The Cholera

That awful scourge, the Cholera, seems to have been stayed in its westward progress. The severe lessons taught by its former devasiations are seriously regarded by the Governments of Europe, who spare no eftorts to enforce on the various municipal authorities, e strict atteniion to cleanliness and an observance of every possible precautionary measure that may in the slightest degree tend to ward offan atlack, or in the event of a visitation, to mitigate the horrors of the disease. France witli that jealous attenlion to the sanatory welfare of the people, so often evinced by the government of Europe, sent, some month's since, a medical commision to study any new phase or symptom wbich might present itself among the victims to the disease in Eastern Europe, and ihus prepared to combat vvith the foul contagión, should it reach that counlry. The epidemie, at the latest accounts, had ceased its ravages, seemingly mastesed by the science of the Medical Faculty and the prompt and energetic action of the governments, in whose kingdotns it prevailed. America has, as we hope, providentially been spared a visitation, but during the last winter we have heard tales of horror and vvoe, linie less thrilling than those told of the Cholera. Many a reat and good man has sacrificed his life in endeavoring to stay the progress of Bhip Fever. But the stories have been forgottcn as soon as told, and our city government still allows our streets to remain a rotten hot-bed of filth, pregnant with the insiduous germs of this blasting epidemie. Were we called on to perform the aw(ul and solemn duty of announcing, in-morrow's paper, the existence of Cholera in our midst, a thrill of horror indescribable, would be feit throughout the land. That our hospitals are being filled day by day with vistima of ship fever, few of whom escape alive, it is well known and yet excites no alarm - no attention. Our severe strictures on the transporlation of passengers in crowded and fillhy ships we have reason to believe, have attracted the atlention of British Ministers, particulaily the Colonial and Foreign Secretarles, and have produced a salutary change in the mode of conveying steerage passengers across the Atlantic in British vessels. American shipowners, we are proud to say, have generally been humane and kind in their treatment of the poor emigrants, and their conduct siands in bold relief to the mercenary spirit of owrt ersand officers of many British charnel hulks. But the disease is here - Ship Fever, a foul and foetid contagión - and we have a duty to perform in pressing on the attentien of those whose business it is, to give us a clean city - a duty that we vvill perform without fear or favour. We have had promises of clean srteets, year after year, at each successive change in the administralion of the city government. But yet the much needed general and thorough reform in this department, remains untouched. Let us hope that, ere the scorching sun of midsummer gives üfe to these masses of corruption, we may see the