NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 296. 



KENT MUTUAL LEFE AN© 

 FIRE ASSURANCE SOCIETIES. 



Chief Office. - QUEEN STREET PLACE, 

 NEW CANNON STREET, LONDON. 

 Branch Offices. 

 High Street, Rochester. 

 Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. 

 Albion Place, Hyde Park Square. 

 Sloane Street, Chelsea. 

 New Street, Birmingham. 

 Bond Street, Wolverhampton. 



LIFE. 



Trustees. 

 Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P., and Alderman. 

 Alexander Bramwell Bremner, Esq. 

 "William Squire Plane, Esq. 



The great success of this Society will be seen 

 in the following Statement of Business done 

 and Bonuses added iu Four Years of actual 

 operations : 



PROGRESS OF BUSINESS. 



Most Moderate Premiums. Policies granted 

 firom 20^ and upwards. No additional charges 

 to persons in the Army, Navy, or Militia, 

 unless in actual service. ALL POLICIES 

 INDISPUTABLE. Whole Profits divisible 

 triennially among the Assured. Emigrants 

 covered, at a very moderate udditioual charge, 

 against the risks of voyage. 



The INDUSTRIAL BRANCH offers pecu- 

 liarly favovirable advantages to the humbler 

 classes. Claims properly paid. 



FIRE. 



Trustebs. 

 Isaac Belsey, Esq. 

 William Squire Plane, Esq. 

 John Saddington, Esq. 

 Also most reasonable Premiums. Policies 

 issued for small sums and short periods. Gua- 

 rantee Fund 10fl,00nZ. Portions of Premiums 

 periodically 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 

 Kii^gdom. 



GEORGE GUMMING, Manager. 



BENNETT'S MODEL 

 WATCH,aa shown at the GREAT EX- 

 HIBITION. No. 1. Class X., in Gold and 

 eilver Cases, in five qualities, and adapted to 

 all Climates, may now be had at the MANU- 

 FACTORY. G5. CHEAPSIDE. Superior Gold 

 London-made Patent Levers, 17, 15, and 12 

 guineas. Ditto, in Silver Cases, 8, 6, and 4 

 guineas. First-rate Geneva Levers, in Gold 

 Cases, 12, 10, and 8 guineas. Ditto, in Silver 

 Cases, 9, 6, and 5 guineas. Superior Lever, with 

 Chronometer Balance, Gold, 27, 23, and 19 

 guineas. Bennett's Pocket Chronometer, Gold, 

 80 guineas ; Silver, 40 guineas. Everjr Watch 

 skilfully examined, timed, and its performance 

 guaranteed. Barometers,2i.,3?.,and 4J. Ther- 

 mometers from Is, each. 



BENNETT, Watch, Clock, and Instrument 

 Maker to the Royal Observatory, the Board of 

 Ordnance, the Admiralty, and the Qaeen, 



65. CHEAPSIDE. 



CBirBB'S XsOCXS, 



WITH all the recent Improve- 

 ments, strong Fire-proof .Safes, Cash 

 and Deed Boxes. Complete lists of sizes and 

 prices may be had on application. 

 CHUBB & SON, 57. St. Paul's Churchyard, 

 London; 28. Lord Street, Liverpool ; 16. Mar- 

 ket Street, Manchester! and Horeeley Fields, 

 •Wolverhampton. 



iMTTxcz OF ssvxa>i:Ki>. 



'BANK CXF DEPOSIT, 



3. PALL MALL EAST, LONDON. 



Established A.D. 1844. 



ITHE WARRANTS for the 



X HALF-YEARLY Interest, at the rate of 

 bper cent, per annum, on Deposit Accounts, to 

 the 3nth June, will be ready for delivery on 

 and after July the 10th, and payable daily be- 

 tween the hours of Eleven and Three o'clock. 



PETER MORRISON, 



Managing Director. 

 22nd June, 1855. 



*** Parties desirous of INVESTING 

 Money, are requested to examine the plan of 

 this Institution. Prospectuses and Forms for 

 opening Accounts sent Free on application. 



Just published. 



PRACTICAL PHOTOGRA- 

 PHY on GLASS and PAPER, a Manual 



containing simple directions for the production 

 of PORTRAITS and VIEWS by the agency 

 of Light, including the COLLODION, AL- 

 BUMEN, WAXED PAPER and POSITIVE 

 PAPER Processes, by CHARLES A. LONG. 

 Price Is.; per Post, Is. 6d. 



Published by BLAND & LONG, Opticians, 

 Philosophical and Photofjraphical Instru- 

 ment Makers, and Operative Chemists, 153. 

