By Authority of the Royal Commissioners. Complete in three handsome Volumes, price Three Guineas. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, 1851. "A complete literary type of the original to which it refers, opening up sources of amusement or instruction to every class of taste, and proving equally at home on the drawing-room table, handled by fashionable dilettanti in the study, pored over by the scholar or the man of science, at the merchant's desk as a book of constant reference-in the factory, the foundry, and the workshop, as a repertoire for designs, and as highly suggestive for future progress. A more pleasant work to dive into during an idle hour can hardly be imagined, for wherever it is taken up there is something new and striking, and worthy of attention."-Times. "The work is without a precedent in the annals of literature; and when we regard the circumstances of difficulty that surrounded the task of its execution, the praise bestowed on those who undertook it can scarcely be too great. The Contractors, in that enlarged spirit which appears to have entered into all that belongs to the Exhibition, engaged men of reputation and authority in every department of science and manufacture to contribute such descriptive notes as should render the work eminently instructive. It thus contains a body of annotations which express the condition of human knowledge and the state of the world's industry in 1851 and is a document of the utmost importance, as a summary report of this vast international" stock-taking," which no great library-nor any gentleman's library, of those who aim at the collection of literary standards-can hereafter be without. It is not a work of a day, a month, or a year: it is for all time. Centuries hence it will be referred to as authority on the condition to which man had arrived at the period of its publication. It is at once a great Trades Directory, informing us where we are to seek for any particular kind of manufacture-a Natural History, recording the localities of almost every variety of native productionand a Cyclopædia, describing how far science has ministered to the necessities of humanity, by what efforts the crude products of the earth have been converted into articles of utility or made the medium of that refined expression which belongs to the province of creative art. The Exhibition has lived its allotted time, and died; but this Catalogue is the sum of the thoughts and truths to which it has given birth, and which form the intellectual ground whereon the generations that we are not to see must build. . . . It will be evident from what has been already stated that a more important contribution to a commercial country than the Official, Descriptive, and Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition' could scarcely have been offered. All possible means have been taken to render it worthy of the wonderful gathering of which it is the permanent record."-Athenæum. This Work is also published in Five Parts: Parts 1 and 2, price 10s. each, SPICER BROTHERS, Wholesale Stationers. WM. CLOWES AND SONS, Printers. The Official Small Catalogue. Finally Corrected and Improved Edition, with a full Alphabetical and Classified Index of Contributors and of Articles exhibited, Lists of Commissioners and others engaged in the Exhibition, Local Committee and Secretaries, Jurors, and Description of the Building, &c., bound in one volume, with the British and Foreign Priced Lists, price 7s. 6d. SPICER BROTHERS, Wholesale Stationers. WM. CLOWES AND SONS, Printers. Official Catalogue Office, 29, New Bridge Street, Blackfriars, and of all Booksellers. Popular Record of the Great Exhibition. HUNT'S HANDBOOK, being an Explanatory Guide to the Natural Productions and Manufactures of the Great Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations, 1851. In 2 volumes, price 6s. By ROBERT HUNT, Professor of Mechanical Science, Government School of Mines. "Every care has been taken to render this compilation a record worthy of preservation, as giving within a limited space a faithful description of certainly one of the most remarkable events which has ever taken place upon this island, or in the world-the gathering together from the ends of the earth of the products of human industry, the efforts of human thought."