The weather for the past three weeks has been wonderful
all over Europe,—cloudless skies, pleasant breezes, and a high thermometer. We have enjoyed, in fact, a September summer, to the immense benefit of agriculturists and holiday-makers, but with the usual drawback of unseasonable good weather. Cholera is spreading. Nearly four thousand deaths have now occurred in Spain, and it has broken out in Massowah—with- out, however, attacking the Italians—and Aleppo. There is no sign of its extension in France, though there have been a case or two in the Pyrenees ; and as yet, the one case reported in London, and followed by a recovery, has remained alone. It is a remarkable fact that the immense extension of steam communication causes no increased distribution of cholera, though there are several Eastern ports—Calcutta, for example —from which it is never wholly absent. Is anything due to the habit of drinking condensed water on steamers, which cannot be impure I'
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