2 AUGUST 1884, Page 3

The severity of the cholera epidemic has greatly abated at

both Marseilles and Toulon, nor has it really appeared in Paris ; so that France has reason to hope that for this year, at least, the worst is over. Nevertheless, at Arles and Aix the outbreak is still very fatal, and there are other towns in which cholera has made its appearance, as for example, the small town of Ardeche. A- ship, just arrived at Cardiff from Marseilles, has a cholera .case on board ; and the body of a sailor who died on board had been committed to the sea.