“ The cholera has again began its ravages in the South. The waters of the Mississippi Valley are troubled, and many who rise in the morning in health, close their eyes on time before the setting of the sun. ”

“ All the Foreign Consuls had left Cairo and Alexandria. A report prevailed at Leghorn that Mehemet Ali was again ill, and had been given over by his physicians. It has been said he had fallen a victim to the pestilence, but the report did not rest upon any authority."
Our political horizon is also agitated. Trouble seems to be brooding over our fair and happy land: Brother seems to be arrayed against brother in politics—strife follows strife, and threat succeeds threat—all seem to be waiting for the voice of the Lord: "To war!" ”

“ THE PLAGUE IN EGYPT.—We have accounts from Alexandria to the 28th of March, at which time the plague was still raging in that city with unabated violence. The deaths were on an average 200 daily. Several European and many Greek houses were infected. Most of the foreign vessels in the harbor had the pestilence on board—several had been obliged to re-land their cargoes after losing part of their crew. The disorder had been very fatal to the crews of an Egyptian ship of the line and a frigate, which were in the roads. The disorder at Cairo was still more destructive than at Alexandria. ”