[36] Lyons to Granville.

[37] Times correspondent in Paris.

[38] Col. the Hon. George Villiers, Military Attaché at Paris.

[39] Lyons, Feb. 1883.

[40] Sir Joseph Crowe, K.C.M.G., Commercial Attaché at the Paris Embassy.

[41] French Minister at Tangier.

[42] Mr. G. Errington, M.P., had been despatched by Mr. Gladstone on a secret mission to the Vatican in connection with the Home Rule agitation.

[43] Now Lord Kitchener.

[44] Lord Salisbury had taken over the Foreign Office upon the death of Lord Iddesleigh on January 12, 1887.

[45] Dongorita. A town on the Somali coast.