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    ^jjmE 7, 1856.] THE LEADER. 551

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    ^Jjme 7, 1856.] The Leader. 551

    ^ jjmE 7 , 1856 . ] THE LEADER . 551

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    ESTABLISHED 1838 . -CTICTORIA LIFE ASSURANCE COM-\ pANY , No 18 , King "William-street , Mansion House , Ute Assurances of every description effected . Half the Annual Premium may be paid during the first five One-third may remain on credit during the whole of life . Endowment Assurances , payable at 50 , 55 , 60 , & c Loons to Assurers on personal or other security . gOper cent , of profits go to Assurers on the bonus scale . Thelast bonus averaged 53 per cent , on the Premiums paid . WILLIAM RATRAY , Actuary .

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    T HE CAMBRIAN and UNIVERSAL LIFE and FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY . Capital 100 , 000 . Established 1849 . Office , 27 , Gresham-street . Agencies in tho principal towns U ' ' of England and Wales . This office offers the benefit of assurance in all its branches , and is highly eligible for every description of life assurance . A new and most important feature entirely originating with this Company , viz . Marriage Dowries . Life Asssurance , and Deferred Annuities included in one policy . Rates of premium moderate . AH policies indisputable . Annuities granted . Family endowments . Loans on personal and other securities . Forms of proposal and every information may be obtained on application . By order , ALFRED MELHADO , Manager .

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    W ESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE and ANNUITY SOCIETY . 3 , Parliament-street , London . —Established a . d . 18 i 2 . DrKECTORS . H . E . Bicknell , Esq ., Upper Bedford-place , Russell-square . T . S . Cocks , jun ., Esq ., M-P-, Charing cross . G- H . Drew , Esq ., Hiberaia-ehambers , Wellington-street , London Bridge . W . Evans , Esq ., Chcsham-street , Belgrave-square . W . Freeman , Esq ., Millbank-street , Westminster . F . Fuller , Esq ., Abingdon-street , Westminster . J . H . Goodhart , Esq ., Upper Tooting , Surrey , T . Grissell , Esq ., Norbury Park , Surrey . K . Lucas , Esq ., Millbank-streot , Westminster . F . B- Marston , Esq ., Brunswick-place , Regent ' s Park . J . Nicols , Esq ., Savile-row , Burlington-gardens . A . Robinson , Esq ., Eaton-square , Pimlico . J . L . Seager , Esq ., Millbank-row , Westminster . J . B . White , Esq ., Swanscombe , Kent . J . C . Wood , Esq ., Victoria-street , Westminster . Bankers—Messrs . Cocks , Biddulph , and Co . Actuary—Arthur Scratchley , Esq ., M . A ., F . R . A . S . By a valuable new principle , originated by this office , policies effected in it do not become void through the temporary inability of its assurers to pay a premium , as permission is given , upon application ( if his policy be of at east three years' standing ) , to suspend the payment , at interest , according to the conditions detailed in the Society ' s prospectus . The rates of endowments granted to young lives and annuities to old lives are liberal . Invalid lives are accepted at an increased rate of premium , where they are not in a completely satisfactory state of health ; and any person , paying a fee of one guinea , may be re-examined as to the state of his health , and the directors will make a reduction of premium where just . Partners in firms can increase their available capital , by the aid of a special life assurance polic 3 . Creditors desirous of assuring the lives of their debtors . — Free policies arc issued , at a small increased rate of premium , which remain in force , although the life assured may go to any part of the world ; and payment of the premiums is only required while the creditors and debtors aro jointly alive . Every information , free of expense , may bo obtained of the actuary . The third quinquennial division of profits will take place at tho close of the year 1 S 5 U . Now ready , Fourth Edition , 5 s . ( 2 s . 6 d . to members of j Friendly Societies ) , A TREATISE on LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETIES , FRIENDLY SOCIETIES , and SAVINGS BANKS : with a Mathematical Appendix and Tables ; and Model Rules for Friendly Societies . By ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY , M . A ., F . R . A . S ., Author of Treatises on Copyhold Enfranchisement , Tontine , and Benefit liuilding Societies . London : C . Mitohbi . i ., Red Lion-conrt , Fleet-street .

