CHOLERA Moeats.—The College of Physicians met on Saturday evening, by
the express order of Government, to take into consideration the best means of preventing the introduction of cholera into this country. They have published a report, in which they state, that the disease seems in certain instances to have been communicated from one person to another, but that no evidence has been given of its being corn. municated by goods. They approve of quarantine, as a precautionary measure. A medical commission sets out to-day for Riga, to examine the nature of the disease, to inform Government of its character, and to suggest the best means of guarding this country against its introduc- tion if they should consider it infectious. INFLUENZA.—This disorder prevails very extensively at Paris; the more timid were alarmed at the idea of the cholera having reached the City. It turns out, however, to be a very innocuous, though a tedious disorder. Perhaps the cholera itself may in time become as mild. It is well known that the influenza was in its earliest career singularly fatal; and if we mistake not, the custom of bidding God bless the person that sneezes, took its rise from what was looked on as one of its prognostics.
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