CHOLERA.
MERE is now no question of the existence of Spasmodic Cholera within twenty-four hours' sail of England. The accounts from Hamburg of the 14th mention, that up to that day, 55 persons, all of them of the lowest ranks in life, had been attacked by the disease ; that 31 had died, and only 3 were reported as recovered.
The same precautions which were adopted in respect to Riga, have been adopted respecting Hamburg: the vessels from that port are subjected to a strict quarantine, and neither goods nor passengers permitted to be landed, until Time, the great physician, has tested their soundness.
It seems by no means improbable that in a week or two the Cholera may reach England ; for, in the first place, if the disease be really infectious, the communication between England and Hamburg, carried on by the smugglers, is sure to bring it; and in the second place, if it be dependent on the state of the at- mosphere (which all experience seems to prove, as in no instance has the strictest military cordon sufficed to hem it in), it will come were all the soldiers in England employed as coast guards, and were all the ports in Europe declared suspected. To an evil which to all seeming is inevitable, it is the part of wise men to submit as they best may. To care and temperance, Cholera has nowhere, we believe, been found a formidable enemy. If it do make its appear- ance in London, we say not that the careful and temperate are to expose themselves without necessity, but we do say, that whoever advises any other precaution than care and a physician, will, if trusted, only add tenfold to the evil which he seeks to alleviate.
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