The gratifying intelligence comes from Constantinople that the progress of the cholera has been checked,' and the alarm which was felt concerning the spread of the epidemic eastwards and towards Europe aud and the west is subsiding*. A London merchant offered :£.">,000 to the Post Office authorities for llieexclnsivc privilege of advertising on every letter despatched from aud received in the metropolis for one year—the advertisement to occupy a space of not less than one half-inch outside the circumference of the date stamp, aud to be impressed at the same time. The Postmaster General declined the-offer.
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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 68, 27 December 1871, Page 3
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96Untitled Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 68, 27 December 1871, Page 3
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