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      IMPERIAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY , l . OXD BROAD STREET , LONDON . Instituted 1820 . . T . GEORGE BARCLAY , Esq .. Chairman . MABTIN T . SMITH , Esq ., M . P ., Deputy-Chairman . One-Third of tlie Premium on Insurances of 500 ? . and upwards , for the whole term of life , rnay remain as a debt upon the Policy , to be paid off at convenience ; or the Directors will lend suras of 50 & . and upwards , on the security of Policies effected with this Company for the whole term of life , when they have acquired an adequate value . Fouk-Pifths , or SO per cent , of tho Profits are assigned to Policies every fifth year , and may be applied to increase the sum insured , to an immediate payment in cash , or to the reduction aud ultimate extinction of future Premiums . At the fifth appropriation of profits for the five years terminating January 31 , 1856 , » reversionary bonus was declared of XI . 10 s . per cent , on the sums insured , and subsisting additions for every premium paid during the five years . This bonus , on policies of the longest duration , exceeds 2 ? . 5 s . per cent , per annum on the original sums insured , and increases a policy of lOOOi . to 1638 ? . Proposals for insurances may be made at the chief office , as above ; at the branch o ( Qce , 16 , Pall Mall , London ; or to any of the agents throughout the kingdom . BONUS TABLE , Showing the additions made to Policies of 1000 Z . each . n , fo _> Amount of Addition made e , w . -o ui T S ?* 2 , ° V Additions to as oh Sura Payable Insurance . Feb . X ) 185 I . Feb . 1 , 1 S 5 G . after Death . £ . s . d . £ s . d . ; S s ; d . 1820 523 10 0 114 5 0 1638 10 1825 ......... 382 14 ) 0 103 14 0 I 486 8 0 1830 ........ / 241 13 0 93 2 O 1334 14 O 1835 ......... 185 3 0 88 17 0 1274 0 0 1840 128 15 0 84 13 0 1213 8 0 1845 .. 65 15 0 79 18 0 1145 13 O 1850 ... 10 0 0 75 15 O 1085 15 0 1855 ....... ¦¦ — 15 0 0 1015 00 And for intermediate years in proportion . The next appropriation will be made in 1861 . Insurances , without participation in Profits , may he effected at reduced rates . SAMUEL INGALL , Actiiary .

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      [ Established 1841 . ] . MEDICAT / INVALID AN"D GENERAL LIFE OFFICE , 25 , Pall Mall , London . Empozoered by Special Act of Parliament . At the FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING , held on 27 th Ubvember , 1856 , it was shown that an the 30 th June last—The Number of Policies in force was ......... ... 5738 The Amount Insured was ........... 2 , 752 , 197 ? . 7 s . 2 d ; The Annual Income was . ...... 118 , 557 ? . 16 s . 2 d . Two Bonuses have been d / wjared ( in 1 S 4 S and 1853 ) -adding nearly 2 per bent , per annual on the average to sums Assured , and by which a Policy of 10002 ., issued in . 1843 on a healthy life , is now increased to 12602 . Since the last Division of Protits in 1853 , the accumulated funds have increased by more than 100 , 0002 ., offering considerable advantages to present assurers . ' .. ; Profits divided every five years —next division in 1858 . The Society , since its establishment , lias paid claims on 651 Policies , assuring 25-1 . 00 S 2 . Assurances arc effected at home or abroad on healthy lives at as moderate rates as the most recent data , will allow . Indian Assurances at very moderate rates , and great facilities given to assurers . Invalid Lives Assured on sciontifically constructed tables . Policies issued frco of stamp-duty , and every charge lbut the Premiums . Agents wanted for vacant places . Prospectuses , Forms of Proposals , and every other information , may be obtained of the Secretary at the Chief Office , or on application to any of the Society ' s Agents in the Country . C . DOUGLAS SINGER , Secretary .

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      THE HOUSEHOLDERS' ASSURANCE COMPANY . DIRECTORS . "Win . Ashton , I ! sq .. IIortoii-houiie , Wraysbury . Stain-es . Tho Rev . Thos . Oator , liryariston-square , and Skelbroolcpark , Doncaster . Charles Hulse , Esq ., Hall-grove , Bagshot . P . D . Bullock "Webster , Esq ., Norfolk-terrace , Hydo-park . Arthur P . Onslow , Esq-. Lawbrook-housc , Shore , Guildford . Thomas Pocock , Esq ., Southwark-bridfre-road . Peter Patcrson , Esq ., jun ., Park-road , Holloway . James Laughton , Esq ., Holm Villa , Lovvisham-road . This Company enables persons , without speculation , to invest lat'ge oi- small sums , at a higher rate of interest than can bo obtained from the public funds , and on as secure a basis . Poruis of application to deposit sums of money , at 5 per ecnt . interest , payable half-yearly , or to purchasesharos ( the present interest on which ia U per cent . ) , maybe had on application to It . IlODSON . Scc . 15 and 16 , Adam-street , AUclphi .

