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LITERATURE.

Maurice Elvington ; or, One Out of Suits with
Fortune. An Autobiography._ by

Wilfrid East. 3 vols. Stiii6 and Elder.

This autobiography is very interesting, and al-
though the reader is informed at the commence-
ment that it concerns the fortunes of one who is
not a favourite of fate, still the style is net at all
sombre, nor are the details gloomy. It is true
that all the terminations of the adventures aro
melancholy, but the adventures themselves are
sketched with an energy and vigour that make
them exciting and amusing. It is a natural con-
clusion to a career so unstable as that of the hero,
that he should find himself at last without a home
or even a country, with no friends of long stand-
ing, and no definite employment. He was placed
in a false position at the outset of his career, and
when ho most required a decided plan to fix his
attention, all settled ideas relative to his prospects
were subverted. This was the first stumbling-
block in his way, and he was not one of the
favoured few who rise out of the ruins of their
worldly goods, and spurning the adventitious aids
of friends and the meretricious gifts of fortune—
carve out for themselves a place in society, and fix
their name indelibly in the records of its annals.
Maurice Elvington was in the position that tries, as
with a touchstone, the real merits of a man's cha-
racter, and he did not pass through the ordeal with
success. Notwithstanding, no one can fail to admire
his adaptation to really painful positions, and his
good intentions, although they were not always
carried out with the zeal with which they were
planned. Many of the persons who figure in these
pages are well delineated in their various phases.
The kind-hearted Mr. Gently, who was Maurice
Elvington's real friend, and would always have
been of service to him, had not the imprudent
young man shaken off the ties when under a delu-
sion and deserted his true interests. When too late
he saw his mistake, and endeavoured to reinstate
himself in the good graces of Mr. Gently and his
family ; but evil hands had been at work, and it was
not to be permitted to the unfortunate hero to re-
turn to the home he had quitted abruptly, but ho
never forgot the sweet retreat where his happiest
hours had passed, and in long years afterwards the
evenings he spent in the quiet but genial abode
returned to his mind, stamped with the seal that 1
the past affixes to its brightest records. It was I
one of the few welcome of his memories the in-
tercourse with the Gentlys, and as he writes of it, '
" Perhaps it was better for the actors not to grow
grey-headed and peevish in the midst of a plea-
sant stage. We have all of us played graver parts
since then, and some of the poor mimics sleep in
a narrow chamber." The episode of Maurice
Elvington's acquaintance with LadyVenetia isver3
different to that with the sweet and pleasing Fanny
Gently. It shows unquestionably the advantage
of real feeling over the dazzling but unattractive
qualities. With all her high birth and pride Lady
.Venetia was wanting in real and genuine worth,
in appreciating the duties as well as the rights of
her position, as the unfortunate victim to her
caprice exclaimed, she was aptl personified in the
haughty " Lady Clara Vero cloy Yore." It would
have been well if the subject of these memoirs bad
followed the example shown in the poem, and re-
tirod.unseathed from the scene of faicination and
cold neartedness. Otherwise it came to pass, and it
wasthe sensation occasioned by the blow struck with a
cruel hand, that caused Maurice to give up everything
for a time that had hitherto seemed of value. The
conclusion is powerfully written. His meeting with
a third attraction in the person of Clarissa is mot
I surprising, as she differed from the others ; nor is it
to bo wondered at that ho should have married her,
as he saw that both the proud lady who bad been
as a " bright particular star" to the dream of his
ambition, and the fair girl who had smiled over
the calmer hours of his life, lighting them up as

with a sunbeam, had been removed irrevocably
from his path. Ile did not love Clarissa, but he
honoured and esteemed her, and she required no
more. The melancholy account of the shipwreck
is very touchingly described, and so are the suc-
ceeding passages of the career of the unfortunate
hero. He takes leave of us in a foreign land, where
he purposes to remain. Much is written of the social
affair 3 of England in the course of the work, which
rnay in terest many, and thepowerful manner in which
the various scenes is described is very effective
I and striking. The spirit is indeed that of suffer-
ing which attends upon the career of Maurice
Elvington, and also for the most part of his friends;
but there is no morbid sentimentality, no gloomy
repining. He is unwise and imprudent, but he
meets the storm with a bold heart, and in a manly
manner he boars what he cannot prevent. It is
therefore probable that this retrospect of his life
will meet with attention. There is certainly no-
velty to be found in its relation, vigour and force
in its details and descriptions, and an impartial
view of men and manners, in its dissertations on
society, which combine to render it a work of merit.
DON'T ILLUMINATE.
•

The following placard, very significantly printed
in RED INz, has just been sent to us. We shall
let the reasons or arguments for not illuminating
speak for themselves, for instead cf an illumina-
tion we ought to have a national mourning :

A FEW WORDS TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND ABOUT THE
PEACE, A GENERAL ILLUMINATION, AND THE RIGHT
USE OF HALF A MILLION OF MONEY.

PEOPLE OF ENGLAND,—
Don't illuminate. Save your money.
It is a wasteful stupidity to stick candles in your win•
down by way of rejoicing far peace.
It will be time enough to rejoice for peace when you
have some of the fruits of peace.
It will be time enough (if the money is to be wasted) to
light up your windows, when there is an en•i of the war
taxes; when the double income tax is taken off; when
the war tax on to s, and the war tax on sugar are taken off.
It will be time enough to light up (if there is to be suck
ehild's play by way of rejoicing) when we know the cost of
the war, and have done adding to the National Debt, to
pay for the blunders and mismanagement, and disgraceful
waste of the war.

Save your money—don't illuminate. It will be time
enough to throw money away upon illumination, whoa
time proves that the peace is au honourable peace—au
honest peace—a real peace—a peace to last. It may turn
out to be a mere shand—a mere paper peace.
Save your Money—don't Illuminate.—Rejoice in your
homes, and in year hearts, that there is Peace. Thank
God that there is peace. Pray God that it may continue.
Eut save your Money—don't Illuminate.—The war has
cost us thousands of brave men. Spare your money for
their widows and orrha.ns.
Don't Illuminate—spare your Money.—Give it to edu-
cate the suns and daughters of the men who have fallen iu
battle or died of wounds ' • who have died of cold, and
hunger, and nakedness, and neglect, in all this war.
Read the Report of the Crimean Commission. Read
how your brave soldiers were unhonsed, unclad, unfed,
uncared for,—uncared for in the camp, on the field, on
shipboard, in the hospitals, in sickness, in wounds, in
death.

