7 MARCH 1868, Page 3
A telegram was published on Sunday, and repeated on Monday,
alleging that the Emperor had been seized on Saturday with a fit of asthma, and gasped so violently that he had to be carried to a balcony window. Asthma does not come on in a moment, the Emperor rides about as usual, and the Imperialists are eager in their denial of the story. It seems, as it stands, incorrect ; but there is a suspicion in Paris that its incorrectness is one of date. There is no subject, however, on which it is so impossible to ascer- tain facts as the Emperor's health.