... 1 LLOIYD'S WEEKLY I ELI LONDON WEW4'4':NEW2AP LORD FITZWh ,T, lAOAPOPERTY I AN AOUA, Aecording 'to Lord Fitzwilliam-if property have: its duties s *ell' as, its rights, at any rate the rights areoparamount and inalienable, 'while the dutins' are optional'. , In his speech to the iniers ofi Lower, Stubbin, his lordship was right and was wrong. lie was right, when ,he clajid ididiss. freedom ...

... THE ALABAMA AWARD. The award of the Geneva arbitrators has surprised most people. It was generally understood that England would be held liable in damages for the career of the Alabama (whose fitting out is a disgrace to all concerned in it); but very few were prepared to hear that wve were to pay for the depredations of the Florida gad of the Shenandoah. The Lord Chief Justice, in refusing ...

... ADICALIOF TE KING OF SPAIN. PROCLAMATION OF A REPUBLIC. MADAm, February 10.-At this evening's sitting of the Congress, Senor Figueras, a Republican member, expressed surprise that the Ministers were not pre- sent, and demanded that they should attend. 'Senor Rivera, the president of the Hoe, 'replied that he had sent for theri. Senor- Zorilla, on making his appearance, said tile situation wfas ...

... F OI EIGN INTELLIGENCE. I *FRANC.-rTha JournaZL OffxicZc Of Tudayns- flounces .that iaddition to the 150 millions re- centlypeidito 'Omlt th is oey of the fourth mielisd the Treasury has-pasid to' Germany 129 million francs, for interes&Y- In% Monday's sitting of the on d t onothe Con stitntionalbif of the Combittee ,of Thirty was, re- eumed.. ;M. Bilcastel's emcndiisen~t, proposing that the ...

... TUB ASHANTEE EXPEDON. Her lajesty's ship Dromedary sailed from Wool- wieh on Tuesdoy morning for the Gold coast,, with troops and stores. She had been visited and ap- proved by eear-edmiral Beauchamp Seymour, on behalf of thbe AdmiltY board. On Wecdnesday the 42nd Highlanders embarked on board the Allan company's steamer Sarmatian, at Portsmouth, for the Gold coast. Prince Arthur was amongst ...

... MPE1RIAJ2 PARLIABMNT. ; HOMsE OF LOBDS.-TEm9DAy. M USEA WATER COMPAY BIL Wghptetitlons were presented against this bilL ?? FwTzwAR, it' moving that the bill be ren4 a scond tim trusted that the ordinacy course would bs kea n thbs case, and that the bill would be referred to a*eleot eommittes.: It was a flat marsh that was to be 0npled if tbln ?? becume law, and hO destruction of ceonery to the ...

... A.SSOCMATION OF IINERS. I A conference of the Amalgamated Association of Miners was opened at the Athenremn hal, Oorn- street, Bristol, on Tuesday, Mr. T. Halliday, the president, occupying the chair. There were about 150 delegates present, from Cumberland, Lanca- shire, North and South Wales, and the counties of Somerset, Cardigan, and Carmarthen. The-Chair- man said that they had not invited ...

... . LLOYD'S WEEKLY LONDON NEWSPAPER. Mr. Buckmaster. Government professor of cookery, is a very ingenious gentleman. He is the intellectual all-in-all' of South Kensing- ton; but, ike his late busy chief M. Cole, he is a trifle too meddlesome. On his old lec- turing ground we believe he managed to sti- mulate publie interest in the department to which he belonged. . He knew his subject well, ...

... THE COMING CRISIS 1N nRANCE. The state of affairs in France has once moore become difficult, and it is not improbable that the strength of Mr. Disraeli's Government in its foreign department m.ay be shortly tested severely. M. Rouher has addressed a start- ling letter to a journal of his department, in which he refers to the power of the Septennat as limited and almost ephemeral, and hints at ...

... ClJ'FINGS FROM THE COMIC JOURNALS. ,Ftrom unek,' A CoxMol- smno Vrsw.-Depressed Tiberal-BEi don' yer see. Gla'sbonv was goln' to 'bollsh th'.income-taxsh ?- Jocund Tory: 0, bother the tax) Letsh 'sve the income fnstIlI AGONISING, - Damon: Eulo, Pythias! Wbat's the matter?-Pytbiaas: 0, my deer fellow, 1've-tut-t-t-t-(Ob- Jurgatlons)-I've been writing to my tailor to give me another inch and a ...

... I LONDON SCHOOL BOAR; On Wednesday the firstmeetin after the Easterhoff- days weea held in Guidhall. Sir Charles Reed, MP4 presided. With reference to Mr. Peek's offer of 5001. w~hich was to be expended within one year in defray- insgthe cost of examinations in religious subjects, and4 in providing prizes or rewsrds forsach pupil teachers and scholars ino the Board schools as might, after such ...

... LLOYD'S WEEKLY LONDON NEWSPAPER. Public expectation was excited to a very high degree on Thursday night when the Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer rose to make his financial statement. Rumours and surmises had abounded. The enemies of the Govern- ment had industriously spread abroad the idea that all the money which prndent Mr. Lowe had been husbanding would be recklessly used by the ...