11 JULY 1885, Page 3

The cholera in Spain is still killing above seven hundred

persons a day ; and though the numbers fluctuate, there is no sign of permanent abatement. As yet it has not reached France, but it is daily expected. The cordons fail, and merchants cannot be prevented from flying with the seeds of contagion, as the French believe, within them. In Spain itself the panic has risen to such a height that in places like Araujuez society is totally disorganised, all men possessed of anything flying to a distance. The new preventive inoculation has been found use- less, and of remedies we hear nothing, the disease killing as many in cities where doctors are as in villages where they are not.