The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-13 00:00:00

THE poanzAw ASSESSMENT.

A series of questions having been addressed to
the Poor-law Board, with the view of obtaining information
on the above subject, by Br. J. L Stratton. of Tlllllollsoll
House, Brackley, writing oo behalf of the &armament
committee in his district, the following reply has been
received from Mr. W. 0. Lumley. assistanteometary of the
Board :—" I am directed by the Poor-law Board to acknow-
ledge the mop, of your letter of the 23th of June last, on
the subject of the proper mode of arriving at gross estimated
rental. "You ask, in the first place, w bather, in arriving at grow
estimated rental, it is right to consider that actual rest has
nothing to do with the subject! To this the board have to
armor that the courts have laid down is many oases that
the rent whicn is actually paid is the best criterion of value
(see the 'Kieg v. Chaplin,' 1 B. and Ad., 998) when that
is the full rack rent, though. as it was held in the late ma,
of Hayward v. the Overseers of Briockworth,' 10, L. T.
(n.s.), 606. that rent is no; conclusive, as it may be shown
that the actual value is above the sum paid as the rack rent.
You ash, secondly, whether it is ngbt to consider that
/MI estimated rental ought sot to be lees than the
actual rest that is paid for the land, except is
the cases of old knees, where it is clearly proved
that from some cease the property has been de-
preciated in value! The board, referring to the dee-
affirm of roes estimated veinal. gives in lath minim
of the late act 24-L't Via, e. 1113, lied it difficult to seder-
stand how such rental can be deemed to be lees than the
not actually paid, colon some depreciation in value can be
shown to hare occurred in the meaner suggested by von.
It cannot be properly established that the rent at which
the premises may be expected to let from year to year
me, except under some Feather circumstances, be less
than that which is actually paid. Your third question is
whether it is right to same, at a higher amount than actual
rent where it is clearly proved that the property is let
below its real value! To this the board think it best to
refer to the late cam in the Quesa's Beach, above cited,
where the court held • rate to be bad bemuse certain pro-
perties had beep valued by the assessment committee upon
the rent. actually paid, though it was proved that the real
anatial value of these lands was above the =mote paid in
mats."

CARDINAL WISEMAN AND THE CORN OP'
Dthisrms.—The Lthdoe oorreepoodeet of the Camarillo
Independent gives the following statement from the Rev.
B. Martin, of Trowbridge, as hie authority for the pass-
graph which hes been going the roiled of the journal. in
relation to the cure of diabetes :—" Borne years ego,
is the. course of my pastoral work. I met with •
middle-aged man of this town (Trowbridge). a veterinary
gamma, who was thus nfilieted (i.r. with diabetes). He
bad long been given up by the docton. Red appeared to
be on the very verge of the grave. Jost at that time, I
beard of • method of cure that had been adopted by •
Lutheran clergyman to Germ-my, with remarkable success,
and through the kindness of a friend 1 obtained the receipt.
It is simply this : The taking of fresh harm or yeast three or
(oar times • day at the same time meeting the waste pro-
duced by the di;easse on the system, by the free use of
Dublin potter, and all the solid couriabior food the patient
one take. I persuaded my friend. the veterinary surgeon,
to try this remedy. Por some time after adopting it, very
little improvement was perceptible ; he persevered, how-
ever, and although hie reomery was slow, he was, under
the Divine blessing, at length perfeolly restored. Is
: several other sus, too. it has Isom ouomeeful, end, anion
others, in the cam of Ordinal Wiseman. The yeast most
he fresh sad good, not aisle or sour. It may be takes at
7 o'clock in the limning, again at 11, stele at 4 in the after-
image, sod again at 8 la the evaded. Two table-
spoonfuls each time, mixed is • tea-cap or tumbler
with a little cold meta • say the berm and the
water about equal properties*. As the disease
snob a fearful effect in rednehag the system, this must be
cesisteracted, as far as possible, by strengthening diet,
chiefly of animal food. which should be confioed to small
question and cites. The frithd I Imre alluded to kept him-
self well up while taking the yeast by plenty of porter end
oysters. I did sot know whet to say about the latter •
however, be fancied them, and earimuly theY %load vial,
him well. The patient will find advantage too from the
use of nitric! sold. Take of the acid otte drachm and • half.
barley water Oh)* ounces, simple syrup ova ounce. Let
those be mixed together, and take two spoonfuls, is the
name quantity of water, three times a day. This will not
Weeders with, but rather assist, the effect of the yeast, and
will bees& the system in other ways. Lime water may be
wed as a thick occasionally. Of course, gin sad all diure-
tics are to be avoided most scrupulously.