Great alarm was felt through the earlier part of the
week at the condition of the German Crown Prince. The doctors feared that bronchitis might set in, and spoke of the "unusual want of recuperative power" iii their patient. On Tuesday, apprehension, especially in Berlin, rose to a great height, and in Paris news of the Prince's demise was hourly expected. On Thursday, how- ever, a reaction set in, the worst symptoms disappeared, and since then, up to Friday morning, the accounts have been uni- formly reassuring. They refer, of course, only to the effects of the operation of tracheotomy, nothing being known of the course of the actual disease, except that Sir 3forell Mackenzie's departure has been indefinitely postponed. On Monday, Mr. Gladstone for one party, and Mr. W. H. Smith for the other, expressed in strong and feeling terms the universal aspiration of Englishmen that the Prince may recover, both alluding,
moreover, to the way in which his life is bound up with the hopes of peace.
