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To advise in the selection of Banks, Insurance Offices, Schools, and general investments of property.

To search for distant parties, wills, dividend books, the registration of estates, the accounts of bankrupts.

To advise as to the disposal of reversionary property, the sale or mortgage of houses, lands, and tenements; the exchange of military commissions or other transferable appointments.

To draw up petitions, letters, memorials, and pamphlets, revise manuscripts, prepare works for the press, and consult with authors upon the propriety of bringing their works before the public, and the best method of accomplishing that object.

To procure houses, chambers, lodgings for persons in the country, or strangers to London.

To negotiate passages to India, the West Indies, the Americas, the Cape, Australian Colonies, &c.

To arrange for the most advantageous sale and purchase of every description of property.

To give every information connected with emigration to India and the Colonies.

To assist parties in establishing themselves in business, promoting the publicity of new inventions, procuring patents, &c.

To arrange interviews, conduct confidential negotiations, and undertake duties of a delicate nature when the principals cannot appear.

To receive letters for parties until they can call or send for them.

To receive letters and parcels from parties going abroad, and to forward them to their respective addresses.

That none of the objects professed in the foregoing list may fail of accomplishment, the managers of the office have engaged an establishment of well-informed and active gentlemen, supplied themselves with innumerable works of reference, tables, documentary forms, guides, &c., and have opened communications with every public establishment which possesses the means of imparting valuable knowledge. French, Italian, German, and Spanish, are spoken upon the establishment, and documents in those and the Oriental languages are translated with promptitude.

The terms upon which assistance is afforded in all the above instances must depend upon the degree of trouble they may respectively involve, the property that may be in question, or the expense that may attend the prosecution of inquiries. To avoid disputes and misunderstandings, engagements will invariably be entered into beforehand; but it is indispensable that all who seek information or assistance, whether it may be promptly afforded or involve the consumption of much time, shall pay, or remit, a preliminary fee of half-a-crown to meet the expense of office establishment, correspondence, &c. No answer of any kind can be returned until the fee has been paid.

Rooms for the reception of visitors, or parties seeking interviews, or making appointments, are attached to the offices.

UNDENIABLE REFERENCES CAN BE GIVEN.

All letters to be addressed to J. H. STOCQUELER, Esq., Managing Director, 19, Catherine-street, Strand.

Personal applications to be made to either of the Directors, between 11 A.M., and 4 P.M.

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THE HAND-BOOK OF INDIA,

A Guide to the Stranger and Traveller,

AND

A COMPANION TO THE RESIDent.

By J. H. STOCQUELER, Esq.

This publication embraces, in a condensed form, complete and accurate information respecting the Topography, Climate, Government, Commerce, Laws, Institutions, and Products of India; the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants; the method of travelling throughout the Empire, and the expense attendant thereon; the condition of the European (English) society; the Rules and Regulations of the various branches of the Executive; the cost and manner of proceeding to India; the Sports, Ceremonies, and Pageants common to the Country, &c., &c.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"We can safely recommend this' Guide,' as one which will impart a correct notion of all those parts of the continent of British India, which are the principal places of resort of Englishmen proceeding from this country to enter the service of Government, or embark in Commercial, Agricultural, or other pursuits."-Atlas.

"This, for what it professes to do, is truly an excellent book. As is stated in the preface, it contains, at one view, a very complete outline of every thing relating to India which may be sought to be known; and such pains have been taken to give the information, in a form as clear, as it is ample, that we might say it was altogether a history as well as a Hand-Book.”—Literary Gazette.

"It would be impossible to mention an individual better qualified to get up a really useful work of this kind. We know of no work of the same size and general character, which we should be so eager to place in the hands of a friend contemplating a voyage round the Cape, or a trip overland to India.”Jersey Times.

"Mr. Stocqueler's excellent Hand-Book of India."-Foreign Quarterly Review. "An able, interesting, and comprehensive work.”—Morning Herald.

"Mr. Stocqueler's Hand-Book of India, is entitled to no inconsiderable praise." --Spectator.

