ber of cases remaining. It will be seen, by comparing
this account with the account of last week, that the cases have diminished by about one seventh, and the deaths by one eighth ; the number of cases re- maining is less by one fourth part. This is, upon the whole, satisfac- tory,—more especially when it is considered that several new places have appeared on the list within these few days ; so that, although the disease diffuses, it does not augment in violence. The state of the Metropolis has been the subject of much unreason- able alarm during the week ; for in the Metropolis, although there have
been not a few marked cases, the cholera is gradually abating. We have on this bead an authority to which our readers will not improperly attach more weight than to our own. The Medical Gazette says- " We have made it our business to ascot trio, as nearly as possible, the state of the metropolis as to cholera, and the result has convinced us that the extent of
the evil has been much exaggerated. The occurrence of some deaths among
persons moving in the higher walks of life has led to a panic, and its usual con- sequences, for every rich case is immediately known to all the town. We have
made out, on what we believe to be satisfactory grounds, that though the actual number of cases now under treatment at the various public establislnnents he greater than it was on this day last week, yet this is owing to the gradual accu-
mulation which necessarily takes place from the continuance of the disease, and not to an actual increase In the number of attacks occurring each day : on the contrary, the result of our inquiries has satisfied us that there has been upon the whole a diminution to a decided, though not as yet to a very great, extent.'
A great deal has been said and written this week, and every week' since the disease broke out, of diet. We believe all the rules that have been laid down on the subject may be summed up in the ancient one of Ne quid nimis. Food and liquors which were wholesome last year are not unwholesome this ; but it may be necessary, while the pre- sent skyey influences prevail, to use them somewhat more moderately. It is quite unnecessary to add, that all exposures to sudden changes of temperature are to be doubly avoided at a period when the simplest bowel complaints are apt to run into so formidable a type as Cholera. The Herald mentions, that the Temperance Society now numbers 22,000 members, and that not one of them has been attacked. This must be taken cum grano ; but assuredly, temperance, which, like godliness, may be said to be good for all things, is doubly valuable as a preventive of a disease which has its immediate origin in a deranged state of the digestive powers.
MILITARY M0VEMENT2.—In consequence of the prevalence of the cholera in the metropolis, orders have been given to remove as many
troops as possible out of town. On Monday, all the married men of the first battalion of the Grenadier Guards, quartered in Westminster, were removed, with their wives and families. to Hornsey. On Friday, a detachment of the Coldstream Guards, stationed in the King's Mews Barracks and Birdcage Walk, left town for Warley, Essex. It is expected that on the 1st of August, the second battalion Scotch Fusi-
leer Guards will march from London to Brighton. In consequence of the appearance of cholera in Gloucester, the Seventeenth Lancers have marched to Dursley and Wotton-under-edge.
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