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Cholera could be fixed upon a tan-yard, a slaughter-pen, or a fish-pond, whieh has been substantiated against the plaees where ardent spirits are retailed in cities, the legal arm would remove them at onee; and the question would never be asked, how much saerifiee of pleasure would be sustained by the owner of the fish-pond, or of money by the owner of a tan-yard, or slaughter-pen. Pleasure and money are not to be weighed against human life. And why should this spirit-trafic be entitled to peeuliar favour?"
The pestilenee likewise passed over to America, with awful malignity. A letter, dated 31st August, says, that in New York there were 3500 deaths, in a population of 200,000, one in fifty-seven. In Quebec, the deaths were 2000, population 33,000, one in fifty-seven. Montreal the deaths were 2000, population 25,000, one in twelve. In an alms house, in that eity, contains 1500 inmates, there were 300 deaths, one in five.
During the height of the disease, there were meetings for prayer on account of the state of the country, in the established ehurches once or twice a-week; and by the evangelical dissenters eonjoined, in the Spring and Summer months, as well as in the time of the calamity, in their meeting houses alternately, which were attended by 100 to 200 people, in a population, both burghs included, of 15000, few externally seemed to give glory to God for their deliverance,-were there not ten lepers cleansed, but where are the nine?
From the 23d October, the cases became daily fewer, and more mild, and the recoveries more numerous. After the beginning of Deeember, there was no more eases, and the town began to assume its usual appearance, although many living in the immediate neighbourhood, as well as those from a distance, did not enter it for months after, from a false report of the plague being still among us but coneealed.
The eleetion, of a member of parliament for the burghs, took plaee here on. the 21st December, and the late calamity seemed all to be forgot in the excitement and the dissipation previous; many for nights before went not sober to bed; the howl of the drunkard on the streets at midnight was as loud as ever, yet they all were for reform.But, excellent as reform is, bear, in mind, that you may get freedom from the
