"Oft in the forest far one hearsA passing sound of distant bells;Nor legends old, nor human wit,Can tell us whence the music swells.From theLost Church'tis thought that softFaint ringing cometh on the wind:Once many pilgrims trod the path,But no one now the way can find."
"Oft in the forest far one hearsA passing sound of distant bells;Nor legends old, nor human wit,Can tell us whence the music swells.From theLost Church'tis thought that softFaint ringing cometh on the wind:Once many pilgrims trod the path,But no one now the way can find."
"Oft in the forest far one hears
A passing sound of distant bells;
Nor legends old, nor human wit,
Can tell us whence the music swells.
From theLost Church'tis thought that soft
Faint ringing cometh on the wind:
Once many pilgrims trod the path,
But no one now the way can find."
See alsoDas Versunkene Kloster, by the same sweet poet, commencing:
"Ein Kloster ist versunkenTief in den wilden See."
"Ein Kloster ist versunkenTief in den wilden See."
"Ein Kloster ist versunken
Tief in den wilden See."
After Port Royal (in the West Indies) was submerged, at the close of the seventeenth century, sailors in those parts for many years hadstories of anchoring in the chimneys and steeples, and would declare they heard the church bells ringing beneath the water, agitated by the waves or spirits of the deep.
The case of the Round Towers seen in Lough Neagh, I need not bring forward, as no sound of bells has ever been heard from them.
There is onelost churchso famous as to occur to the mind of every reader, I mean that of the Ten Tribes of Israel. After the lapse of thousands of years, we have here an historical problem, which time, perhaps, will never solve. We have a less famous, but still most interesting, instance of a lost church in Greenland. Soon after the introduction of Christianity, about the year 1000, a number of churches and a monastery were erected along the east coast of Greenland, and a bishop was ordained for the spiritual guidance of the colony. For some four hundred years an intercourse was maintained between this colony and Norway and Denmark. In the year 1406 the last bishop was sent over to Greenland. Since then the colonyhas not been heard of. Many have been the attempts to recover this lost church of East Greenland, but hitherto in vain.
I could send you a Note on a cognate subject, but I fear it would occupy too much of your space,—that ofHappy Isles, orIslands of the Blessed. The tradition respecting these happy isles is very wide-spread, and obtains amongst nearly every nation of the globe; it is, perhaps, a relic of a primeval tradition of Eden. Some have caught glimpses of these isles, and some more favoured mortals have even landed, and returned again with senses dazzled at the ravishing sights they have seen. But in every case after these rare favours, these mystic lands have remained invisible as before, and the way to them has been sought for in vain. Such are the tales told with reverent earnestness, and listened to with breathless interest, not only by the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans of old, but by the Irishman, the Welshman, the Hindoo, and the Red Indian of to-day.
Eirionnach.
Photographic Collodion(Vol. vii., p. 314.).—In a former communication I pointed out the wide differences in the various manipulations prescribed for making the photographicgun cottonby several photographers: differences most perplexing to persons of small leisure, and who are likely to lose half the opportunities of a photographic season, whilst puzzling over these diversities of proceeding. Suffer me now to entreat some one to whom all may look up (perhaps your kind and experienced correspondentDr. Diamondwill do this service, so valuable to young photographers) to clear up the differences I will now "make a note of," viz. as to the amount of dry photographic gun cotton to be used in forming the prepared collodion.
On comparing various authors, andreducingtheir directions to a standard ofone ounce of ether, I find the following differences: viz.,Dr. Diamond(Vol. vi., p. 277.) prescribesaboutthree grains of gun cotton; Mr. Hennah (Directions, &c., p. 5.) about seven grains; the Count de Montizon (Journ. of Phot. Soc., p. 23.) eight grains; whilst Mr. Bingham (Supplement to Phot. Manip., p. 2.) directs aboutthirty-fourgrains! in each case to a single ounce of ether.
