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    Every Yard of Cloth sold at the London Cloth Establishment is sold at the Wholesale Price !!! AS an AUXILIARY to the CLOTH TRADE , the Proprietors of the LONDON CLOTH ESTABLISHMENT have appropriated the upper part of their extensive Premises in COVENTRY STREET to the purposes of A LARGE TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT , In which experienced , talented cutters , and the best Workmen to be found in the Metropolis , are employed to make up in a superior manner any materials purchased in the CLOTH ESTABLISHMENT , at the charge of only the Wobkmen ' s "Wages . Here is provided A " PERFECT SCHEME OF ECONOMY ^ In regard to the best and most fashionable West-end Clothing , with advantages never before realized by the public in the FINEST AND BEST DESCRIPTIONS OF DRESS . It includes not only choice from the large and superior Stock of Cloths , Trowserings , Vestings , &c . &c , of THE XONDON CLOTH ESTABLISHMENT , at the WHOLESALE PRICE , with making up in best style at " WORKMAN'S WAGES , But also a Guarantee for the Quality , Fit , and Workmanship . EDMUND DUDDEJtf AND COMPANY , LONDON CLOTH ESTABLISHMENT , 16 , COVENTRY STREET .

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    i ^ LERICAL , MEDICAL , AND GENEEAX \ y LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY . Established 1824 . Empowered by Special Act of Parliament . ADVANTAGES . Extension op Limits of Residence . — The Assured can reside in any part of Europe , the Hol y Land , Egypt , Madeira , the Cape , Australia , New Zealand , ana in most parts of North and South America , without extra charge . MUTUAL SYSTEM WITHOUT THE RISK OF PARTNERSHIP . The small share of Profit divisible in future among the Shareholders being now provided for , the Assured will hereafter derive all the benefits obtainable from a Mutual Office , with , at the same time , complete freedom from liabilitythus combining , in the same office , all the advantages of both systems . The Assurance Fund already invested amounts to £ 850 , 000 and the Income exceeds £ 136 , 000 per annum . Credit System . —On Policies for the whole of Life , one half of the Annual Premiums for the first five years may remain on credit , and may either continue as a debt on the Policy > or may be paid off at any time . Loans . —Loans are advanced on Policies which have been , in existence five years and upwards , to the extent of nine-tenths of their value . Bonuses . —FIVE Bonuses have been declared ; at the last in January , 1852 , the sum of £ 131 . 125 was added to the Policies , producing a Bonus varying with the different ages , from 24 ^ to 55 percent , on the Premiums paid during the five years , or from £ 5 to £ 12 10 s - P cent , on the sum assured . Participation in Profits . — Policies participate in the profits in proportion to the number and amount of the Premiums paid between every division , so that if only on 6 year ' s Premium be received prior to the Books being closed for any division , the Policy on which it was paid will obtain , its due share . The books close for the next Division on 30 th June , 1856 , therefore those who effect Policies before the 30 th June next , will be entitled to one year ' s additional share of Profits over later assurers . Application oi > Bonuses . —The next and future Bonuses may be either received in Cash , or applied at the option of the Assured in any other way . Non-pabticipation in Profits . —Assurances may he effected for a Fixed Sum at considerably reduced rates , and the Premiums for terra Policies are lower than at most other Safe Offices . Prompt Settlement op Claims . —Claims paid thirty days after proof of death , and all Policies are Indisputable except in cases of fraud . Invalid Lives may be assured at rates proportioned to the increased risk . Policies are granted on the lives of persons in any station , and of every age , and for any sum on one life from £ 50 to £ 10 , 000 . Premiums may be paid yearly , half-yearly , or quarterly , bu , t if a payment be omitted from any cause , the Policy can bo revived within fourteen Months . The Accounts and Balance Sheets are at all times open to the inspection of the Assured , or of persons desirous to assure . Tables of Rates and forms of Proposal , can be obtained of any of the Society ' s Agents , or of GEO . H . PINCKARD , Resident Secretary . 99 , Great Russell Street , Bloomsbury , London .

