NEWS OF THE WEEK.
'NOTHING has yet been published as to the motives of the men 11 who attempted to assassinate the King of Spain except that they had been bribed. The attempt, however, as usual, has decidedly strengthened the Monarchy. The King was received in Madrid on the following day with most unwonted cordiality, and his pro- gress Northward has been almost a triumph, his Ministers, more- over, being as well received as himself. How long the feeling will last it is difficult to say, but for the moment many pressing diffi- culties have been removed from the King's path. It is something 'for him to have had a chance of displaying high personal courage before his people, and all communities are more or less under the impression that a man who escapes an attempt of this kind is under the protection of Providence.