-Extract from Preface. "One of the most popular mementoes and histories of the actual gathering of the nations."-Athenæum. "It should be read and retained by all as a compact and portable record of what they have seen exhibited."-Literary Gazette. SPICER BROTHERS, Wholesale Stationers. WM. CLOWES AND SONS, Printers. Official Catalogue Office, 29, New Bridge Street, Blackfriars, and of all Booksellers. UNION ASSURANCE OFFICE,' (FIRE, LIFE, ANNUITIES,) Cornhill and Baker Street, London; College Green, Dublin; and Gronenger Street, Hamburg. INSTITUTED A.D. 1714. LIFE-Reduced Rates for young and middle ages, with the guarantee of a Company in existence for nearly 140 years. The last bonus (1848) gave additions to policies varying from 25 to 70 per cent, on the previous seven years' premiums. Lower Rates without Profits. Two-thirds only of the Premium may be paid until death. Decreasing and Increasing Rates of Premium, and half-yearly or quarterly. LOANS granted. Medical fees allowed. FIRE INSURANCES at the usual Rates, and Profits returned on Policies taken out for Seven Years by prompt payment. Mar. 7, 1851. THOMAS LEWIS, Secretary. JAMES COOK, Esq.; ANDREW JOHNSTON, Esq.; GEORGE PEABODY, Esq. The Board, with a view of giving increased facilities to the Public in the transaction of Life Business, have directed the construction of various Tables in addition to those they had previously in use. 1. Non-Participating, on Reduced Rates of Premium. 3. subject to a Limited Number of Annual Payments. No entrance fees are charged. The Assured may proceed to any part of Europe without extra Premium. The Lives of Naval and Military Officers, not in actual service, are taken at the usual rates. A Commission to Solicitors and Agents bringing business is paid. Detailed Prospectuses, with Tables of Rates and full particulars, will, on application, be forwarded by post, or may be obtained at the Head Office, 1, Bartholomew Lane, London; at the Office of the Company, 95, George Street, Edinburgh; and at their various agencies in England, Scotland, and Ireland. LOANS on the Deposit of unencumbered Policies of the Company are made, up to their value without legal expense to the borrower. FIRE ASSURANCES are accepted at Home at the usual rates. The Company prosecute both Fire and Life Assurances Abroad on reasonable terms. A. HAMILTON, Secretary. LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Established by Royal Charter in the Reign of King George I., A.D. 1720. Head Office, No. 7, ROYAL EXCHANGE, Cornhill; Branch Office, No. 10, Regent Street. WILLIAM KING, Esq., Governor. ROBERT COTESWORTH, Esq., Sub-Governor. EDWARD BURMESTER, Esq., Deputy-Governor. ROBERT ALLEN, Esq. Directors. CHARLES KERR, Esq. WILLIAM DALLAS, Esq. This Corporation has effected Assurances on lives for a period of ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS. Two-thirds of the entire gross profits are appropriated to the Assured, the Corporation retaining the remaining one-third, out of which they pay the whole expenses of management, thus affording to the public advantages equivalent to those derived from Mutual Assurance, without liability of partnership, and with all the security afforded by an old and opulent corporation. Policies may be opened under any of the three fol lowing plans, viz. : The Old Series, under which assurers are admitted at very moderate rates of premium, without participation in profits. The Series 1831, under which assurers are entitled, after the first five years, to an annual abatement of premium; the abatement at the last valuation was equivalent to a return of more than one-fourth of the premium. .. The Series 1846, under which assurers