"This is a book likely to be not only extremely useful to all persons proceeding to India, but also, to those parents and guardians who purpose to send out

youths in any department of Indian service. The knowledge given is of a much higher character than that usually conveyed in books of this description, as not only have we details necessary to personal convenience, but also a vast body of information of the greatest advantage to persons who, whatever the station they may be destined to fill, desire to acquire its duties rapidly and easily, and to master at once those elementary points regarding the country, and native customs and usages, which form the very foundation of the usefulness of all employments in India. Indeed in many respects it is more like an educational work, than a mere Hand-Book, and for the use of young persons proceeding to India, in any capacity, may be compared to the Epitome of Navigation, which is put into the hands of the young seaman. The latter part of the volume forms a very excellent itinerary, clearly expressed in a very small compass. The book has been drawn up from the extended experience of the author, and we imagine will become an indispensable requisite to the fitting out' of every voyager to India, whether young or old."-Britannia.

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"A mere glance at the pages of this work will be sufficient to denote its value and importance. To the stranger and traveller whose inclination or destiny leads him to India, the volume must prove invaluable, as he will find set forth in clear terms, an outline of every thing relating to the country."-Bath Herald. "In every way worthy the reputation of its distinguished author."-Taunton Courier.

"We have no hesitation in asserting that like Murray's Hand-Books of other countries, Mr. Stocqueler's will be the standard work relating to India. Every page of the work stamps the qualification of the writer for the task he has undertaken, and so ably executed."-Monthly Times for India.

"It is a book replete with matter of the utmost possible value to all who purpose going to our oriental possessions, or who would rightly ascertain what it is that constitutes society in all its phases-civil, military, political, and social, in India. No history extant, nor, indeed, all the histories put together, including 'Heber's Journal,' convey any thing like so graphic an idea of the real nature of the Anglo-Indian power, position, and peculiarities, as this 'Hand-book,' and, independent of its great value to those to whom it is more immediately addressed, we can recommend it, as a most entertaining, as well as most instructive volume, to the general reader."-Liverpool Journal.

"A most compact volume, furnishing an outline of useful information for travellers and residents in the East. The author was long in India, and connected with the press, consequently his present labours have the advantage of both theoretical and practical acquaintance with all appertaining to the country, its establishments, society, customs, &c."-Naval and Military Gazette.

"The volume before us is a thick 8vo of 600 pages, and is, really, one of the best books of the class it has been our fortune to meet with; it possesses the great qualification of being all that it professes to be; it is, emphatically, a Hand-Book of India.' In it we find information of every particular connected with the Civil and Military Services of British India. As a book of reference, furnishing the stranger at home with a popular notion of things in general connected with India-giving him a clear idea of the intelligence brought, monthly, by the overland mail-it is valuable, and ought to find a place in every well-selected library; while to the Anglo-Indian it cannot fail to be doubly acceptable."-Cheltenham Journal.

London: WM. H. ALLEN and Co., 7, Leadenhall-street.

REAL LIFE IN INDIA;

EMBRACING A VIEW OF

THE REQUIREMENTS OF INDIVIDUALS APPOINTED TO ANY BRANCH OF THE INDIAN PUBLIC SERVICE;

The Methods of Proceeding to India; and the Course of Life in Different Parts of the

Country.

BY AN OLD RESIDENT.

HOULSTON & STONEMAN, 65, Paternoster Row.

This exceedingly useful little Work, price five shillings only, has received the approbation of some of the first Journals in England, including the Morning Herald, the Spectator, the Atlas, the Illustrated News, the Pictorial Times, the United Service Gazette, the Era, and many others. A few testimonials from other papers of high character are subjoined.

