issued . No Stamp Duty Charged . Prospectuses and further Information may be ITAINED AT TIIK OfI'ICKS OF X 1 II 9 COMPANY , OR FROM iy of the Agents . Persons whoso Firo Policies with this ¦ Company expire ¦ tho 25 < 7 t instant , are respectfully reminded that receipts r the renewal of tho saino will be found at the Head Jlcos , in Liverpool , London , and Manchester , and in tho ends of t / te Agents . SWINTON BOULT . Secretary to tho Company ,. March , 1855 .
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MEXICAN AND SOUTH AMERICAN ' COMPANY . NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN tbat the Bankers' Receipts may be exchanged for the New Shares on and after MONDAY , tho 19 th instant . HYDE CLA . RKE , Secretary . 17 , Gracechureh-street , 16 th March , 1855 .
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On Wednesday next will be published , price 6 d . THE WAR with RUSSIA : its Origin and Cause . An Answer to tho Letter of John Bright , Esq ., M . P .. By JOHN ALFRED LANGFORD . London : R . jTheobalx » , Paternoster-row . Also , by the same Author , price . Id ., CHRISTIANITY not SECULARISM : The Practical Philosophy of the People . London HELolyoake and Co-, Fleet-street .
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TTNITED MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE LJ - SOCIETY , 54 i- Charing-cross , London . Policies indisputable . - . . ~ No charge for Policy Stamps . Whole profits divided annually . Assurances on the strictly mutual principle . Invalid lives assured at equitable rates . THOMAS PRITCHARD , Resident Director .
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THE FIRST OF THE-UNSTAMPED NEWS ' - ' ' - _ PAPERS . - ¦ --THE REASONER AMD LONDON TRI ¦ BUNE , onlarged , 24 pages , price 2 d . Edited by G . J . HOLYOAKE . The NORTHERN TRIBUNE incorporated in tho REASONEB . Articles every week by FRANCIS W . NEWMAN , entitled " Political Fragments . " Holyoake and Co ., 117 , Fleet-street ; . . On Nervousness , Debility , and- Indigestion . Just "pub ished- ^ . ; Novr and Clieaper Edition , price is ., or by post toi-y -j . 6 d ;; .., HE SOIBNiC ' E '~^ f : ^ TFET ^ 6 rr ~ HO-W ' --tcrJ - LIVE , and WHAT to LIVE FOR . With Ami . Ie Rules for Diet , Rogimcn , and Self-Managoment ; togetlior with Instructions for Securing Health , Longevity , imd that Sterling Happiness only attainable through the Judicious Observance of a Well-Regulated Course of Life . By ; a PHYSICIAN . London : Piper Beotherb and Co ., 23 ^ -Patcrnostcr-row ; Hannay , 03 , Oxford-street ; Mann , ! 5 ' j , Cornhill ; and all Booksellers .
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NOTICE OF REMOVAL . KENT MUTUAL LIFE and FIRE ASSURANCE SOCIETIES . —The OFFICES of these SOCIETIES have been REMOVED to their NEW PREMISES , QUEEN STREET PLACE , NEW CANNON STREET , LONDON . Agents wanted in some vacant localities . GEORGE CUMMING , Manager .
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NEW AND—PECULIAR :,. SYSTEM OF IiIPE ASSURANCE . THE Directors of the NATIONAL ASSURANCE AND INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION invite attention to tho Now System of Life Assurance exclusively adopted by this Association—viz ., that of allowing Interest at tho rate of 4 por cent , per Annum on all Premiums paid , instead of the remote and . uncertain System of Jionusc * ¦ usually adopted . By this plan , the Policyholdor will securo to himself a constantly increasing annual income during life ,. as well as tho payment of tho sum insured to his representatives , at his death . Tables of Rates specially adapted to this -System of Assurance may bo obtained at thoOltico of the Company , 3 , Pallmall East , or forwarded free on application . PETER MORRISON , Managing Director . 1 st March , 1855 .
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Just published , price 2 sj , post free , 2 s .. Cd ; - AN ESSAY ON SPERMATORRHOEA ; its ; u \ .. Nature and Treatment , with an Exposition ofi-tho Frauds that arc practised by persons who .-advertise vthe speedy , safe , nnd effectual euro of Nervous Derangement . By a MBMBBROFTHE ROYAL CQLXEGE OF PHYSICIANS . ' London . London : W . Kent and Co .. Cl and 52 . Paternoster-row .
