GOLD, importation of, from Russian mines, 1837-47, 16; discovery of, in California, 1848, 17; in Ballarat, 1850, 17; gloomy predictions of Chevalier and Cobden as to consequences of discoveries of, 18; views of Sir Roderick Murchison as to same, 18; 'Nature's Currency Restriction Act,' 18; of Sir Archibald Alison as to same, 19; 'Nature's Currency Extension Act,' 19; output of Mexican and Peruvian mines in fifteenth century, £800,000, 19; Australian diggings in 1850-1, £18,000,000, 19; fallacious arguments, as to effect of, based on 'grain test,' 19; demonetization of, in Holland, 20; advantages of supply of, recognized by Prince Consort, 20; influx of, into Bank of England, 22; decrease of bank rate, 22; conversion of £3 per cent. consols, 22; interest on Exchequer Bills, 1-1/2 per cent. per annum, 22; Australian cities built by, 24. GOLD fields, emigration to, in 1852, 369,000, 21; average for five years succeeding discovery of, 250,000 per annum, 21; maximum emigration to, in any one year, 500,000, 21; costs of living at, 22; rise of wages here, consequent on rush to, 23; scarcity of agricultural labour in country, 23; reduced to 100,000 per annum before 1859, 25. GOLDWIN Smith, his fear of result of popularly elected Parliaments, 261. GOLF, revival of, as an English game, 414. GOOCH, Sir Daniel, chairman of Great Western Railway, 37; his fortune not made in railways, 37. GRAMMAR schools, wasteful geographical distribution of, 141; well endowed, with insufficient scholars, 141; cases of, Chudleigh, Ashburton, Totnes and Bovey Tracey in Devon, 141; Walsingham, Norwich, Ipswich and Bury Saint Edmunds in East Anglia, 142; Ossett and other schools in the north, 142; suggestions for utilizing decayed, 143; instances of beneficial modifications of established, 143; Bath College, excellent work done by, 143; amalgamation of Somerset College and Sydney Grammar School, 143; Charterhouse, successfully removed from London to Godalming, 144; Archbishop Holgate's, removed from Hewsworth to Barnsley, 144; policy of maintaining the old, as machinery for Secondary Education, 144. GRANTS for educational purposes, growth of, 135; first grant in 1833 of £20,000, 134; in 1857, amounted to £451,000, 135; in 1860, exceeded £1,000,000, 135; in 1870, were £1,125,000, 136. GRESHAM, Sir Thomas, first of the Great Loan negotiators, 64. GROUPS, government by, as in France, 240; as distinguished from government by party, 240; cycle of, a possibility in store for England, 273. GROVE, Sir George, discovery of lost scores of Schubert, 347; dictionary of music by, 347. GROVE, Sir William, discoveries with regard to correlation of physical forces, 325.