are entitled to participate in the ascertained profits at the end of every five years, and to appropriate their share thereof, either as an immediate cash bonus; as an addition to the sum assured; or, it may be made a matter of special arrangement, and applied in any manner most convenient to the assured. The first division under this series took place on the 31st December, 1850, and amounted, on an average, to a Reversionary Bonus, equivalent to about fifty-three per cent. upon the amount of Premiums paid. Prospectuses sent free on a written application to the Actuary. FIRE INSURANCES effected at Moderate Rates upon every description of Property. MARINE INSURANCES, at the Current Premiums of the day. JOHN LAURENCE, Secretary. Sovereign Life Assurance Company, 49, ST. JAMES'S STREET, LONDON. Trustees. The Right Hon. the EARL TALBOT, K.G., &c. &c. B. BOND CABBELL, ESQ., M.P., F.R.S., F.S.A. Directors. Chairman-Lieut.-Colonel LORD ARTHUR LENNOX. JOHN ASHBURNER, Esq., M.D. T. M. BATARD, Esq. J. P. BATHURST, Esq. C. FAREBROTHER, Esq., Ald. Sir JAMES CARMICHAEL, Bart. ALL POLICIES ARE INDISPUTABLE.-Assurances granted on the lives of persons in every station of life, and every part of the world, on peculiarly favourable terms.-Policies issued to secure an amount on attaining a certain age, or on death, should it occur previously.-Persons proceeding beyond the limits of Europe may effect assurances on payment of moderate increased rates.-Immediate annuities granted on liberal terms, affording great advantage to persons of limited income.-Deferred annuities may be purchased at rates which secure a return of the whole or part of the premiums paid, in case the age at which the annuity is to commence be not attained.-Also Endowments on Widows and Children.-Loans are granted, on approved security, to parties effecting assurances with the Company. All the Company's Engagements are guaranteed by an ample subscribed and paid-up capital.-Prospectuses and the necessary forms of proposal, with every information, may be obtained on application, either personally or by letter, at the Company's offices.-A liberal commission allowed to solicitors and agents in every branch of business. H. D. DAVENPORT, Secretary. Domestic, &c.-Soles for Boots and Shoes, which keep the feet both warm and dry; Lining for Cisterns, &c.; Picture Frames; Looking-glass Frames; Ornamental Mouldings; Bowls, Drinking Cups; Jars, Soap Dishes, Vases; Ornamental Inkstands; Noiseless Curtain Rings; Card, Fruit, Pin, and Pen Trays; Tooth-brush Trays; Shaving-brush Trays; Window-blind Cord; Clothes' Line; Coloured Material for Amateur Modelling; Ornamental Flower-stands and Pots; Sheet for Damp Walls and Floors; Conveyance of Water, Gas, &c.; Drain and Soil Pipes; Gutta Percha Tubing is used as a Domestic Telegraph, in lieu of Bells; Jar Covers; Tubing for Watering Gardens, Washing Windows, &c.; Lining for Bonnets; Watch Stands; Shells; Foot Baths; Balsam for Cuts, Chilblains, &c.; Lighter Stands. Surgical.-Splints; Thin Sheet for Bandages; Stethoscopes; Ear Trumpets; Liquid Gutta Percha for Wounds; Bed Straps; Bed Pans for Invalids. Chemical.-Carboys, Vessels for Acids, &c.; Syphons; Tubing for Conveying Oils, Acids, Alkalies, &c.; Flasks; Bottles; Lining for Tanks; Funnels. Manufacturing.-Buckets; Mill Bands; Pump Buckets; Valves, Clacks, &c.; Felt Edging for Paper Makers; Bosses for Woollen Manufacturers; Flax Holders; Shuttle Beds for Looms; Washers; Bowls for Goldsmiths; Bobbins; Covers for Rollers; Round Bands and Cord; Breasts for Water Wheels; Oil Cans. For Offices, &c.-Wafer Holders; Inkstands; Ink Cups (in lieu of Glass); Pen Trays; Cash Bowls; Washing Basins, &c. (which cannot be broken); Tubes for Conveying Messages; Canvas for Covering Cooks, &c.; Architects' and Surveyors' Plan Cases. Agricultural.-Tubing for conveying Liquid Manure; Lining for Manure Tanks; Driving Bands for Thrashing Machines, &c.; Traces, Whips, Buckets, Bowls, &c. Electrical, &c.