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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

TO the intense satisfaction of the whole nation, the King's

astonishingly rapid recovery goes on without hitch or drawback—he can now walk without assistance—and, save some accident, there is now no doubt that he will be well enough to be crowned on Saturday next. It is a curious and most happy fact that twice the nation has watched round the King's sick-bed—once when he was Prince of Wales, and in the present instance—and in both cases the keenest anxiety has given way to delight and satisfaction.

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