5 JULY 1879, page 4

Topics Of The Day.

THE OFFER TO THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. T HERE has hardly been such a case yet of replying to a request for political bread with the frank offer of a stone, as the Government's......

Lord Lawrence.

A VERY strong man, a man who, under other circumstances, might have been reckoned in his old age like Welling- ton among the resources of the Empire, has passed away this week.......