The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-31 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 81, 1865.

QTODAR E.-111TH REPRESENTATION.
EGYPTIAN HALL—THEATRE of MYSTERY.—The new
and marveltoua Olue/ona the INSTANTANEOUS GROWTH
of FLOWER TREES, and the REAL INDIAN RANK ET NEAT,
no only performed by Colonel Stodare and the Indian Magicians,
and Introduced for the brat time in this country, by Cannel
Stodare. on Faster Monday, April 17, 1865, In hie celebrated
Entertainment of Manic and Ventriloquially. EVERY NIGHT
at Eight (Saturday locludedl . and special Day Representations
on WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY AFTERNOONS, at Three.
Admisakon, Is.. area, . stab, 6s.—Tickets at Mr. Mitchell's,
33, Old bond-street, and at the Box.oface, Egyptian-hall, from
II to 6. .

'• The sensation of the season.'—Vide •• Punch," June 8. 1886.

IIHE OXFORD.-66, by J. OFFENBACH,
performed by Mines Rumen. Tyrrell. berrle, WaLumley
M ewes. St. Albyn, Green, Husk, &c., with full baud and chow.
Conducted by Mr. V. Joigihnsana. The Muse Temy and Sara
Gunulas • Mears. Duda and Darla. the ItAnbana. and Mona,
Emah, the new French Lenore. THIS EVENING, at Eight o clock.

REUTER'S TELEGRAM COMPANY
(Limited).
Capital, 4250,000 In 10.000 shares of 41.5 each.
Pleat lame 5,000 shares,
Paid LIO per Mare.
DIKIICToR.I
.

JOll N DENT, Eaq., 36, tiroareoornquare, of Mews. Dant and
Co., China, Chairman.
Sir J.dtn C. D. Bay, Bart., Director of the Lani Securities Com-

pony.
Colonel Holland, Deputy -Chairman of the London and South
African Bank.
James Sydney Stopford, Eno , Director of the Agra and Master-
man'. Bank.
Mins Reuter, req., Managing Director.
Marterustiglairligiisr
rthe London Tavern ee Monday, my 24, ISt*, Wu following
report was unanimously adopted :
The Directors, la presenting their Out report to the share-
holders, have to congratulate them upon the satisfactory results
which have attended the husinuk of the c.upauy during the
short penod that has elarned since Its fornivtlon.
Upon the purchase of the business 11.1 Fehruary task, the Dine—
tors, although fully mils:led as to Its sounduees, abstained from
making any prom or statement that might, from unf
clreuenatauces, mot be hereof ter fully r.-
hereafter tut, the re=
capital having been hilly subscribed, they have now the pleasure
to give the shareholders a statement of the Conipsnf • affairs.
The Oompaey bought the business of Mr. Reuter at a price
hunt upon then imedeel revenue for the put three years, with
its prinpecttve increaae, and the shareholders sill be gratified to
Imo u from Messrs. Quitter, Ball, and Co.'s report that the actual
net profits dun : that period exceeded considerably the overage
amount on which their contract was based.

The aim rsets which were transferral to the Company by Mr.
Reuter hare proved remunerative. and °tinned an advantageous
kind have shut been concluded.
. . . .

The continuance of those, and the extension of the businew,
which may he reasonably anticipated, glee no room to dotal* that
the dinhlond now recommended may hereafter he increased, and
a eititicicht surplus appeiprloted to a reserve food.
leroni the balon,eiheet It will be seen that there le • profit of
.P. 0.016 10s. ltd, for the ale months mining the 80th Juno last.
The Directors, therefore, devYare an interim dividend at the
rate of ts per cent. on the capital as paid-up, which will absorb
LOU 25., and after payment of all charges and writing off 4.200
from the prollininary expenses, there will remain a balance of
£2.442 6e. Yd. to be carried forward to the nett account.

The dividend Os payabl....n Monday. the 31st la•t.
IthItDERICK J. heoretatt. •
1, loyal Kzebange-huddlogs.

