THE CHOLERA.—The state of the epidemic, yesterday, was as fol-
lows—new cases, 50; deaths, 19; recoveries, 25; remaining, 193. Of the cases remaining, there are 48 at Hull, where alone the disease can be said to prevail, 19 at Liverpool, 14 at Greenhithe, and 13 at Edin- burgh. In the other towns (which are numerous) whence occasional reports have been received, there remain one, two, or three at most, to mark the existence of the disease. Considerable alarm was felt last week by the sudden accession of cases at Greenhithe. There are strong doubts whether any cholera morons ever existed there. A very great number of the inhabitants had fallen sick, from eating periwinkles,— an exceedingly unhealthy fish at all times, and not unfrequently, like muscles, poisonous ; and several died. The symptoms, as might be expected from the cause, resembled cholera ; and cholera accordingly had the credit of the attacks and the deaths. Yesterday, Greenhithe presents 1 new case, 10 recoveries, and no deaths ; a result wholly at variance with the history of the disease in any other town in the island. The periwinkles had very nearly brought back cholera to the Metro- polis. On Thursday, a quantity, in a half-putrid state, were brought up from Scotland, by two of the Scotch smacks, and afterwards seized, bra stratagem, by the indefatigable Mr. Goldham, at Billingsgate— sufficient, as the worthy clerk of the market declared, to poison thou- sands. If they had got into " circulation," we should infallibly have had a fresh is-sue of bulletins, and a repetition of all the old-womaitism with which sense has been outraged and trade endangered so greatly, and from the effects of which we are but now recovering.
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