December 14 San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin Muygridge advertisement, Illustrated 

November newspaper advertisements in England, Ireland, and Scotland for The Ottoman Company (Limited) list 'Edward J Muybridge, Esq, late Merchant, San Francisco, 4 Brompton Square, London' as one of nine directors. The advertisement's purpose was to 'Invite applications for the capital of The Bank of Turkey (Limited)' (First known use of the name Muybridge rather than Muygridge). 

Regarding early episodes of large banking failures, it is worthwhile describing U.K. and 

U.S. cases in the late 19th and the wake of the 20th centuries, respectively. In 1866

England experienced the collapse of Overend Gurney and Co. Ltd., a financial institution

involved in banking and bill broking, with a balance sheet ten times the size of the second 

largest, which precipitated the failure of a considerable number of other banking and nonbanking institutions. Despite Bank of England refused to rescue Overend, which was 

finally declared insolvent due to losses resulting from bills of dubious quality and lending 

with poor collateral, Bank of England’s actions during the episode8

stated that it would 

intervene as LLR in situations of severe panic related to large banking institutions

(Heffernan, 2005). In 1890 Baring Brothers, a large international merchant bank founded 

in 1762, also failed due to non-performing loans granted to Latin American countries, but 

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Based on Gup (1998), who provides a summary of bank failures and near failures comprising 70 institutions 

from Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, U.K. and U.S., 

from 1974 to 1997, authors calculated that regarding episodes involving large banking institutions (24), 22 

ended without liquidation or closure (91.7%); episodes involving medium banking institutions (8) always ended 

without liquidation or closure (100%); and episodes involving small institutions (38), 15 ended without 

liquidation or closure (39.5%). 

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In order to face the episode the Bank of England was allowed to suspend the 1844’s Bank Act (also known 

as Peel’s Act). Under this act Bank of England’s discretionary ability to issue notes was restricted to a 

statutory £14 million above its holdings of gold bullion (Chancellor, 2000).

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3554 THE LONDON GAZETTE, JUNE 19, 1866.

the words " Tender for Glass and Lead"

and must also be delivered at the Department of

the Storekeeper-General, Admiralty, Somerset

House, accompanied by a letter signed by two

responsible persons, engaging to become bound

with the person tendering, in the sum of £1,000

-for the due performance of the contract.

CONTRACT FOR PRESERVED FOWL.

Contract Department, Admiralty,

Somerset House, June 14,

1866.

rjT^HE Commissioners for executing the office of

_§_ Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom

of Great Britain and Ireland do hereby give

notice, that on Thursday, the 5th July next, at

twelve o'clock at noon, they will be ready to treat

with such persons as may be willing to contract

for supplying and delivering into Her Majesty's

Victualling Stores at Deptford, all stick quantities

<f

PRESERVED FOWL,

as shall from time to time be demanded under a

contract for twelve calendar months certain, and

further, until the expiration of three calendar

months warning.

•Four samples must be produced by the parties

tendering.

•No tender will be received unless n ade on the

printed form provided for the purpose, and which

may be obtained on application in the Lobby of the

Department of the Comptroller of Victualling,

Admiralty, Somerset House, lohere the conditions

of the contract may be seen.

No tender will be received after tioelve o'cloch

at noon on the day of treaty, and it will not be

required that the party tendering, or an agent on

his behalf\ should attend at the office on the day

of contract, as the result of the offer received

from each person ivill be communicated to him and

his proposed sureties in writing.

Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary

of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand comer

the words " Tender for Preserved Fowl" and must

also be delivered at the Department of the Comptroller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House,

signed by two responsible persons, engaging to

become bound with the person tendering, in the

sum of £500 for the due performance of the

contract.- • •

~T\7~0 TICE is hereby given, that at an. ExtrajLv ordinary General Meeting of the Fresh

Provision Preserving Company (Limited), held at

the offices of the Company, Abchurch-chambers,

Abchurch~lane, in the city of London, on Tuesday,

the 12th day of June, 1866, the following Special

Resolution was passed ; vim.:—

"..That this Company be wound up voluntarily."

" Dated 13th June, 1866.

• -, • . Wm. OalieSj Chairman.

In the Matter of the Ottoman Company (Limited),

jand in the Matter of the Companies Act, 1862.

A T an Extraordinary General Meeting of this

j\ Company, held at No. 20, Threadneedlestreet, in the city of London, on the 16th day of

May, 1866, it was resolved:—

" That the Ottoman Company (Limited) be

wound up voluntarily, under the provisions of the

Companies Act, 1862."