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      JtlOOO IN CASE OF DEATH . A FIXED ALLOWANCE OF £ 6 PER WEEK IN THE EVENT OF INJUBY I 1 Y ACCIDENTS OV EVERY DESCRIPTION , may bo secured by an Annual Payment of £ ! $ for a Polic-y in tho RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE COMPANY . Smaller amounts may bo secured by proportionate payments . NO CHARGE FOlt STAMP DUTY . RAILWAY ACCIDENTS ALONE may bo insured against by tho . lourncyor by tho Year at ali tho principal Kmlwny Stations , where also Forms of 1 ' roposnl and 1 'rospectuHos iiiay bo had—nnd of tho Provincial AKentB—and at tho Head Olllco , London . N . U . —Tho usefulness of this Company is shown by the Sum paid as Compensation for Accidents ntfl . Vll . Railway Pasisongpi's Assurance Company . Empowered 1 > y Special Act of Parliament . WILLIAM J , VIAN , Secretary Odlco , a , Ola Eroad-btrout , E . O .

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      Just published , price 3 d ., postage free , A CATALOGUE of nearly Three Thousand JfjL . Lots of Books , including a large portion of the Episcopal and Collegiate libraries of Prior Park and others lately bought into stock . The Public Chained Bifclo of Fountains Abbey , Yorkshire : Charters of Byland Abbey , in the same county ; A Venerable Manuscript of the life of St . Gregory with date 1067 : Ancient Manuscript Service Book of the Church of SarsAon , Oxon . ; Ancient Monastic Volume of Tracts from sonws English Monastery ; Unpublished Manuscript Works of the Rev . Edwv Hawarden ; Common Place Book of John Locke ; Tizou do Espana ; Bellamont Correspondence ; MSS . of Thos . Taylor the Platonist , and other MSS . of considerable interest ; Books printed in the Fifteenth Century ; Works of the Fathers and Schoolmen , Councils , Hagiography , Ecclesiastical History ; Works of the Jesuits , Jansenists , and ether Religious Orders ; A C 6 nsidera \) le Collection of the Controversial and Devotional Contraband English Roman Catholic Books , printed abroad , and clandestinely imported during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ; Polygloit , Doway , and other Bibles and Testaments ; and many works of General Literature , among which are—Montfaucon Ahtiquite Expliquee , Shaw's Staffordshire , Baroiiius' and Ruinart ' s Annales , Bullarium , Concilia Labbei , Dumont et Rousset Diplomatique , Dugdale's Monasticou , Medicorum Grcecorum Opei-a , "VVilkins ' s Councils , Collinson ' s Somerset , Encyclopaedias , Beauties of England and Wales and Scotland and Ireland . Baliantyne's Novelists , Cabinet des Fees , Critici Sacri , Benedictine and other Best Editions of tho Fathers , Saxton ' s Maps , "Works of Aquinas , Bp . Bovmer , Calvin , Cranmer , Gale et Pell , Bp . Gardiner , Kempis , Lingard , Mabillon , Massillon , Messingham , Newman , Parsons , Philo , Roofh , Rosemnullcr , Be .. Kales , Southwell , Stillingilcot , Strjpe , S . Teresa , Ware , Yai-rellj aud many others . Old Libraries bought for cash . Thomas Kerslake , Bristol .

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      PELICAN IilFE INSURANCE COMIANY , ESTABLISHED IN 1797 , JO , Xombard-street , City , and 57 , Charing-cross / Wcstminster . DIRECTORS . Itoticrt Gurney Barelav , Esq . ! Kirkman D . Hodgson , Esq . WilliamCotton , D . C . L ., F . B > S . Thomas Hodgson , Esqy John Davis , Esq . Henry Lancelot Hollan . d , Esq . William Walter Fuller , Esq . Benjamin Shaw , Esq . Jas . A . Gordon , M . D ., F . R . S . Matthew Whiting , Esq . Henry Grace , Esq . M . Wyvill , Jun ., Esq .., M . P . TMs Company offers COMPIiETB SECURITY . Moderate Hates of Premium with Participation in . Fourfifths or Eighty per cent , of the Profits . Low Rates without Participation in Profits . : LOANS in connexion with Life Assurance , oii approved Security , in sums of not less than 5002 . ANNUAL PREMIUM required for the Assurance of 100 Z-, for tho-whole term of _ . life :- ; •¦ ¦ ¦ ao . Without ' With . _ Without With Age . pr 0 fits . Profits . ASe- profits . Profits . 15 ^ £ 1 11 0 £ 1 15 O 40 i 2 IS 10 £$ C 6 20 113 10 1 19 3 50 4 i « 9 4 10 7 30 2 4 0 2 10 4 CO G 1 0 C 7 4 ROBERT TUCKER , Secretary .

