Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE
KENSINGTON GAZETTE,
And GENERAL ADVERTISER,

For Kensington, Hammersmith, Bayswater, Notting Hill, Shepherd’s Bush,
&c. &c.

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No. 2. Guaranteed Gratuitous Circulation, FOUR THOUSAND.—Published every
Wednesday. Dec. 14, 1853

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ADVERTISEMENTS.

TERMS.—PREPAYMENT.

Single Column, per line 3d. Double Column, per line 6d.

A Reduction on a Series of Advertisements.

KENSINGTON PAROCHIAL INSTITUTE.

A LECTURE will be delivered in the Assembly Rooms, King’s Arms, High-street, Kensington, on Friday Evening, Dec. 16, by SAM. SIDNEY, ESQ., on Hints, Anecdotes, and Axioms for Emigrants.—Tickets at the Doors, One Shilling each. The Lecture commences at half-past eight o’clock.

GOUGH’S ORATIONS,

illustrated by eminent artists.—Price 1d. Sold at Strutt’s Printing-office, 16, Church-street Kensington.

“Mr. Gough is a well-adjusted mixture of the poet, orator, and
dramatist: in fact, an English Gavazzi”.—BRITISH BANNER.

“His audience were at one time excited to tears, and at another
convulsed with laughter.”—LEEDS MERCURY.

“His descriptions are lost upon paper: he must be heard to be
appreciated.”—Ladies’ Companion.

WINTER CLOTHING.

Who needs a good Great Coat to keep him warm,
From wet protected,—free from Winter’s storm,—
Who such a needful want desires to buy,
So cheap it can all bargains defy,
Should join, at once, the throngs who weekly go
To get their suits at Befford’s cheap Depot;
First-rate materials—first-rate work as well,
To all who doubt, delighted buyers tell—
In High-street, Kensington, but once enquire,
Where you can purchase Befford’s best attire;
Whose clothes fit easy, and are worn with grace,
Prompt comes the answer, Four, in Mayfield-place.
Let Befford once your patronage obtain,
He feels assured that you will call again.

THE Cheapest & Best Great Coats, Over Coats, Shooting Coats, and every description of Coat made to measure, at W. BEFFORD’S, 4, Mayfield-place, High-street Kensington.—Fit and workmanship warranted. Repairs and alterations cheap.

GAS FITTING DONE

In all its branches, by J. E. OLIVER, (son of the late R. Oliver, in the same trade nearly half a century,) Locksmith, Bell-hanger, and Stove and Range maker, 16, Orchard-street, Holland-street, Kensington.

_Jobbing in all its branches_.

New Writing Paper.

The NEW STRAW WRITING PAPER, manufactured expressly for PARKINS & GOTTO.—This paper is invaluable to rapid writers: it has a hard smooth surface, can be written upon on both sides, with either metal or quill pen, is much pleasanter to write upon than any other paper, and is nearly half the price, being only 3s. per ream! P. & G’s. new Elastic Post-office Pen, 6d. the dozen by post (warranted not to scratch the paper.)—Copy address, Parkins & Gotto, manufacturers, 25, Oxford-st.

SOAP, CANDLES, &C.

At JONES’S, 39, High-street, Kensington, & his branch shop, 27, High-street, Notting Hill, the Prices are Lower than any advertising house, quality not to be surpassed.

Best store candles 7d. per lb. or 6s. 10d. per doz. Composite, 8½d. and 9d.; Decimal candles, 6½d., burn without snuffing; J. Williams & Son’s superior Soap, obtained the Prize at the Great Exhibition; Knight’s Primrose Soap; Yardley and Statham’s sun-flower & other superior scented Soaps; fine pale yellow soap, at 4½d., 4d., 3½d. & 3d. per lb.; best mottled soap, 5d., second ditto, 4½d. lb.; best soda, 1d. per lb.; best starch 6d. per lb.; blue 1s. 4d. per lb.; 4-lb. tins of double superfine mustard, 1s. 6d. per lb.; 4-lb. tins of good mustard, 1s per lb., black pepper, 1s. 4d. per lb.; white pepper, 2s. 3d. per lb.; black lead, best quality, 8d. to 1s. per lb. All articles for cleaning purposes 20 per cent under most houses. British Port and Sherry, nearly equal to foreign, 1s. 3d. per bottle. Ginger, Orange, Currant, &c., 1s. 1d. per bottle.

