NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ON Friday morning the Pope was still, alive, but all the latest news pointed to the necessity of another operation being performed on the chest for the purpose of drawing off the pleuritic fluid. Considering the patient's condition, it is to be feared that this must hasten the end, yet without it tbe patient could not live. So deep is the interest excited by his position—surely the most exceptional among mankind—that the whole world seems to be present at his bedside, while his character has secured from that whole world a universal benevolence. We do not quote any of the incidents reported from his bed-chamber, for most of them are "coloured up," and some of them, such as his pro- duction of a Latin poem while almost in articulo, are certainly fictitious; but it seems certain that his bearing through weary days of suffering has been worthy of his high place on earth. Most men, we think, would prefer the death of Archbishop Benson, called almost in a moment as he prayed in church ; but yet there is something in this slow, tranquil, unfeeling dying which greatly moves the imagination.
