19 MAY 1883, page 8

The Effect Of Conscription On Little Wars.

I T is often said, and generally believed, that the enormous Standing Armies which in these days Continental States deem it expedient to maintain tend to render wars more......

The Co-operairive Congress. T He Figures Given In The...

to the Fifteenth Co-operative Congress are not very clearly set out, and they are not quite identical with those quoted by Mr. Baxter in his opening address. But even with these......

The South-african Colonies.—a Suggestion.

T HERE is a tendency just now to exaggerate the badness of all news from South Africa. Many of the colonists are very sore at the absence of high-handedness in Liberal policy,......