The Rising Sun of the Oth so are glad to be able to state that the cholera {is steadily decreasing in the town of but regret to have to add th is ing to a number of the surrounding ud villages in the ken. The following are the official returns for the town of Nagasaki only since the Ist inatast Ast, 88 cases; 2nd, 69; 3rd, 91; 4th, Bur, 40; Gen, 535 7th, 53; 8th, 41,—making a total of 487.' The total num-bor of cases reported throughout the ken, from the 26th ult, to the 7th 1,208; of which the of 649—more than hal only recovered, and the balance of 087 wore till under treatment, Every precaution is "being taken by the authorities to confine the di much as possible.
The statistics given above correspond with those published by the local yovernment; but we fear the ken total has been greatly wuder-rated, as we hear that on the Island of Takasima alone about GOO deaths have taken place in eleven days.
Beking Guzettes,
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