The Cholera Board, on Wednesday,
"Closed its light labours, with a sigh, to find The swift recovery of dull mankind."
The reports have indeed so regularly diminished of late, that it became plain and evident to all men, if they were persisted in much longer, they would meet the fate of the good man's great- coat, which, by successive contractions, grew at length too small for the thumb of a glove. The winter hitherto has been mode- rately healthful. There have been fewer lungs-destroying fogs than we usually have in the gloomy month of November. Last year was peculiarly hurtful in that respect. If the clear weather continue, and yet more especially, if it be succeeded by frost, not ever sharp or long, it is possible we may never hear of cholera more. The more probable case, however, will be its recurrence, in a mitigated form, with the recurring summer, for some years to come, until it gradually e' ually die out. We hope the quarantine and contagion questions are now fairly settled; and that, if the disease do come back, it will neither deprive us of common sense nor of Christian feeling a second time.
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