There is one fact connected with the late epidemic to which I cannot forbear requesting your serious attention, and which, I have little doubt, would be abundantly confirmed, if requisite, by a reference to the experience of other places. Whenever the disorder affected the inmates of some of the less crowded and better regulated houses, its progress was comparatively slow; the symptoms were accessible to those medicines or palliatives, of which the gracious Providence of God has taught us the value; and by these means the last fatal issue was sometimes averted. But whenever it assailed even the healthiest inmate of one of those wretched abodes which I have described, the subtle poison took its course at once; no remedies availed to reach it, and the only symptom was Death. Does not this fact speak volumes as to what we ought to do in endeavouring to improve these dwellings of our poorer brethren, before the Cholera comes again to visit us? Of the extreme difficulty of the question, indeed, no one who has ever considered it can deem lightly. Nor is it likely that this difficulty will be effectually removed until the country has the wisdom to bear, and the legislature the firmness to enact some new statute that can reach it. Hitherto, unhappily, our legislation, with the best purpose, has only aggravated the evil which it sought to correct, and has thus been moving in the wrong direction. The Building Act made it penal for any person to lodge in a cellar, of which the height came below a certain standard, or its window within a certain width; and the only effect of this prohibition has been to drive the cellar lodgers into the attics, where they are stowed more closely than before. The claims of reason, and morality, and common decency have been urged in vain against this fearful state of things. But since it has been proved, by the history of such a season as that through which we have been lately carried, to involve the actual considerations of life and death, some power will surely, ere long, be called forth to correct it. If the cupidity of the proprietors of a steam-boat or an omnibus can be restrained, in order that the capacity of those vehicles may be defined, and that we may travel uncrowded in our journeys to and from the metropolis, has it not become at length necessary that some attempt should be made to regulate the stowage of a bed-room, and to rescue civilized and immortal beings from the ruinous consequences of their present mode of living?