WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY,

3. PARLIAMENT STREET, LONDON.

Founded A.D. 1842.

Directors.
H. Edgeworth Bicknell, Esq.
William Cabell, Esq.
T. Somers Cocks, Jun. Esq. M.P.
G. Henry Drew, Esq.
William Evans, Esq.
William Freeman, Esq.
F. Fuller, Esq.
J. Henry Goodhart, Esq.
T. Grissell, Esq.
James Hunt, Esq.
J. Arscott Lethbridge, Esq.
E. Lucas, Esq.
James Lys Seager, Esq.
J. Basley White, Esq.
Joseph Carter Wood, Esq.
Trustees.
W. Whateley, Esq., Q.C.;
L. C. Humfrey, Esq., Q.C.;
George Drew, Esq.

Consulting Counsel.—Sir Wm. P. Wood, M.P.

Physician.—William Rich. Basham, M.D.

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

VALUABLE PRIVILEGE.

POLICIES effected in this Office do not become void through temporary difficulty in paying a Premium, as permission is given upon application to suspend the payment at interest, according to the conditions detailed on the Prospectus.

Specimens of Rates of Premium for Assuring 100l., with a Share in three-fourths of the Profits:—

Age£s.d.Age£s.d.
171144 322108
221188 372186
27245 42382

ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., F.R.A.S., Actuary.

Now ready, price 10s. 6d., Second Edition, with material additions, INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT and EMIGRATION: being a TREATISE on BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETIES, and on the General Principles of Land Investment, exemplified in the Cases of Freehold Land Societies, Building Companies, &c. With a Mathematical Appendix on Compound Interest and Life Assurance. By ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., Actuary to the Western Life Assurance Society, 3. Parliament Street, London.

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Great Exhibition Jurors' Reports, p. 274.

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Catalogues sent upon Application.

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Prepared solely by R. W. THOMAS,
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Calotype, Daguerreotype, and Glass Pictures for the Stereoscope.

BLAND & LONG, Opticians, Philosophical and Photographical Instrument Makers, and Operative Chemists, 153. Fleet Street.

BURKE'S (Right Hon. Edmund) WORKS AND CORRESPONDENCE.—The NEW EDITION (containing the whole of the Contents of the former Edition published in 20 Volumes, 8vo., at the price of 9l. 5s.) is now completed, handsomely printed in 8 vols. 8vo., with Portrait and Fac-simile, price 4l. 4s.

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*** The Reflections on the French Revolution may be had separately, price 4s. 6d. in cloth boards.

THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE for JANUARY 1853, which is the First Number of a New Volume, contains the following articles:—

1. King Charles I. in the Isle of Wight.

2. Original Letters of Benjamin Franklin.

3. Farinelli and Pompadour.

4. Henry Newcome, the Manchester Puritan.

5. A Journey to Paris in 1736.

6. The Cloister Life of Charles V.

7. The Hill Intrenchments on the Borders of Wales, by T. Wright, F.S.A. (with Engravings).

8. Report of the Cambridge University Commission.

9. Correspondence of Sylvanus Urban:—1. Pictures of the Immaculate Conception. 2. The Relic of St. Mary Axe. 3. Harley Church, Salop. 4. Etymology of the word Many.

With Notes of the Month, Reviews of New Publications, Historical Chronicle, and Obituary, including Memoirs of the Earl of Shrewsbury, Countess of Lovelace, Sir J. J. Guest, Miss Berry, Professor Empson, Mr. Serjeant Halcomb, &c. &c.

A Specimen Number sent on the receipt of 2s. 6d. in Postage Stamps.

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Contents of No. I.—Address; Milton's Country Residence; Pious Chloe; Neglected Biography; Jas. Sibbold; Memorials of Old London; Bibliographical Notices; Specimens of Ancient English Poetry; Scraps and Sketches; forming, with the List of Books, 24 pages imp. 8vo., price 2d., or stamped for the country, 3d.

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