28 MAY 1859, page 12

Enquiry Into The Neutrality Laws.

WE believe that Lord Malmesbury's neutrality proclamation, Irowever well intended, is what they call a brutum fulmen,—a thunderbolt, calculated more to alarm than to enforce ;......

Topics Of The Day.

THE CRUSADE OF TODAY. .Nsaions like individuals are commonly great and happy in pro- portion to the nobleness of the motives that mainly actuate them. A simple and distinct......

Colonial And Foreign Postage.

IT seems unfair to press upon the English Post-office further re- duction in rates, and to object to an increase in the rate of the extreme Eastern postage when it is raised......