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R 0 YA L PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining.
'CRIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. )caddy
O' Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray.
Atter which, TIIE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs.
Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her, D. Murray, J. Nelson, 11.
Forre,ter. 11. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma
Barnett, and Miss FLnny Gwynne,

TST S,Ae P 'THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL—
ronriator and Manager. Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING.
Mrs. Stirling and Mr. J. Clarke.
After which, THE HEN AND CHICKENS. Messrs.
Billingto:, R. Phillips, Stephensen, Eburne ; Mrs. Stirling
and Miss 11. Simms.
To be followed by HIS LAST LEGS. O'Callaghan (with
sows`, Mr. John Collins, supported by Messrs. Billington,
Stephenson, C. J. Smith; Mrs. H. Lewis and Miss A. Sea-
man.
To conclude with DOING BXNTING. Messrs. J. Clarke,
Stephenson, R. Homer; Mrs. H Lewis and Miss A. Seaman.

Commence at 7.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. Benjamin Webster.
EMINENT TALENT AND COMEDY DRAMA.
Those celebrated artistes, Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews, are re-
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acts, entitled SY RILL ; or, STEP BY STEP. Mr. and
3lrs. Charles Mathews.
To conclude with Mr. Maddison Morton's New Comedy
Farce of INrtiOD, OCK'S LITTLE GAME. Mr. Charles
Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, JNLIMITEO CONFIDENCE.
Followed by, at Eight, MILKY WHITE. Messrs. Craven,
Stoyle, James ; Mesdames Swanbor.ugh and Mandel s.
To cjuclude with MAZEITA. Mesdames llaynham,
Simpson, .te.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOY. 2, 1864.

The end crowns the work is a well.known says
irg, and certainly the peace negotiations are a

fitting conclusion to tho war which has preceded

them. They are almost unprecedented for their
rapacious demands and selfish exactions. Many
persons who were really ashamed of the conduct of
our Government with respect to the Dano-German

war tried to believe that at least the influence o!

England would be felt in the councils where treaties

-were considered, if not in the fields where armies
contended. It is melancholy to think that all these

expectations have been entirely disappointed, and

that the well known and often expressed opinions
of the people of this country have not been suffered
to prevail in any way for the benefit of the Danes.

On the contrary it appears that the cruel and

unjust arbitrators who have trodden down the un-
happy kingdom beneath the iron heel of conquest
have augmented their requirements, and at the
eleventh hour have interposed as necessary parts of
the transaction some most exorbitant demands
which cruelly increase the burden and add to the
difficulties which the vanquished nation has to
endure. Such conduct is a disgrace to a civilised
State and a reproach to a Christian one ; it puts
the finishing stroke to the reputation for tyranny
and oppression which the Prussian nation has ever
earned for itself. 'Whether they found it impossi.
ble to resist the temptation, whether they took
advantage of the impunity with which they had
perpetrated their foregoing encroachments, it is
difficult to say ; but the fact remains the same for
the unhappy victims. The monstrous demands
made and the enormous exactions required by
Prussia in the terms of the treaty are in some way
more degrading than her conduct in the
war. Some allowances may be made for
the exc;tement of a contest ; and in gene.
r.,1 when resort is had to arms much more
is done than is at first anticipated ; but
no possible excuse can be offered for the base
designs that are concocted in the composure and
calm of meetings and councils, where there is ample

6pportunity afforded for reflection, and where there
is every facility for drawing back from any move-
ment that appears on consideration to be harsh or ill-
timed. Did a spark of good feeling or a fraction of
fair play animate or distinguish the sentiments and
actions of the great German Powers, the world
would have seen very different peace negotiations
to those new so wantonly paraded and unblush-
ingly set forth. Raving got all they required at
the outset, and more,'a hundredfold, than they first
bargained for, it weald have been a graceful and
benign task for them to have mitigated the severity
of their war regulations, and to have atoned in some
measure for the hard terms which military arrange-
ments had exacted. Such a conceasion would
have been a courteous offering of amity and good.
will to the nations of Europe ; but instead of all
this po.lsibto maderation Ming displayed, what do
we witnesa in reality ? Too particulars of some of
the stipulations of the treaty are such that many
might well have refused to credit them if they had
been suggested to them beforehand as likely to be
contemplated. Perhaps one of the worst things in
the whole iniquitous affair is the demand made that
the Danes are to pay for the prizes captured during
the war. Can anything surpass this for extortion
and greed ? Between two nations of equal proper.
tions Eu 3h a treaty c3uld not have held geed a day ;
but when the weak are crushed the day of reaction
is indeed terrible. If nothing can or will be
done to stop this infamous transfer of rights, and
Cais cruel oppression of a gallant but small nation,
it is some satisfaction to protest against what is, in
reality, a crime of the deepest dye, and an open