The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-20 00:00:00

NOTIFICATION OP BLOCKADE.

The following has been published this afterno3n
in a supplement to the London Gaze te :

Foreign-office, April 19. 1864.
It is hereby notified that Earl /toren, her Majesty'■
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affair., has received
from her Majesty's minister at Copenhagen an official noti.
fication, issued by the Ministry of Marine of the King of
Denmark, and dated the 13th of April, 1864, announcing
that, besides the ports and entrances blockaded by the
Danish naval force. according to previous publications. the
ports of Dantzig and Pillau will be blockaded from the 11th
of this mooth (April).
The following is the official notification received be. Earl
Russell :

"The Ministry of Marine entities herewith, tbat besides
the ports end ant:anon blocksdeal according to previous
pu, Radios'. the ports of Deutz% sod Pillsu will be block!
laded from the 19th of this month.

"This bas been communicated to the representatives of
the neutral power', accredited at bie majesty's court, and
this oommuoieation will be delivered by the pilots to all
vessel@ requesting their assistance for the passage through
the Sound and the Belts.
"0. LUTItt...X.
"Ministry of Marine, Copenhagen, April 13, 1864."

PVBLIC EDUCATION.—The Civil Service Esti-
mates, Class 4—Edocatice, Science, end Art—for 1864.5,
show a decrease u compared with those nt last year of
74,797/. The total amount required is 1,311,620/. The
grant for " Public Education, Great Britaio," is diminished
by 98,505/., but there is an increase of 12,699/. in the Science
and Art Department; of 10,751/. for Public Educatioc,
Ireland ; and of 1,556/. for the British Museum.

PROPERTY AND INCOME TAX. —IL appears by A
parliamentary return issued this morning tl at in Great
Britain the annual average amount of property and income
tax contributed per head of population in the quinquennial
period ending March 31,1itiet, was 10a Sid., and in Ireland
21. 106jd. The annual average in Great Britain in the quip
quennial period ending March 31, 16G3, was Ti. 1111, and
in Indeed 2s. 4!,11.
GENERAL GARIBALDI IN THE PROVINCE& —TIIN
requisition to Garibaldi inviting him ti visit Leeds has
received 3,670 signatures, but of course no visit from the
illustrious patriot =a now be looked for. Great ma
may be the disappointment to our townsmen, we are
sure no one would wish to gratify his desire to lee and
do homage to the brave and noble-hearted hero at so great
a cost as danger to his valuable life.—Leeds Nercurv.—
Universal regret is felt in Liverpool that Garibaldi's health
has suffered so much under the exciting and almost
tumultuous demonstrations of which he has been the sub-
ject since his arrival in England. that his visit to Liverpool
and other towns in the north will have to be abandoned.
Great preparatioes were afoot for the reception, and all
classes were looking forward to his visit with enthusiasm,
and with the affection which greets only an old friend.—
At a meeting of the Bradford town council yesterday after-
noon, an address of congratulation to General Garibaldi on
the occasion of his visit to England, was adopted. and also
another address, urging the general, on behalf of the txlr-
poration, to accept the invitation, which has been already
forwarded to him, to visit Bradford. Several gentlemen
expressed their regret to hear that the health of the general
was impaired, and said that in that case they would not
wish him to go from town to 404F0. Mane', f,ter Exam, ner.

HEALTHof LoNDON. —lt appeani from the
return issued by the Registrar-()earn', that the number of
deaths in hoodoo io the week that ended on Saturday was
1,523, of which 765 occurred under 21t years of age, 447 et
20 mid under 60 years, and 295 at 'lli years of age and
upwards. The average number in the tifteeoth week of ten
3 ears 1674.63 is, with a correction for increase of popula-
tion, 1,364. The rate of mortality is therefore still hi6b
for the season, the actual number of deaths exceeding by
159 the number calculated ou past experience. Nineteen
deaths were referred to small.pox, 55 to measles, 44 to scar-
latina, 13 to diphtheria, 60 to a booping.cough nod 59 to
typhus. Six children died of measles in Kennington first
sub-district. In the Green sub-district of BethueLgreen,
there were three deaths from measles, two from scar-
latina, two from diphtheria, and two from typhus; in
the Town sub-district there were Eve deaths from scar-
latina. There were five deaths from injury by hone
conveyances. Seven persons died at the age of 90 years
and upwards, the oldest of whom were two widows at the
age of 'G years. Four children died of scarlatina in one
family at 20. Towoebend-road, hfarylebone, three on the
10th, sod one on the 11th inst. A "sheerer, aged AO yews,
died in St. Luke's Workhoome, no 17th March, of "typhus
with destitution." A watot,finisher' aged 68 years, was
fuuod deed on the 3rd inst., at 22, Lower Northampton-
street, Clerkesswell, from effoidou on the brain. accele-
rated by want of food." Last week the births of 1,039 boys
and 953 girls, io all 1,972 children, were registered in
Loudon. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years
1831.63 the average number (corrected) was 2,029.

THE CONTINESTAL regard to
the continental traffic for the coming summer it appears
that the South Eastern Railway Company, in conjunction
with the Northern of France, will resume for the season
the special express daily tidal service between London and
Paris, rid Folkestone and Boulogne, from and after the let
of May. The at rangements for the convenience of gismo-
gers by these services will be more complete than in pre.
vious years, owing to the improvement afforded by the
recent opening of the new West-end station at Charing-
cross, to and from which the special trains will run this
year, still, however, calling at the London-bridge sta-
tion. By the use of these two stations passengers,
whether to or from the West-end or to or from the
City, will be enabled to avail themselves of the special tidal
serviees The direct registry of luggage will be made both
at Charing-vacs and Londoe.bridge stations ; bat for regis-
tered luggage arriving from .the Continent the enstome
examination will be made at Chariest cross when the
luggage is registered to that station, and at Folkestone
when the luggage is registered to London-bridge, the cus-
toms' srrangeroente having hems tionsferred from London-
bridge to Chariog-cross. At the same time, the South.
Eastern Railway Company, who bold the Pcsboffice con-
tract for the isouveyance of the cootinental mails, ries Dover
and Calais, will adopt precisely similar amalgamate as
regards pas engers and luggage by the mail trains by the
Dover and Ostend and Dover and Calais fixed daily mail
services.