A.CCIDENrAL and MARINE INSURANCE
coaroaartua
To be locnrporaled under The l'ompaniea Act. lnlit" by
which the Liability of each filiatehtikler fa Waited to UN
amount of Me ebaree

Capital. 4:2,00,0:0, In PO,OOO Shares of LIS each.
Vint leans, 40,000 shares.
Ll per share to be paid on application. add La no allotment.
No further call la contemplated.

DIRUTO&S.

ateptien Cave, Esq. News. Preacott, Grote, Cave, and Cave).
Ufred smee Esq Chairman of the Accidental Death
Ina orance Company.
J. G. It Laverell , Directors of the Accidental Death
E. A Kennedy, Esq..
Edetrti Sony, EN., Y./1 S., insurance Co bpany.
William Tahoe, Esq., Chairman of the Gresham Life Atm/ranee
Society. and Director of the Imperial Beak (Litnitedi.
George Lune, Fey., C.ll, t Due tors of the Gresham Life
George Tyl!r, psi Aasuranoe Society.

Yap., Metropfoll an Bonn' of Woos.
George Smith. Yeti. IlessrL George beelfte and Co.), Se, rower-

street. -. • - ~ .
J. G. Tollemache Sinclair, Esq., The Mount, Upper Norerood.and
Thurso Castle, N.B.
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Lusitaaa.
London and County liana, and all Its branches.

Yens. Pree^ott, 6r, 4W, C.re ■nd Caee. TlrreWnee.lle. We.o

Me CoiuolWaNd lioult,.Stanchestle

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n. itouk of Liverpool &ad %lowa Baruod. and Co. (Limited!,
LlverpooL
Poitcrtoß 1. P. Chappell, 'bd., IP, Goldrnoquare.
Iflozzari—llmant Kyles, harebell and Co., Lombord-strmit.
sonareawr —Jab* Whits

Marino LbepairUutut-21. Ihroadinadlelitreet.

AftRIDOF.I) PP.Io4PECITS.

This Company h.s been formed to take over the haslnns of
the Accidental loath Insurance . °mistily—the existing constitu-
tion and capital of which me now found to lie Inconvenient and
Inadequate to it, recently largely extended operations.
That Company empowered by special Act. of parliament, IS
Vic., c. SG. end 22 and 23 Vic., e. 22, was founded In Isl 9, with a
nominal capital of x 251,00., In 541,1110 shares of XS each, of which
20,ue0 have been I,•urd. The following statement, embracing
the amount of premiums store the rommeoicenient of the Com.
puny. shows the progressive and steadily LUC/C:4LN; nature of its
operations :

TILE ACCIDENTAL BRANCH.

1350 .. /1.223 iff
1851 .. 2,1915 15 7 1
1552 .. e,333 2 6
1533 .. 10.762 3 6
15'4 .. 15,113 13 9
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1835 ClB,. 69 10 8 1 1800 .. C 42.290 d 1
174.58 21,701 3 2 1801 .. 4.1.223 12 6
1837 .. 25,530 310 1682 .. 44,544 16 9
1858 .. 23,260 0 0 1563 .. 47,266 19 3
1858 .. 41,754 3
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The accounts of the recently formed lii:;rine Insurance Corn
voiles, which have exhibited good dividends and shown pro.
span of great value, leave 111, &Mit on the mondani the Directors
that at any rate equal success will attend the efforts o 1 the Corp°.
nit lon hi this direction. The services of ageutimmut of exycrieue
have been secured as underwriter.
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The extensive machinery of agents (of which there are between
Coat:band 5.000! Di to full work. and Is of great value—lndeed the
Director% confidently lwlieve that all that is required to secure a
rapid Increase in the existing Wigan:as Is a proper ailaptaUou of
modern re•qulremcuta so nsards capital and posiilon.
Auplicetious for sharer, accompanied by a remittance for the
depoait, may be mole to the Bankers, Brokers. and to the
Secretary at the Chief Deices, on the accompanying form.