Don't Illuminate—save the Money.—Save it to comfort
the wounded. gave it to welcome home the remnant of
your army swept down not by the enemy, but by the in-
competency of sits leaders and providers, and by the inca-
pacity and neglect of the department entrusted with its
care at home.

Don't waste your Money—don't Illuminate.—Don't go
about idling, and thiaking, and staying out all night, to
celebrate Peace. Save your Money. Save it from the Illu-
mination, to found with it some Memorial in honour of the
common soldiers in this war. Generals have had honours
—Starr Officers have been promoted. Alma and Inker-
man were soldiers' battles; they were won not by the Ge-
nerals, there was no plan, no genius of command, the bat-
tles were fought out
,by the stern unflinching bravery of
the common men. -What honours, what rewards, have
the cowmen soldiers had in all this war

Don't illuminate-- don't waste your money upon mere
candles in your windows. Let the Peace to made memor-
able by some lasting good to the Common Soldier. Let
there be an end to the system of purchasing commissions
and purchasing promotion.
Insist upon it, that commissions shall bo the prizos of
merit, that csaimistions shall be open to the private
soldier.

Insist that the most tried, the ablest, the bravest men,
the men who have won the right to be trusted, shall care
for your soldiers, and command your armies.
Lat there be an end of all favour and affection in army
and navy appointments, and in promotions in the army
and navy.

Don't' illuminate—save your money—Have the peace
made memorable by a thorough reform of theariny system;
a thorough reform of the civil service ; a reform that shall
make way for the common soldier ; a reform that shall
open every employment in the State to the fittest men ; a
reform that than fix responsibility and punish men, how•
ever high, for negl2A of tha duties they undertake.
Don't illuminate—shopkeepers, working-men, house.
holders? Put by what the candles, the gas.
the fittings woubt cost. Remember
remember the deaths b

mother. laying (lowa tl

comniandei's Let—the
Ruisians—tbe vain

despatches—the bra

lion% illuminate
searched out, an:'
Save your m
cost to illuruir

Look up the
honour them
honour them

Don't ii:u►
blame of the

brunghtkor

duty ; that
shall be

be they
Don't'
would cc

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i.ounds.
Don t
light win
pecTile. An .uuglish College—a cozitinei,,...
lege whore the working man could send his Res.,
him taught as well as the highest in the land. A
that would train men to be good civil servants of the State
—good soldiers—good commanders.
Don't illuminate.—Put by at once. Put by honestly the
pounds, the shillings, the pence it would cost yon to illu•
urinate—the money you would spend on cabs and cars to
see the illuminations.

Save the money to he called for, to found a peopled col-
iege—a college memorable to the soldiers fallen and wasted
in the war.

Savo it, to be called for to do honour to tb3 heroes of
;he war.

Save it, to do honour to the correspondents of the ncw.
papers, who
have, in the face of clangor and difficulty, in
camp and battle, kept those at house in knowledge of th©
facts of the war, and who stood by the common soldier,
and fought with their pens for truth, and right, and tbo
honour ofl]ngland.

Don't illuminate.—Rejoice in the peace as men of sense
—as Christian men. Spend the money for a real perma-
nent national good.

Doo't illnwiiiate—don't let half a million of money be
waLted.

DEATH OF TUE RIGHT IiON. SIR
11EN RY IVATKIN WILLIQ3I2 W YNN,
K. C. B. d: G.C.H.

We regret to announce the death of the Right Hon.
Sir Henry W. W. Wynn, an old diplomatic servant of the
Crown, who expired on Friday morning at Llanvoida, one
of the family s.ats in Shropshire. The right hon. gentle-
man, who was in his 74th year, was third son of Sir
Watkin Williams Wynn, the fourth baronet, by his se-
cond wife, the daughter of the late Right Hon. George
Grenville, and brother of the late Sir Watkin W. Wynn
and the Light Hon. Chas. W. W. W 5 nn, M.P. When
quite a youth he was appointed (Jan., 1799) a cle:k
in the Foreign-office, and in Jan., 1801, he was made
private secretary to Lord Grenville, the then Secretary
of State, and in the month following appointed precis
writer to Ler I Hawkesbury (afterwards second Earl of
Liverpool). In 1803 he was appointed Envoy Extraor-
dinary to the court of the Elector of Saxony, and front
Feb. 1822, to the same month in the succeeding year,
was Minister Plenipotentiary to Switzerland, when he
removed to Stuttgardt in the same capacity. In Sept.,
1824, he was appointed British Minister at the court of
Denmark, when he was made a Privy Councillor. In
1831 he was nominated a Knight Grand Cross of the
Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, and in March, 1851,
was created a Cavil Ki ight Commander of the Bath
The deceased represented the British crown at Copen-
hagen from 1824, as before stated, uninterruptedly until
Feb. 1853, when he finally relinquished the post, and re-
tired on a pension. The deceased married Sept. 30, 1813,
the Hon. Hester Frances Smith, 6th daughter of the late
Lord Carrington, which amiable lady died a few years back.
He was father of Mrs. Col. Brownrigg and of Lady Wat-
kins William Wynne. Lord and Lady-Carrington, Lady
Grenvil'e Somerset, S.r W. W. Wynn, M.P., Sir F. and
Lady Doyle, and many families of rank are placed in
mourning by the melancholy event.
THE LONDONDERRY MONIIHENT.—It is intended to
erect by stfuseription a monument to the memory of the
1 late Lord Londonderry in some conspicuous situation in
the county of Durham, not only to commemorate the
military achievements of the noble marquis, but also the
lasting benefits conferred by him on that part of the
county of Durham where he was resident, by construct-
' ing the fine herbeur of Seaham, and the extensive rail-
ways connecting the Londonderry collieries with that
harbour, and where Lady Londonderry entertained
4,000 of her workmen at dinner on Ist March inst. At
a county meeting of noblemen and gentlemen, held in
the city of Durham on the 6th inst.—his grace the Duke
of ',Cleveland in the chair—a committee was appointed
to carry out the objects of the subscribers, and to
select a proper site, &c. Wardenlaw Hill, near
Houghton-le-Spring, has been thought of as an excel-
lent situation, being one of the highest hills in
the county of Durham, commanding the most extensive
views of any place in the county, and overlooking the
harbour and town of &abate, the town and port of Sun-
derland, the cathedral and city of Durham, and the
North-Eastern Railway ; and if the monument should
be in the shape of a column it would be a conspicuous
object from a large expanse of the ocean, and afford an
excellent landmark for mariners for many miles off at
sea, as well as be seen on the land side from a great
part of Northumberland and Yorkshire, the distant
1 mountains of Westmoreland, Cumberland, &o.

