28 MARCH 1908, Page 1

The health of the Prime Minister shows, we are sorry

to say, no improvement. All the reports of the past week show increasing weakness, and the bulletin of Wednesday declared that there was ground for "considerable anxiety." No doubt recoveries have taken place even in such unfavourable circumstances as those of the present case, but it is greatly to be feared that, considering Sir Henry Campbell-Banner- man's age and constitution, such an event can hardly be looked for. Happily there is no reason to suppose that there is any great suffering,—except that discomfort which, unfortunately, always comes with prolonged weakness.