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THE ATHENÆUM

447 laz Now ready, in language that all can understand,

and IGENERAL
FOR THE PUBLIC.-|MEDICAL, LEGAL, BOOK

MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 126, Strand, Comunittees or private individuals requiring splendid or
NEW DISCOVERY.-The Causes of the Circulation of the Landon.

simple articles of PLATE for presentation, may, by addressing a Blood, and the true Nature of the Planetary System ; proving

Trustees,

paid letter, have drawings sent for their approval. A number of Light to be the Motive Power, and establishing a Natural Con James Copland, M.D. F.R.S. John Romilly, Esq. 2.C. M.P. large articles, as Epergnes, Cups, Waiters, &c. are always in stock, nexion, hitherto unknown between Astronomical and Medical J. B. Parry, Esq. 2.c.

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second-hand; a list of them, with price, can be furnished. Science; --Proposing also Natural Measures of Time and Space, Yere Fane, Esq.

T. COX SAVORY & Co. Silversmiths, &c., 47, Cornhill (seven for parliamentary adoption with considerations as to the possible

doors from Gracechurch-street), London.

Directors. prolongation of life and health beyond their present limits. Price

John Billingsley Parry, Esq. Q.C. Chairman.
by Bored Pablisher, Milen-street, Euston-square. G. H. Barlow, M.D.

John Parrot, Esq. D. Cornthwaite, Esq.

& Co. manufacture only one warranted quality, which has R. Partridge, Esq. F.R.S.

stood the test of many years wear, on shipboard and in hotels, NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF 'RANTHORPE.' F.J. Farre, M.D. F.L.8.

R. Quain, Esq. F.R.S.

continuing to give the same satisfaction as solid silver. They

Robert Smith, Esq. PTU2

warn the public that the fact of Goods being Plated by their Richard Jebb, Esq. F.T. White, Esq.

Patent Process offers no security for their QUALITY whatever. All , . John C. W. Lever, M.D. J. H. Whiteway, Esq.

goods made and sold by them bear the marks of E. & Co. below à Author of Ranthorpe, A Biographical History of Philosophy,' W. J. Little, M.D.

&c.
* This novel shows the working of the motives and weaknesses

This society is the only one connected with the medical or legal crown, and such only they warrant.
professions founded on the mutual principle.

22 of humanity as they are in real life its men and women have By mutual assurance the whole net profits become divisible

45. Moorgate-Street, London. their counterparts in the living world; their aspect and conduct amongst the assured.

Estimates, drawings, and prices sent free: are portrayed with a bold and cunning hand; they are stirred Members assured in this Society during the present year will be

CO's NEW PATTERN with emotions from which humanity cannot escape. The book entitled to participate in the first, and every succeeding division of has its moral-the critical reader will draw it from the incidents profits.

TOOTH BRUSH and SMYRNA SPONGES.-The Tooth as from life itsell."- Morning Chronicle. Every branch of assurance business is conducted by this Society.

Brush has the important advantage of searching thoroughly into * Mr. Lewes is a teacher as well as a narrator- he is a lover of Diseased as well as healthy lives assured at equitable and moderate

the divisions of the teeth, and cleaning them in the most effectual the gentler virtues and an enemy to pretenders of all sorts. The rates. R. WILSDON MORRIS, Actuary and secretary.

and extraordinary manner, and is famous for the hairs not coming main interest of the story is at times overpowering. There is no

loose, 11. An improved Clothes Brush, that cleans in a third part book in our recollection where infirmity of purpose is more keenly

of the usual time, and incapable of injuring the

finest nap. Pene. Anatomized, or more successfully demonstrated."- Eraminer. " It does not often fall to the lot of novel readers to meet with so

18, KING WILLIAM-STREET, CITY.

bristles, which do not soften like common hair. Flesh Brushes of elever a work as the one before us: and it is as instructive as it is Residence in many of the Colonies allowed, without additional improved graduated and powerful friction. Velvet Brushes, which Amusing - Jerrold' Newspaper.

charge, and the premium required for the East or West Indies, and act in the most surprising and successful manner. The genuine "The trials of Blanche and the infatuation of Cecil are de- other extra risks, is more than usually moderate,

Smyrna Sponge, with its preserved valuable properties of absorppicted with much natural pathos.-Athenæum. On Policies taken out for the whole term of life, one-third of the tion, vitality,

and durability, by means of direct importations, London : Smith, Elder & Co. 65, Cornhill.