A committee, compesed of naval chaplains, at the
head of whom is the Rev. Geo. Fisher, M.A., has been
sitting for several days past at the Admiralty, upon the
present state of scientific education in the navy.
BERLIN, Friday.—The greater part of the stolen de-
spatches have been recovered in a way that will fix the
guilt on the parties really culpable.

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the peace on which we are entering, we cannot for- between Governments ; that the controversies be- The Treaty of Peace is at last signed. The signa- tia.tions which preceded the Conference it was the will be available fir return by Express and Ordinary
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CONCLUSION OF PEACE.
( From the Times of this day.)
At one o'clock yesterday the Plenipotentiaries of
the European Powers assembled in Paris signed
the Treaty of Peace. War was proclaimed on the
27th of March, 1854, and has terminated just two
years and two days from the period of its com-
mencement. The treaty is, we are informed, to
take effect from the date of its signature, and not,
as usual, from the date of its ratification ; so that
we have actually passed into a condition of peace
without being in the least aware of the gradations
through which it was to be obtained. Even while
we write the guns of the Tower are announcing the
return of that condition which, if once lost sight
of, robs war of all its honour, reduces it to an
ignoble conflict between the enemies of mankind,
and renders it utterly unworthy of a Christian
State. It is vain to speculate on the precise con-
ditions upon which peace has been concluded. They
are not yet known to us, and probably may not be
so for some days, though they can hardly be con-
cealed during the whole period requisite for the ex-
change of the ratifications. We have little doubt
that in their substance they are already known to
the English public, and, if so, though they do not
contain all upon which we might have thought
ourselves entitled to insist, they nevertheless give
us substantial reason to believe that we have not
concluded a hollow truce, but a final and honour-
able reconciliation.
And now, placed on-the vantage ground afforded
by this critical moment of tune, which links to-
gether the war from which we have emerged and
the peace on which we are entering, we cannot for-
bear a comparison of our present situation and
prospects with those of the memorable 27th of
March, 1854. Much as we have done, we have
learnt more. The stern reality of war has dissi-
pated many illusions and shown many things to us
in their true shapes the aspect of which .was before
vitiated by prejudice, by our over-appreciation of
ourselves, by a contemptuous and insular miscal-
culation of the forces of others, and by a mistaken
estimate of the overwhelming advantages of mere
physical power. When we entered into the war
we believed—as we had a right to believe—that
our Generals were skilful and enterprising, and
that our costly military system, so often and so em-
phatically honoured with the approbation of the
great Duke of Wellington, would be found equal to
every emergency. These hallucinations were rapidly
dissipated by the progress of the war, and we awoke
to the melancholy conviction that, of all those
things in which we trusted, none, except the bril-
liant valour and endurance of our army, was
worthy of our confidence. • One legacy, therefore,
that the war has left us is distrust of our military
system, and a firm determination to place that sys-
tem on a footing which, if it cannot command suc-
cess for us, may, at any rate, secure our deserving
it better for the future. France, on the other hand,
profiting by the state of constant preparation in
which she has been living ever since the peace of
1815, has gloriously asserted her right to be ranked
among the first of military nations, and has acted
in a manner calculated to raise her reputation as a
great military. Power, and to add now pages to the
long catalogue of the triumphs she has won by the
skill of her officers and the trained and organised
enthusiasm of her soldiers. The two Powers have
learnt to place reliance in each other's naval and
military strength ; and they have also proved to
each other and the world that they are capable,
from the most disinterested motives, of forming
and preserving a great alliance, and maintaining
its good faith inviolate, under circumstances the
most arduous and discouraging, despite of all the
arts which an enemy equally skilful and unscrupu-
lous could employ in order to undermine their good
understanding. Independently, therefore, of the
exact conditions of peace, which we do net yet
know, the war has been glorious and prosperous for
the Western Powers, by demonstrating the purity
of their motives, the extent of their resources, their
dauntless courage, their inviolable good faith, and
that stern and steadfast resolution which seems
able to control even Fortune hereself, and to bend
to its will the most adverse and threatening circum-
stances. It were invidious to enter too critically
into the share of merit to be awarded to either party.
The brunt of the struggle at Alma and Inkerman
was borne by the English ; the best approaches to
Sebastopol and the finally successful assault were
the work of the French ; and, if we have abundant
reasons to complain of our Generals, France has as
little reason to be satisfied with the want of vigour
which neutralised her great success of the Bth of
September. The English army suffered most at the
beginning, the French at the end of the war ; and,
if France has shown most skill in the conduct of
lee r ''t-ies, England was better able to continue
-'eer resourees were only beginning to be
lie very moment when those of the
'ts had perceptibly diminished.
-mint of view the losses of Russia.
Ind overwhelming. Half a mil-
soldiers, a. vast fleet, arsenals of
enciance, her whole means of internal
ei§port, have vanished in the course of two brief
dears, and the Power which would not condescend
to return any answer to our remonstrances in
1854 is glad to seek for peace, with an admission
of its absolute necessity, in 1856. Her unjust claims
are abandoned, her haughty touo is lowered ; she
has felt in her own vitals that consuming flame of
war with which she has so often infested the repose
of weaker States, and she has learnt that there is a
Power as superior to her in that physical force to
which she has ever been ready to appeal as in that
justice and moderation which her neighbours have
so often sought from her in vain. But at this heavy
price Russia has undoubtedly purchased great ad-
vantages. She has awoke from the delusion of uni-
versalconquest—from the dream that a Power rest-
ing purely on a military basis can for a moment suc-
cessfully compete with those which add to mili-
tary strength a highly developed internal organisa-
tion, and, as it would seem, she has turned her at-
tention to the development of her internal resources
with the view, possibly, of renewing the conflict at
some future date, but with the certainty that by
raising up an internal material prosperity she will
be enlisting her own interests most powerfully
against the warlike spirit, which flourishes only
among nations that believe they have morn to gain
by plunder than by commerce.
Of the States of Germany we have left ourselves
little room to speak ; but a certain poetical justice
does not seem to have been wanting in their case.
While the belligerent Powers, victorious and van-
quished, retire from the contest with no incon-
siderable share of military honour, to play a first-
rate part in the European drama, Austria and
Prussia, the poor-spirited supporters of either side
alternately, and of neither effectually, have suf-
fered grievously since, the commencement of hos-
tilities.. The former was allowed to not as go-
between in bringing about the peace, but, instead
of being the arbiter of Europe, was, if we are cor-
rectly informed, condemned to play the part of
little more than spectator at the Conferences of
Paris. March has destroyed the illusions of Ja-
nuary, and proved once again that, at least in
modern days, it is vain for empires to think of
winning by the pen that for which they will not
strike with the sword. Prussia has been permitted
to affix her signature to the treaty, but her voice
was not allowed to be heard in council, and her
Ambassador was only admitted when everything
essential had been decided. It may turn out that
the Powers which did not engage in this war have
lost by it more than those who manfully stood
forward, and that its permanent effects will be felt
most severely, not in Russia, but in Germany.
Fleets may be rebuilt, armies may bo renewed,
treasure be accumulated again ; but the confidence
of mankind in the great Powers of Germany, their
confidence in themselves and in each other, is gone.
And who shall say what is the process by which it
can be metered ? Let Germany look to it, for
evil is before her. For us and for our gallant
allies peace comes as a blessing, for it comes with
honour. It has been dearly won. Let us hope it
will be long enjoyed.