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BANK OP DEPOSIT , National Asburanck and Investment- Association , No . s , Pali . Maxl East , Lowdonv Established A J 5 . 1844 . Empowered by Special Act of Parliament ¦ "PARTIES desirous of INVESTING MONEY JL arc requested to examine tho Plan of this Institution , by which a nigh rate of Interest may bo obtained with perfect Security . Tho Interest iB payable in January and JtriT , at the Head Oifico iu London ; and may ilso bo receivod at the various Branches , or through Country Bankers ,, without delay or oxnonso . PETER MORRISON , Managing Director . Prospectuses and Farms for opening Accounts sent freo on application . '
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ITALIAN * AND FRENCH LANGUAGES . MR . A Hit IVA 13 EN E , D . L . L ., from the University of Padun , who has , boon established in London for throe years , gives private : lessons in Italian and French at-his own house , or at thohduse of his pupijs . H 6 also nttondfl ' -Sohools both in toM ' n nud country . Mt . ABR 1 VABKNE teaches on a plan thoroughly practical , amt tho most mediocre mind . oannot fail to thoroughly comprehend his loasoiiB .. Apply by letter toMr . AlUUVA 33 ENE , No . 4 , St . Michaol ' Bplacc , Brompton .
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EAFNESS AND SINGING' NOISES . — Instant relief by Dr . HOOHTON'S now and painless ' modo of euro . Any extremely deaf hiilttjrer , by ono visit , ia permanently onalilod to hour with onuo tho usual tone of convernation , without opemtion . imin . or the unopl instruments . Thirty-four patient * cured lust \ v « ok ; many totally deaf instantaneously robtorcil to jiorfect hoariiiK . Tewtimonials from tlio lii ^ 'ioHt nifdical authority in London-icnn b « Been , and persons roforrcd to . Tlio abovii discovery i « known and prooti «« d-Oiily'by Dr . IIoKhton . ftlomtoorof tluiLondonltoyalCollcgoof SurKeons , May a 1845 ; h-A-V ., April 30 , WW . liwtitutltm for . thoAJwre of'J ) e » fuoss (< t , Birffolli ^ laco . Pdll-inftll . . ¦ Ju « t imltliH (« idj Solf-Cnro of Deafness , for country . j )« - tlent » - < -it « top to ompirlcismi quackery , and exorbitant fooa —sent ou receipt or , BovDHutaranw , > fre » . i ,.
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IT . GEORGE ASSURANCE COMPANY , 5 118 , PALL-MALL , LONDON . ipital , 100 , 000 ? ., in Shares of 5 J . each . Deposit , 11 . por Share . ) n which Interest , at tho rate of 57 . por cent , por annum , exclusive of Dividend , is guaranteed by tho Doed of Settlement . ) IValrman—Viscount RANELAGTI , Park-place , St . James ' s . ojmty-Chairman—HJiNliY POWNALL , Esq ., Ladbroke-Bnuaro . Nottlng-hlll . Secretary—W . C . URQUIIART , Esq . POLICIES ABSOLUTELY INDISPUTABLE . Annuities and Endowments for families , children , and JiOra on tho most favourablo torms . lromiums payabloyearly , half-yearly , or quarterly . JSo charge for medical f < -oH or statniiH . Loans granted for lonp ; or short periods , pnyablo by oiithly , quarterly , or hall ' -yoarly intitalmniitH . UofcotiVo Titles , ltovoralonH , &c , assured and Kuarantcod .
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i ^ ENERAL INDEMNITY INSURANCE \ JT COMPANY , Cannon-strcot AVtisfc . —Capital , 600 , 000 / ., in Shares of Of . oaoh ; call , 10 s . porBharo .-. Every dcHcription of inuuranco business transacted atthia oflico . Poliolos abnolutoly indisputable . Clunrantcca all'ordcd ngainat losaos arising from robbo ^ es , forgeries , frauds , dabtti , insolvency , and non-payment of rent . Fire- and life insurance effected on improved and safe )> rlnciplea .-r-Plfit < j-glajs » iiiNiircd . l ' rospcctiwes , terinaof ag « ncy , proposals , &c , can bo hud on application . J . Q . HUattES , Soorotary .
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March ^ , 18550 ^ THE LEAD 1 B , 2 Sfr PtTBUCATIONS
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Leader (1850-1860), March 24, 1855, page 287, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2083/page/23/
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