These differences are too wide to come within even Mr. Archer's "long range," that "the proportions ... must depend entirely upon the strength and the thickness required ... the skill of the operator and the season of the year." (Archer'sManual, p. 17.)
Cokely.
Filtering Collodion.—Count de Montizon, in his valuable paper on the collodion process, published in the second number of theJournal of the Photographic Society, objects to filtration on the ground that the silver solution is often injured by impurities contained in the paper. It may be worth while to state, that lime, and other impurities, may be removed by soaking the filter for a day or two, before it is used, in water acidulated with nitric acid; after which it should be washed with hot water and dried.
T. D. Eaton.
Photographic Notes(Vol. vii., p. 363.).—I wish to correct an error in my communication in "N. & Q." of April 9: in speaking of "a moreevenfilm," I meant a film moreevenly sensitive. I am sorry I have misledMr. Shadboltas to my meaning. I have very rarely any "spottings" in my pictures; but I always drop the plates once or twice into the bath, after the two minutes' immersion, to wash off any loose particles. I also drain off all I can of the nitrate of silver solution before placing the glass in the camera, and for three reasons:—1. Because it saves material; 2. Because the lower part of dark frame is kept free from liquid; 3. Because a "flowing sheet" of liquid must interfere somewhat with the passage of light to the film, and consequently with the sharpness of the picture. I think it is clear, fromMr. Shadbolt'sdirections toMr. Meritt, that it is no very easy thing to cement a glass bath with marine glue.
J. L. Sisson.
Colouring Collodion Pictures(Vol. vii., p. 388.).—In your impression of April 16, there is a typographical error of some importance relative to lifting the collodion in and out of the bath: "The plate, after being plunged in, should be allowed to repose quietly from twenty to thirtyminutes," &c. This should beseconds. The error arose, in allprobability, from my having used the contractions 20" to 30".
It may appear somewhat droll for any one to answer a question on which he hasnothad experience; but I beg to offer as asuggestiontoPhoto, that if he wishes to use collodion pictures for the purpose of dissolving views, he should first copy them in the camera as transparent objects so as toreversethe light and shade, then varnish them withDr. Diamond'ssolution of amber in chloroform, when they will bear the application of transparent colours ground in varnish, such as are used for painting magic-lantern slides.
Geo. Shadbolt.
Gutta Percha Baths(Vol. vii., p. 314.).—In "N. & Q." for March 26, I ventured to recommend toH. Hendersongutta percha, as a material for nitrate of silver baths. I did this from a knowledge that hundreds of them were in use, but chiefly because I have found them answer so well. In the same Number the Editor givesMr. Hendersonvery opposite advice; and, had I seen his opinion before my notes appeared, I should certainly have kept them back. But it is, I think, a matter of some importance, especially to beginners, to have it settled, whether gutta percha has the effect of causing "unpleasant markings" in collodion pictures or not. With all due deference to the Editor's opinion, I do not believe that gutta percha baths are injurious to the finished picture. I have never any markings in my glass positives now, but what may be traced with certainty to some unevenness in the film or dirtiness on the glass. And I hope that the number of beginners who are using gutta percha baths, and who are troubled with these unpleasant markings (as all beginners are, whether they use glass or gutta percha), will not, without some very careful experiments, lay the fault upon the gutta percha. In the Number for April 2, the Editor thanks me for what he is pleased to call "the very beautiful specimen ofmy skill." This was a small glass positive, which I sent him in accordance with an offer of mine in a former note. Now,thatwas rendered sensitive in a gutta percha bath, which I have had in use for months; and I think I may appeal to the Editor as to the absence of all unpleasant markings in it. Probably it may be a good plan for those who make the baths for themselves to adopt the following simple method of cleaning them at first. Fill the bath with water, changing it every day for a week or so. Then wash it with strong nitric acid, and wash once or twice afterwards. Always keep the nitrate of silver solution in the bath, with a cover over it. Never filter, unless there is a great deal of extraneous matter at the bottom. If glass baths are used, cemented together with sealing-wax, &c., I imagine they might be as objectionable as gutta percha. The number of inquiries for a diagram of my head-rest, &c., from all parts of the kingdom—Glasgow, Paisley, Manchester, Leicester, Leeds, Newcastle, Durham, &c. &c.—proves the very large number of photographic subscribers "N. & Q." possesses. I think, therefore, it cannot but prove useful to discuss in its pages the question of the advantage or disadvantage of gutta percha.