(From, the Morning Herald.)
We were enabled to announce (we believe exclu-
sively) in the Morning Fierald on Saturday, that
the discussion of the terms of peace being con-
cluded, the formal act of signing the treaty would
take place yesterday.
The correctness of this information has been
proved by the receip t of thetelegraphic dispatch from
our correspondent at Paris, which is published in
another column, stating that at one o'clock yester-
day afternoon the signatures of the Plenipoten-
tiaries were attached to the treaty. Soon after 10
o'clock last night the guns at the Tower announced
this fact to the good people of London.
It is impossible for us to discuss with propriety
and at length even the probable provisions of this
treaty. We trust most sincerely that they will
prove satisfactory to the nation ; but we cannot
disguise our fears that the contrary is most likely
to be the case. There is little doubt that the fall
of Kars has enabled the representatives of Russia
at the Conferences to insist upon terms more un-
favourable than would have been previouslydeemed
sufficiently bounteous by the Czar. In any case
this is the result of blundering or misconduct by
our Government.

That the surrender of that fortress was caused by
the negligence, wilful or otherwise, of our admi-
nistrators, will, we think, be made manifest by the
expositions of Lord Malmesbury and Mr. White-
side in either house of the Legislature in the course
of the ensuing mouth ; but there still remains the
fact to be dealt with in connection with this lament-
able affair, how it happened that our Government
—aware as they must have been that Kars could
not hold out unaided as they had permitted it to
remain—how happened it, we repeat, that they
kept in reserve certain undefined provisions, or
stipulations, to be added to the bases on which the
discussion of the treaty was to be carried on, and
that by a want of frankness, or of common sense,
or of honesty, or of all together, they thus left a
similar course open to Russia, and enabled that
power to take advantage of the fall of the Asiatic
citadel.

All these matters must be accounted. for when
the treaty shall be in possession of the public. We
simply and briefly comment upon them now as the
probable sins of commission which that document
will being to light. With regard to the sins of
omission, we fear they will be numerous and flag-
rant. What means, we ask, have been adopted for
the protection of the Circassians—the hardy tribe s
who so long, single-handed, have formed the barrier
against Russian aggression in those districts where
it threatened to become truly formidable to, al-
though indirectly levelled against, British into-
rests in Asia. We believe that, so far as regards
the interests of these people, the treaty is likely to
be a dead letter. The letter of our correspondent
at Anapa, printed in the Morning Herald, on
Wednesday last, and our commentary on it, pub-
lished on Friday, are an index to the probabilities
in this case.

It is distinctly understood that the Conferences
have not accomplished one-half the work which
they undertook to perform before they concluded
their labours. And what is more, some of the
more important questions have not been even taken
into consideration. They have been referred to a
commission, of whose constituent elements we
know nothing. We neither know when they will
meet to commence their deliberations ; ;nor, if we
did know when they are to begin, could we have
any idea as to when they will bring their sittings
to an end. This is very unsatisfactory. Indeed,
it now seems, for all practical purposes, that it
would have been much better had the Conferences
never taken place.
Nor is this all. Even what has been accomplished
has been done in a thoroughly bungling manner.
Turkey already repudiates that portion of the work
of the Conferences which more immediately relates
to her. She refuses her consent to those reforms

with regard to her Christian subjects which the
Wes era Powers wished to embody in the treaty of
peace. In this the Turkish Government are per-
fectly right. Not only will the world admire the
spirit of the Porte, but no reflecting person can
fail to perceive that Turkey is also acting with the
greatest wisdom in determining to adopt such a
course. Had she acquiesced in a treaty which
bound her down to carry out those reforms which
the Western Powers thought fit to urge on her
adoption, her Government would have sunk to the
lowest depths in the estimation of the Mussulman
population ; and the result would speedily have
been revolution and ruin. Nor was it just, or in
good taste, on the part of France and England, to
exact this at the hands of the Sultan. All that
they shoull hays done would have been merely to
suggest to the Turkish Government to introduce
certain ameliorative measures which were mani-
festly necessary. It would then have been for the
Sultan to carry out the wishes of the Western
Powers in his own way, and with all the expedi-
tion compatible with his own interests, and with
his convictions of what was the most expedient

time for the purpose. In the way France and
England wished to proceed the Sultan would not
1e a free agent. Instead of being an independent
Sovcretu, he would be a mere puppet in their
hands. The recent conduct of the Sultan shows
that he is most anxious to proceed with all the
. .

It is more than possible that a few pertinent
questions in the Rouse of Commons this evening
may elicit some positive information upon these
subjects; and we therefore forbear from further
remarks to-day.

(F 1 am the Daily News of this clay.)

