The reports as to the health of the German Emperor
are contradictory. According to the latest bulletin, he had been walking about in the garden, and was much better ; but an impression has got abroad that the irritation created by the pellets of lead still lodged in the wrist is dangerously great, and may necessitate painful operations. This impression is fortified by a bulletin of unusual length, issued on the 18th inst., in which his Majesty's physicians state that the general expectation of the Emperor's restoration to health is too sanguine. " In present circumstances, the fulfilment of this hope is certainly the desire which animates the hearts of all. But besides passing moments of pain, his Majesty suffers much from helplessness through being unable to use either arm, and his complete recovery can only be effected after a long time, during which many obstacles may have to be encountered, which, with God's help, we hope may be overcome as happily as those that preceded them, but which cannot fail to inflict much pain upon the august patient." A bulletin of that kind issued about a King is usually intended to warn the public that there is serious danger.
