The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-29 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA IN CONSTANTINOPLE.

(Prom the Levant Herold of August 16.)
The course of the akideurie durteg the week hap-
pily admits el brief end earevagiog report. The worst
his now evidently pared. Having overrun the whole of
the capital and the neighbourieg villages, the virulence of
the disease bee at length sensibly elated, and the otßelal
death-rettuns are accordingly mach below those of a week
ago. The intense heat of the past four days bas contributed
to cheek this decline in the mortality, but it may be wall
cloudy hoped that with the sow near epproseh of the
autumn raise and eouseeprent rapid fall in the temperature,
the total digappearaoce of the scourge will be a mere mat-
ter of days. The following have been the death returns of
the week, the number given being for the whole capiu4,—
Oa the 9tb, 278 ; on the lOrb, 358; on the Iltb, 218 ,• an
the 12th, 289 ;on the 13th, 275 ;on the 14th, ; sad on
the 15th, 207.
To this daily aggrepte Stamboul, including the Phariar,
has again been the largest contributor, the disease having
bat little abated or that aided the Horn. In Galata only
a fee oases have been reported. and from Pius the disease
hoe happily altogether disappeared. At Harikari. however,
it still continues its ravages amoegal the Jews and our own
English votary; and poring thence up the valley—susagely
sparing Karim Pasha, where its malignaut force DOOMS
to have exhausted itself—it has broken out with re-
newed eirsalear at Tateela, Delaprierf, end all the re.
gioo round sheet Panaakii. is the villages, there has been
a marked improvement at Therepia, aud across the bay
at Buyuirderf Orel oetbreak has been much less severs
than was feared a week ego, Oa the Adidas war,
it still rages from Kendal to Sadikeui—worst at the
latter village and Scutari, where the troops in barrack
have suffered severely, sad amass at the Primes Is
Dominoes eases have occurred et Aatigons, Halki, and
Prinkipo. Oa the whole, however, the culminating point
has been peeped, sad by the favour of Providence and Stall
in the tamperstase, it may
_be reasonehly hoped test ter
days air a fortidebt will wholly relieve us from the scourge
In the meentime the resume and priests have not been
idle. Both the Propbbt and the Virgin have been
importuned sightly dashes the week by noisy if not
reverent crowds led by the hierophants of both faiths
—or rather, of all the faiths, for in Constantinople we
have may—end proserias• sot • few during the day
have repeated this Roebuck' fetishism, fillies the
thoroughfares with an excited and perspiring rabble,
whose exhalations have been at least enough to POMO
every street though white they pared. With -better
rose, the (trek Patriarch has, at the regent of the
Grand Visler and A'sll Pasha, granted a dispensation from
the fifteen days' fart which prayed* the approaching fête
of the Persia. Hie Holiness has addressed a circular in
this seas, to the clergy of the capital, and to those of the
various districts in the premiere within which the epidemics
has appeared. This dispensation does sot of course eared
I. districts as yet free from the warp..
The Zaptkh Commission Ott its part, hen continued with
nnbegging energy its admirable efforts all over the capital ;
and, as before, with excellent main. We frankly admit,
indeed, that it boa most agreeably disappointed us, Rod has
established a claim on public gratitude to which few would
have believed a mooth *ge la ovulates with most of the
pnbliq we at first regarded lie formation ea, if not a '• job,"
at best a piece of ofllcLl parade, meant leas for we thus
elfeet. It haw, oa thecontrary, proved a thoroughly
workibg oniaatrtioa of inceloulabre velum to the poor, and
of not a little even to the rich, of the capital.