Yesterday, about au hour after mid-day, the
cannon of the Invalides announced to the Parisians
that the Treaty of Peace had been signed. A sup-
plement to the Moniteur soon after, in language
very little more explicit than the inarticulate voice
of the artillery, assuredits readers that at one p.m.
the Plenipotentiaries 0.f., France, Austria, Great
Britain, Prussia, Russia, Sardinia, awl Turkey
had, in the Hotel des Affaires Etrangeros, affixed
their signatures to a treaty which puts an end to
the war, and which, by settling the Oriental ques-
tion, establishes the peace of Europe upon a secure
and permanent basis. Placards to the same effect
were profusely exhibited throughout the city.
The quasi-official Pattie stated that the four gua-
rantees have been applied in an extended sense,
and that the fifth paragraph has been realised in a
satisfactory manner. All this is sufficiently vague,
and though there is reason to believe that Paris
was last night blazing with illuminations, and
though guns were firing and bells clattering emu-
latively in London, the more phlegmatic English-
men, as individuals, will probably wait for more
precise details before they give vent to any ex-
pression of exultation. In this country, though
there has been no aversion to a peace upon honour-
able and adequate terms, there has been no im-
patience for a cessation of hostilities. Except
through the bereavement of private individuals
and families, we have as yet scarcely been made to
feel the pressure of war. No class has been coin-

(Pyont the Morning Post of this day.)

A. treaty of Peace was yesterday concluded at
Paris. This important document received the sig-
nature of the Plenipotentiaries of the Allies, be-
cause, by its provisions, the objects of the war are
attained. The independence and integrity of the
Ottoman Empire are fully assured. Russia yields
her pretensions, and changes her course of policy ;
and for this change we have sufficient guarantees
in the permanent extinction of her naval power in
the Black Sea, and the establishment of a new
order of things in the East, under the safeguard of
Europe.
Lord Palmerston will, no doubt, announce this
evening to the House of Commons the happy ter-
mination of the war, and the conclusion of peace,
which will be found to be in every respect satis-
factory, and affording the best prospect for the se-
curity and repose of Europe. The general terms
of the treaty are no secret. The protocol which
was signed as the preliminaries of peace has been
often published and commented on, and even the
Fifth Article, which was not, in that paper, de-
fined, has been no great mystery ; its terms have
been guessed without much difficulty. It will not
be possible, however, to publish the text of the
treaty until it is ratified. The signatures of Ple-
nipotentiaries have been affixed to it ; but Sove-
reiens always reserve the right of reviewing the
act their Representatives, and till the former, by
their own signature, accept and confirm the deed,.
the Treaty is not final nor binding. Pending this
important proceeding, it would be indecorous and
most unwise to make public, and to deliver up to
comment the particulars of matters, concluded in-
deed, but not yet fully sanctioned. Three weeks
must elapse before it will be possible to receive the
ratification of the Treaty by the autograph of the
Emperor Alexander 11., and three weeks, there-
fore, must public curiosity wait before it can be
gratified by a sight of the text of the Treaty. In
these affairs, it is well known, the letter is as of
vital importance as the spirit, and therefore, till
we have the text of the document itself it is im-
possible to appreciate it duly, or understand it
fairly. Till then we must rest satisfied with the
dtlclaration of Ministers that they have asked all
that was due, and obtained all that was asked.
It may be observed by some that we are now so
strong that we might with advantage have pursued
the war, and, going beyond its first objects, have
aimed with success at others in themselves more
or less to be desired. But to this we would reply,
that such a result is not certain, but what is cer-
tain is, that we have succeeded in the war, and
have compassed its ends, precisely because we are
strong, and that ought to satisfy us.
A fearful amount of blood has been shed, and
much treasure lavished, but not upon us lies the
responsibility. Fortunate, however, may we
esteem ourselves when we look back at the pages
of history and comparo the present with former
wars, and happy may we feel that two years have
sufficed to put an end to a conflict that raged be-
tween such powerful foes, and threatened to in-

speed that is compatible with safety in the pathway
of reform ; but he very properly objects to being
driven into the adoption of the course which the
Western Powers would have him to embrace. In
this, we repeat, he is right, and the sympathiel of
the civilised world will be with him.

The Western Powers, not content with asking
the Sultan to do certain things, but rather com-
manding him to do them, as if were their ser-
vant, propose doing certain things themselves with
reference to Turkey, which they have no right to
do. They propose that the Allied troops should
remain in the Ottoman Empire. This is a flagrant
breach of faith with Turkey. It is an utter viola-
tion of the treaty entered into on the Bth of May,
1854, between France, England, and Turkey. The
third article of that treaty is as explicit and decided
as words could make it. '• As soon," it says, "as
the object of the present treaty shall have been at-
tained by the conclusion of a treaty of peace, his
Majesty the Emperor of the French, and her Ma-
jesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, will
make arrangements for the immediate withdrawal
of all their naval and military forces employed for
the realisation of the object of the present treaty ;
and all the fortresses or positions in the Ottoman
territory, which shall have been temporarily occu-
pied by the military forces of France and England,
shall be restored to the authorities of the Sublime
Ottoman Porte, in the space of forty days, or
sooner if it can be done, from the date of the ex-
chang of the ratifications of the treaty by which
the present war shall be terminated."
It will be observed that forty days are the maxi-
Mum period during which the Allied armies are.
to remain in the Ottoman territory ; while they
are to evacuate that territory sooner than 40 days,
provided the thing be practicable. But in open
violation of this solemn treaty, it is now intended
that the French and English troops shall remain in
the Turkish dominions for an indefinite period.
This is, we say again, a lagrant breach of faith
with the Sultan ; and if it be persisted in, it had
just been as well for him to have fallen into the
paws of the Northern bear.
If this be the we:, of friendship which Turkey is
to receive at the hands of France and England, she
indeed has ample cause to pray that she may be
swel from her friends.

The Hopeful Stakes of 6 sovs each, with 100 added, for
two-yr-olds ; colts, 85t 7lb ; fillies and geldings, 82t
31b ; a winner before starting to carry 41b extra ; the
second to receive 20 sovs out of the stakes. Half a
mile. 63 subs.

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ch t by Cossack--Giselle
b c by Annandale—Treacle
The B)rderer
Black Tommy

The Dutchman's Daughter
ch c by Irish Birdcatcher—
Lady Hylda's dam
Butterscotch
Maid of Perth
Terrington

(From the Morning Chronicle of this day.)