J. L. Sisson.
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Pilgrimages to the Holy Land(Vol. v., p. 289.).—I beg to inform W. M. R. E. (Vol. vii., p. 341.) that, though I have never met with a printed copy of the "Itinerary to the Holy Land" ofGabriele Capodilista(the Perugia edition of 1472, mentioned by Brunet, being undoubtedly a book of very great rarity, and perhaps the only one ever printed), I have in my possession a very beautiful manuscript of the work on vellum, which appears to have been presented by the author to the nuns of St. Bernardino of Padua. It is a small folio; and the first page is illuminated in a good Italian style of the fifteenth century. It is very well written in the Venetian dialect, and commences thus:
"Venerabilibus ac Devotissimis Dne Abbatissæ et Monialibus Ecclesiæ Sancti Bernardini de Padua salutein Dno].—Ritrovandomi ne li tempi in questa mia opereta descripti, Io Gabriel Capodelista Cavalier Padoano dal sumo Idio inspirato et dentro al mio cor concesso fermo proposito di vistare personalmente el Sanctissimo loco di Jerusalem," &c.
"Venerabilibus ac Devotissimis Dne Abbatissæ et Monialibus Ecclesiæ Sancti Bernardini de Padua salutein Dno].—Ritrovandomi ne li tempi in questa mia opereta descripti, Io Gabriel Capodelista Cavalier Padoano dal sumo Idio inspirato et dentro al mio cor concesso fermo proposito di vistare personalmente el Sanctissimo loco di Jerusalem," &c.
This MS., which was formerly in the library of the Abbati Canonici, I purchased, with others, at Venice in 1835.
If W. M. R. E. has any wish to see it, and will communicate such wish to me through the medium of the publisher of "N. & Q.," I shall be happy to gratify his curiosity. I do not know whether there is any MS. of Capodilista's Itinerary in the British Museum.
W. Sneyd.
"A Letter to a Convocation Man" (Vol vii., p. 358.).—The authorship of the tract concerning whichMr. Fraserinquires, is assigned to Sir Bartholomew Shower, not by the Bodleian Catalogue only, but also by Sir Walter Scott, in his edition of the Somers'Tracts(vol. ix. p. 411.), as well as by Dr. Watt, in hisBibliotheca Britannica. The only authorities for ascribing it to Dr. Binckes which I have been able to discover, are Dr. Edmund Calamy, in hisLife and Times(vol. i. p. 397.), and the Rev. Thomas Lathbury, in hisHistory of the Convocation of the Church of England(p. 283.); but neither of those authors gives the source from which his information isderived: and Mr. Lathbury, who appears perfectly unaware that the tract had ever been ascribed to Sir Bartholomew Shower, a lawyer, remarks: "It is worthy of observation that the author of theletterprofesses to be a lawyer, though such was not the case, Dr. Binckes being a clergyman." Dr. Kennett also, in hisEcclesiastical Synods, p. 19., referred to by Mr. Lathbury, speaking of Archbishop Wake's reply, says: "I remember one little prejudice to it, that it was wrote by a divine, whereas the argument required an able lawyer; and the very writer of theLetter to a Convocation Mansuggesting himself to be of that profession, there was the greater equity, there should be the like council of one side as there had been of the other."—It has occurred to me that the mistake of assigning the tract to Dr. Binckes may possibly have been occasioned by the circumstance that another tract, with the following title, published in 1701, has the initials W. B. at the end of it,—A Letter to a Convocation Man, by a Clergyman in the Country. I have examined both tracts, and they are quite different, and leave no appearance of having proceeded from the same hand.
