On the 28th ultimo over 40 deaths occurred within quite a small area of the native city, and the price of coffins ins risen from Tls. 10 to Tls. 50, showing that the disease jsaprending rapidly. Two cases of plague have already occurred in foreign compounds situated at the extreme west and enst of the Foreign Settlement. Iam informed that four Russians have been seized with. the plague at the Russian Settlement; and in "spite of all this evidence of rapid increase we are to possess our souls in pati ence, for " instructions are hourly expected have been for the last ten days. It needs no prophetic inspira to foretell the Peking authorities
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