The Sheffield and Rotherhar
cap), for three-yr-olds and
Age st 151
Assayer 5 8 7
Lorin 5 8 2
Gra3culus Esuriens 4 8 2
Tom Burko
Medway 4 8 0
Yeutick 4 8 0
Duke of Lancaster 5 7 10
Little Tom 6 7 10
General Picton
Lady of the Lodge 4 7 61,
Baroda,
L'Addio 4 7 41
Anglo-Saxon 6 7 4
Sir. Richard (late
Shakspeare)
Plausible
Treachery
1.4311 vat

The Chesterfield Plate (Liam
yr-olds and upwards. A.
100 sovs (mathes except
published, to carry 61b ;
One mile.

Age st lb
King of Trumps a 8 11
Typee 6 8 8
Ariosto
Romeo
The Assayer 5 7 5
Cardsharper
Grmcalus Esuriens 4 7 0
Little Tom
Yeutick 4 6 12
Gamekeeper
Bracken 5 6 12
Solestar 4 6 12
Palmerston
Duke of Lancaster 5 6 10
Vandal
Atherstono
The Medway 4 6 7
General Picton 4 6 7
Baroda
L'Addio 4 6 4
Treachery 4 6 2
Canute

c by Iklickey Free—The

Lamb
Avenger

b f by The Care—Crazy
Peggy
Peto
Ornament

b c by Burgundy—Peggy
The Kertch Chief pd.
c by Touchstone—Dip
thong
sis. to Dramatist
A.damas
Admiral Lyons
Sebastopol
General Bosquet
br f by lag)—Arthur Wel•
lesley's dam
Augury
Saunterer
bro. to Forward
bro. to The Coroner
Little Emma
Lady Malcolm
;Homceopathist
The Western Power
b or br c by John Cosssr—
Amber Witch

The Amorous Boy
Charles O'Ala!ley
Sincerity

Peace, then, is signed. Russia and her late an-
tagonists have again shaken hands. It was a con-
summation expected almost hourly during the past
week ; and yet how startling the news when it first
breaks upon us ! The nation has to recover from
the shock of the announcement, before it can duly
proceed to weigh and ponder over its significance.
It would not be less premature to take a iestrospect
of the past, to which Peace is a conclusion, than
to augur the effects of the cessation of hostilities
on the future. The time is not ripe for indulging
in any such reflections. The Treaty is not yet tcx-
Willy before Parliament and the country. The as-
surances of the Minister, that Peace has been made
oa a sate and honourable basis will have to be gua-
ranteed by the production and discussion of the
Treaty. The English nation, iu common with their
Allies, must be content for the day with the fact
of Peace, and postpone their final verdict until the
terms in which it is concluded are definitely pro-
mulgated. We know that the war is at an end, but
have yet to be satisfied that it has closed honour-
ably and safely for the liberties of Europe.
The country has yet to learn the nature of the
checks imposed to prevent future aggression. It
has yet to ascertain whether safeguards have bcen
taken to preserve the liberties of the world, and to
protect a '..eak State from the encroaching advailces
of the stronger one. It will have to acquaint itself
with the terms of the Treaty of Peace. Does

Bonnie Doon
Trip the Daisy
Po1:y Paterson
The ClO'an

a Plate of 50 sovs (Hand
upwards. Red house in.

Age st lb
Lady in Waiting a 6 10
Vanessa 4 6 10
Victory (h. b.)
Alfred
British Remedy 3 6 7
Sugarcane 3 6 6
Ceras
Pollux
Coal Black Rose 3 6 6
Pretty Girl 3 6 3
Eustace Fitajohn 3 6 3
Anniversary
Pera
Dolly Varden
Bright
D ruble Mixture 3 5 10
Garnet
Cripple

a mile. 10 sube.
Mr. Henderson's Ceres,, 3 yrs (701.), Bst 81b (carried
Bst 131 b) (Capt. Richardson) 1
Mr. Formby's The Rogue, 5 yrs (701.), lOst, 9d)
(Capt. G. R. King) 2
Mr. Thorpe's Little Torn, aged (501.), lOst 2lb
(Lord Cardross) 3
Warbler, Amazon, and The Tester, also ran.
Betting— 6 to 4 on Ceres, 3 to 1 asst L'He Torn.
Won easly by two lengths. A length between the
second and third. Amazon a good fourth.
The Scurry Stakes of 5 s )vs each, for all horses ; list
71b each. The winiter to be sold fur 40 sovs. Half a
mile. 17 subs.
Mr. Hobson's Pharos, 5 yrs (Owner) 1
Mr. Henderson's Piicedra, 4 yrs...(Capt. Richardson) 2
Mr. Irwin's Merry Monk, 5 yrs
The Rogue, Firebrand, Young Hack, Bono Johnny,
and Warbler also ran.

Batting-5. to 4 agst Pharos, 4to 1 each agst The

Rogue and Phcedra.
The favourite took the lead, kept it, and won in a
canter by two lengths. A length between the second
and third. The others well up. The winner was bought
in for 47 guineas.
The Scurry Handicap was won by Mr. Archer's Rebel,
beating very easily Mr. Iron's Chevy Down.

WATER-WORKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. ' per of Paid Price.
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. s. d.
ast London
rand Junction .....• 4 . per cnt. 50 0 0 all '704
:ent 4'. per cnt. 1100 0 0 73►4

- BRIDGES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
X s. d. X s. d.
flunzerford .... • • .... 12
Southwark ...... •• .. 1110 0 0
Ditto Mew of7j4 p.c U. per cent. 130 0 0
Waterloo ..... .... •• • • 1100 0 0
Ditto Old Ann. of 8/. 11. 14s. Bd. i6O 0 0
Ditto NW ditto of 71. 1/. 10s. 4d. 140 0 0 26
Vauxha11.......... • • 965. 70 10 3 • 20%

DOCKS.
Dividend Amou2.t
Name of Company. per of I Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
--
X s. d. £s. d.
Commercial .........• 5!. pr cent. Stock. Stock.
East and West Tndia 6' pr cent. Rtock. --
East C: entry..
London .... • 5/. pr cent. stock.
Ditto Bonds— .• 41. per cent.
3t. Katharine
outhampton , 3/. Os per c. 50 0 0 50 0 6 ;
Victoria 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0

