The cholera is advancing, and has effected a lodgment in
England, but as yet it has not assumed its terrifying character. It is worst in Galicia, where the people dislike sanitary pre- -cautions, and in part of Hungary, where 143 eases and 78 deaths have been reported in one day to Buda-Pesth. It has appeared in Vienna, Berlin, and on the Rhine, and at Nantes, in France,—in the latter place with apparent, though not quite verified, severity. The English case has occurred at Grimsby, where several suspicious deaths have been reported, and one— that of a woman named Pettersen—has been fully proved by the experts. The disease is supposed to have entered Grimsby from the Continent ia one of the numerous vessels which enter the port, and the convaleseent patient who brought it is actually identified. It is a little late in the year, we are told, for a severe outburst in England; but careful people will do well neither to drink unboiled water, nor to clean their teeth with it. The latter precaution is one too often neglected.
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