17 MAY 1862, page 6

Top/cs Of The Day.

THE FALL OF NEW ORLEANS. T HE fall of New Orleans is the heaviest blow - which the South has yet sustained, as injurious from the manner of capture as from the value of the city......

The "japanese Argument" On The Cfromm Rate Question.

S IR Cornewel Lewis, with that happy humour• which. ecclesiasticalquestions generally seem to evoke from his mind, playfully devoted his speech against Church Rates on Wednesday......