The new Board of Health promises to be equally conciliatory
and active. Not before it was time. The dread pestilence of the squalid alleys is knocking at lordly doors, and Lord Toeelyn is a conspicuous sacrifice. He was seized while at the Tower, in the performance of as chivalrous a duty as officer ever undertook —sharing with his men of the Essex Rifles the dangers of a place already tainted by pestilence. He has fallen, and the regiment is removed to healthier quarters at Canterbury. Lord Beaumont was also for a few hours added to the list of cholera victims, and it is even now not certain that his death was quite unconnected with the disease ; for although he appears to have died of a low fe- ver under which he had been suffering, the fact that he was taking medicine prescribed for cholera would seem to prove that he was depressed by the panic which the undoubted increase of the dis- order excites in many. A victim to cholera, not less regretted nor of less promise than any, is the amiable Colonenauderdale Maule ; and though he sinks on a different field, the East, no difference of place can qualify the lesson, that " blood "does not escape.
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