"The title of this little volume, which has just issued from the press, does not by any means give a sufficient idea of the scope and usefulness of its contents. It is, in fact, a handbook of practical information for all those whose destiny is India. It tells in a very brief conversational style what nations preceded us in the far East, either in conquest or trade; the present extent of our dominions and mode of government there; the nature of the country, climate, productions, and population; the appointments that are worth having, and how to get them; the terms of admissions, rules, and expenses at the East India Company's colleges for the civil service at Haileybury and the military at Addiscombe; the requisite outfit for every department of the military service. For civilians and ladies, the fitting equipment either for the overland route or the voyage round the Cape; the several ways of going; and the charges of them; how people live at the presidencies, and how they live at the out-stations; and what amount of income they may live upon; the distances of the principal stations from the chief town in the several presidencies; the mode and charges of inland travelling; the impositions to be avoided as to outfit in England and on arrival in India. In short, the little book, which any one may read in an hour or two, tells the Englishman whose thoughts are turned to India, what kind of a land it is, what he really may do if he goes, how to go, what to take with him, and what to do and not to do when he gets there. The author points out how of old, under the close and corrupt monopoly of the East India Company, sudden fortunes were amassed, and takes pains to dispel the delusion that there is nothing to do but get to India and be rich. In conclusion, we heartily recommend this little work to all who have to get themselves or others ready for

India, in the belief that it contains practical information calculated to save them from mistakes, expenses, anxiety, and disappointment."-London Telegraph.

"In declaring that this volume supplies an important practical desideratum, we accord to it very high but well-deserved praise as a valuable addition to literature. Beneath an unpretending exterior, it conceals a mine of useful and interesting information; and is evidently the production of one well versed in the subject upon which he writes, and able to communicate, in a lively and agreeable manner, the knowledge which he possesses upon various points of the highest practical importance to the visitor to our Oriental possessions. Most persons about to leave England for the East must have felt an earnest longing for some confidential friend, from whom they could learn something of the real nature of the new life upon which they were about to enter, and who could enlighten them as to the details of their necessary outfit, and the various minutiæ with regard to which they feel themselves every moment at a loss. Few such individuals are without some old Indian among their acquaintance, but from him they can derive but little benefit. The climate of the East, though it tans the complexion, does not soften the temper; and a testy, choleric, old civilian, with his body as full of bile as his purse is full of guineas, and a skin as yellow as his ingots, is not the person whom the young voyager would desire to catechise concerning the multifarious matters with regard to which it is absolutely essential that he should acquire accurate information. In addition to this, there are many other drawbacks upon the profit of consultations with mortal friends. At the moment when we most require their advice they are often least accessible; when we have found their corporeal frames, their memories are often treacherous; and even when their bodies are at our command, and their memories faithful, we discover that their recollections apply to a period some half century ago, since which time every thing connected with India has undergone great and important alterations. In this little volume the young civilian and cadet, and the casual visitor to India, will find a bosom friend and adviser, subject to none of these defects. Briefly and succinctly the author carries his readers over a very wide field of inquiry, affording them at every step useful and interesting information. The various appointments in the gift of the East India Company are severally noticed, their respective advantages described, and the mode in which each may be obtained, together with the training required to fit the candidate for his new duties, faithfully detailed. The different routes by which the traveller may journey are successively described, in such a manner as to enable him at once to decide which to adopt, as most congenial to his peculiar taste; and last, not least, a full detail is given of the outfit required previous to leaving England for the East. Bearing in mind the ancient adage that 'misere utile cum dulce' is the just province of the skilful litterateur, the author has appended to these useful details a very lively and agreeable sketch of 'Life in India,' which will be read with interest by all, but especially by those who are about to make their future home among the scenes which are thus pleasantly portrayed; and he concludes his volume with some wholesome advice with regard to the economy of means, and the preservation of health, which is worthy of serious attention, as serving to guard those who bear it carefully in mind against the most imminent perils of oriental life. With this little volume in one hand, and Mr. Stocqueler's admirable Hand-book of India' in the other, the visitor to India will be fully prepared for all the novelties, and armed against all the dangers, of his new existence, and will at the same time find himself in possession of a vast store of useful and interesting information with regard to the country which he has selected as the scene of his future career."-London Mercury.

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