4 SEPTEMBER 1852, Page 2

Alarm at the advances of the cholera, we suppose, gave

rise to a rumour that it had broken out at Magdeburg. This is incorrect, but it shows how prevailing is the consternation on the Continent. Cholera has appeared at Konigsberg on the Baltic, and now occu- pies the shores of that sea, from Konigsberg to Dantzie, extending inland up to the frontier of Russian Poland. Since our last sum- mary, we have heard of no new conquests Westward. Neverthe- less, Germany is now "dreading " the pestilence. At home, alarm spreads, as it ought to spread, seeing that our countrymen will only make due preparations under the whip of fear. The Board of Health has formally notified to the Government that "steps" should be taken to meet and mitigate any attack of the inevitable enemy ; and the Royal Free Hospital is actually, holding in readi- ness premises capable of containing three hundred cholera patients. A healthy fear would stimulate preparation, but hitherto our au- thorities have left fear no office save its unhealthy one of predis- posing the timid to disease : they have organized the panic, but not the remedy.