Queen Victoria's Condition

NEW Yokk, Alaren 25.- A Londoo cable to The Worid siiys that Mis. Kiniiv Crawforti contribuu-s to last wirok's Trutli the firvt puolic inention oí Queen Vlotoria's serious condition, ouncermng which therr is niuoh private discussion Mrs. Crawford writes that on hor arrival at the railway station at Nico the queen "seerned unable to ralse hei head. She looked up and around ander heavy uyelids, as il wam ing strengt!) to look otherwise. One might havo thought she did not ieel her feet under her a-, with the assistance of her servante, she tned to descend the sloping gangwity from the train into the ■tatioa." It is WeH known among thoso familiar with oourt affairs that rlienmatisin of the knees has laoely not only developed complete loss of power over both the queen's iegs, lut has extended to the back and anus, and that a fatal issue is to be feared at almost any time. The reports of the queen's condition seriously affect the pariiamentary situation. With the deaCh of a sovereign parliameut is immediately dissolved. Th is contingency is undoubtedly an important factor in all the present calculations. The political aimosphere, in tact, is charged with sensational p)flsib(litiea. The condition of the health of Lord Rosebery is not changed, buc there is no question that he is seriously ill and that the complicationsof the political situation are such as to doprive tlie premier of the enorgy necessary to üht dilïicult and delicate questions. Under these circumBtauces it is not astonishing that the wildest run-ors are circulated and that many people are turuing their thoughts toward Air. Gladstone as likcly to be the man who will guide tlie Liberáis once more out of political darkness and into the sunshine oL harmony.