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    IMPROVED DEPOSIT and DISCOUNT BANK . ( Tho Life Assurnnco Treasury . )—Five or six per cent ., as per arrangement , on Deposits . A Free Life Policy given , in addition to ;{ per < : <; nt . on Drawing accounts . Bills discounted , Annuities grunted . A liberal commission to Agents . Chairman—Tho Right Hon . tho EARL of DEVON . ProupccttiHoH , forms of application for Shares , & c , may bo had at 0 , Cannon-street West , Cltv-( i . 11 . LAW , General Malinger .

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    A FIXED ALLOWANCE OF £ 6 PER WEEK , IN OAMli OK IN . MTUY 1 » Y A CCIDENT OF ANY DESCRIPTION , OK TIM ' , HUM OK £ 1000 IN CASE OF DEATH , Maybe secured by an Annual l ' ayincnt of , £ 3 for a Policy in tint RAILWAY PASSENGERS AKSURANOK COMPANY . A weekly Allowance of Fifl . wn Shilling !) for Injury , or ^ iOOiiica ' so of Death . secured bv a payment of Ten Shillings . NO CH A RGE FOR STAMP DUTY . Forma of Proposal , Pro . sixwtuNUH . &« ., may bo bad of tho Agents—of tlio Clorkn at all tlio Principal Railway Stations —and at tho Mead Ollloo , London , where ulso RAILWAY ACCIDENTS ALONE May bo iuwurod ngain . st by tlio journey or by tho Year n . s heretofore ) . WILLIAM J . VIAN , Socretary . Railway l'aasongors luHuratico Company , Empowered by £ Hpjieial Act of Parliament . OHIcom , : i . Old Uroud-atrect ., London .

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    This day , in post 8 vo , cloth , price 7 s . 6 d ., JJ E R T H A . By Fbedkika Bbemeb . Arthub Hall . Virtue , and Co ., 25 , Paternoster-row .

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    This day , BARON DE BAZANCOURT'S HISTORY OF THE WAR . Translated from the French . Sampson , Low , Son , and Co ., 47 , Ludgate-hin .

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    Just published , price Is . 6 d . A LECTURE ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF - £ x . KANT , delivered at Magdalen College . May 20 , 1 S 56 By HENRY LONGUEVILLli ! MANSEL , B . D . . peeler in Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy . Magdalen College-Tutor and late Fellow of St . John's College ? ' J . H . and James Parker , Oxford ; and 377 , Strand London . '

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    Now ready , price One Shilling , THE IRISH CHURCH : SPEECH of Mr . EDWARD MIALL , M . P ., in favour of the impartial disendowment of all sects in Ireland , delivered in the House of Commons May 27 th , 1856 . London : Effingham AVitsox , Royal Exchange ; Dublin-McGlashan and Gill .

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    BANK-NOTE FORGERY AND ITS PREVENTION . This day is published , in demy 4 to ., price 5 s ., SECURITY AND MANUFACTURE OF BANK NOTES . Being the substance of a Lecture delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain , on May 9 th , 1856 . With Explanatory Notes and Engraved Specimens . By HENRY BRADBURY , M . R . I ., & c " An interesting paper on the Manufacture of Bank Notes was recently read by Mr . Henry Bradbury at the Royal Institution . Its object was to enforce the necessity of employing the highest resources of the engraver ' s art . According to Mr . Bradbury , every means has peen taken to bring bank-note paper to perfection , but similar attention has not been paid to bank-note engraving , although excellence in both is essential to a complete result- The general correctness of his theory will probably be admitted " — Times Money Article . Bradbtxry and Evans , 11 , Bouverie-street .

