The cholera is supposed to be declining in England, where,
though isolated cases occur, it shows little disposition to spread. The greatest suspicion is now felt at Ashbourne, in Derbyshire, where no less than nine oases have been reported, but have not been fully investigated. There is no trace of panic anywhere, and the municipal authorities seem fully disposed to perform a duty usually made much easier by the excel- lence of their water-supply. There are places however, like Manchester, where the long continuance of the fine weather threatens to reduce the water resources to a dangerous point. The disease is diminishing also in Eastern Europe; but the pilgrims are bringing home to Tunis awful accounts of its ravages round Mecca. There the unhappy victims have died like flies, the very soldiers ordered up to bury the dead perishing in the proportion of five to two. We repeat once more that nothing can make Europe safe except the cleansing of Mecca, and the sinking of artesian wells between Jeddah and the Holy City, and that there is not the smallest chance of any such improvement 'unless Europe applies force to the Sultan in the most unhesitating way. Yildiz Kiosk is directly responsible for the cholera, and should be told so, if necessary by cannon.
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