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    BANKS OF DEPOSIT AND SAVINGS BANKS . INVESTMENT OF CATITAL AND SAVINGS . NATIONAL ASSURANCE and INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION , 7 , St . Maetin ' s Place , Trafalgar Square , London , and 56 , Pall Mall , Manchester . Established in 1844 . TRUSTEES . Lieut .-Col . the Right Honourable Lord George Paget , M . P . Rev . Joseph Prendereast , D . D ., ( Cantab . ) Lewisnam . George Stone , Esq ., Banker , Lombard Street . Matthew Hutton Chaytor , Esq ., Reigate . The Investment of Money with this Association secures equal advantages to the Savings of the Provident and the Capital of the Affluent , and affords to both the means of realising the hig hest rate of Interest yielded by first-class securities , in which alone the Funds are employed . The constant demand for advances upon securities of that peculiar class , which are offered almost exclusively to Life Assurance Companies , such as Eeversions , Life Interests , &c , enables the Board of Management to employ Capital on more advantageous terms and at higher rates or Interest than could otherwise , witi equal safety , be obtained . The present rate of Interest is Jive per cent , per annum , and this rate will continue to be paid so long as the Assurance department finds the same safe and profitable employment for money . Interest payable half-yearly in January and July . Money intended for Investment is received daily between the hours of 10 and 4 o ' clock , at the OlBces of the Association . Immediate Annuities granted , and the business of Life Assurance in all its branches , transacted , on highly advantageous terms . Rates , Prospectuses , and Forms of Proposal , with every requisite information , may be obtained on application at the offices of the Association , or to the respective Agents throughout the United Kingdom . PETER MOERISON , Managing Director . Applications for Agencies may be made to the Managing Director .

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    PENINSULAR and ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY . NEW ARBANQEJIENTS , AND BBDITOED PARES AND FREIGHTS . DEPARTURES OUTWARDS . INDIA and CHINA , via EGYPT . — For Aden , Ceylon , Madras , Calcutta , Penang , Singapore , and Hong KoDg on the 4 th and 20 th of every month from Southampton , and on the 10 th arid 26 th from Marseilles . AUSTRALIA , via SINGAPORE . — For Adelaide , Port Philip , and Sydney ( touching at Batavia ) , on the 4 th of May and 4 th of every alternate month thereafter from Southampton , and on the 10 th of May and 10 th of every alternate month thereafter from Marseilles . MALTA and EGYPT . —On the 4 th and 20 th of every month from Southampton , and the 10 th and 26 th from Marseilles . MALTA and CONSTANTINOPLE . —On the 27 th of every month from Southampton . SPAIN and PORTUGAL *—For Vigo , Oporto , Lisbon , Cadiz , and Gibraltar , from Southampton , on the 7 th , 17 th , and 27 th of every month . CALCUTTA and CHINA . —Vessels of the Company ply occasionally ( generally once a month ) between Calcutta , Penang , Singapore , Hong Kong , and Shanghae . N . B . —The rates of passage money and freight on the India and China lines have been considerably reduced , and maybe had upon application at the Company ' s Offices , 122 , Leadenhall Street , London , and Oriental Place , Southampton .

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    NOTICE . SIX HUNDRED COPIES of LAYARD'S SECOND VISIT TO NINEVEH , and an ample supply of every other recent Work of acknowledged merit or general interest , are in circulation at MUDIE'S SELECT LIBRARY , 510 , NEW OXFORD STREET . Single Subscription , One Guinea per annum . First Class Country Subscription , Two Guineas and upwards , according to the number of Volumes required . Prospectuses may bo obtained on application .

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    T > IE , KBECK LIFE ASSURANCE X > COMPANY . 8 , Mooroatk Street , London . Capital — £ 100 , 000 , in £ 1 Shares . JMtESIDKNT . Tho Right Hon . the Earl of Carlialo . THU STEMS . Lord Dudley Coutts Stuurt . Douglas Jorrold , Esq . I 1 ANKKKK . Messrs . Burnett , Hoaro , and Co . The DireclorR are now prepared to prrant Loans of small Hums of Money to Working Men , alao Weekly Payments during Sickness . Assurances may be effected for tho sum of . £ 10 and upwards , payable at death , and tho premium may bo paid weekly . W . BLANCHARD JERROLD , Acting Director . March 3 Int , 1853 .

