14 JULY 1883, Page 2

The Comte de Chambord still lives, and the accounts of

his. condition are sometimes more favourable. His immediate agent in Paris, however, the Comte de Blacas, publishes ominous- bulletins ; it is admitted that they have grown worse since he' ceased to wish to see them, and the latest telegram from Vienna,. where the Count's condition is watched with interest, mentions• that the disease begins to be called cancer of the stomach. It appears to be the steady etiquette of Courts never to admit that hope is over with a royal personage until he dies, and the custom has extended to America. The doctors admitted after the death. of President Garfield that the injury to his spine from the bullet made recovery hopeless, and that they knew this all through.