Tyro.
Dublin.
King Robert Bruce's Coffin-plate(Vol vii., p. 356.) was a modern forgery, but not discovered to be so, of course, until after publication of the beautiful engraving of it in theTransactions of the Scottish Society of Antiquaries, which was made at the expense of, and presented to the Society by, the barons of the Exchequer.
I believe that a notice of the forgery was published in a subsequent volume.
W. C. Trevelyan.
Eulenspiegel or Howleglas(Vol. vii., p. 357.).—The following extract from my note-book may be of use:
"The German Rogue, or the Life and Merry Adventures, Cheats, Stratagems, and Contrivances of Tiel Eulenspiegle.'Let none Eulenspiegle's artifices blame,For Rogues of every country are the same.'London, printed in the yearMDCCIX. The only copy of this edition I ever saw was one which had formerly belonged to Ritson, and which I purchased of Thomas Rodd, but afterwards relinquished to my old friend Mr. Douce."
"The German Rogue, or the Life and Merry Adventures, Cheats, Stratagems, and Contrivances of Tiel Eulenspiegle.
'Let none Eulenspiegle's artifices blame,For Rogues of every country are the same.'
'Let none Eulenspiegle's artifices blame,For Rogues of every country are the same.'
'Let none Eulenspiegle's artifices blame,
For Rogues of every country are the same.'
London, printed in the yearMDCCIX. The only copy of this edition I ever saw was one which had formerly belonged to Ritson, and which I purchased of Thomas Rodd, but afterwards relinquished to my old friend Mr. Douce."
This copy, therefore, is no doubt now in the Bodleian. I have never heard of any other.
While on the subject of Eulenspiegel, I would call your correspondent's attention to some curious remarks on the Protestant and Romanist versions of it in theQuarterly Review, vol. xxi. p. 108.
I may also take this opportunity of informing him that a very cleverly illustrated edition of it was published by Scheible of Stuttgart in 1838, and that a passage in theHettlingischen Sassenchronik(Caspar Abel's Sammlung, p. 185.), written in 1455, goes to prove that Dyll Ulnspiegel, as the wag is styled in the Augsburgh edition of 1540, is no imaginary personage, inasmuch as under the date of 1350 the chronicler tells of a very grievous pestilence which raged through the whole world, and that"dosulfest sterff Ulenspeygel to Möllen."
I am unable to answer the Query respecting Murner's visit to England. The most complete account of his life and writings is, I believe, that prefixed by Scheible to his edition of Murner'sNarrenbeschwörung, and his satirical dissertationOb der König von England ein Lügner sey, oder der Luther.
William J. Thoms.
Sir Edwin Sadleir(Vol. vii., p. 357.).—Sir Edwin Sadleir, of Temple Dinsley, in the county of Hertford, Bart., was the third son of Sir Edwin Sadleir (created a baronet by Charles II.), by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Walter Walker, Knt., LL.D. His elder brothers having died in infancy, he succeeded, on his father's death in 1672, to his honour and estates, and subsequently married Mary, daughter and coheiress of John Lorymer, citizen and apothecary of London, and widow of William Croone, M.D. This lady founded the algebra lectures at Cambridge, and also lectures in the College of Physicians and the Royal Society. (See Chauncy'sHistorical Antiquities of Hertfordshire, folio edit., 397, or 8vo. edit., ii. 179, 180.; Ward'sLives of the Gresham Professors, 322. 325.; Sir Ralph Sadler'sState Papers, ii. 610.; Weld'sHistory of the Royal Society, i. 289.) In the Sadler State Papers, Sir Edwin Sadleir is stated to have died 30th September, 1706: but that was the date of Lady Sadleir's death; and, according to Ward, Sir Edwin Sadleir survived her. He died without issue, and thereupon the baronetcy became extinct.
