NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE week has been deeply saddened, for all men who speak English, by the death of President Garfield. The unpro- voked attempt to murder him, the splendid gallantry he dis- played in his struggle of eighty days with death, and the nobility of his character, which came out bit by bit, till it was recognised as fully as that of Lincoln, produced a profound im- pression in this country, where the personality of an American President, as a unique English figure, always excites the keenest interest. A sentiment awoke for him in all classes which can only be described as one of personal friendship, till lie was prayed for in Anglican Churches which rarely deviate from custom, till the "President's telegram" was the first one read, always with some expression of hope or dis- appointment, and till the Queen's unprecedented act in ordering Court mourning for one who was neither a Sovereign nor a relative was received with personal gratification by the entire community. It precisely expressed the universal feeling that an Englishman, in place a king and worthy to rank with kings, bad passed away. We never remember public sympathy with
• another country to have been so deep or so genuine, for English- men do not feel much for foreign Royalties, though they say they do; and when Lincoln died, the upper class was Southern. From the Queen to the Stock Exchange, they would have suspended labour for a day, if that would have helped President Garfield in his fight.