And at an Extraordinary General Meeting of

the said Company, held .at No. 20, Threadneedle*

street aforesaid, o'n the 7th day of June, 1866, it

was resolved:—

" That the Resolution * that the Ottoman Company (Limited) be wound up voluntarily, under",

the provisions of the Companiess Act, 1862,"'

passed at the Meeting on the 16th day of May,

1866, be confirmed."

And it was also resolved: — . "'J1",,:

" That Mr. Joseph Sawyer, of Fenchurch-;

street, Public Accountant, be appointed Liqui-i

dator of the Ottoman Company (Limited)." " -•

J. Lewis Farley, Director of the Ottoman]

Company (Limited) and Chairman of

the aforesaid Meetings of the IGth May

and 7th June, 1866.

In the Matter of the Companies Act, 1862, ahd>

of the Wine Importers Association (Limited). •

London, Juno 18, 1866. J.

T an Extraordinary Meeting of this Com-!

.

pany, held at the Registered Offices of the]

Company, Nos. \ 5 and 16, Adam-street, Strand, •

on the 17th day of May, 1866, it was resolved:—-'-

" That this Company be wound up voluntarily."

And at a Second Extraordinary General

Meeting of the said Compauy, held at the above

named place, on the 6th day of June, \ 866, the!

above resolution was confirmed, and Mr. JohnEmerson, of No. 4, Brunswick-gardens, Campden-:

'

hill, and Mr. Frederick Bertram Smart, of No. 38,'

Creskam-street, were appointed Liquidators.

J. Emerson, Chairman.

. Overend, Gurney, and Company (Limited) >

Winding Up. .;.

OTICE is hereby given, that at an Extra-"

ordinary General Meeting of the above-'

named Company, held at the London Tavern,

Bishopsgate-street, in the city of London, on the-

\\th day of June instant, the following Resolution icas passed:— V

" That it has been proved to the satisfaction of

this Meeting* that Overend, Gurney, and Com-*

pany (Limited) cannot, by reason of its liabilites,;

continue its business, and. that it is advisable to_

wind up the same voluntarily, under the supervision of the Court, and that William Turquand,

of Tokenhouse-yard, and Robert' Palmer Harding,

of Bank-buildings, in the city of London, Esqrs.,

,be and they are hereby appointed Liquidators." -

Dated this IGth day of June, 1866,

J. H. Gurney, Chairman. -.

Sea and River Marine .Insurance Company

(Limited).

In Liquidation.

LL Persons claiming to be Creditors of the

Sea and River Marine Insurance Company

(Limited), are requested, on or before the SOth day

.of June instant, to send their names and addresses,

and the particulars of their debts' or 'claims, - to

Mr. Alfred Augustus James, the Liquidator of the^

Company, at his Office, No. 18, King-street?

Cheapside, in the. city of London, or in defaultJ

thereof the Liquidator will be at liberty to disv

tribute the assets of the said Company, having

regard only to the claims of which he shall then,

have had notice.—Dated this 4l£ day of June,

1866.

. A. A. James, Liquidator

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About the first director´s  hand signature is found at the web:

Such a rosy picture of the future of cotton-growing in Tahiti was painted by Stewart that he soon had the ear of the French Governor, M. de la Richerie. Though it is stated that Stewart arrived penniless in Tahiti, he was soon enabled to leave for England and float a company in London with a capital of £100,000. 2 The company was at first known as the Polynesian Cotton Coy. Ltd.: its initial capital was £30,000. The enterprize, however, soon attracted additional British capital, the initial company was absorbed, and it became known as the Tahiti Cotton and Coffee Plantation Coy. Ltd. The Atimaono estate was for a time called the Plantation Soares, because Stewart had become the personal representative in Tahiti of Augusto Soares, a Portuguese financier who had branches of his house in London and Paris, the man who was intimately associated with his activities from the beginning. It is recorded that the Soares company received £30,000 for its interests, and the new company was incorporated in London on 4 June, 1863.

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James Lewis Farley (9 September 1823 - 12 November 1885), was an Irish banker, diplomat and writer on Eastern affairs.

Description: In the nineteenth century emerged, mainly in northern Portugal, numerous palace styled villas, built by emigrants who returned (enriched) from Brazil.
These "Brazilian" houses were usually built in the homeland of the owners, with a large architecture, wide and individualizing. They had four facades, in extreme symmetry, large balconies and a clear colonial influence, densely ornamented.
Surrounding them, there are gardens or parks with plants, trees, ponds and statues.
The magnificent Villa Camarinha, now up for auction, is a notable example of this architecture.
It is a sumptuous palace with an exotic garden, built between 1903 and 1906 by José Augusto Soares Camarinha, enriched in Manaus with rubber plantations.