25 NOVEMBER 1871, Page 1

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

TIIE Prince of Wales is lying ill at Sandringham with typhoid fever. Ile had been suffering for ten days from feverish symptoms and a whitlow on his finger, and on the 20th the fever was pro- nounced to be typhoid. The first bulletin was issued on the 23rd, and the doctors who sign it, Sir W. Jenner, Dr. Gull, Dr. J. Lowe, and Mr. Clayton, report that there "are no unfavourable symptoms." The complaint, however, has still eleven days to run before the crisis is over, and the country will remember with Anxiety the course the same disease took in the Prince Consort, 'whose very peculiar constitution the Prince of Wales may in some degree inherit. All festivities at Sandringham are, of course, postponed, and the daily bulletins will be awaited with deep interest all through the Empire.