NEWS OF THE WEEK.
MGAMBETTA expired on Sunday, the last day of the old
• year, a few minutes before midnight. He was aware that there was no hone, and before death unconsciousness had supervened. Ten doctors made a careful autopsy of the body, and report unanimously that the wound from -the pistol-bullet had healed completely, and that old suppurations of the bowels existed, ending in an abscess in the c,aecum, the matter from which produced pericolitis and death. All the other organs were healthy. M. Gambetta had, in fact, during the later years of his life, led far too indolent a life for his constitution, and lad overfed himself with food too rich for him, and against which he was warned by his physicians. He was only forty- four years of age, and unmarried, and he died without a will, though he left a small fortune of £28,000, saved out of the revenue of the Republique Franpaise, in which he was a large shareholder, and which, more especially in its evening edition, enjoys a great circulation. He had of late lived much in retire- ment among his friends in a small hotfse in Ville d'Avray, where his amusement was to talk politics to his intimates over a good dinner.
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