2 DECEMBER 1871, Page 1

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THROUGHOUT the week the continued illness of the Prince of Wales has caused deep and general concern. Although the physicians who draw the bulletins have worded them very cautiously, and they have, on the whole, been reassuring, still typhoid fever is always dangerous. On Wednesday the Queen 'visited Sandringham, " because " it was incorrectly rumoured "the Prince was worse ;" and on Thursday night the "exacerbations always caused by the fever were in excess." This telegram and the death of Lord Chesterfield, a powerful man of forty, who caught the disease at the same time and place as the Prince of Wales, had on Friday night made the public most anxious, but up to the hour of our going to press, the balance of evi- dence remained favourable. Against the Prince was the severity of the attack, as shown by his own delirium and the un- happy fate of Lord Chesterfield ; but for him were the regularity of its course, his own evident strength, and the cessation of the great cause of weakness, the excessive diarrhoan, which accompanies the fever. It is certain that all human skill can do against the disease will be done, and the Prince has the aid of the skilled musing of his sister, the Princess Alice of Hesse. The Princess of Wales, though never in danger, appears to have suffered an attack from the same poison caught at the same time.