CANALS.
cg; t Dividend
Names of ,c, Dividend E„4„. N4U nes of :,, , per
Companies. , A per . "s"` Core parries. cs Price.
= Annum.
T., Amnum., :n
----I
.£
Ashtn &Oldh: 93▪ 7i. p. ct.' 145 iifacc lesfleld. 100 21. 10s. 51
Barnslny •• .• ,160' Year/ i••• • • • 100 161.
BrknitscAbrg : 159 41. 1 Oxfor d.. •• • • 100 104
Birmingham ao,' 4% 92 Peak: Forest. 78 51. Os. 76
Coventry....lloo: 251. ' Reger It's •• • • 30 l 1 14%
Derby • • ..• :100 67. 153. 84 Rod). 1a1e.... 85 11. 10s, 76
Ellsinre&Chs: 69 21,i p. ct. Sonar ;et Coal 140
Grand.L.netn 100 3 pr. ct. 40 Do. Lk Fdst 1.
Do., 6 or•Ct.l 10 61. pr. ct. 11% &tint &Wore
,140: 281. 420
Grand :7urreyi 100,. 4/. . Siii..e• if sbury...l2s '
Grand Union 100: 1/.os. Stem rbridga..l,4s, 121. 290
Remit & Avn: 39 6s. Od. 6 %)Seve rn and 1
Lancaster .. ; 100 —.— W y 4.1 Rail. j 26 21.
Leeds BsLivrp: 100 251. 46318 War .vick & 21
25
Leicester .... : 100: 51. 49% Binning. 3 100 .
Leiestr &Nth 83: W.er .viek & i . 0,
10
Loughborogh 142 701. 550 Na pton..S 100: '''
Monmouthsh 100: Wor cstr &I 78: 2L 21
Mntginerysh 100 Ei rming.
MeltnMwbry 100:, Wilt s & Brks —I 10s. Od.

IfBURANCE COII MAXIM.

Name of Company.

Albion •• •• • • •• •• • • ••
Alliana En:. ar.d For.

Ditto Marine
Anchor ..............
Atlas ..
Xr,rus Life
i3ritish Commercial• ..
Gen. Life
County
Crown .
Eagle ..
Equity and Law......
European Life
General
Globe
Guardian ............
Imperial Fire... • • ....
Imperial Life
Indemnity Marine....
Law Fire.......... • •
Law Liie. , • •
Legal and General Life
London
London Ship....
Marine. • • ..
& Gen. Life
Minerva • • .. • • .. • • • •
Nlonarch .. • • . •
National Loan Fund..
Palladium Life .....
Pelican
Phoenix
Professional Life ••••
Provkbmt Life........
Rock Life
Royal Exchange ••••••
Sun Fire ...... • • ......

Dividend Amount
per of
Annum. Share.

idicap) of 100 sovs, for three-
winner of any race value
ted) after the weights were
,vice, or 200 sovs, 91b extra.

al. 10s.
71.14 s 6d.b.0.
61. p.c. & bs..
6 per cent.
15s 0,1.
41. per cent-
-71. lOs.

5 pr ct. & bs
4/.
17s. Od

4% per cent-
-1 /.
61.
51. per cent..
5/. per cent.
12/. per cent.;

Ditto Life .....
United 'Kingdom ••
Universal Life .• • .....
Victoria Life

l2s.
1 &
2s. & 2s. bs.

11.10 s.

s. d.
500 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
5 0
50 0
1100 0 0
1 50 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
20 0 0
5 0 0
Stock.
100 0 0
:500 0 0
100 0 0
!1 00 0 0
'lOO 0 0
100 0
50 0 0
25 0 0

10s. &

13s.per shal'e 100
4 1. per ct.. 50
sp. et. & b:g.. 20
5
20
50

51. per cent -
51. per cent..

Paid. I Price.

5 0
10 0
10 0
5 0
5 0
5 0

0 -
0 2
0 1!
0 11
9 6
0 5

47 5 0 5
50 0 0, 3
10 0 0 11
20 0 0 1 8
2 10 0I

10 0 (1 6
20 0 b
12 10 0 m
12 10 0

28 0
2 0
2 0
1 0

5/. per cent .
11.5 s &Gs.•:
73. 1
10/. per cent.
61 10s.
1/ 14s.
4/.p.ct.Lebi.
si. per cent.
5/. per cent..

Age et ib
Vanessa 4 6 0
Louvat
Leamington

0 41
0 3
0 G
0 -

La Viciime
Hospitality
Alfred 3 5 8
Pollux
Da Ginkel
Coal Black Rosa 3 5 7
Scpire Watt 3 5 5
Ariel
Omer Pacha 3 5 5
Anniversary 3 5 4
Pretty Girl
Napoleon HI.
King of theGipsies 3 5 2
Consternation
Para
Bright
Frenzy
Ephorus (paid) 3 5 7

The Badsworth Hunt Cup of 251., added to a Sweep-
stakes of 5 sovs each, for horses not thorough-bred,
&c. ; four-yr-olds, lOst stb ; five, list 4lh ; six and
aged, 12st ; beaten horses which have started three
times in 1855 allowed 31b ; five times or more, 71b.
Gentlemen riders ; jockeys, 3:b extra. Two miles.
15 subs.

Yrs

Yrs

b m by Redsbanks 6
Victress (gr. Mole's) 4
Victreis (gr. Robson') 4
Life Preserver 6
Irish Lad...
The Times
Sir Richard

Boadicea .
Donna 4
Jenny
Warwick 4
Hope
Jenny Jones
Venture
g by Sleight•of-Hand 4
The Municipal Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 25 added,
for three-yr-olds and upwards ; optional selling weights,
&c. One mile and a quarter.—Closes the evening be-
fore running.

The Doncaster Handicap Stakes. St. Leger Course.
60 subs, 16 of whom pay three soya each.
Yrs et lb Yrs at lb
KinltTrumps... aBB La Victime
Slut ox
Will Huntsman.. 5 7 13 Preston
Ivan
Ariosto
Border Grief .. 4 7 0 Greencastle
RoPcommon
Little Davie
Cardsharper
Lady Palmerston 4 6 12 Gaudy - 3 5 0
Gamekeeper
S traband
Bolton
New Brighton
Cock of the North 4 6 9 Oiner Paella
Mary 4 6 8 The Caledonian... 3 4 12
Bracken 5 6 7 Adam 3 4 12
Palmerston
Cossey
Freddy . 4 6 2 Village Cock 3 4 7
Virtuous
Johnny Taft 4 5 12 St. Clare (paid)... 5 6 0
The Betting-room Stakes of 5 soya each, with 50 added
by the proprietors of the subscription betting-rooms ;
for two•yr-olds Oct 121 b ; and three, 9A ; fillies and
geldings allowed 31h. A winner once in 1855 or 1856
to carry 31b ; twice, 51b extra ; horses that have
started twice in 1855, and never won, allowed 51b ;

2 10

5 0
100 0 0
5 3 0
Stock.