C. H. Cooper.
Cambridge.
Belfry Towers separate from the Body of the Church(Vol. vii., p. 333.).—The tower of the parish church of Llangyfelach, in Glamorganshire, is raised at some little distance from the building. In the legends of the place, this is accounted for by a belief that the devil, in his desire to prevent the erection of the church, carried off a portion of it as often as it was commenced; and that he was at length only defeated by the two parts being built separate.
Seleucus.
In addition to the bell towers unconnected with the church, noticed in "N. & Q." (Vol. vii., p. 333.), I beg to call the attention of J. S. A. to those of Woburn in Bedfordshire, and Henllan in Denbighshire. The tower of the former church stands at six yards distance from it, and is a small square building with large buttresses and four pinnacles:it looks picturesque, from being entirely covered with ivy. The tower, or rather the steeple, at Henllan, near Denbigh, is still more remarkable, from its being built on the top of a hill, and looking down upon the church, which stands in the valley at its foot.
Cambrensis.
God's Marks(Vol. vii., p. 134.).—These are probably the "yellow spots" frequently spoken of in old writings, as appearing on the finger-nails, the hands, and elsewhere, before death. (See Brand'sPopular Ant., vol. iii. p. 177., Bohn's edit.) In Denmark they were known under the nameDöding-knib(dead man's nips, ghost-pinches), and tokened the approaching end of some friend or kinsman. Another Danish name wasDödninge-pletter(dead man's spots); and in Holberg'sPeder Paars(book i. song, 4.)Dödning-knæp. See S. Aspach,Dissertatio de Variis Superstitionibus, 4to., Hafniæ, 1697, p. 7., who says they are of scorbutic origin; and F. Oldenburg,Om Gjenfærd ellen Gjengangere, 8vo.,Kjöbenhavn,1818, p. 23.
George Stephens.
Copenhagen.
"The Whippiad" (Vol. vii., p. 393.).—The mention ofThe Whippiadby B. N. C. brought to my recollection a MS. copy of that satire in this library, and now lying before me, with the autograph of "Snelson, Trin. Coll. Oxon., 1802." There are notes appended to this copy of the verses, and not knowing where to look inBlackwood's Magazinefor the satire, or having a copy at hand in order to ascertain if the notes are printed there also, or whether they are only to be found in the MS., perhaps your correspondent B. N. C. will have the goodness to state if the printed copy has notes, because, if there are none, I would copy out for the "N. & Q." those that are written in the MS., as no doubt they would be found interesting and curious by all who value whatever fell from the pen of the highly-gifted Reginald Heber.
Perhaps the notes may be the elucidations of some college cotemporary, and not written by Heber.
J. M.
Sir R. Taylor's Library, Oxford.
The Axe that beheaded Anne Boleyn(Vol. vii., p. 332.).—In Britton and Brayley'sMemoirs of the Tower of London, they mention (in describing the Spanish Armoury) the axe which tradition says beheaded Anne Boleyn and the Earl of Essex; but a foot-note is added from Stow'sChronicle, stating that thehangmancut off the head of Anne with one stroke of hissword.
Thos. Lawrence.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
Palindromical Lines(Vol. vii., pp. 178. 366.).—Besides thehabitatsalready given for the Greek inscription on a font, I have notes of the like at Melton Mowbray; St. Mary's, Nottingham; in the private chapel at Longley Castle; and at Hadleigh. At this last place, it is noted in a church book to be taken out of Gregory Nazienzen (but I never could find it), and a reference is made to Jeremy Taylor'sGreat Exemplar, "Discourse on Baptism," p. 120. sect. 17.
