EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT OF HER MAJESTY, By Count D'Orsay, Three Feet by Two Feet, Value ONE GUINEA, Will be presented to each Subscriber for Three Months, commencing from the present month, November. TERMS:--Per Copy, 6d.; Three Months, 6s. 6d.; Six Months, 13s.; One Year, 26s. Advertisements inserted on Moderate Terms. Orders for "The Empire" may be sent to MR. ROBERT HARVEY, No. 1. Crane Court, Fleet Street, London, or may be given to any News Vendor in town or country. * * * * * PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERAS.--OTTEWILL'S REGISTERED DOUBLE-BODIED FOLDING CAMERA, is superior to every other form of Camera, for the Photographic Tourist, from its capability of Elongation or Contraction to any Focal Adjustment, its extreme Portability, and its adaptation for taking either Views or Portraits.--The Trade supplied. Every Description of Camera, or Slides, Tripod Stands, Printing Frames, &c., may be obtained at his MANUFACTORY, Charlotte Terrace, Barnsbury Road, Islington. New Inventions, Models, &c., made to order or from Drawings. * * * * * PHOTOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION.--An EXHIBITION of PICTURES, by the most celebrated French, Italian, and English Photographers, embracing Views of the principal Countries and Cities of Europe, is now OPEN. Admission 6d. A Portrait taken by MR. TALBOT'S Patent Process, One Guinea; Three extra Copies for 10s. PHOTOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION, 168. NEW BOND STREET. * * * * * PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPER.--Negative and Positive Papers of Whatman's, Turner's, Sanford's, and Causon Freres' 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. * * * * * {507} Solicitors' & General Life Assurance Society. 52. CHANCERY LANE, LONDON. _Subscribed Capital, ONE MILLION._ THIS SOCIETY PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING ADVANTAGES: The Security of a Subscribed Capital of ONE MILLION. Exemption of the Assured from all Liability. Premiums affording particular advantages to Young Lives. Participating and Non-Participating Premiums. In the former EIGHTY PER CENT. or FOUR-FIFTHS of the Profits are divided amongst the Assured Triennially, either by way of addition to the sum assured, or in diminution of Premium, at their option. No deduction is made from the four-fifths of the profits for Interest on Capital, for a Guarantee Fund, or on any other account. POLICIES FREE OF STAMP DUTY and INDISPUTABLE, except in case of fraud. At the General Meeting, on the 31st May last, A BONUS was declared of nearly Two PER CENT. per annum on the _amount assured_, or at the rate of from THIRTY to upwards of SIXTY per cent. on the _Premiums paid_. POLICIES share in the Profits, even if ONE PREMIUM ONLY has been paid. Next DIVISION OF PROFITS in 1856.