NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ON Thursday evening the country learned with deep concern, intensified by the fact that the news was unexpected, that the King was suffering from a severe bronokiel attack. A bulletin issued at eight o'clock that night stated that his condition "caused some anxiety." On Friday morning public anxiety was profoundly increased by the issue of a bulletin which stated that the King's condition gave rise to "grave anxiety,"—a. phrase which would have been carefully avoided unless there were the most obvious 'reasons for employing it. The news is a very severe blow, and the affectionate regard in which the King's person is held will cause the whole Empire, and indeed the whole civilised world, to wait on the course of his illness with deep and unceasing solicitude. We need hardly say that while the suspense lasts it will exclude all other political considerations. The chief warrant for hopefulness is the manner in which the King's exceptional constitution overcame the grave illnesses of 1871 and 1902.
