NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE intelligence from San Remo is becoming hopeless. Dr. Knssmaul, the Strasburg specialist in lung-disease, reports that while lung-disease does not exist in the Prince, cancer does, and all his German brethren agree with him. The " expectoration tinged with blood" has become profuse, there are reports of an attack of suffocation, and the household at San Remo are plunged in grief. Sir Morell Mackenzie is still in attendance, and it is said the physicians differ sharply, so sharply that imperative orders have been issued to them to give no further information to the public. The bulletins are still "reassuring," but, as the Lancet points out, "there has been no mention of ulcers healing or of swellings and infiltrations receding," though " we may be quite confident that were there the slightest justification for such statements, they would have been made." The Crown Prince of Germany, in truth, is dying of cancer of the larynx, as his doctors suspected several months ago. The incident, a sad one for all Europe, is a terrible one for the aged Emperor, who holds repeated conferences with his grandson and Prince Bismarck. These conferences have given rise to a rumour, not confirmed, but with some probability in it, that Prince William is now exercising, with his grandfather's consent, all the powers of the Throne. Somebody certainly must be signing the mass of documents issued every week from the private cabinet of the King, and the task must be too heavy a one for so old a man.