ACCIDENTAL AND MARINE INSURANCE CORPORATION

(Limited

rotll trE APPLICATIOIi Ir,R ItIARRR (TO II Reiman) BY TUB

BANKERS!.
To the Directors of the Accidental and ',twine Insurance

Corporation 'Limited., 7. Bank-buildings, KC.
flentlemen,—llariug paid to your bankers, the
sum of a , being a Jewell. of C per share on shares
in the above Company, 1 hereby request that you will allot me
that number, and I agree to accept such shares, or any let. num•
her you may allot to me, and I agree to pay the sum of 41 per
share on allotment, am! I suthoree you to insert my name on
the rtaister of members for the number of shores allotted to me.
Neale in full
Address
Profession
Date
Signature

ACCIDENTAL nod MARINE INSURANCE
tv ItAl ,Lhulted .
YO FI'RTIIER, APPLICATIoNS for SilA ISM In this Company
will he received after nest, the zlrd of August, fur
London, and lett' DA V, the 4th, for the C nuntry. —fly order.
J W. &MAY, Secretary.
7, Ilank.buillings, London, July 211, lattS.

AL L IR 0 N W ()It K
TM ST. PANCRAS IRON WORK COMPANY.
(ill St. Patnorawroad. Lcadon. N. W

HYAM and Co.'a ATTIRE for GENTLEMEN,
66 and 67, oxyorw.sraxxr.
overcoats for sun, rain, and Mot, is. 6 to ms. Overcoats, silk•
lined and faced, 2.55. to Us. suits for Misoivis, the park, and
tourist. 425. to 665. Jackets to all the fashionable styles. Ti.. to
42, Sandringham Surtonts, 30s to 755. Vests in Cashmeres,
silks, washing drills, &c., 7, ed. to 21s. Trousers lac all Lshloua•
ble styles and materials, hts GI. to Ms.
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H YAM and Co.'s SELECT DEPARTMENTS,
64 and 87. OXFORD-STREET.
No. 1. Gentlemen's Clothing for Immo late weer. No. 2. Gen-
tlemen's Order Department No. 3. Boyd Clothing for immediate
weer. No 4. Boyd and Youths' Order Department. No. b.
Habit and livery Department. Nu. 6. huts and General Hosiery.
No. 7. travelling Clothing, Umbrel as, Portmanteaus, Rags. &c.
Prorloaal Branches :—Blrnaingbam, 21, 24 and 21, New-street
Leeds, 42, &legate.

Price Is.. by post 14 stamps,
THE SCIENCE of LIFE ; or, How to Live,
and What to Eat, Think, and Avoid. A Practical Guide
D.r the attainment of perfect Health and Strength . • and Rotas
explanatory of the kly-deries of Males Eauteuce, and the various
Phenomena of Lila. Sopplernented by Remarks on the treat-
ment of Nervous and other Disorders incidental to Sedentary
Habits. By a Physician of so year: practice.
Kann. 39, Corolla'.

DR. CULVERWELL on MARRIAGE ;
lk Obfinatlies. Hopptheta, and Iftaappookmente.
Presets. Menu. Conakil ;or Author.
THE PANTHEON TURKISH BATIK ; fifteen, ILL
Ladies' day, Mondays. At tn. C. s protesnoual residence, I.
Great Ilaribonkb-strset, W. Also, the Post-oftoe Grand
rierklah I:attis. !S. 5.1.. I. At. Mtrthe4ln-Gran•l.

AM IRISH TRIAL FOR Mvavrg.—Tbe trial of
Michael Barlow, who wee charged with the murder of his
wife. commenced on Tbursdsy, before Mr. Justice Fits.
'mild. at Reecommoo, and was onscluded late that even-
ing. Ou the eight of the let of April the doused wee
found dead on the road leading to her house, her skull hay-
iog been fractured, evidently by repeated blows with a
kr4e stone, which wee found near the body covered with
blood. The prisoner had been beard to my a few hours
oreviously that he would "do for hie wife," with whom be
bed bees speeding the evening, et her mother's home, ap•
psrently on very friendly terms. Whets arrested, the mine
sight, blood was observed on his heed, and he admitted
that he had killed his wife. The jury returned • verdict
of acquittal, a the rotted of insanity, and the court
directed tha► the prissier should be kept in custody during
the Olsson of the Lord Lieutesans.—Sassisifste' Nees
Letter.