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      UN ITED MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY , 54 , Cbaring-cross , London . Whole Proflts divided annually . No charge for Policy Stamps . Every description of Life Assurance effected oil equitablo term ' s . ¦

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      THE TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT of the Directors of tho MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY , together with tho Cash Account and Balance Sheet fortheyear 185 G , showing tho state of the Socioty ' s affairs on the 31 st of December last , as presented to tli o General Meeting on the 18 th of February , 1857 . will bo delivered on a written or personal application to tho Actuary , or to any of tho Society's agents in Great Britain . CIEAitLES LNGALL , Actuary : Mutual Life Assdhance Ojfficeb , 3 i ) , King-street , ChoapsLdo , London , 11 . C .

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      rfl ^ HE CAMBRIAN find UNIVERSAL LIFE . JL and FIRE INSU RATTCE COMPANY . Capital 100 , 0002 . Established 184 . 9 . O ( Tico , 27 , Greshani-streot . Agencit'sin the principaltowns of England and "Wales . This olllco offers the benefit of assurance In all i ( , H branches , aiidia highly eligible for every description of life assurance . ' A now aiwl most important feature , entirely originating with this Company , viz ., Marriage Dowries , Lifo Assurance , and Deforred Annuities included in one policy . Rates of premium moderate . Annuities ( rranted . Family endowinontH . Lioana on iiursonal and otlior Necuritio . s . Formtj of -proposal nrAd every information may boobtained on application . By order , ALFRED IMlOIJIADO . MaiuiKor .

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      BANK OF DEPOSIT , No . 3 , Pam .-Maix East , London . E . stablislicd a . d . lS-tl . CAPITAL :. 00 , O () 0 / . PARTIES dosirous of INVESTING MONEY -JL nro rcqiuistcd to ( . 'xamino tho'lMan of thin Institution , by winch a high rate of Lnterebt may be obtained with , poroctbecurity . Tho Interest is pnyablo in January and July , eltherat tho IFerul Ultico in ijoudou , or ut tho various Krauchou throughout the Country . PETER MOItRISON , Managing Director . Prospectuses nnd Porinn for opcnii » B Accounts sent frco on nppllcation .

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      On tho 1 st of April , 1857 , price One Shilling , THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOUBKAL , ! Nb . 190 , coirrAiKiNG the TRANSACIIONS OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETr . Contents : Poor-law Medical Relief— The Educational functions of the Pharmaceutical Society—Botany—Finaucial Stateuieut of the Pharmaceutical Society—The Toxicology of Strychnine—The Urari , or Arrow Poison or Guiana —On the Fossil Vegetation of the Coal Measures—Tho Production , Preparation , and Assaying of . Copper—The Sale of Poisons—Oil tbe Anoma of Western Africa—Chinese Green Djre— Clwmical fieport on the Adulteration « f Cofleo-CoU chicine—Decomposition of Nitrate of Potash by Charcoal Writing Ink in Cakes—Staining Sone and Ivory—Pecuniary Value of Human Life—Poisoning by Acseuio ia China—Conservatioo of Force . . ¦ VOLUME XV . may be had in hoards , as well as the preceding volumes , price 12 s . 6 ( 3 . each . London : John CntJEcniLt . New Burlington-street ; Maclachlan and Stewabt , Edinburgh ; and Fannin and Co ., Dublin .

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      THE WESTMINSTER -REVIEW , NEW SERIES . No . XXII . APRIL , 1857 . Price Gs-¦ ' bouTENTa : . ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦¦ . I . Pkesent State op Theology is Geriusy . II . -Tiiifi Hindu Drama . III . GUSPOWDEB , AND ITS EffKCT OJr CIVILIZATION . IV . Glaciers and Glacier Theories . V . Progress : its Law and Cause . VI . The Danobian Principalities . VII . Literature axd Societv . VIII . CfflSA AND THE CHINESE . Contemporary Literature : —§ 1 . Theology and Philosophy . —§ 2 . Politics and Eduoation . —§ 3 . Science . § 4 . Belle 3 Lettres . London : John Chapslan , 8 , King William-streefc , Strand .

