The cholera is advancing in Russia with rapid strides. It
has appeared in Astrakhan, the city at the mouth of the Volga,. and far up the river in the Province of Samara, which of all provinces is the one most affected by the recent famine. The Government displays much energy in ordering sanitary reforms; but it cannot prevent its agents from acting so. harshly that in some places, notably Astrakhan, the people refuse to carry out the measures for their own protection. They are said, moreover, like Asiatics, to prefer leaving their protection to Heaven; but we fancy that this is their form of excuse for disobedience. At least, they fly when they can, which Asiatics, once in their mood of submission, very rarely do. It is difficult to make out from the Russian returns, what is the degree of severity in this outburst, but a third of those attacked appear to recover. The reports of an outbreak of cholera in the suburbs of Paris also grow serious. The doctors call the disease cholera nostras ; but it kills in two. hours, and there have been nearly two hundred deaths.
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