It may be worth noticing that this Gregory was, for a short time, in the fourth century, bishop of Constantinople; and in the Moslemised cathedral of St. Sophia, in that city, according to Grelot, quoted in Collier'sDictionary, the same words—with the difference that "sin" is put in the plural,sic:
"ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑΤΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ"—
were written in letters of gold over the place at the entrance of the church, between two porphyry pillars, where stood two urns of marble filled with water, the use of which, when it was a Christian temple, must be well known. The Turks now use them for holding drinking water, and have probably done so since the time when the church was turned into a mosque, after the conquest of Constantinople by Mahomet II., in the fifteenth century. What could induceZeus(p. 366.) to call this inscription "sotadic?" It may more fitly be called holy.
H. T. Ellacombe.
Clyst St. George.
These lines also are to be found on the marble basins for containing holy water, in one of the churches at Paris.
W. C. Trevelyan.
The Greek inscription mentioned by Jeremy Taylor is on the font in Rufford Church.
H. A.
Heuristisch(Vol. vii., p. 237.).—In reply to H. B. C. of the U. U. Club, I beg to give the explanation of the wordheuristisch, with its cognate terms, from Heyse'sAllgemeines Fremdwörterbuch, 10th edition, Hanover, 1848:
"Heuréka, gr. (von heuriskein, finden), ich hab' es gefunden, gefunden! Heuristik,f.die Erfindungskunst;heuristisch, erfindungskünstlich, erfinderisch; heuristische Methode, entwickelnde Lehrart, welche den Schüler zum Selbstfinden der Lehrsätze anleitet."
"Heuréka, gr. (von heuriskein, finden), ich hab' es gefunden, gefunden! Heuristik,f.die Erfindungskunst;heuristisch, erfindungskünstlich, erfinderisch; heuristische Methode, entwickelnde Lehrart, welche den Schüler zum Selbstfinden der Lehrsätze anleitet."
J. M.
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PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES.—A Selection of the above beautiful Productions may be seen at BLAND & LONG'S, 153. Fleet Street, where may also be procured Apparatus of every Description, and pure Chemicals for the practice of Photography in all its Branches.
Calotype, Daguerreotype and Glass Pictures for the Stereoscope.
BLAND & LONG, Opticians, Philosophical and Photographical Instrument Makers, and Operative Chemists, 153. Fleet Street.
Just published, price 1s., free by Post 1s.4d.,
THE WAXED-PAPER PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESS of GUSTAVE LE GRAY'S NEW EDITION. Translated from the French.
Sole Agents in the United Kingdom for VOIGHTLANDER & SON'S celebrated Lenses for Portraits and Views.
General Depôt for Turner's, Whatman's, Canson Frères, La Croix, and other Talbotype Papers.
Pure Photographic Chemicals.
Instructions and Specimens in every Branch of the Art.
GEORGE KNIGHT & SONS, Foster Lane, London.
PHOTOGRAPHY.—HORNE & CO.'S Iodized Collodion, for obtaining Instantaneous Views, and Portraits in from three to thirty seconds, according to light.
Portraits obtained by the above, for delicacy of detail rival the choicest Daguerreotypes, specimens of which may be seen at their Establishment.
Also every description of Apparatus, Chemicals, &c. &c. used in this beautiful Art.—123. and 121. Newgate Street.
TO PHOTOGRAPHERS.—Pure Chemicals, and every requisite for the practice of Photography, according to the instructions of Le Gray, Hunt, Brébisson, and other writers, may be obtained, wholesale and retail, of WILLIAM BOLTON (formerly Dymond & Co.), Manufacturer of pure Chemicals for Photographic and other purposes. Lists may be had on application.
Improved Apparatus for iodizing paper in vacuo, according to Mr. Stewart's instructions.
146. HOLBORN BARS.
PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPER.—Negative and Positive Papers of Whatman's, Turner's, Sanford's, and Canson Frères' make. Waxed-Paper for Le Gray's Process. Iodized and Sensitive Paper for every kind of Photography.
Sold by JOHN SANFORD, Photographic Stationer, Aldine Chambers, 13. Paternoster Row, London.
