May 14. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Just published, price Is., free by Post Is. id., 



THE WAXED- PAPER PHO- 

 TOGR.-VPHIC PROCESS of GUSTAVE 

 LE GRAYS NEW EDITION. Translated 

 from the t rench. 



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CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL 

 LIFE ASS URANCE SOCIETY. 



Established 1824. 



FIVE BONUSES have been declared ; at the last in January, 1852, the sum of J.'M,125?. wn» 

 added to the Policies, producing a Bonus varying with the ditt'erent a^res from 24i to 55 per cent, 

 on the Premiums paid during tlie five years, or from bl. to 12/. los. per cent, on the Sum 

 Assured. 



The small share of Profit divisible in futur? among the Shareholders being now provided for, 

 the ASSURED will hereafter derive all the benefits obtainable from a Mutual Office WITHOUT 

 ANY LIABILITY OR BISK OF PARTNEKSHIP. ' ^^""^ ^ 



POLICIES effected lic'ore the 30th June next, will be entitled, at the next Division, to one 

 year's additional share of Profits over later Assurers. 



On Assurances for the whole of Life only one half of the Premiums need be paid for the first 

 five years. 



INVALID LIVES may be Assured at rates proportioned to the risk. 



Claims paid thii-ty days after proof of death, and all Policies are Indisputable except in cases 

 of fraud. 



Tables of Rates and forms (rf Proposal can he obtained of any of the Society's Agents, or of 



I 99. Great Russell Street, Bhomsbury, London. 



GEORGE H. PINCKABD, Resident Secretary. 



WESTERN LIFE ASSU- 

 RANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY, 

 3. PARLIAMENT STREET, LONDON. 

 Founded A.D. 1842. 



Directors. 



H. E. Bicknell, Esq. 



W.Cabell, Esq. 



T. S. Cocks, Jun. Esq. 



MP. 

 G. H. Drew. Esq. 

 W. Evans, Esq. 

 W. Freeman, Esq. 

 F. Fuller, Esq. 



J. H. Goodhart, Esq. 



T Grissell, Esq. 



J. Hunt, Esq. 



J. A. I^thbridge, Esq. 



E. Lucas, Esq. 



J. Lys Seager, Esq. 



J. B. White, Esq. 



J. Carter Wood, Esq. 



Trustees. 



W. Whateley, Esq., Q.C. : L. C. Humfrey, 



Esq., Q.C ; George Drew, Esq. 



Physician William Rich. Basham, M.D. 



Bankers. — Messrs. Cocks. Biddulph, and Co., 

 Charing Cross. 



VALUABLE PRIVILEGE. 

 POLICIES effected in this Office do not be- 

 come void tlirough temporary diflSculty in pay- 

 ing a Premium, as permission is given upon 

 application to suspend the payment at intert-st, 

 according to the conditions detailed in the Pro- 

 spectus. 



Specimens of Rates of Premium for Assuring 

 100/., with a Share in three-foiurths of the 

 Profits :— 



Age £ s. d. Age ' £ s. d. 



17 - - - 1 14 4 32- - - 2 10 8 

 22 - - - 1 18 8 37 - - - 2 18 6 

 27- - -245 42- - -382 



ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., F.K.A.S., 



Actuary. 

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 with material additions, INDUSTRIAL IN- 

 VESTMENT and EMIGRATION: being a 

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 Freehold Land Societies, Building Companies, 

 &c. With a Mathematical Appendix on Com- 

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 THUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., Actuary to 

 the Western Life Assiurance Society, 3. Parlia- 

 ment Street. Loudon. 



A LITERARY CURIOSITY, 

 sent Free by Post on receipt of Three 

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 Newspaper of Charles II. 's Period. 

 J. H. FENNELL, 1. Warwick Court, Holborn, 

 London. 



WANTED, for the Ladies' In- 

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 LADIES of taste for fancy work, — by paying 

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TTNITED KINGDOM LIFE 



\j ASSURANCE COMPANY; established 

 by Act of Parliament in 1834. —8. Waterloo 

 Place, Pall Mall, London. 



HONORARY PRESIDENTS. 

 Earl of Courtown 

 Earl Leven. and Mel- 

 ville 

 Earl of Norbury 

 Earl of Stair 

 Viscount Falkland 



LONDON BOARD. 



Chairman Charles Graham, Esq. 



Deputy-Chairman. — Charles Downes, Esq. 



Lord Elphinstone 

 Lord BeUiaveu and 



Stenton 

 Wm. Campbell, Esq., 



of Tillichcwan. 



H. Blair Avame.Esq. 

 E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., 



F.S.A., Rmident. 

 C. Berwick Curtis, 



Esq. 

 William Fairlie, Esq. 



D. Q. Henriques, Esq. 

 J. G. Jlenriques. Esq. 

 F. C. Maitland.Esq. 

 William Kail ton, Esq. 

 F. H. Tbiimson. Esq. 

 Thomas Thorby.Esq. 



MEDICAL OFFICERS. 



Physician Arthur H. ]Ia.s8all, Esq., M.D., 



8. Bennett Street, St. James's. 



Surgeon F. H. Thomson, Esq., 48. Berners 



Street. 



The Bonus added to Policies from Moreh, 

 1834, to December 31. 1847, is as follows : — 



* Example At the commencement of the 



year 1841 , a person aged thirty took out a Policy 

 for 1000/., uie annual payment for which ia 

 24/. Is. Sd. ; in 1817 he had paid in premiums 

 168/. Us. Sd. ; but the profits being 2f per cent, 

 per annum on the sum msured {which ia 

 22/. 10». per annum for each 1000/.) he had 

 157/. 10,?. added to the Policy, almost as much 

 as the premiums paid. 



The Prraninms. nevertheless, are on the most 

 moderate scale, and only one-half need be paid 

 for the first five years, when the Insurance is 

 for Life. Every information will be afforded 

 on application to the Resident Director. 



HEAL & SON'S ILLUS- 

 TRATED CATALOGUE OF BED- 

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