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    Published this day , price 7 s . 6 d ., T 7 SSAYS IN PHILOSOPHY . By ALEX-_ I _ L / ANDER CAMPBELL FRASER , M . A ., Professor of Logic and . Metaphysics , New College , Edinburgh . CoWTETTTS I . Life and Philosophy of Leibnitz . II . Hamilton and Reid : Theory of Perception . III . Scottish Metaphysics : Theory of Causation . IV . The Insoluble Problem : A Disquisition on our Ignorance of the Infinite . ' V . The Metaphysics of Augustinianism . VI . Terrier's Theory of Knowing and Being . VII . The Philosophical Class room in the Nineteenth Century . Edinburgh : W . P . Kennedy . London : Hamiltoit , Adams , and Co .

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    Price Two Shillings , cloth , limp . npHE CHURCH OF CHRIST NOT AN JL ECCLESIAST 1 CISM . By HENRY JAMES . London : W . WniTE , SO , Bloomsbnry-strect .

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    " Now let reason , not passion , be thy guide !" Will bo published on Saturday next , A N INQUIRY into the CHARGE of Lord Chief-Justice CAMPBELL , On tho LATE TRIAL of WILLIAM PALMER . Illustrative of its Dangerous Tendencies as Destructive to tho long-enjoyed Rights and Privileges of all British Subjects . BythoRov . THOMAS PALMER , Brother of tho Prisoner WILLIAM PALMER . Price is . ; post free , Is . Cd . Jonrf Taylor , : 5 Sa , New Bridge-street , Blaekfriars . Sold by all booksellers in town and country . j

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    Just published , price 2 s ., post free 2 s . ( id ., AN ESSAY ON SPERMATOR 1 UKEA ; its Naturo and Treatment , with an exposition of the Frauds that aro practised by persons who advertise the speedy , safe , and effectual euro of Nervous Derangement . By A MKMBKR OV THIO ROYAL COLLIXUO Ol ' PHYSICIANS , London . London : W . Kent and Co ., 51 and Hi , Paternoster-row .

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    ITALIAN AND FRENCH LANGUAGES . MU . AIUUVABKNK , J ) . LL ., from the University of L ' adua , who has been established in London for tlireo years , gives privato lessons in Italian and I'Vench at his own house , or the houses of his pupils , lie also attends Schools both in town and country . Mr . AR 1 UVA-1510 NII teaches on a plan thoroughly prfi . ct . lcnl , and the most mediocre mind cannot fail to thoroughly comprehend his lessons . Apply by letter to Mr . ARRIVABE . VH , No . 1 , St . IMicliael's-plaee , BrompLon .

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    THE NEW NOVEL BY THB AUTHOR OP "TRE VBLYAN , " " MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE . " Now ready at all the Libraries , in 3 vols THE OLD GREY CHURCH : a ' novei ^ L M By the Author of " Trerelyan , " "Marriage in Higb " It is written' in a gentle touching styks , which has a peculiar charm of its own . Wo prefer it to » ii » work we have seen by the same authoress . "—Athenteum . " The story is , indeed , a very interesting one . The characters are well drawn , and the narrative is animated and effective . " — Morning Post . London : Richabd Bewtmtt , New Burlington-street .

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    THE NEW NOVEL . Now ready at all the Libraries , Second Edition , S vols ., OLAR A ; or , Slave Life in Europe . With a Preface by Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON , Bart , " It is an original , varied , and spirited story , baldly conceived , artfully constructed , pleasantly told . "—Leader . " One of the most masterly and delightful works of fiction with which we are acquainted . "—Morning Post" All the world will want to read this work . " —Atlas . London : BiCHAED Bektxet , New Burlington-street .

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    THE NEW ROMANCE BY MB , ARCHIBALD BOYD . Now ready at all the Libraries , fn 3 Vols ., THE CROWN WARD : ¦ A Story of the Days of James I . By ARCHIBALD BO YD , Author of "The Duchess" and " The Cardinal . " " It is exhilarating to read a romance which , without servilely imitating Scott , represents that free and buoyant spirit of adventure which is the charm of his narratives . In constant and sustained adventure Mr . Boyd makes good a claim to be classed with Scott . " —Press . London : Ricuaed Benti / ex , New Burlington-street .

