The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-28 00:00:00

NEW SYSTEM OF LIFE ASSURANCE.
THE DIRECTORS of the NATIONAL
ASSURANCE and INTESTMEN r ASSOCIA rioN- inN:te
attention to the New System of Life Assurance exclusively adopted
by this Association, viz., that of allowing Interest on all Premiums
paid, instead of the remote and uncertain system of Bonuses usually
adopted.
By this plan the Policyholder will secure to himself a constantly
increasing annual income during 11'e, as well as the payment of the
sum assured to his repre4entatives at his death.
Tables of Rates specially adapted to this system of Assurance may
be obtained at the Office of the Company, 3, Pa I-mall East, or for-
warded free on application.
PETER MORRISON, Managing Director.

THE DINNER TO THE GUARDS.

The following correspondence has taken place in refer-
ence to this interesting event :
" Horse Guards, Aug. 26, 1856.

"My Lord—l have the honour to transmit a letter
from the field officer in command of that brigade of the
division under my orders which were present at the en-
tertainment which was yesterday provided by your lord-
ship and the other subscribers to the fund collected for
this purpose, and in doing so, to request you will accept
the expression of my own thanks for this most gratifying
proof of the appreciation of their services.--I have the
honour to be, your obedient bumble servant,
" ROKEBY, M.G.,
" Commanding Division of Guards.
"The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor."

"Orderly Room, Brigade of Foot Guards,
August 26, 1856.
"My Lord,—l have the honour, on the part of the
officers commanding the three regiments, to request
that you will 3ourselt accept, and convey to the members
of the committee, their best thanks fur the highly, grati'
fying and liberal entertainment which was yesterday given
by the inhabitants of London to the n,n-commissioned
officers and soldiers of the Brigade of Guards who have
recently returned from the Crimea, and by whom it was
most fully appreciated.—l have the honour to be, my
lord, your moat obedient humble eervat.t,
" A. FOLEY, Major and Col., Grenadier Guards,
Field Officer in Brigade Wait:rg.
" The Right lion. the L ,rd Mayor, Chairman
of the Guards' Dinner Committee."

" Manuion:houPe, Aug. 27, 1856.

"My Lord—l have to acknowledge your lordship's very
courteous communication, forwarding to me the letter of
Col. Foley, expressive of the satisfaction of the fficers com
warding the regiments of the Guards with the arrange-
ments of the committee for entertaining the medal men
belonging to that distinguished portion of her Majesty's
army. I am sure that not only every member of the com-
mittee, but every subscriber to the fund, will warmly
appreciate this kind approval of their proceedings. lam
happy to say that I hear but one re-echo of satisfaction
and delight from all who were present at the gardens.
The public generally seem to ratify all our doings, and
this is a great compensation to the committee for the
anxiety and responsibility incident to the arrangements
of the details of a meeting so important, and at the Fame
time so novel in its character. I shall have very great
pleasure in placing your communication in the hands of
the committee.—l have the honour to be, my lord, your
lordship's most obedient servant,

" DAVID SALOMON%
"To Major•Geoeral Lord Rokehy."

A shocking scene oecurred at the execution of two
robbers named Boye and Olsen, at Assene, in the Isle of
Fuen, in Denmark, on the 18th instant. Olsen made
such a desperate resistance that the executioner and six
men who helped him could not bring the criminal toithe
block without calling the soldiers to assist them. As
soon as Olsen's head was severed from his body, two
young peasant girls, fifteen or seventeen years of ag►e,
rushed through the double line of armed police who
guarded the scaffold, and filled the cups, wlich they
catri?d, with the blood that spouted from the neck of
the mutilated corpse, and instantly swallowed the hor-
rible draught. There is an old superstition amongst the
rural population of Denmark that the blood of a be-
headed felon, if drunk while it is warm, is an infallible
preservative agianst epilepsy and apoplexy. The girls
were taken before a police commissioner, and declared
that they Lai only done what they had a right to do ;
they showed a paper, signed G. 01-en, is which he
bad authorised them, whenever he should come to be
e ecated, to drink his blood.