There seems to be little doubt that the cholera is
again raging in parts of Russia. The Grasliclanin declared recently -that five hundred deaths a day were occurring in one province, and the Official Gazette, while denying this, admits that, between January 1st and February 7th, reports have been received from fourteen provinces announcing the presence of the disease, and that amidst 973 Beizores, 369 deaths have occurred. Thirty per cent. is not a heavy ratio of deaths 'during a new outburst of the plague; but its wide diffusion in so early a part of the year, and in frontier provinces like Podolia and Kieff, is full of menace for Western Europe. It will be remembered that the best doctors in Germany pre- -dieted a sharp recrudescence of the disease in the early spring ; and there are signs abroad—not, it is true, quite in- eltibitable--that the period of frost is over.
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