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    "HALF-HOURS WITH THE BEST AUTHORS . " In 2 vols . crown 8 vo , price 12 s . 6 d ., cloth lettered , HALF-HOURS with the BEST AUTHORS . By CHARLES KNIGHT . A New Edition , with 52 Illustrations by W . Harvey , and Steel Portraits . " This book is a complete treasury of knowledge and amusement , containing biographical notices of , and extracts from , the best works of upwards of three bundred ^> f our most celebrated authors . It is the best and mos /^ popular introduction to English Literature ever published—a branch of knowledge , as shown by the Report of the Civil Service Commission , to have been frightfully neglected . " London : George Rofiledge and Co ., z , Farringdonstreet .

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    ROUTLEDGB'S STANDARD NOVELS . Price 2 s . 6 d . cloth gilt , TYLNEY HALL . By Thomas Hooik " The only novel Tom Hood ever wrote . " Also , price 2 s . Gd . each , cloth , Mr . Lcdbury ' s Adventures . Mothers and Daughters . By By Albert Smith . Mrs Gore . Bivouac . By Maxweli . Country Curate . By G . B . Hector O'llallorau . By Max- Gleig . well . Trevelvan . By Lady Scott . Frank Hilton . By James Capt . Blake . Maxwell . Grant . London : George Routledoe and Co ., 2 , Fnrringdonstreet .

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    Just ready , price Is ., npHE UNITED STATES : THEIR CONSTIJL TUTION and POWER , containing a popular summary of the Naval and Military forces of the Union , as well . as tlio American idea of Defence . By CHARLES BROWNE , Author of " Life of Southey . " London : Kent and Co ., Patornostor-row .

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    SWUDBNBOHG'S WORKS . CON . TUGIAL LOVE and its CHASTE DELKJHTS ; also , ADULTEROUS LOVE and its 1 NSANK PhliASURKS . Demy Hvo , 4 s . HEAVEN and IIKLL ; also , the INTERMEDIATE STATE or WORLD of SPIRITS . A Relation or Things Heartland Seen . Demy Hvo , ; i » . With Hartley's Preface , ; is . Cd . APOCALYPSE REVEALED , in which nre disclosed the Arcana , therein Foretold . Twovols ., 8 s . Either volume , Is . All sent post free . London : Sweden bor / j Society , ; U > , Bloomsbnry-stroot .

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    Second Edition . 44 p T TOO ; " akd Otiibii Forms . Hy HEELJL ZKHU 1 J . Fcap . Hvo , cloth extrn . Kilt edges , 6 s , Fri : « by past on receipt of th « amount in postage stamps . " \ V «! turned over a loaf or two , yawning as we did it ; but ( he lines we here and there picked up , as our eye- ran down I be piigc , half afraid to hold converse with odd who came in so questionable n shape , noon s-atisHed u » that tllcro was ]> l ( Mity of lino nuisic in tlio . soul of this saino dovil , arid wo l timed buck and read him through without lousing . " - — / Sunday Times . London : 10 . Townseno , 1 Ia . mbi . in , 1-2 I , Oxford-street , and all ISooksellern .

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    . lust published , post frco , two stamps , witli proHcrlptionu in English , Q UACKVAIY UNMASKED . Its Extortions , IinposiiioiiN , and Deceptions fully explained . By JCMIN SUTTON , M . H . C . K . OPINIONS OF Til K PRESS : "The auUior has conferred a urvnt Ixxm oi » Muttering humanity , l ) , y laying bnro llio HcanunlouH practices of iml ' urinuM adventurers , who advertise to euro diHeanew of which they know nothing . " —JlnraUi . "Will prove useful to thousands , to whom wo recouunend it . "—ft ' un . Address , Dr . MUTTON , IB , Frederick-placo , OoHWoll-rond , ( London . I ,

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• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), June 7, 1856, page 23, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07061856/page/23/