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    HOLYOAKE and CO ., Provincial News and Book Agents , 3 , Queen ' s Head Passage , Paternoster liow , London . For many years past Messrs . IT . and Co . have received continual applications to supply country parcels , so a . s to insure a circulation of Free-thought and progressive publications in overy part of Great Britain . They therefore announce that in the First Week iu May they will commence to supply News Agents and Booksellers . Enclosures carefully attended to . Orders not accompanied by cash must contain refoteueos iu town . Op inion can never be a power until it can command means of publicity ; Messrs . II . and Co . therefore solicit tho co-operation of their friends and tho trade to establish provincial con noxious .

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    COB DEN'S PAMPHLET . " 1793 and 1853 . " A Cheap Edition of tho above , published by the Peace Conference Committee , price 2 d . oaoh , or 12 s . per NX ) copies ; also a handsome- . LntitAUY Noition , with PuKFAOii liv THH A UTiioK . Demy 8 vo , cloth lettered , price Is . <( d . London : W . and K . G . Cash , 5 , ltmhopsgate Street Without ; and tho Peace Society , 11 ) , Mew Broad Street .

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    f ^ i AS CHANDELIERS AND BRACKETS . \ JC The increased and increasing use of gas in private houses has induced WILLIAM 8 . BURTON to collect from the various manufacturers all that is new and ehoioe in Brackets , Pendants , and Chandeliers , adapted to offices , passages , and . dwellingrooms , as well as to have some designed expressly for him ; these are now ON SHOW in one of hia TEN LARGE ROOMS , and p resent , for novelty , variety , and purity of taste , an unequalled assortment . They are marked in plain figures , at prices proportionate with those which have tended to make his Ironmongery Establishment the largest and most remarkable iix the kingdom — -viz ., from 12 s . (( a . ( two light ) to Sixteen Guineas . WILLIAM 9 . BURTON HAS TEN LARGE SHOW ROOMS ( all communicating ) , exclusive of the shop , devoted to - the show of GENERAL FURNISHING IRONMONGERY ( including Cutlery , Nickel Silver , Plated , and Japanned Wares , Iron and Brass Bedsteads ) , so arranged and classified that purchasers may easily and at once make their selections . Catalogues , with Engravings , sent ( per post ) free . The money returned for overy article not approved of . 89 , OXFORD-STREET ( corner of Newman-street ) : Nos . 1 and 2 , NEWMAN-STREET ; and 4 and 6 , PERRY'SPLACE .

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    XO EIWCIGRAISTTS . HPHTC following Gutta Perotta Articles I will be found of groat value to Emigrants , especially such as are proceeding to tho GOLD DIGGINGS . GUTTA PERC 1 IA LINING FOR BOXES . Buokbth . I Luis IIuoyh . I Wahhinu Howr , H . Dkinkinu Mu « 8 . I Flahkb . | Syi'homb . GUTTA PEItCHA TUBING . BUOTIONH FOU l ' UMl'H . I OaKBOVH VOH O UNl'O Wl ) It It . Juaa . I Minjcus' Cavh . SOLES FOR BOOTH AND SHOES . . To j £ HH « tub Fkkt Dux is of tho utmost importance to tho Emigrant . This may bo secured by tho use <> 1 ( Julia Poroha Holes , whioh uro perfectly Wutwproof , Cheaper and more Durable than Lonthor . They ami fio put . on with easo by any one . This cannot bo too extensively known amongst Australian Emigrants , as il in now difficult , to find a Hhoomakor in I bat , country . Gom > Wahhino Vhhhki . h oif iivniiY vakiktjt ojc hiiai > u MA V UK HAD TO OKI ) Kit . Diroot . iona to Emigrants for lining [ tores with Outta Poroha Hhoot ,, ( ho as to preserve tho contents from injury by mia water , ) uIho for putting <> u Solos of IJoots and Mhoos , Ac ., may bo had GRATIS on application to any of tho Uutta I ' orohu Company ' s Dealers . N . H . —Tho Company's Ilhmlrated Circulars , with Instiui ! - tiouu for Joining Tubes , Lining Cisterns and Tanks , and for aoouroly attnohintf Outtu Poreha Holes , will bo forwarded ( past froo ) ou roooipt of four poutago h ! ainpu . THB GUTTA PEROKA COMPANY , PATENTEES , 18 . Wmabb Rpai > , Cixr Boad , Lomuoit .

