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      A BOMVS DIVISION will be made at 31 st December , 185 S , of Profits on the Lire Policies on tho participating scale taken out before the close of the present year . 1857 , hi tho : — , GLOBE INSURANCE , CO ! RNmLL & CHARING-CROSS , LONDON . Established 1803 . Capital ONE MILLION , All paid-up and invested . Fowler NEWSAM , Esq . —Chairman . John Edward JOHNSON , Esq . —Deputy-Chairman . George Carr GLYIT , Esq ., M . P . —Treasurer . PIKE , LIFE , ANNUITY , ENDOWMENT , and REVERSIONARY business transacted . WILLIAM NEWMAKCH , Secretary .

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      Established 1838 . TTICTORIA AND LEGAL AND COMMERV CIAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY , 18 , Kin $ " William-street , City- DIEBCTORS . BENJAMIN HAWES , Esq ., Chairman . THOMAS NESBITT , Esq ., Deputy-Chairman . Charles Baldwin , Esq . W . K . Jameson , Esq . George Denny , Esq . John Jones , Esq . J . C . JMmsdale . Esq . John Nolloth , Esq . "William Elliot , 3 I . D . JEeaburn Staniland , Esq . Robert Ellis , Esq . Daniel Button , Esq . J . P . Gassiot , Esq ., P . B S . Walter Charles Venmng , John Gladstone , Esq . Esq . v — „„ , Aaron Goldsmid , Esq . O'E . Bellinghain Woolsey , Sidney Gurney , Esq . Esq . The business of the Company embraces every description of risk connected with Life Assurance . The Assets of the Company exceed 265 , 0007 . And its Income is over 60 , 0002 . a year . Advances in connexion with Life Assurance aro made on advantageous terins , eit-Eier on real or personal security . WILLIAM RATRAY , Actuary .

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      BANK OY DEPOSIT , 3 , Pali-Mall , East , London . Established A . D . 1844 . Parties desirous of INVESTING MONEY are requested to examine the Plan of this Institution , by which a high rate of interest may be obtained with perfect security . The Interest is payable in January and July , either at the Head Office in London , or at the various Branches throughout the Country , . _ .. ¦ PETEE MORJIISON , Managing Director . Prospectuses and Forms for opening Accouuts sent free on application . .

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      TNCREASED RATE OF INTEREST . —The A Bank of England having this day advanced tho rato of Discount , tho Directors of the DEPOSIT AND DISCOUNT HAN iv aro prepared to give SRVlflN per cent , on all sums from 20 t . and upwards , until Jurthor notice . Chairman-Tho EARL OF DEVON . e . Cannon-strocfVcst . E . C . G . H . LAW , Manager . Ootober 12 , 1857 .

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      , BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE , for DECEMBER 1857 . No . DVI . Price 2 s . 6 d . CONXENT 8 : Our Indian Empibb . Phrenology in Fbancb . What -will , ' he do with it ? By PisrsTBATtrs Caxton . —Part VII . The Works and Genius op Michael Ahgelo . Aroor . —Part IV . Boscobel . The Religions of India . WiLtiAM Blackwood and Sons , Edinburgh and London-

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      LO AN AND INVESTMENT AGENCY ASSOCIATION . Chief Offico , 9 , Adam-street , Strand , W . C . Loans of any amount , from 207 ., on real and other secu-- rities . 140 , 000 trust funds rea < ly to be invested . , It . T . JOPL 1 NO , Actuary .

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      - - .-t , . , oo , ARGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY . 39 , Tlirogmorton-street , Bank . Chairman -THOMAS FAltNCOAIJB , Esq .. Alderman . DEPUTY-CUAIR 7 . IAN--W 1 LHA 51 LEAE , Esq . Lichard E . Arden , Esq . Rupert Ingleby , Esq . Edward Bates , Esq . Saffory W . Johnson , Esq . Professor Hall , M . A . Jeremiah Pilcher , Esq . John Humphery , Esq ., Aid . Lewis Pocock , Esq . Physician . —Dr . Jea ( Fr « son , 2 , Finsbury-squaro . Suboeon . —W . CouAson , Esq ., 2 , Fredcrick's-placo , Old Jewry . Actuaey . —Georgo Clark , Esq . ADVANTAGES OE ASSURING IN THIS COMPANY . The Premiums are on the lowest scalo consistent with security . . Tho assured aro protected by an ample subscribed capital—an Assurance Fund of 450 , 0002 . invested on Mortgago and in tho Government Stocks , and an income of 85 O 00 Z . a year . Premiums to Assure 100 / , I Whole Term . Ago . OnoYoar . Seven Yenrs . With Fronts- prollts . 20 £ 0 17 8 £ 0 10 fl £ \ 15 10 dS \ 11 10 30 113 12 7 2 5 5 2 0 7 ; 40 150 10 1 ) U 07 2 14 . 10 50 1 14 1 1 10 10 4 0 8 4 0 11 GO 8 2 •! ? JT __?_ 0 12 » _ _«_ » 10 _ MUTUA 1 ; BliANOH- " Assurers on tho lionus system nro entitled , at the end of r live years , to participate in nine-tenths , or 00 per cent of tho profits . The profit assigned to eaich policy can bo added to tho _ Bum assured , applied in reduction ol' tho annual promiuin , or bo received iu oasli . ' At tho nrBt diviHion a return of 20 per cent , in cash , on " . " tho premiums paiJ , was declared ; this will allow a revor" sionary iucrotiRe , varying , ncoording to ago , from ( id to 28 por _ cent , on tho premiums , or from l > to 15 por cont . on tho sum 3 assurod . 5 On « -half of tho " whole torm" promium may remain on 3 , credit for sisvon ycarH . or ono-thiril of tho premium may remain for lifo auadoot upon tho policy at C per cent ., or ;• may bo paid olf at any tirao without nodico . ' . Clairnapaidinono month after proofs havo boon approved , c- lioana upon approved security . ih , Nochargo for policy stamps . | y Medical nttondauts paid for thoiT ropovts . n \ Persona may , in timoof poaco , iiroceiul to , or renido in , nt any part of Europe , or Ulrltish Worth America , without ao oxfcrn charge . : s . The medical oulccrs attend overv dny . at a quarter boforo two o'clock . E . iJA' ^ ES , ICosldont Director . I

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      1150 T H E I / E A BE R . [ go ^ Oj , jj ^ vembeu _ 28 ^ 1857 .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 28, 1857, page 1150, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2219/page/22/