4 MAY 1867, page 1

It Appears Certain That, Should Conference Meet, Prussia...

a European guarantee for Luxemburg, and that Lora Stanley will concede it. We have endeavoured in another place to show the danger of that course, and need only observe here......

News Of Tim Week.

T HE Luxemburg affair looks for the moment a little less dan- gerous. On Monday the Times startled its readers by pub- lishing a telegram with a grand sensational heading, "......

Sir Roundel Palmer Replied Very Ably To Sir John Pakington,

insisting on the folly of abolishing one " hard and fast line," and refusing to substitute any other as to the figure of the rental, only to set up a new " hard and fast line"......

On The Announcement Of The Majority, Mr. Disraeli, After A

word or two with Mr. Hardy; stated, to the great surprise of everybody, that after the impor .:nt decision arrived at by the Committee, it was not in his pow, r, " without......

The Reports Of Armaments Are Fewer .s Week, But The

Moniteur sikatei that the French Army has been raised to its full strength, that the fortresses have been replenished, and that sufficient horses have been purchased to fill up......

But The Most Important Event Of Thursday Night Was, After

all, Mr. Disraeli's answer to Mr. W. E. Forster, in which he reiterated that the Government had " no wish to connect the new franchises with those which at present exist ;" and......

The Committee On The Reform Bill Was Not Resumed Till

Thurs- day, when Earl Grosvenor withdrew his amendment imposing a 5/. rating franchise, in a few words unintentionally indicating both by tone and manner, the high importance he......