The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-27 00:00:00

THE CH01.70 IL

Restating the chief directions'ln the Prhy Council order
relative to the opening of dispensaries, the house to
house visitation, the stringent measures of die.
infection, and the prompt burial of the dead,
the Times adds that one cause of anxiety arises from the
fact that the due and prompt obser►anoe of them regula-
tions will to a l►rge extent depend upon the metropolitan
vestries and local boards. Unhappily, we have lately had
but too much reason to distrust the energy end intelligence
of these bodies. That they would be quickened into a spas-
modic activity by an actual epidemic of cholera in their dis-
tricts can hardly be doubted ; but what is now requited is vi-
gilance and activityln anticipation of the danger. What they
are occasionally capable of doing was strikingly exemplified
by a letter in our impression of Tuesday. The pump in
Broad-street, Golden-square, has a historic importance in
the ann►ls of cholera. The distinctness with which the
frightful epidemic in that district in 1854 was traced to the
use of water from this pump has furnished one of the most
instructive pieces of evidence em to the communicable
nature of the disease. .A short time ago, upon the re-
sentation of some of the principal inhabitants of the
district, the vestry of St. James's were induced
to else this pump, but within the last week, when
the cholera has really appeared in London, they have had
the unpardonable temerity, or stupidity, to re-open it.
Such an act is something worse than foolish. If the order
now issued be administered in the spirit displayed in this
instance, it could not but prove ineffectual. Medical men,
however, are thoroughly alive to the nece•ity of adopting
the most vigorous measures, and there are, we may hope
no districts in which they will not be actively supported
by the clergy and by a sufficient number of independent
persons. The vestries are immediately responsible, but
their exertions will be greatly stimulated and greatly
assisted by the independent support of all persons of in-
, annum within their district.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterdairtentlyie
official residence of the First Lord of the
in Downing-street. The ministers present were
the Earl of Derb the Earl of 14 almesbury, the
Right Hon. S. H. Walpole, Lord Stanley, the Earl of
Carnarvon, General Peel, Viscount Cranborne, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Pakington,
Lord J. Manners, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy,
and Lord Naas.

Queen Emma of the Sandwich Islands is now in
Dublin, and intends to proceed on a tour to the Lakes of
Killarney.
The Rev. Francis Duncan Gilby, A.M., has
been instituted by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and
Bristol to the rectory of Whittington, in the county of
Gloucester, vacant by the death of the Bev. W. Hicks.
Patron, C. W. Lawrence, Esq.
The will of Robert Gardner, Esq., of Chsseley,
near Manchester, and of Lytham, in Lancaehire, was
I proved in London on the 19th inst., by the executors and
trustees—namely, William Atkinson, Eaq., hie brother-in-
law, of Ashton Hayes, and Thomas Sebastian Batley.
Seq., his son-in-law, of Agden Hall, both in Cheshire.
The personalty was sworn under 350,0001. The will is
dated June 22, 1857 ; sad there are four codicils. After
some inoonvidentble legacies, the testator bequeaths the
greater portion of his valuable warehouse property in Man-
chester, together with the sum of 100,0001., to his grand-
children, Ellen Jeromina Josephine de Mendelsloh Gard-
ner, and Lucy Anne de Mendrislelt Gardner, the daughters
of his late eon, Richard Gardner, Esq., formerly Y.P.
for Leicester, with remainder to their descendants. The
residue, real and personal, is left in trust for hie daughter
Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Sebastian Barley, Faq., only
sea of Thomas Bailey, Esq., Y.P. for Manchester. Mr,
Gardner died at his residence, Lytham, on the 24th ult.,
at the &droned age of eighty-ilve. He was well known as
an energetic arid sneeradid merchant, both in Landon and
in Manchester, and equally so as a prominent asembar of
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A Mobile paper states that a large alligator
caught near the city is now being " band" tiers.