12 MAY 1849, page 1

News Of The Week.

ONE subject has overridden all others in Parliament this week— the Navigation Bill ; which stood for the second reading in the House of Lords, and by which the fate of the......

By The Intervention In Italy, The French Government Had...

itself in a most embarrassing position. The Government at Paris, originating in a Republic that arose on the expulsion of a King, declines to recognize a Government at Rome......

Mr. Henry Drummond Has A Knack Of Putting An Indisputable

proposition so as to make its acceptance impossible. His proposi- tion that the whole taxation system ought to be revised, is indis- Isatable; but when he declares that......