The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-01 00:00:00

CRYSTAL PALACE.—FIREWORKS.—
Notice. It had been intended that Saturday's dis-
play of the great set piece of the ARC DE TRIOMPHE
should bo the last. It was given, however, on Saturday
with such complete magnificence that an EXTRA. DIS-
PLAY, to include this grand pyrotechnic work of Messrs.
Brock, will be given on MONDAY NEXT, sth October,
at 7 o'clock.

From other arrangements entered into, this must posi-
tively be the last time the Arc can be exhibited.
Other amusements during the day, including Blondin's
Marvellous Feats, International Championship, and
Amateurs' Bicycle Races for Cluld, Silver, and Bronze
Medals, etc..
Ono shilling, as usual.

LONDO.N AND NORTII-WESTERN
RAILWAY.
3dEADOW LAND to I,e LET.—About Five and a
Half Acres MEADOW LAND to be Let, situate near Old
Willesden Station. For particulars apply to Mr. Thomas
Savill, Estate Department, Euston Station.
By order.
Euston Station, Sept., 1869.

PO the POLICYHOLDERS and SHARE-
HOLDERS of the EUROPEAN ASSURANCE
SOCIETY.—You have seen from the newspapers that a
Petition has been presented to the Court of Chancery for
the Winding up of this Society, which is to be heard on
Saturday, the 2d of October. This Petition bore the names
of Mr. Thomas Carlyle Hayward, a former Director of
this Society, and Mr. Robert Crawford, one of its present
Directors.

Mr. Crawford attended a meeting of the Directors on
Monday last, and took part in their deliberations, and on
the very next day, without the slightest intimation to his
colleagues of his intention, he presented this petition.
It is but fair to Mr. Hayward to say, that as soon as he
became aware that he had been improperly induced to join
in the petition be withdrew at once,
The allegations of Mr. Crawford have been responded to
in the following affidavit, although the first intimation of
his petition was about four o'clock on Tuesday, when
notice to appear before Vice-Chancellor James, at two
o'clock the next day, Wednesday, was served :
" The statement in the said petition, that the said Society
is altogether insolvent and unable to pay its debts is un-
true. The moneys available for payment of current claims
are sufficient for the purpose, and the assets and subscribed
capital are, and will be, suiicient to provide for every lia-
bility as the same may arise. The said Society does, in
fact, pay its debts, and there is not a single undisputed
and due policy claim remaining unpaid, or which the
Board is not prepared to pay, and no debt of which pay-
menthas been asked of the said Society remains at the
present moment unpaid, or which the Board is not pre-
pared to pay.
" The books of the Society show that the petitioner,
Robert Crawford, appears a debtor to the Society for sums
amounting to £1,200 or thereabouts. including the unpaid
call on his shares, and loans unaccounted for, believed to
have been received by him as an agent of the Society."
The Directors have also issued the following advertise-
ment to the daily papers:—
" European Assurance Society. —The Directors of the
European assurance Society request the policyholders and
shareholders not to be alarmed at any of thereports which
may appear at the present moment, as they are, advisedly
and in full assurance of its sound position, determined to
oppose to the utmost the unwarrantable attempts to ruin
the Society."

Nothing could be more improper than the course pur-
sued by the petitioner. Had he one grain of the sympathy
be professes for the great interests concerned, his course
would have been to secure the policyholders first, and not
to rush into Chancery and hand these important interests
over to a set of wreckers, whose sole object is to fill their
own pockets at the expense of the Society. It is now well
known that a gang of designing persons has been occupied
for weeks, if not months, in compassing the destruction
of this and other Insurance Companies, and it is suggested
that the policyholders and shareholders throughout the
country should combine with the management at the
chief office to overthrow these unprincipled attempts at
injury.

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With this view, the time for convening meetings being
so short, sheets with headings have been prepared, which
can be signed by eitherpolicyholders or shareholders, and
have been distributed to the district managers and agents
in the country, where they can be signed, or at the chief
offices of the Society, 17, Waterloo- place, Pall-mall, Lon-
don. By order of the Board.

HENRY LAKE, General Manager.

CITY OF LONDON BONDS.—/500,000.
Remaining Portion of the Loan of £600,000 autho-
rised to be raised by the "Holborn Valley Improvement
(Money) Act, 1869," 32 and 33 Viet., cap. 20.
The Improvement Committee of the Corporation of
London, being authorised by the Court of Common Coun-
cil to acquire the remaining property in connection with
the Holborn Valley Viaduct and Improvements, the under-
signed is directed by the Finance Committee of the Corpo-
ration to negociate the disposal of City Bonds for £500,000,
being the remaining portion of £600,000 authorised to be
raised by the above-mentioned Act.
The Bonds will be issued at par, under the common
seal of the Corporation, for sums of £l,OOO, £5OO, or
£lOO respectively, for a period of twelve years, and bear-
ing interest payable half-yearly, by means of coupons, at
the Bank of England, at the rate of £4 ss. per cent. per
annum.