THE GUILD OF LITERATURE AND ART.

INAUGURATION OF BUILDINGS AT STEVENAGE.
About fourteen years ago when periodical lite-
rature, weighted with several heavy fiscal imposts,
was developing very slowly, and authors were nut
ISO far removed from the old degraded " Grub-
greet " class as they are at present, it occurred to
Mr. Charles Dickens and a few friends to start an
institution called, " The Guild of Literature and
Art." A wholesunie dissatisfaction with the admi-
nistration of the Royal Literary Fund had some-
thing to do with this idea, but the chief desire
mauifested was to encourage the growth of a self-
supporting literary and artistic provident and
charitable institution, managed by the men whom
it was intended to benefit, and not by bishops,
beadles, and titled patrons. The objects of the
proposed: Guild, as stated in one of the original pro-1
spectuses, were these :—To encourage life and an-
nuity assurance among its members on more favour-
able terms than such insurers could obtain without
its aid ; to assist its members in temporary distress
to pay their premiums when they become due ; to
establish a provident aickuess fund ; to endow an
institution which shall Lave at its disposal certain
residences and annuities, to which only members
It- ties wishwesof ammiti•
illrerrilli""" to be elected, which shill not beer an
instituticall of an eleemosynary character, but with
which some popular service shall be associated, and
from 'which the piiblic shall derive some educa-
tional advantages.'
The kat practical step taken to carry out this
scheme ;wail to raise a fund of rather more than
4,0001., chiefly by the public performance of a
comedy called Nut so bad as we Seem," written and
preeeuted to the Guild by Sir gdward Bulwer
Lytton. The chief actors—all amateurs—were Mr.
Charles- Dickens, Mr. Wage Collies, Mr. Mark
Lemon, Mr. John Forster, Mr. Douglas Jerrold,
Mr. Augustus Egg, and others, and their efforts
produced a net su:n of 3,065/.
The listing and publishing copyright of the play
was afterwards sold to Mr. B. Webster and others,
and this produced 5501. In addition to these
sums, the Queen and Prince Albert sent a donation
of 150/., Mr. Charles Dickens gave fifty guineas,
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton promised two acres of
land (Allis estate at Stevenage, iu Hertfordshire, and
the Mayor of Manchester (the town in which some
ii of thewere oat profitable performanees given),
Sir C es Eastlake, Mr. J. W. Gilbert, Mr.
Henry allam, Lady dhantrey, Sir William Hamil-
ton,- th• Mayor of Liverpool, " Barry °oilman,"
Mies Martineau, Sir Fitzroy and Lady Kelly,
Samuel Rogers, iu;d about fifty other ladies and
gentlemen sent large and small subscriptions
and donations. Before anythiug could be
done, however, with the four thousand pounds
thus collected, to carry out the design of
Mr. Charles Dickens and . his friends, it was
found 'necessary to get the legal sanction .of
a choker. When the charter was obtained
another difficulty arose. It was found that
the begs-laws, viewed under what appeared to
be the best legal and professional advice, compelled
the council to leave the build Institution Fund—
the icnw thousand pounds—untouched for a period
of not less than seven years, and they could, there-
fore, oily invest this money in Consult, and quietly
bide their time. The investment was made at an
nufavottrable period, when the " elegant" and
" sling." Three per Cents stood at a consider-
, able plrernium, sod the interest on the ori-
ginal -capital was therefore partially lost
when the day came for selling out and
Ooksok.atood at a„ .considerable discount.
Thiriniffhis seven years' trance the apathy of the
literary and artistic class was not the only thing
which the promoters of the Guild had to contend
against. The usual amiability and thoughtless
jocularity of the literary profession were exercised
to invent stories to account for the presumed dis-
appearance of the 4,000/. sterling, and the severest
critics were those who had taken no share in the
labour of getting this sum together. The seven