Annual Premiums may remain unpaid till death; thus parties are dispensing with all intermediate parties' profits and destructive

enabled to effect an assurance, say for 1,2002. by the payment of bleaching and the luxury of a genuine Smyrna Sponge. MAUNDER'S POPULAR TREASURIES. Premium on 8001. only.

Only at MERCRUE & Co.'s Sole Establishment, 130 B, Oxford. New Editions, corrected and enlarged, price 108. each work, fcap.

The half-credit system for fre years is also adopted.

street, one door from Holles-street. 8vo. cloth, or 138. bound in embossed roan, Four-fiths, or 80 per cent of the entire profits are appropriated to Caution.-- Beware of the words " From Metcalfe's adopted by

Some houses.
and LITERARY assurers entitled to share therein.

The Bonus at the last division averaged 23 per cent. on the amount
TREASURY: a copious Popular Encyclopædia of the of premiums paid. Belles-Lettres.

REDUCTION in the lower qualities of BED FEATHERS, or income, and also on the guarantee of most undoubted personal THE TREASURY of KNOWLEDGE, and

and are now selling them at the following prices, warranted quite Bureties. WILLIAN RATRAY, Actuary and Secretary.

sweet and freed from dust, being purified by steam with patent Library of Reference: . Compendium of Universal Know

machinery.
ledge. ROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE,

Per lb.

Per lh. THE HISTORICAL TREASURY: an Outline

Poultry
08.10d. Best Grey Goose

28. od. Established 1806.

Grey Goose
18. 2d. White Goose..

28, 6d. of Universal History--separate Histories of every Nation.

INVESTED CAPITAL, £1,230,000.

Foreign Grey Goose 18. ed. | Best Dantzie ditto.. 38. Od. THE BIOGRAPHICAL TREASURY: a Dic

A list of prices of every description of Bedding sent free by post
Annual Income, £140,000. Bonuses Declared, £743,000. Claims paid

since the establishment of the Office, £1,678,000.


on application to Heal & Son's Factory, 196 (opposite the Chapel), tionary of Universal Biography, comprising above 12,000

Tottenham-court-road.
Memoirs.

President.
To be published early in June,
The Right Honourable EARL GREY.

BLACK PURIFIED

LEAD PENCILS, THE TREASURY of NATURAL HISTORY.

Directors.

Perfectly Free from Grit, may be entirely Erased, and will With 900 accurate Woodcuts.

The Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, Chairman.

maintain a Firm Point Manufactured by E. WOLFF & SON, London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans.

The Rev. James Sherman, Deputy-Chairman,

23. Church-street, Spitalfields, London.- E. Wolff & Son beg to WM. ORR AND CO.'S PERIODICALS FOR MAY. Henry B. Alexander, Esq. William Ostler, Esq.

inform Artists, Architects and Engineers, that they are now Henry Blencowe Churchill, Esq. George Round, Esq.

manufacturing & Pure Plumbago or Black Lead Pencil entirely ARPENTER'S CYCLOPÆDIA of NATU- George Dacre, Esq.

James Sedgwick, Esq.

free from grit, which will easily yield to India Rubber and insure RAL SCIENCE. Part XV. le. Alexander Henderson, M.D. Frederick Squire, Esg.

perfect erisure, it possesses great brilliancy and depth of colour, William Judd, Esq.

William Henry Stone, Esq.

and will maintain a firm point. They have attained to so great a CUVIER'S ANIMAL KINGDOM, new Edition, Sir Richard D. King. Bart. Capt. W. John Williams. perfection in the manufacture of this Lead as to be able at all carefully revised, Part II. 21., Plates, plain ; 38. coloured. The Rates of Premium are those adopted by the principal suitable for any particular purpose, and have produced a pencil

times to make the same strength and colour when once found to be CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL, other oflices.

Life Offices; the rate without bonus is lower than that of most fully equal to those used in former years, when they were made of Part LII. 8,d.

The Bonuses are added to the Policies, or applied to the reduc obtained sufficiently pure for the best pencils. The following are


the finest Cumberland lead, which at the present time cannot be tion of the Premiums. CHAMBERS'S INFORMATION FOR THE Policies issued by this Office are purchased at their full value; BBB.

