General Field-Marshall Gourko has had a stroke of paralysis, which places his life in danger. Doubtless this attack (says the St Petersburg cor respondent of the Daily Telegraph) is due to the effect produced upon him by the serious charges brought against his son Nicholas in connection with the assault and robbery upon M. Polovzeff, at Monte Carlo, which re sulted in the young man being dis missed from the Russian navy. It will be remembered that a cable mes sage received a few weeks ago stated that young Gourko was found dead in a police cell shortly after receiving a visit from his brother.
During the Emperor William’s visit to the Hospice of St John, Father •Schmidt, the director, delivered an ad dress, in the course of which he re marked the hospice stood under the shadow of the Emperor. In replying, his Majesty said that this shadow wits cast by the same black and white Ger man shield which lie had also stretched out over the Catholics in the Far East, who sacrificed their lives and shed their blood in propagating the Gospel. To protect them his brother was now in those regions with the nailed power of the Imperial ships. In conclusion, the Emperor expressed appre ciation of the good results achieved by the hospice.