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      r FHE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZI ^ E , W X SYLVANUS URBAN , Gent ., price 29 . € d .. for APiMC , contains : —I . Autobiography of SylvanusUrban—II . Sonnet after Petrarch—III . Epliesus and tho Temple of Diana—IV . Retirement : a Sonnet—V . A Batch of Old Poets— "VI Chaldea and Susiana—VII . Siam—VIII . The Memorial Church at Constantinople—IX . Ingulph ' s Chronicle of the Aboey of Groyland—X . Itcmhle ' s State Papers—XI . Lemon ' s Calendar of State Papers —XII . A Jacobite Eelic ( from Hearne ' s MSS . )—XIII . Correspondence of Sylvanus Urban Greshain College , Margaret ' s Son k in Faust . Tho JFamily of Thompson of Esholt , &c—XIV . Minor Corr «^ jondewce —XV . Antiquarian Researches—XVI . Historical aud Miscellaneous Reviews—XVII . Tho Monthly Intelligencer XVIII . Promotions and Preferments — XLX . Obituary-Ac . &c . ' . ¦ . ¦¦ ¦ . . . . ¦' ¦ ¦ ¦ . ; J . H . and Jas . P-Aeker , 377 , Strand , London .

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      LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL , WORKS RECENTLY ADDED TO MUDIE'S SELECT LIBRARY . Two Years Aro , by Charles Conybearc and Ilowson ' s St . Kiniploy . —1200 copies . Paul . Memoir ' s of "Currer JJell . " Macaulay ' s England , Vola Loftus ' s Researches in Clial- III . and IV ., 2000 copies . dea . Borthwick ' s Itcsidenco in Guizot ' s Lifo of Sir Robert California . iVC !> ' ^ - , J ! fl . Thornbury'a Songs of tho Still Wa-tcrs . Jacobites . Jessie Cameron . Bowring ' s Kingdom and Boswcll's Letters to Temple . People of Siara . Musgravo ' s Pilgrimage into The Good Old Times . Dauphino . Ivors . Stoughtou ' s Ages of Chris- Lettors of Honrietta Maria . teinlom . Helps' Spanish Conquest in Tho Days of MTy Life . Aiucrica . Wildflower . Going Abroad , by Nona Bel-Stanley's Palestine . A New lairs . Edition . Florence Templar . Memoirs of Elizabeth dc Kitthio IJrande . Valois . Head ' s Dcscriptiro Essays . Lifo and Sermons of Dr . Quedah . John Tauler . Kayo ' s Life of Sir John JTal-Iaabel . eolm . Tho Old Monastery . Letters from' Head Quarters . Monarchs lietired from Busi- 8 yducy Holding . ness . Lucy Aylnicr . JIaurice ' s Discourses on St . Life of General Sir C . Na-JoUu . . pier , Palgravc ' . s Norniandy . Vol . il . Bacon ' n Ussays , Edited hy Lifo in Ancient India , by Whately . Mrs . Spcir . Alison ' s Europe TNow Series . Memoirs * of Captain Allen Vol . VI . Gardiner . McCluro ' s Arctic Diseovcries Ocoaa Gardens , by Noel Memoirs of BirW . JU . lWry-IIumphryH . Lifo , by Philip Uoury Ooahe . It is Never too Loto to John llalifax . MoikI . The Young Yagers . Sir . loshua lteynolds and . his Harford * a Lifo of Michael WorkH . Angelo . Aurora Jjoiith . Valisneria . Esuaya , by David Massooi . Froudo ' s IliMtoj'y of ling- Tho Owlets of Ow )» tc » u > . . la , " - , ,, , ,. Lives of Alncri and Goiaoiia . Andcrsson a Explorations in Clover Cottage . A frica . Very Successful I £ , - ., S / - ,-., , Kane ' s ATctio ExplorationR . The Old Groy Church . Borthwell , by PwrfoHBor Aj . Uinniii K ' s Travels in Persia . toun . Mciuoub of FredericPci'Lhoa . Hood ' s Pen aud Pencil Violet . Sketches . Tho Myrtle and th 6 Heather . Girlhood of Cathcriuo do Norway aud tiwodon , by X Modiciand Y . Meaumarohaia and liiBTimae Barry Cornwall n Dramatic Uonar ' a Hymua of Paith . SconcH . Tho Rivulet . Marguerite ' s Logncy . Morley ' s Lifo of Cornelius Kato Coventry . Agrippa . Prcali copies arc added whenever a delay occurs , and an ample mipply is provided of all tho principal new Works tin they appear . Singlo SubBcriptions , On « Guinea per annum . CirA 3 ( i , UH Edwaiii ) JIudik , BIO nnd 011 , Now Oxford-Dtrcut , London , nnd . 74 and 7 ( 1 , Croau- « trcct , ManolicMttr .

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      Amu , 4 , 1857 . ] THE LEADER , 335

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 4, 1857, page 335, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2187/page/23/