-Covering for Electric Telegraph Wire; Insulating Stools; Battery Cells; Handles for Discharging Rods, &c.; Electrotype Moulds. Ornamental.-Medallions; Brackets; Cornices; Console Tables; an endless Variety of Mouldings, in Imitation of Carved Oak, Rosewood, &c., for the Decoration of Rooms, Cabinet Work, &c.; Picture Frames. Uses on Shipboard-Sou-Wester Hats; Pilots' Hats; Life Buoys, which are more buoyant than cork; Buckets; Pump Buckets; Hand-speaking Trumpets; Drinking Cups; Powder Flasks; Fishing Net Floats; Sheathing for Ships; Waterproof Canvas; Air-tight Life-boat Cells; Tubes for Pumping Water from the Hold to the Deck; Round and Twisted Cords (these cords do not sink in the water like the hempen ones); Lining for Boxes; Speaking Tubes for communicating between the Man on the Look-out and the Helmsman, Captain, &c.; Anchor Floats. Miscellaneous.-Suction Pipes for Fire Engines; Fire Buckets; Stable Buckets; Lining for Coffins; Sounding-boards for Pulpits; Tap Ferules; Communion Trays; Tubing for Ventilation; Hearing Apparatus in Churches and Chapels for Deaf Persons; Cricket Balls; Bouncing Balls; Golf ditto; Fencing Sticks; Portmanteaus; Police Staves; Life Preservers; Embossed Book Backs; Embossed Globes and Maps for the Blind; Railway Conversation Tubes; Miners' Caps; Beds for Paper-cutting Machine Knives; Fringe for Mourning Coaches; Fine and Coarse Thread; Alarum Tubes for Miners, &c.; Official Seals, &c.; Prayer-book Backs; Powder Flasks; Box Lids; Dolls, THE GUTTA PERCHA COMPANY, PATENTEES, 18, WHARF ROAD, CITY ROAD, LONDON. &c. ORNAMENTS For the Drawing Room, Library, & Dining Room. In Italian, Alabaster, Marble, Bronze, and Derbyshire Spar, consisting of Groups, Figures Vases, Inkstands, Candlesticks, Tables, Obelisks, Watch-stands, Paper-weights, &c. Imported and manufactured by J. TENNANT, late MAWE, 149, Strand-Persons wishing to study the interesting branches of Science-MINERALOGY, CONCHOLOGY, and GEOLOGY, can be supplied with an extensive assortment of Shells, Minerals, and Fossils, or with Elementary Collections, carefully arranged and described, at 2, 5, 10, 20, to 50 Guineas each, together with Geological Models, Maps, Hammers, Books, Blowpipes, &c., by J. TENNANT, Mineralogist to her Majesty, 149, Strand, London. Elegant Toilet Requisites. Under the especial patronage of Her Majesty the Queen, the Court, and the Royal Family of Great Britain, and the several Sovereigns and Courts of Europe. ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL. The unprecedented success of this discovery in restoring, improving, and beautifying the Human Hair, is too well known and appreciated to need comment. ROWLANDS' KALYDOR. An Oriental Botanical Preparation of unfailing efficacy in thoroughly purifying the SKIN from all PIMPLES, SPOTS, BLOTCHES, REDNESS, FRECKLES, TAN, and DISCOLOURA TIONS; in producing a healthy freshness and transparency of COMPLEXION; and a softness and delicacy of the Skin. ROWLANDS' ODONTO, OR PEARL DENTRIFICE. A WHITE POWDER, compounded of the choicest and most recherché Ingredients of the Oriental Herbal, of inestimable virtue in preserving and beautifying the Teeth, strengthening the Gums, and in giving sweetness and perfume to the Breath. ROWLANDS' AQUA D'ORO. The most fragrant and refreshing Perfume ever yielded by the "Souls of Flowers." It retains its fresh and delightful odorousness for days. It is invigorating, gently stimulating, yet sedative; and it is an unrivalled quintessential spirituous product. For fainting fits, fatigues of dancing, oppression from over-crowded rooms, or intense summer heat, its uses cannot be over-estimated.-Price 3s. 6d. per bottle. IMPORTANT CAUTION. UNPRINCIPLED SHOPKEEPERS, for the sake of gaining a trifle more profit, vend the most SPURIOUS COMPOUNDS under the same names. It is therefore highly necessary to see that the word “ROWLANDS'" is on the Wrapper of each Article. Sold by the Proprietors A. ROWLAND & SONS, 20, HATTON GARDEN, LONDON, and by all respectable Chemists and Perfumers. |