The security l rovided by Parliament for these purposes
is the net produce, subject to existing charges, of the duty
of 4d. per ton on coals brought into London, continued by
the Act 31st and 32nd Vict., cap. 17, until the sth July,
1889, and chargeable for the purposes of these improve-
ments to the sth July, 1888. Th ) prior charges on the
fund now eonsist of Lon& amounting to £1,260,000, issued
in respect of the Cannon-street and Holborn-valley Im-
provements. In the event of the fund so continued proving
insufficient, the Corperarion secures payment of interest
and principal, out of their own proper revenues, as pro-
vided by the Act.
Parties desiring to tender for any of the said bonds must
make application at the Bank of England (Private Draw-
ing Office), in the form annexed : such applications to be
accompanied by a payment or remittance to the said Bank
of 10 per cent. upon the amount appliel for Applications
will not be received later than three o'clock on Tuesday,
the sth inst.

Allotment will take place at this office by J. T. Bedford,
Esq., the Chairrean of the Finance Committee, and by the
undersigned, on Tburrday, the 7th instant, and in the
event of an amount greater than the sum of
.Z 300,09
being offered, a rateable allotment (not less than £lOO in
any case) will bo paid to each applicant.
The balance of the amount allotted must be paid at this
Office not later than Friday, the 22d of October instant.
Upon payment of the balance Scrip Receipts will be issued
to parties producing their Letters of Allotment and Bank
of England Deposit Receipts ; such Scrip Receipts will be
exchanged for Bonds, so soon as they shall have been pre-
pared and sealed by the Court of Common Council.
Interest will commence from the dates of payment in
full, respectively.
Printed forms of application will be furnished at this
Office, and at the Bank of England.
BENJAMIN SCOTT, Chamberlain.
Chamber of London, Guildhall, Oa. 1, 1869.

FORM OF APPLICATION.
City of London Bonds, .£500,000, part of Loan of
£600,000. Holborn Valley Improvements (Act 32 and 33
Vict., cap, 20).

To the Chamberlain of the City of London.
Sir,—l hereby tender the sum of pounds, by
way of deposit of 10 per cent. upon the snm of
pounds, on account of the Loan of £500,000, part of
£600,000, authorised to La raised by the Corporation of
London, under the abovetnentioned Act for completing the
purchase of lands and the execution of works connected
with the Holborn Valley Viaduct and Improvements; and
I request that City Bonds may be delivered to me, or to
my order, in respect thereof, in accordance with the an-
nouncement in respect of the said loan, which has been
made public, viz.:
(If bonds of particular amounts are required, here state
details.)

Bonds for £l,OOO each
Bonds for .£.500 each
Bonds fcr £lOO each
Total• £
Name in full
Address in full
Quality or description
Dated this day of October, 1869.

SHOOTING SE ASON.-
E. M. REILLY and CO. beg to acquaint their numerous
Patrons and Sportsmen that they have for inspection a large
ASSORTMENT of the LATEST IMPROVED CENTRAL
FIRE and other BREECHLOADING GUNS and RIFLES,
at their usual moderate prices.
EVERY REQCIS ETE for the FIELD.
502, New Oxfordstreet4 London.
Branches: 315, Oxford-street ;2, Rue-Scribe, Paris.
Illustrated Price Lists on application.

THE " SINGER" SEWING MACHINES.
THE " NEW FAMILY"
SEW THE LOCK-STITCH AND TIIE NEW EMBROIDERY--
STITCH.
Work by Hand and Treadle, and in a \Portable Case
for Travelling.

THE " SINGER " SEWING MACHINES
ARE WORLD-RENOWNED AS THE BEST SYSTEM
AND THE MOST COMPLETE, WITH NEW IMPROVEMENTS
FOR EVERY CLASS OF SEWING.
The p enliar simplicity of these Machines enables any one to
lc-luire their perfect use m a few hours.
Illistrated Price Lists post free

rHE "SINGER" MANUFACTURING COMPANY
lief Office in the United Kingdom:
147, CHEAPSIDE.

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE OFFICE.
Established 1821.
Subscribed Capital Two Millions.
11, Lombard-street, London, E.C.
DIRECTORS.
CHAMMAN—Williern Steven, Esq.
DEPT:-CHAInMAN - Frederick H. Jensen, Eeq.
Henry Hulse Berens, Esq Richard 3r. Harvey, Esq
Hy. Bonham. t arter, Esq J. G. Hubbard, Esq
Charles Wm Curtis, Esq G. J Shaw Lefevre, Esq, M.P.
Charles F. Devas, Esq John Martin, Esq
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq Rowland Mitchell, Esq
Sir W. R. Farquhar, Eart .Piries Morris, Esq
James Goodson, Esq Abraham J. Roberts, Esq
Archibald Hamilton. Esq Henry Vigne, Esq
'1 IP7mson Hankey, Esq

SECRETARY—Thomas Tallemach, Esq.
ACTUARY—SarnI. Brown, ESC'.
N.T.—Fire Policies which expire at Michaelmas must
le renewed at the Head Office, or with the agents, on or
l'efore the 14th of October.
The Government Dutyis totally abolished.
pro.,p,;tus and Fcrms of Proposal, with stateracn` of the
z: t I and liabilities is the Life Branch, free on applieatiort to
the cuopany'e digeuts,or tc. the Secretary,