Genre:

Regular Feature, Reportage, Drollery

Subjects:

Animal Behaviour, Language, Military Technology, Telegraphy, Pollution, Government, Politics

    Discussing remarks made in the Houses of Parliament on the complexities of the Welsh language, observes the probable existence of 'a pack of sentimentalists' who 'offer prizes for Welsh odes and such like Gorilla utterances' (193). Reports also on the remarks of Henry J Temple (3rd Viscount Palmerston) concerning spithead forts, the progress of the Red Sea Telegraph Bill, and the support of Edward G G S Stanley (14th Earl of Derby) for measures to be taken to 'avert the Evil Smells caused by certain manufactures'.