Slit WALTER SCOTT.
DURING the week, the papers have had daily paragraphs respecting Sir WALTER'S situation, several of which have been calculated to raise hopes, which, unhappily, are quite fallacious. It is true that he has occasionally taken more nourishment than he had done previously, and has consequently been somewhat strengthened by it ; but there IS no change in the symptoms of his disease that leads to the slightest hope of his recovery. Such, we are. informed, is the opinion of his medical attendants. His recognition of the persons around him is uncertain and interrupted; and he is reduced, both in mind and body, to a state Of utter helplessness. In such a condition, the release of his great spirit from its ruined tenement of clay, is an event which cannot but be wished for by those who most love and respect him.
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