 Fleet Street. London. 



THE NEW COLLODION 

 manufactured by BLAND & LONG, 

 153. Fleet Street. London, will bear compari- 

 son with any other Preparation offered to 

 Photographers. Price 9rf. per oz. Can be had 

 separate from the Iodizing Solution . Nitrate 

 of Silver, 4s. 6(1. per oz. ; Pyrogallic Acid, 

 Is. 6rf. per drachm ; Glacial Acetic Acid, 6d. 

 per oz. ; Hyposulphite of Soda, Is. per lb. 



CAMERAS, LENSE'', and every Descrip- 

 tion of Apparatus, of first-class Workmanship. 



Chemicals of ABSOLUTE PURITY, and 

 every material required in the Photographic 

 Art of the finest quality. 



Instruction in all the Processes. 

 Catalogues sent on Application. 



BLAND & LONG, Opticians, Photographieal 

 Instrument Makers, and Operative Chemists, 

 153. Fleet Street, London. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERAS. 



OTTEWILL AND CO.'S 



Manufactory, 24. & 25. Charlotte Terrace, 

 Caledonian Road, Islington. 



OTTEWILL'S Registered Double Body 

 Folding Camera, adapted for Landscapes or 

 Portraits, may be had of A. ROSS, Feather- 

 stone Buildings, Holbom ; the Photographic 

 Institution, Bond Street ; and at the Manu- 

 factory as above, where every description of 

 Cameras, Slides, and Tripods may be had. The 

 Trade supplied. 



PHOTOGRAPHY. 



SOLOMON'S PHOTO- 



tf • GRAPHIC CATALOGUE, now ready, 

 Gratis, on application at 



22. RED LION SQUARE, LONDON. 



J. 



MR. GEO. HAYES, Dentist, of 

 66. Conduit Street, Regent Street, has a 

 vacancy for a PUl'IL. He would be fully in- 

 structed in Mechanical, as well as Operative 

 Dentistry, and receive many unusual advan- 

 tages. If desired, he may attend the Classes at 

 either of the Colleges. 



rRAVET.LER«' AND MA- 

 RINE INSURANCE COMPANY. 



Chief Office.- 5. GRESHAM STREET, 

 LONDON. 



Trustees. 

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

 Sir Charles Fox. 



Matthew Marshall, Esq., Bank of England. 

 William Smee, Esq., Bank of England. 



EXAMPLE OF RATES. 



DEATH FROM ANY ACCIDENT. 



Annual Sum Sick Allowance, 



Premium. Insured. per Week. 



DEATH FROM RAILWAY ACCIDBKT. 



TOTAL LOSS OF HEALTH. 



Annual Premium. 



Age 21 - 1 



£100 per annum 

 dtu^g disability. 



For Inpormatiox, Prospectuses, "Forms, 

 etc., apply to TBS Chibf Office, 5. Greshasi 

 Street, London. 



WESTERN LIFE ASSU- 

 RANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY, 

 i. PARLIAMENT STREET, LONDON. 

 Founded A.D. 1842. 



Directors. 



T. Gri8sell,EBg. 



J. Hunt, Esq. 



J. A. Lcthbndge,Esq. 



E.Lucas, Esq. 



J. Lys Seager, Esq. 



J. B. White, Esq. 



J. Carter Wood, Esq. 



H. E. Bicknell, Esq. 

 T. 8. Cocks, Jun. Esq. 



M.P. 

 G. H. Drew. Esq. 

 W. Evans, Esq. 

 W. Freeman, Esq. 

 F. Fuller, Esq. 

 J. H. Goodhart,Esq. 



Trustees. 



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



T. Grissell, Esq. 



Physician. — William Rich. Basham, M.D. 



Bankers Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., 



Charing Cross. 



VALUABLE PRIVn^EGE. 



POLICIES effected in this Office do not be- 

 come void through temporary difficulty in pay- 

 ing a Premium, as permission is given upon 

 application to suspend the payment at interest, 

 according to the conditions detailed in the Pro- 

 spectus. 



Specimens of Rates of Premium for Assuring 

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

 Profits : 



ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., F.R.A.8., 

 Actuary. 

 Now ready, price 10s. 6d., Second Edition, 

 with material additions, INDUSTHIAL IN- 

 VESTMENT and EMIGRATION; being a 

 TREATISE on BENEFIT BUIIiDING SO- 

 CIETIES, and on the General Principles of 

 Land Investment, exemplified in the Cases of 

 Freehold Land Societies, Building Companies, 

 &c. 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, London. 



