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      LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION , Established by Royal Chabteb a . d . 1720 . FOR LIFE , FIRE , AND MARINE ASSURANCES . Head Office , 7 , Eotal Exchange , Cobithili . Branch Office , 10 , Regent Stbebt . Actuary , Peter Hardy , Esq ., F . R . S . This Corporation has effected Assubaktces for a period exceeding One Hundeed and Thibty Teabs , on the moat Favourable Teems . . JOHN LAURENCE , Secretary .

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      THE NATIONAL ASSURANCE AND INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION was established in 1844 , for the purpose of combining a safe and profitable Investment of Capital with those of a comprehensive and well-regulated system of Life Assurance . The plan is original and peculiar , and cannot be adopted by any other Institution without contravening the enactments for the regulation of Joint Stock Companies . Investment op Capital and Savings . —The Investment of money with the Association , secures equal advantages to the surplus Capital of the afHuent , and the provident Savings of the industrial classes of the community , and affords an opportunity for realising the highest rate of interest yielded by first-class securities , in which alone the money is employed . Full information , Prospectuses , and Forms' of Proposal , may be obtained , on application , at the Head-office of the Association , or to the respective Agents throughout the United Kingdom . PETER MORRISON , Managing Director . 7 , St . Martin ' s Place , Trafalgar Square , London . N . B . — Applications for Agencies may be made to the Managing Director .

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      EQUITY and LAW LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY , No . 20 , Lincot . n ' s-Init Fusi-us , . London . Policies in this Office are Indisputable , except in cases of Fraud . " Free Policies" are issued , at a small increased rate of Premium , which remain in force although the Life Assured may go to any part of the World . Parties assuring within Six Months of their last Birthday are allowed a proportionate diminution in the Premium . Tho Tables aro especially favourable ) to young and middleaged Lives , and tho limits allowed to tho assured , without extra charge , aro unusually extensive . Eighty per cent , of tho profits are divided at tho end of every five years among tho Assured . —At tho first Division , to tho end of 1849 , the addition to tho amount assured averaged above-CO per cent , on tho premiums paid .

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      On tho 31 st inst . will bo published , prico Is ., the Sixth Number of BLEAK HOUSE . By . Chables Dickens . With Illustrations by Hablot K . Browne . Bradbury and Evans , 11 , Bouverie-street .

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      rpHE WESTMINSTER REVIEW , JL Nisw Reimkh , No . III ., prico 0 s . Annual Subscription , when paid to tho Publisher in advance , _ lj or if the work bo delivered by post , , tl 4 s . Contents oit No . III ., July , 1852 . I . Secular Education . 1 f . England's Forgotten Worthies . I 11 . Tho Future of Geology . IV . Lord JoilVey and tho Edinburgh Review . V . The Tendencies of England . VF . Tho Lady Novelists . VII . Tho Political Lifo and Sentiments of Nicbuhr . VI 11 . Tho Restoration of Belief . JX . Sir Robert Pool and his Policy . X . Contemporary Litoraturo of England . XI . Contemporary Literature of Amoricu . XII . Contemporary Literature of Germany . XIII . Contemporary Literature , of France . London : John Chapman , 112 , Strand .

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      rpjIE BRITISH QUAKTEELY RKViKW , X No . XXXI ., ( 1 ' riooOx ., ) will bo published on tho l » t »' August :---1 . The Christian Minintry to Conic . IJ . Ancient Marinom- —lluldiiyt Publicatiolifl . III . Syriiie Literature --Fofital Lottei-H of AthaliftSiliH . IV . Old Kreneh Memoirs . V . I ' rogrcHM ol' indiiMlriiil Insti'itetion . VI . Lord Jeffrey Our Periodical I ' refW . VII . Cre-Riiphaolisiii in Art . and Lit . orat . uro . VII I . Memoirs of Margaret Fuller OhhoIi . IX . Australia and its VVeullli . X . Our Kpiloguo on AITaim and ItnolcH . London : . LwltHon and Walford , 1 H , Rt . I ' aul ' H Churchyard , ami Himpkiu , Mar » hall , and Co ., Htationora' Hall Court .

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      716 THE L E APE R . [ Saturday , Juet 24 ^ 1852 .

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      LONDON ! l ' rlnted l > y ( Ikoiiiih Hoovkii , ( nr No . 3 , Portlnnrt 1 ""¦ KeiiNliiKlim , in tho County of MldilliHiix . ) at the O » ' < ' ° " Mkhnhm . Havih , mid Kiiwauiim , No . 4 , VfutndaM Street , In t » ° / " . , of" HI . I ' nul , Corent ( lunlen . iw tlio hhhio County ; mid 1 ' ubl l "''" " . A 'I ' liiiiiN'i-oN l . KKiii JIunt , ( of Jtroudwiijr llouHc , IIiuiimcrBinltl ' j ' T 1 IK Li : Al ) i ; iL Oll'IOK , No . 10 , WKM . INGTON HTK 1 '''^ HTIUNl ) , In tho I'mcliict of tlmi Huvoy , l ) oth In tlio buuio CounlJ' ^ Hatuiu > a * , July ' H , Wb-.

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 24, 1852, page 716, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1944/page/24/