years expired at last io 1861, and the critics and
opposition cliques found that the money bad not
been fraudulently or unwisely squandered, but had
been merely paralysed by the operation of the law.
Some little time was lost in reviving au interest in
an institution which came back like Rip Van
Winkle from the Kastskill mountains, and Mr. !
Dickens naturally felt an abatement of his old en-
thusiasm.
The renewal of Sir K Bulwer Lytton's !
offer of the land at Stevenage, however, and the'
accession of many new members who promised to
be the supporters of the fund and not its pen-
sioners, produced a revival of the old councils, and
a committee, consisting of Mr. Charles Dickens
(chairman), Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Robert Cham-
bers, W. H. Wills, Charles Wordsworth, and Fre-
deric Ouvry, were appointed to reform the consti-
tution of the society. In accordance with the re-
plrt of that committee, rendered in 1863, and con-
curred
in by the general body of members, a
compulsory life assurance qualification fur
membership and a compulsory subscription to
a sickness fund, as another qualification
of membership, were given up, and the
Guild resolved itself into a simple association of
literary men, artists, sculptors, and engravers,
with a small entrance fee and annual subscription. ,
Powers were taken to build three neat and hand-
some residences on the two acres of laud at Steven-
age, given by Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, and these
houses being finished and ready for inspection, the
members of the Guild visited them on Saturday
last, and were invited to luncheon at Knebworth
by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. The members who
went down were Mr. Charles Dickens, Mr. John
Forster, Mr. Charles Knight, Mr. John Ozeufurd,
Mr. Charles Collins, Mr. Edmund Yates, Mr. T.
Grieve, Mr. W. Telbiu, Mr. B. Webster, Mr.
Absoloo, Mr. John Holliugshead, Mr. J. R. Robin-
son, Mr. Percy Fitzgerald, Mr. Stirling Coyne,
Mr. Peter Cunningham, Mr. Sidney Blauchard,
Mr. Austin, Mr. F. Clifford, Mr. S. Clowes, Mr.
H. A. Darbyahirt, Mr. Andrew Halliday, Mr.
James Payn, Mr. Kent, and Mr. W. H. Wills.
The members who could not attend were Mr. Tom
Taylor, Mr. Charles Reade, Mr. A. H. Logan], ,
M. P., Mr. Mark Lemon, Mr. Wilkie Collins, Pro-
fessor Owen, Professor Austed, Mr. Blanchard
Jerrold, Mr. Thorubury, Mr. W. M. Thomas, Sir
James E. Tennant, Mr. John Teuniel, Professor
De Morgan, Earl Granville, and several others.
The Guild-houses, which form one pretty building
a little way out of Stevenage, on the main road to
Knebwortb, the ancestral seat of the Lyttous, are
built of red brick and stone in what is popularly
known as the Tudoresque style. They are very credit-
able to their designer, Mr. Darbyshire, the houurary
architect of the Guild. Each residence has four
good rooms and offices, surrounded by plenty of
open ground, and a fair average country prospect.
The balance between comfort and ornament appears
to have been well Leh', and the building, if it
wants the mellowing tone of • few good trees, is
unquestionably au improvement to the long, dull,
ragged village of Steveuage. The erection of this
building has already had a curious effect upon the
neighbourhood, which shows how wide-spread is the
belief in the convivial character of literary men and
artists. A roadside public-house and tea-garden,
laid out with much care and taste, and furnished
with something between a village skittle-ground
and au American bowling-alley, has sprung up
nearly opposite the future home of distressed men
of learning and genius. To give this little tavern
a stronger claim upon the custom of the said authors,
artists, and their friends, it bas been called (by per-
mission of Mr. Charles Dickens) " Our Mutual
Friend "—a very good title for a good alehouse.
After an inspection of the Guild real-
deuces—which, of course, included an inspection
of " Our Mutual Friend "—the whole party
were driven over to Knebworth, where
they were received by Sir Edward Bawer