Nt)TES AND QUERIES. 



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KENT MUTUAL LIFE AND 

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Caiief OflSce. - QUEEN STREET PLACE, 

 NEW CANNON STREET, LONDON. 

 Branch Offices. 

 Hiah Street, Rochester. 

 ■Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. 

 Albion Place, Hyde Park Square. 

 Sloane Street, Chelsea. 

 New Street, Birmingham. 

 Bond Street, Wolverhampton. 



Tkustbes. 

 -Sir James thike, Bart., M.P., and Alderman. 

 Alexander Bramwell Bremner, Esq. 

 William Squire Plane, Esq. 



The treat success of this Society will be seen 

 in the'followine Statement of Business done 

 and Bonuses added in Four Years of actual 

 m>eTations : 



PROGRESS OF BUSINESS. 



1 



7ESTERN LIFE ASSU- 

 RANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY, 



Most Moderate Premiums. Policies <rranted 

 from 20!:. and upwards. No additionfl,l charpres 

 to persons in the Army, Navy or Mihtia, im- 

 lessin actual servicp. ALL POLTCIES IN- 

 DISPUTABLE. Whole Profits divisible tn- 

 «nnially amonc the Assured. Einisrants co- 

 rered, at a very modemte additional charge, 

 a«ainst the risks of voyajre. 



The INnUSTKIAL BRANCH offers pecu- 

 liarly favourable advantages to the humbler 

 classes. Claims properly paid. 



FIRE. 



Trustees. 

 Isaac Belsey. Esq. 

 William Squire Plane, Esq. 

 John Paddington, Esq. 

 Also most reasonable Premiums. Policies 

 bsued for small sums and short periods. Gua- 

 rantee Fund 100,000?. Portions of Premiums 

 periodicallv returned to the Insured. Last 

 return 25 per cent. Claims promptly paid. 

 Agents are required in various localities. 

 Policies may be effected daily, and full in- 

 formation obtained, upon application at the 

 Chief Office, the Branches, or at any of the 

 numerous Agencies throughout the United 

 Kingdom. 



GEORGE CUBIMING, IttanaKer. 



WITH all the recent Improve- 

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 and Deed Boxes. Complete ]ists of sizes and 

 prices may be had on application. 

 CHUBB ft SOW, 67. St. Paul'B Churchvnrd, 

 London: 28. lyord Street, Liverpool : Ifi. Mar- 

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 ■Wolverhampton. 



ONE THOUSAND BED- 

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 AL & SON have just erected extensive 

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 of One Th'iUBnnd Bedsteads in stock. One 

 Hundred and Fifty of which are fixed for in- 

 spection, comprising every variety of Brass, 

 Wood, and Iron, with Chintz and Damask 

 Furnitures, complete. Their new Warerooms 

 also contain an assortment of BED-BOOM 

 FUBNI'IIJRCE, which comprises every requi- 

 site, from the plainest Japanned Deal for Ser- 

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 designs in Mnhnaany and other Woeds. The 

 whole warnintcd of the soundest and best ma- 

 nufacture. HEAL fr SO^T'S TLT USTRATED 

 CATALOGUE OF BEDSTEADS. AND 

 PRICED LIST OF BEDDING, sent Free by 

 Post. 

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3. PARLIAMENT STREET, LONDON. 

 Founded A.D. 1842, 



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 T. S. Cocks,Jun. Esq. 



M.P. 

 G. II. Drew, Esq. 

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 W. Freeman, Esq. 

 F. Fuller, Esq. 

 J.U. Goodhut,£3Q. 



T. Orissell, Esq. 



J. Hunt, Esq. 



J. A. I<ethbridge,E8q. 



E. Lucas, Esq. 



J. Lys Seaeer, Esq. 



J. B. White, Esq. 



J. Carter Wood, Esq. 



W.Whateley.Esq., Q.C. i George Drew, Esq.; 



T. Grissell, Esq. 



Pht/sician. — William Rich. Basham, M.D. 



Bankers, — Messrs. Cook*, Biddulph, and Co., 



Charing Cross. 



VALUABLE PRIVILEGE. 



POLIOTERefltcted in this Office do not be- 

 come void through temporary difficulty in pay- 

 in? a Premium, as permission is given upon 

 application to suspend the poyment at interest, 

 according to the conditions detailed in the Pre- 

 spectus. 



Specimen»ofBate»Df Premium for Assurhur 

 looz., with a Share in three-fourths of the 

 Profits : 



£ s. 



Age 



118 « I 37 - 



X I. a. 



- 2 10 8 



- 2 18 ii 

 ■87- - -.2 45142- - -8 8« 



ABTHUB SraiATCKI.EY, M.A.,F.R.A.8., 

 Aotnary. 



Now ready, price lOs. 6(f^, Second Edition, 

 with material additions, INDUSTRIAL IN- 

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 Land Investment, exemplified In the Cases of 

 Freehold Land Societies, Building Companies, 

 Sic. With a Mathematical Appendix on Com- 

 pound Interest and Life Assurance. By AR- 

 THUR SCRATCHLEY, M. A., Actuary to 

 the Western Life Assurance Society, 3. Parlia- 

 ment Street, X.ondon. 



BENNETT'S MODEL 

 WATCH, as shown at the GREAT EX- 

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 all Climates, may now be had at the MANU- 

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NEW ISSUE, 1855. 



"OHNSTON'S NATIONAL 



ATLAS of HISTORICAL. COMMER- 

 CIAL, and POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY; 

 with a complete Index, compiled from the 

 Maps. By AT,EXANDER KEITH JOHN- 

 STON, F.R.S.E., Geographer to the Queen. 



Price, half-bound russia or morocco, £ s. d. 

 with Plates and Notes on Physical 

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 LONDON. 



Trustees. 

 The Rt. Hon. the Earl Fitzwilliam, K. G. 

 Sir Charles Fox. 



Matthew JIarshall, Esq., Bank of England. 

 William Smee, Esq., Bank of England. 



For XwFe»M*TOrN, 'Prospkctdses, Forms, 



ETC., APPDY TO TBC CdXEF OfFIOB, 5, GrESHAM 



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BRITISH SHELLS AND 

 FOSSILS R. DAMON, of Weymouth, 



Dorset, nupplies collections of BRITISH 

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 An Elementary Collection of 50 Species (100 

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 List of British Shells, 6d. Collections, illus- 

 trating 100 genera of recent shells, 30s. ; Ditto 

 of .500, H'OO, 2000 Species, equally reasonable. 

 Labels for recent shells. 



FOS^II'S. — Saurian Remains, Pentacrinite, 

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 Blue Lias and other Oolitic strata. Element- 

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 of Geology, 17. and upwards. Labels for 

 Fossil Shells. 



EXTRAORDINARY GROUP 

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 happy to show them the above Group, which is 

 acknowledged to be the most remarkable 

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 and upwards. Boxes of Minerals, all named, 

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 Schools supplied. 



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PRIZE ESSAY ON PORTU- 

 GAL. Bv JOSEPH JAMES FOR- 

 RESTER, of Oporto, F.R.G.S. of London, 

 Paris, Berlin, ic, Author of " Original Sur- 

 vevs of the Port Wine Districts : " of the 

 " River Douro firom the Ocean to the Spanish 

 Frontier ; " and of the " Geology of the Bed 

 and Banks of the Douro ;" also of a project for 

 the improvement of the navigation of that 

 river, and of various other works on Portugal. 

 JOHN WEALE, 59. High Holborn. 



