24 DECEMBER 1887, Page 3

The daily reports from San Remo are all of them

favourable as are also the extracts published from the letters of the Crown Prince himself. It is, however, unhappily the fact that his health is a subject of speculation to great parties, both political and financial; and that all accounts not strictly official must be received with great distrust. His own, of course, as usual with patients of such courage, are of little value. It is, we have reason to believe, the opinion of the best experts, that although the case is an unusual one, the disease is running its usual course, with alternations of temporary promise.