17 SEPTEMBER 1881, page 4

• The Latest Irish Idea.

T HE Irish fancy that Englishmen are hostile to the de- velopment of Irish manufactures is a mere traditional prejudice. There was such a feeling once, but Englishmen since then......

Topics Of The Day.

THE CRISIS IN EGYPT. E NGLAND and India together have paid twenty-three millions sterling for Lord Salisbury, and the account is open still. The clumsy, dangerous, and as we......