0 1 3

010 0 I
10 -0 0 3
0 10 0
all 221

20 0 0
100 0 0

4 6 0
10 0 0 -
4 12 6 5

MISCELLA; il ;OUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
..., —
X. s. d. X s. d.
Assam Tea ........ 5/. 50 0 01 20 0 0
Aaction Mart•• •• •• 214 per cent. 50 0 0
Australian A.zriculturl 11. Is. 100 0 0 17 10 0
Australian Trust .... Si. pet cent ;25 0 0
Austraptan Royal Mail Si. 10 0 0 ; all
Anglo-Mexican Mint.. It. 105. 10 0 0 ' all
British Am,!ricari Land 15s. 140 0 0
Canada ............. 6/. per cenit. 100 0 0 , 32 10 0 143
Do. 5 per cent Bonds 51. per cent..'i
Ditto. 6 per cent. Si. per cent:, ; 1C91,4
City Nuvigation Bonds
Electric Telegraph .. 6 per cent:. i 25 0 0 24 0 0 21%
,
Equitable Reversionry 71 pr. cent,. 100 0 0 100 0 0 107
Ditt: New ........ 50 0 o'l7 10 0
Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp.c. & bs., 100 0 0 ICO 0 0
Gen.SteanaNavigation 10 p. ct. • 15 00;14 0 0
Tiadson's 8ay...... •• • Stock. '
Hungerford .......... 21. ss. • 100 0 0 100 0 0
London Institution ... ,
London Reversionary Si per cent... 15 00 I all
Russell Institution.... 12 10 0
Price's Patent Cand. Co 101. per cent . 20 0 0 , 17 10 21%
Reversionary Int. Soc. ;4%1. pr con ;,. ! 100 0 0 100 0 1
Royal Mail Steam.... I it. p. share..; I 100 0 0• 60 0 0 79%
South Australian Land 1 61. per cent..; 25 00 1 all 136
Trust and Loan Comp. 1
Upper Canada .... 1 12000/ 5 0 0 • .--

LIST OF SCOTTISII CO. IT PANIES' PRICES.
Dividend 1 Arwint
Name of Company. per . of Paid. Price.
Annum. i Share.
11 £ s. d. 4 s. d.
Rank of Scotland .... 71. per cent. , 100 0 0 ICO 0 0 185110
British Linen Comany 8/. per cent , 100 0 0 100 0 0 220/0s
Caledonian Bank . .....Si. per cent .1 10 0 0 210 a 3.. les
City of /41asgow Bank 51. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 11/13s
Clydesdale Bank .• •• 041. p cent 20 0 0 10 00 12 Ils
C mmercial Bank •• 71. per cent 1 .^0 0 0 100 0 0 223/rs
Eastern Rank.. •• .... 51. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 1 1/ Os
Edinb. & Glasgow.. •• 3541. p cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 41. 15s
Exchange link of Scot.. —...—
National Bank •• •• 5% per cent. 100 0 0 0 t 0 171/0s
North of -cotland Bank 5/ per cent 20 0 0 . 2 10 0 1/. 16s
Royal Bank of Aeotl. .. 51. per cent. It 'lO /1 0 100 0 0 135 0
Union Bank of Scot. .. $l. per cent.- 11 )0 0 0 50 0 0 91 Os
Western Bank•• •• •• •• 71, per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 751 5s
klliance Fire and Lre.. 81k. pr _tent. I 00 0 0 11 0 0 16/15s
British Guarantee ~, V. per cent. 10 0 0 2 0 0 1/. 14s
Caledonian Fire Insur . 10:. per cent. I 00 0 0 10 0 0 251 Os
City of Glasgow Lite 5/. per cent. 0 0 2 0 0 U. 8s
Co onial Life ......... 5/. per cent. SO 0 0 1 0 0 I/. 7s
Edinburgh Life Insur. Cl. percent. 1 00 0 0 15 0 0 25110 s
Eng. & Scot, L•t)i Life 5/..ler cent. 50 0 0 3 5 0 41. 8s
Life assoc. 0 Sest,,,ind 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 110 0 1/. lOs
National Fire and Life 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 2/. Is
North British In_sur... 71 per cent. 2)0 0 0 20 0 0 36/ Os
Scottish Union Insrnc. 73¢1. prcent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1/. 12s
1
Standard Life ...• .... 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 7 0 n 201 Os
United Den Assurakce 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0

FINSBURY FREEHOLD LAND E IOCIETY.—At the sixth
annual meeting of the members of this society, held on
Thursday evening, at the Crlxvn, Clerkenwell-green, Mr.
E. T. S pith, of Drury-lane Ti atre, in the chair, the
directors reported that the recei pt 3 during the past year
amounted to 4,014/. G. 44., n f which 2,1151. was re-
payment on account of land on tE e Wood Green estate,
and there was a balance in handl e 1 261/. 164. ld. ; and
the profit and loss account show ed a balance in its favour
of 1531 164. 11d. af.er paying ill expenses, includin4 a
bonus of 51 per cent. on those s ha res on which no allot-
ment has been taken np.

DEPRECIATION OF THEATRICA 10 PROPERTY IN WORTH-
ING.—The theatre, together with the scenery, wardrobe,
library, &c., was brought to the 6 lrnmer last week. The
theatre and the cottage adjoining (the residence of the
late Thomas Trotter, E. 4-1.), which in 1807 cost 11,0001.,
was knocked down at 6501., with( ,ut &ding a bona fide
purchaser at that price. The IR .rdrobe, which in 1830
was valued from Messrs. Bur Jri and Evans to Mr.
Chaplin at 1300/ 12,. 3d., was t knocked down at 11/.
The seven chandeliers, which st 051., realised 61., and
the two drop scenes by Adams -a nd Graves, brought 61.
The whole of the other scenery, fetched 1/., whilst the
books sold in lots of fifty at 2s. ai id 20. 6d, the lot.