CASH ON DELIVERY.
Orders immediately attended to.

Furs in great variety,

For the Season, at J. WILLIAMS’S Old Established Fur Store, 37, Crawford-street, two doors east of St. Mary’s Church, Bryanstone-square. Grey squirrel, 3s. 6d. to 10s. 6d. German sable 5s. 6d. to 10s. 6d. Chinchilla 21s. to 40s. Russian Fitch, 15s. to 30s. French sable, 20s. to 40s. Hudson’s Bay stable, 35s. to 60s. Ermine 12s. to 35s. Stone Martin, 30s. to 50s.—Furs cleaned, altered, repaired, or freed from moth, with promptness and economy.

Genuine Castorine Pomade,

Highly recommended for imparting to the hair a luxuriant, permanent, and natural gloss, promoting its growth; it is also a great specific against the formation of dandriff.—Prepared & sold only by J. COOK, Hair Dresser, Post Office, High-street, Notting-hill.

To be Let.—Rent 19 Guineas

A Genteel Cottage, containing good rooms; garden, about 70 feet in rear, and about 12 feet in front; most healthy and cheerfully situate at Chapel-terrace, Harlesden-green, on the high road to Harrow near Willesden Station, four miles and a half from London.—Apply to Mr. DAVIS, No. 9, in the Terrace.

An Omnibus from Tottenham Court-road, calls at the Green Man, 122, Oxford-street, and at the Crown, 84, Edgware-road, at the following times—DOWN,—morning at 10, and 12; afternoon, at 3, 5 and 8 o’clock—UP: morning at 9, & 11; afternoon at 2, 4, and 7 o’clock.

Also, by Rail, from Euston-square, at the following times—DOWN: morning at 7, & 11; afternoon at 45 min. past 2; 20 min. past 5; and at 15 min. past 6 o’clock. UP: morning at 48 min. past 8; and 38 min. past 11; afternoon, at 48 min. past 1; 21 min. past 3; and 36 min. past 8 o’clock.

FRANCIS’S SAMARITAN OIL,

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Entirely prepared from Herbs and Flowers.

For now two hundred years, or more,
This Oil was famed for Cut or Sore,
For Wounds and Burns, for Scalds and Sprains,
Chaps, Face Aches, Sore throats, and Chilblains,
Excoreations, Chaps and Bruises,
Are eased, or cured, as each one uses,
Or, will this precious Oil apply.
Its healing virtues only try!
Lumbago, Piles, with bites and strings,
And pains which Rheumatism brings;
And parts inflamed are soon restored,
And festering Wounds, tho’ deep, explored;
And suffering Men, with joy shall smile,
When told of Francis’s precious Oil!
Their Wounds are cured, their pains removed.
And FRANCIS’S HEALING OIL approved.
All Female Breast disorders cured,
The pains removed, though long endured;
And Worms in Children soon destroy’d,
And strength, and health, again enjoy’d.
A Bottle buy, and only try,
And all such plagues shall from you fly!

Wholesale Agents,—BARCLAY and SON, 93 Farringdon-street, and SANGER, 150, Oxford street. Prepared by the Proprietor only, and may be ordered through any of the Wholesale-houses, and by most respectable Chemists in Towns throughout the Kingdom. Agents wanted for Hammersmith, Kensington, Notting Hill, & Bayswater—Letters to be addressed to F. F., No. 17 Queen’s-terrace, near the Royal Oak, Bayswater.

Livery Stables.

T. LOVELOCK, Pembroke Livery Stables, Earl-street, Kensington.—Superior cabs and phætons by the day or hour.

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OFFICE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS,—CHURCH STREET, KENSINGTON.

The KENSINGTON GAZETTE, and General Advertiser.
Published every WEDNESDAY.—Office, Church-street, Kensington. Dec. 14,
1853.

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CHEAP AND ELEGANT PRINTING AT C. B. STRUTT’S,

CHURCH STREET, KENSINGTON.

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