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the gallery, over boxes, pit, and orchestra upon the stage, beat off the 

 actor-admiral and his train with three huzzas, and would have carried 

 off Mr. Cooke in triumph, if he had not solicited their polite and generous 

 indulgence, on the ground of his having a previous engagement to 

 dance a hornpipe between the pieces. These two nautical dramas have 

 several very exciting qualities, to account for the inconvenient degree of 

 interest thus taken in them ; that, lately performing at the Surrey, the 

 " Mutiny of the Nore," is greatly aided' in its effect by the energy and 

 feeling with which the hero is performed by Mr. Elton, an actor of 

 high promise and superior attainments. 



THE CHOLERA. The cholera is now generally understood to be non- 

 contagious. The anti-contagionists have gained an important point; 

 of the hundred and one writers on this subject, it would be as well if the 

 cholera had taken a few, ere they had inflicted such " drugged potions" 

 as their pamphlets on the " reading public." The opinion is in favour 

 of an unrestricted intercourse, and if any doubt has lingered in the mind 

 of the fearful, it must be removed by the late publication of the French 

 physician, Antomarchi. The accounts he gives of the details of his 

 practice at the Warsaw military hospitals, and of the experiments there, 

 are, though revolting in the highest degree, completely conclusive as to 

 the fact, that fear from personal contact with the cholera-patient is per- 

 fectly groundless. 



This assurance divests the disease of half its malignity. To know 

 that assistance can be rendered to the afflicted without personal risk, at 

 least from them, will be the means of creating confidence on one side, and 

 on the other, of leaving the dictates of humanity to work their way un- 

 checked by personal consideration. It would be frightful to think of 

 the condition of the poor, if the disease were to extend itself throughout 

 our island when the labours of medical men and attendants will be 

 devoted principally to the richer class if the horror of infection from 

 personal contact were likewise added to the calamity. But in the case 

 of cholera every one can attend on his neighbour, and little medical aid 

 is required. Care in restoring the checked circulation of the blood is 

 the first and most important point ; and numberless cheap and portable 

 baths are now manufactured for the purpose, which may be bought or 

 borrowed at a few minutes' notice. 



We are not, however, of the class of alarmists. The disease amongst 

 us, we are inclined to believe, is but a mitigated Eastern cholera, after 

 all ; and when we recollect the time it has been amongst us, and the 

 very slow progress it has made ; when we see from various accounts the 

 extreme unhealthiness of the present season, the numbers fallen victims 

 to our own epidemic, the " typhus ;" the small-pox and measles raging 

 in a most unprecedented manner in many parts of the country, we are 

 not a little sceptical as to the fact of the cholera ever reaching London. 

 It is a little novelty for the faculty, and makes them of importance j it 

 has made the fortunes of sundry venders of drugs, who have feed sun- 

 dry Sangrados for their recommendation, et voila tout ! 



When the novelty has subsided, and with it the excitement, and with 

 it the fees, then, adieu cholera. At least let us hope so. 



In the meanwhile his Majesty's lieges are beginning to recover from 

 their panic. Stomach-aches are beginning to be treated in the usual way 

 again. Cajeput is not flown to with such avidity a.s it was a month 



