The cholera continues its march, and is gradually seizing pos-
session of an extended territory ; but the active steps taken by the central and local authorities have manifestly checked the virulence of the endemic, and must have saved many lives. The experience under the present attack proves beyond further question how much it extends on sufferance, and how much it is under control It scourges the squalid abodes of nuisance, and emigrant-ships in which food and hot water are sold at siege prices ; it abates before prompt attention, better food, and cleansing. In short, cholera, as well as railway manslaughter, can be brought under when there is the will to do it. We see in the latest "accident,"—that terrible one on Wednesday, on the Irish South-western ]lailway,—that a single act of negligence can inflict, at a blow, an amount of death, mutilation, and shattered health, as great as when the cholera visits a town. In both cases, the preventible death is manslaugh- ter; mid we are just beginning to know as much.
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