is really to be saved both from the jerry-builder and the vestries. Details of the scheme which is to be submitted to the shareholders have now been published. The nominal capital is to be reduced and at the same time fresh capital is to be brought in, There seems no reason why under good management the Crystal Palace should not return a very good dividend to its shareholders;-and_as the promoters of the new scheme include some of the largest shareholders in the old company, there is no reason to doubt that the scheme will' be carried through. It would be thousand pities if Paxton's historic palace of windows wer to disappear.
18th February.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.