BBBB. W.

the degrees :-H. HH. HHHHHHH. F. FF. HB. EUB. B. BB. PEOPLE, new and improved Edition, Part Y. 7d.

or Loans may be obtained upon them after they have been in ex: * This pencil is particularly recommended for writing and istence for five years.

counting-house use. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE, No. If a party

neglect to pay for the renewal of his Policy, he may
repair the omission any tiine within 12 months, upon proof of good Poultry ; and all respectable stationers, &c.

To be had of Ackerman, 191, Regent-street; Houghton, 30, 185, 28. 6cl.

health. HISTORY of FRANCE and of the FRENCH The whole of the profits (subject to a trifling deduction) are given which is advertised under the title of " Brookedon's Patent

Pure

N.B.-The Trade and Public are cautioned against an article PEOPLE. By G. M. BUSSEY and T. GASPEY. With to the Insured.

Cumberland Lead." Its purity may be tested by the application of numerous Illustrations on Wood. Part II. 18.

Bonuses paid upon Policies which have become Claims.

boiling water, when, upon the pressure of the finger, all the parMILNER'S DESCRIPTIVE ATLAS of ASTRO

ticles of dust will be separated, and it will be reduced to a paste or Life Insured.

Sum Insured. Sum Paid.
NOMY and of Physical and Political GEOGRAPHY, Part I.

pulp; - a result that cannot

be obtained from the pure Cumberland containing three quarto Maps, carefully coloured, and eight

£.

. d. berland Lead; the Public Sales take place the first Monday in pages of letter-press. 18.

John Wharton, Esq. Skelton Castle 5,000 7,706 60 every month as usual, and large quantities may still be had of Sir John Saunders Sebright, Bart... 5,000 7,659 13 3

better quality than that bought by Mr. Brockedon. PAXTON'S MAGAZINE of BOTANY, No. 172, Bir William Wake, Bart....

5,000 7,500 5 9 28. 60.

Earl Strathmore

5,000 7,128 15 8

Rev. H. W. Champneys, Canterbury 8,000 4,509 11 SHAKSPERE'S WORKS: Kenny Meadow's The Marquis of Wellesley

paration from the choicest ORIENTAL HERBS, of pecu

2,000 3,411 1 3 Illustrated Edition. Re-issue, Part I., 18.

Earl Cathcart


liarly mild and detersive properties. It pleasingly and effectually 1,000 1.862 411

cleanses the HAIR and SKIN of the HEAD from scurf and Wm. 8. Orr & Co., Amen-corner.

Prospectuses and full particulars may be obtained upon applica- every species of impurity, and imparts a delicate fragrance. It is VORKSHIRE FIRE and LIFE INSUR- tion to the Agents of the Office, in all the

principal towns of the

particularly recommended to be used after BATHING, as it will United Kingdom, and at the head office, No, bo, Regent-street.

prevent the probability of catching cold in the head, and will ANCE COMPANY. Established at York 1824.

JOHN A. BEAUMONT, Managing Director.

render the hair dry in a few minutes. It entirely supersedes the Low rates are charged by this Company, thus giving an immediate

necessity for using the fine comb,

so injurious to the tender skin of bonus, in lieu of a prospective and uncertain one.

the head ; and, from its beneficial effects on the health, together The Premiu for Female lives have been materially reduced. Fire Insurances on favourable terms. MENTS, Dissolving Views, Chromatrope, Oxy-Hydrogen perfectly innocent in its nature, will prove an invaluable

append Prospectuses may be had of tho

and Table Microscopes, New Optical Instrument invented by R. J. age to the TOILET, and the purposes of the NURSERY, -38.6d London Agents :

Longbottom, Esq., Physioscope, Proteoscope, and Opaque Micro- per bottle. Mr. Henry Wilson, 30, Royal Exchange.

scope, Cameras for the Daguerreotype and Photogenic Art, superior Sold by A. ROWLAND & SONS, 20, HATTON-GARDEN, Ir. Henry Dinsdale, 34, Bow-street, Covent-garden. Telescopes, Air

Pump, Electrical and Electro-Magnetic Machines, LONDON, and by all Chemists and Perfumers. Or Mr. W. L. NEWMAN,

Working Models of Steam-engines, &c. supplied from C. W.COL Actuary and Secretary, York.