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CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Established 1824.
FIVE BONUSES have been declared: at the last in January, 1852, the sum of 131,125l.was added to the Policies, producing a Bonus varying with the different ages from 24-1/2 to 55 per cent. on the Premiums paid during the five years, or from 5l.to 12l.10s.per cent. on the Sum assured.
The small share of Profit divisible in the future among Shareholders being now provided for, the ASSURED will hereafter derive all the benefits obtainable from a Mutual Office, WITHOUT ANY LIABILITY OR RISK OF PARTNERSHIP.
POLICIES effected before the 30th June next, will be entitled, at the next Division, to one year's additional share of Profits over later Assurers.
On Assurances for the whole of Life only one half of the Premiums need be paid for the first five years.
INVALID LIVES may be Assured at rates proportioned to the risk.
Claims paidthirtydays after proof of death, and all Policies areIndisputableexcept in cases of fraud.
Tables of Rates and forms of Proposal can be obtained of any of the Society's Agents, or of
GEORGE H. PINCKARD, Resident Secretary.
99. Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London.
AMICABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 50. Fleet Street, London.
Incorporated by Charter of Queen Anne,A.D.1706.
Directors.
G. Baillie, Esq.The Hon. F. Byng.R. H. Coote, Esq.J. E. Davies, Esq.G. De Morgan, Esq.W. Everett, Esq.G. Ogle, Esq.M. B. Peacock, Esq.C. Phillips, Esq.J. Round, Esq.The Rt. Hon. Sir E. Ryan.T. Thompson. M.D., F.R.S.Physician.—Francis Boott, M.D., 24. Gower Street, Bedford Square.Solicitor.—Charles Rivington, Esq., Fenchurch Buildings.Bankers.—Messrs. Goslings & Sharpe, Fleet Street.
This Society has been established nearly a century and a half, and is the oldest Life Assurance Institution in existence. Its principles are essentially those of Mutual Assurance, and the whole of the profits are divided among the Members.
Assurances are granted, if desired, without participation in Profits, at reduced rates of Premium, and upon every contingency depending on human life.
The Tables of Mortality, deduced from the Society's own experience, having satisfied the Directors that the Rates of Premium on Single Lives might be reduced with perfect safety, a new Table has accordingly been prepared, and the terms upon which Assurances are now effected with this Office are shown in the subjoined extract:—
Age.With Profits.Without Profits.£s.d.£s.d.151153111920119711582524211993029924935216102112403502186453159382504994095558941710606150616
Prospectuses and every information may be obtained at the Office.
HENRY THOS. THOMSON, Registrar.
HEAL & SON'S ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF BEDSTEADS, sent free by post. It contains designs and prices of upwards of ONE HUNDRED different Bedsteads: also of every description of Bedding, Blankets, and Quilts. And their new warerooms contain an extensive assortment of Bed-room Furniture, Furniture Chintzes, Damasks, and Dimities, so as to render their Establishment complete for the general furnishing of Bed-rooms.
HEAL & SON, Bedstead and Bedding Manufacturers, 196. Tottenham Court Road.
WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY, 3. PARLIAMENT STREET, LONDON.
Founded A.D. 1842
Directors.
H. E. Bicknell, Esq.W. Cabell, Esq.T. S. Cocks, Jun. Esq. M.P.G. H. Drew, Esq.W. Evans, Esq.W. Freeman, Esq.F. Fuller, Esq.J. H. Goodhart, Esq.T. Grissell, Esq.J. Hunt, Esq.J. A. Lethbridge, Esq.E. Luens, Esq.J. Lys Seager, Esq.J. B. White, Esq.J. Carter Wood, Esq.
Trustees.
W. Whately, Esq., Q.C.: L. C. Humfrey, Esq., Q.C.: George Drew, Esq.
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 in the Prospectus.
Specimens of Rates of Premium for Assuring 100l.with a Share in three-fourths of the Profits:—