The Express.
London, England, 1866-05-14 00:00:00

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

The Times comments upon the increase of cholera cases
at Liverpool, where, it says, among a death-stricken popu-
lation and in crowded fever: dens German emigrants are
allowed to mass together without restriction. The peril
is met with a reprehensible want of energy, and unless
more vigorous measures are promptly taken neglect
may be irremediable. Twenty-four hours' delay
may render all precautions unavailing ; the
cholera may at any moment have effected a
lodgment among us, and the government would then
be too effectually relieved from the necessity of enforcing
quarantine regulations. If quarantine be any protection,
as seems to be believed, let us be protected by it, and pro-
tected at once. It is idle to say that ships might not at
once be sent round to Liverpool, in which the German emi-
grant. might be sheltered until they could be embarked
for their destination, and either this or some similar pre-
caution must be adopted. Nor, while attending to one
port, must the government forget that a similar danger
might at any moment threaten us at another, and they will
not fulfil their duty if they do not promptly arrange some
effectual means for providing hospital and quarantine ac.
conimodation at every large port in the kingdom.
The Daily News draws the startling conclusion from the
figures and facts of the official reports that in round
numbers six thousand lives were sacrificed in thirteen
towns, during one quarter of a year, to causes which are
strictly preventible. Of the six thousand lives so un-
necessarily wasted, Liverpool and Manchester are
alone answerable for a full moiety. The mor-
tality of Liverpool la chiefly attributable to defec-
tive drainage and the huddling together of the Irish
poor ; and the excessive mortality at Manchester, apart
from the dangerous nuisance of smoke, must be considered
in connexion with the fact that water-channels are
often turned there into open sewers, cesspools
overflow, that many houses have no back-doors, and
that cellar dwellings are common. In these and the other
towns referred to there is urgent need for inquiry into
the causes which at present render them so destructive of
human life. If further local power is wanted, let the
legislature be at once applied to, and it will be ungrudgingly
bestowed.

tTte Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, MAY 12.

The Queen walked and drove in the grounds
yesterday afternoon, and again this morning, accompanied
by Princeu Helena.
Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice also walked and
drove.

Prince Alfred, attended by the Hon. Eliot Yorke, weni
to London.

The Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Mary left the
Castle for Kew yesterday afternoon, attended by Colonel
Home Purvis. The Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg.
Strelitz, and Prince Teck, accompanied their Royal High.
messes to Richmond, and then proceeded to London
attended by Lady Caroline Cost.
The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel the Hon.
J. Macdonald, also left the Castle for London.

MAY 13.
The Queen, with Princess Helena, walked in the grounds
yesterday afternoon.
Prince Alfred, attended by the Hon. Eliot Yorke, arrived
at the Castle from London.

The Right Hon. K Cardwell also arrived at the Cutle,
and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal
family.
The Queen, Prince Alfred, Princess Helena, and Prince
Leopold, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting,
attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel.
The Rev. W. H. Brookfield, honorary Chaplain in ordinary
to the Queen, preached the sermon.

The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive on Satur.
day, attended by the Hon. Mrs. A. Hardinge.
In the evening the Prince and Princess of Wales went
to the Royal Italian Opera, Covent-garden.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, with the Hon. Mrs.
A. Hardinge and Major Teesdale in waiting, attended
Divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday.
The communion service was read by the rev. the sub-
dean, the Rev. J. V. l'ovah, and Rev. Daniel Moore.
Anthem, " God is gone up," Croft. Sung by Masters
Carmichael and Searle ; Messrs. Francis, R. Barnby,
Cummings, and Lawler.
Mr. Goss presided at the organ.
The sermon was preached by the Rev. Daniel Moore,
honorary chaplain to her Majesty, from Acts, ch. 1, v. 9.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday, at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. The ministers present were
Earl Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville,
the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of
Clarendon, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Earl
de Grey, the Marquis of Hartington, the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the
Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of
Alderley, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, and the
Right Hon. C. P. Villiers.

e (Times) believe that her Majesty has signified
her wish to occupy Cliefden, the seat of the Dowager
Duchess of Sutherland, for a period which will include the
anniversary of her birth and the Ascot Race week. We
also believe that her Majesty has relinquished her inten-
tion of visiting Scotland at present.

The Earl of Clarendon, Secretary of State for
the Foreign Department, will entertain the whole of the
foreign ambusadora and ministers plenipotentiary at a
full dress banquet on the 26th instant to celebrate the
Queen's birthday. The dinner will take place at the
First Lord of the Treasury's official residence in Downing-
street.

The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer will give a full dress banquet on Saturday, the 26th
instant, in celebration of her Majesty's birthday. After
dinner Mrs. Gladstone will have an assembly.