3 NOVEMBER 1888, Page 3

We deeply regret to observe that Cardinal Newman has had

a very serious accident, and is suffering not only from the consequences of a fainting-fit, but of the heavy fall which his fainting-fit caused. The latest account of his condition was slightly improved, but a man of eighty-seven does not easily rally from so serious a combination of depressing causes. There are few men in England with whose great spiritual and literary genius so many lives have been closely linked, not only of those belonging to his own communion, but to almost every communion of the religious world, as Cardinal Newman.