Illustrated Catalogue, 18. ; per post, 18. 3d. LIFE ASSURANCE.

for STRENGTHENING the NERVES. - A trial of this THE attention of Parties contemplating Life

and Clock ,

from any nervous affection whatever. It allays nervous irritation Assurance is requested to the advantages to be secured by effecting policies with the SCOTTISH UNION INSURANCE

H.I.M. the Emperor of Russia, baving greatly increased his stock

iso often the precursor of insanity), and secures refreshing sleep, of WATCHES and CLOCKS to meet the purchases made at this

without containing a particle of any opiate. It purifies the blood CORPORATION. A printed statement of the large additions made to the policies season of the year, most respectfully requests from the public an

and invigorates the system.- Dr. Grandison's Pills are sold in boxes at the last two periodical investigations may be had gratis at the

inspection of his various

assortments. Ladies'
gold watches, with

at 18. 13d., 28. d., and 48. 6d, by Barclay & Son; Edwards & Co.; offices

gola dials, and jewelled in four holes, 8 gs. each ; gentlemen's ditto,

Hannay & Co.; and all Chemists.
London Offices, 37, Cornhill.

enamel dials, 10 gs, ; youths' silver g. ;
LONDON BOARD OF DIRECTION.
E. J. DENT, Strand ; 83, ; and Ex.

CONSUMPTION, ASTHMA, &c, CURABLE.--Dr. WIL-
President-Right Hon. the Earl of MANSFIELD. change (Clock Tower Area).

LIAM MOORE ELLIOT, M.R.C.S., LIMERICK, having been Vice President-Right Hon. the Earl of SEAFIELD.

for many years engaged investigating into the causes of ConCharles Balfour, Esq. R. Oliverson, Esq.

sumption, Bronchitis, Asthma, and the different Diseases of the Robert Gillespie, Esq.

J. R. Robertson, Esq. H. M. Kemshead, Esq. H. P. Sandeman, Esq.

PARK

This informs those persons labouring under Consumption leren when John Kingston, Esq.

noble mansion, formerly the residence of the Argyle and Buccleugh both lungs are diseased), or any of the above diseases, that he is at Prospectuses and tables in detail may be had at the offices, 37, families, has recently undergone considerable alterations and im. length able to undertake

their perfect curing, although in the Cornhill, London

F.G. SMITH, Secretary,

provements. The accommodations are both ample and agreeable, most debilitated state.-Dr. E. will be happy to advise those and suited to those who are seeking to recruit their health by parents whose children have a tendency to pulmonary diseases, as

to the proper course necessary to be adopted for their prevention. Annuities.) Cornhill and Baker-street, London ; College

quiring at the same time a partial or complete water treatment. - Persons applying, will require in every case to be as minute as Green, Dublin ; and Esplanade, Hamburgh; instituted A.D. 1714.

The grounds are extensive, aud much admired for the manner in possible in describing the disease. Fee Une Guinea. WILLIAM NOTTIDGE, Esq., Chairman.

which they are laid out; and residents have the privilege of a pri.


William-street, Limerick.
NICHOLAS CHARRINGTON, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.

vate entrance to Richmond Park.-Dr. ELLIS hopes that the suc

cess he has met with in the cure of patients of all ages may help to The system of returning profits on Fire Insurances was adopted the foundation of the Union Society in the year 1714.

remove the prejudice which has, more or less, existed against the A dreadful case of Rheumatism of six Years' Standing

treatment of disease by means of water (not necessarily cold water). Life Profita-Policies for the whole of life, at the ordinary rates,

cured in Ten Days.- Mrs. Potter, residing at Leamington, widow have the profits added every seven years.

It is now, however, well known to be the safest as well as the most
speedy and effectual cure for many disorders. Amongst these may

of the late James Potter, Esq. M.P., was, from long and excru

ciating pains, reduced to a mere skeleton. It was with difficulty Jasurances without profits may be effected at rates considerably be mentioned Gout, Rheumatism, Contracted of Swelled Limbs, she was able to move any of her limbs in this state these wordeci reduced. A nextended system of Life Insurance in three different modes,