According to the latest telegrams, that periodical and fearful pestilence, cholera, seems to be rapidly on its march westward across the continent of Europe. Only the other day it was reported as prevailing at Vienna. In such a season, with that capital crowded with visitors, and with extraordinary facilities for travel to and from it, it is not improbable that the spread of the dread disease has been ex pedited more than it might have been at another time. Naturally, its appearance in the British capital has excited alarm, but it is to be hoped that the extraordi nary improvements lately made in the organisation of sanitary measures will be a weans of staying its progress more effec tively than on the occasions of its previous visitations to the country. The Spaniards can, apparently, well dispense with • its presence, for they are killing and slaying among, .themselves with a constancy that savors of their enjoyment of r the,'process rather, than the reverse, and with an alternation of success which does riot seem to indicate a speedy cessation of their civil wars. There , is one commercial item of the news which,' half a century ago, would have influenced a supposed specific for cholera, but which now bespeaks the extent of a famine in regard toa particular article which; however great a specific for some ailments, is, when associated with feasting, the promoter of many. Brandy has ."gone up" so much per gallon, and the Melbourne market has sympathetically responded to the change in the commer cial barometer. The sequence will pro bably be, symptoms in exactly the opposite direction, so far as concerns Custom-house thermometers, and the carriage of more water up-country, in these parts of the world, in the name, not of Plizvius, but of Hennessy and Martell.