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    HOUSE HOLD KftS' LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY " . DISTINCTIVH AND lMiOUI . lAU 1 'U ATUIIIi . S . 1 . Every Policy is absolutely indisputable , the Htato of health , age , untl interest , being admitted ou tho Policy . 2 . Policies paid to tho iloldor within Fourteen Days after Proof of Death . : » . No charge for Policy SUmp . ' 1 . Tim Savings' Bank Assuming- —tho Company granting an AHuuranco on the life of the Depositor for every mini deposited , with liberty to withdraw tho deposit at fourteen days' notice . 6 . Loans on Mio security , or for the purchase , or erection , of property , on an entirely now plan , tho payments to oobno in the ovont of the death of tho Borrower , and the property to bo handod over to his family , or representatives , froo and unencumbered . (( . Tho Suviiiffs' Bank and Assurance-Loan Branches combined , l > y whiHi Depositors iu Havings' Banks and intending Members of Building . Societies , may invent , ( heir funds ho as to soouro ( . ho Assurance of a given mini iu the event of death , and at , tho samo tiino employ thoni for tho iiiirolniso of property during life . This system suporMtidcs Building . Societies—supersedes Havings' Hunks . 7 . A person may ohooso any ngo ( or ontry , by paying the value of thodill ' oronoo between lihi own and t . lio chosen ago , in ° "" H "" ' R 10 IFARD IIODHON , Hi-oretary . Okkiobh : 1 !> « "d 1 * 1 , Adam Htubkt , A dki . imh , London .

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    THE LONDON MAIL . Tho undersigned bogs to call attention to tho " London Mail , " a fortnightly ( stumped ) Newspaper , published on tho 8 th and 24 U 1 of overy month , to meet tho requirementb of tho Commercial , Military , Civil , and Naval inlerosts of India , tho Capo , Australia , and Mm Colonies . The " London Mail" consists of \ C > pages , or ( it columns , tho largest size permitted by tho act of Piirliaiiiout . In General Politics , tho " London Mail is oonductod on strictly independent principles : advocating liberal viows on all public questions , irrospi'i-Uvool party . I ho l . ondoii Mail" will pay » -Hpi'i : ial iiM . ontioii ( o I ho aspect ol tho Indian . Question at Home ; and record with fidelity tho i > ro r « H « of tfca vi « ws of tho Publio , tho Parliament , and t . lio Ministry , on thp future ( Jovornino . it , of India . Tlio want , of a conciao record of tho pastiiue « v « . iiI . h of Mio day , to t . lio . collision of much matte * of i » character that , it has either iiokt possessed , ox has loHt imifh of its ' interest cro it , roacbos u distant , point , is Htill much foil , especially in India , it will bot , h « study of tho KditorandPro-Drielor as numb as possible , to correct this objection to oXiatinR mihlications , to prcsont oh oomploto a reflection of Homo foofca it ' iul ciroumstanpoM oh will bo welcome , rmd useful , and to avoid heavy and uiiintorcHtiDf , ' articles . That part of tho " London Mail '' whioh is dovoUuI to tho Literature of ( ho day will do ooullnml to UoviowH of Ilio most , important and intoroutipg of the Now Worldi . Tho Miuoanlilo lnU'lli ^ oiKio inoludiiiK ftfarkota , Hhii > pi"K > '"" 1 RxoliAiiyo - is very fully and accurately reported . - - 'I ' nriiiH , _ £ M 4 s . por annum , inohuliug tho MuracilloB postage of 3 d . on oaoh number . J . JAM 1 ESON , Proprietor Oflloo , No . 10 , Cri » u « Court , ifloot Stroot , London . April 9 , 186 a .

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    SOUTH AUSTRALIAN HACKING COMPANY " . Incorporated by ICoynl Charter , 1847 . Tho Court , of Directors grant , Lot . tors of Credit and Hills at , DO days' si ^ li * . upon t lioOompaiiy ' H Bunk , at , Adelaide . Tim oxobaiifjo on sums above . CIO , is now at , a premium or cbar ^ ci of two per ooiil .. Approved drafts on Houth Australia notfotialml and bills Ct > ApVly at , Iho Company ' s OIHcoh , No . 51 , Old Itroud Street ,, 1 " i ° " WILLIAM PURDY , Manager . London , April , 1 H 5 U .

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    A * ril 16 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER , 38 $

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  • Leader (1850-1860), April 16, 1853, page 383, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1982/page/23/