NEWS OF THE WEEK.
NVE hold the life of the Czar in the present conjuncture of affairs to be of the highest importance to Europe, and the latest telegrams do not, we regret to say, entirely remove apprehension. The doctors report that the disease pursues its normal course, and the temperatures recorded are not alarm- ing, but we think it is intended to suggest that his Majesty is not an entirely tractable patient, and that his attendants suspect weakness of the heart. The action of the Holy Synod in ordering prayers throughout Russia must have been sanc- tioned by very high authority, the rumour about a Regency must have passed the censor, and altogether we see reason to believe that the great persons round the throne do not feel perfectly reassured. The truth must be known in a few days. and we can only hope that Nicholas IL may not only live, but regain such a measure of strength that to speak of a Regency would in Russia be an act of disloyalty, if not treason. The world wishes the present Czar to reign as well as to survive.
