The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-30 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE liFlOlB.

can only introduce myself to your notice
as one of your mutant readers, though I may be better
koowa as the public exponent of a remedy for the cure of
corpulence, and the provost butt for the shafts of ridicule,
or as the restored from the grave, to which I wu, perhaps,
consigned in reports which you kindly contradicted last
week.

I am most anxious that your journal should circulate
seriously the great secret that manifold blessings may be
secured by proper dietary in advanced life, sot only to stay
and cure corpulence (a great trouble and anxiety to the
afflicted, of which misery I am relieved), bat many other
ills to which humanity is subject, most of which I think
amenable to its laws, an opinion which I trust the faculty
will soon be able to verify.
There are a great many sufferers from corpulence and
io-
digestioo, on which I can speak with greaser confidence,
and I entreat you to investigate the matter by trying the
plan on some personal friends who are afflicted, so as to be
personally couvuiced of ist wondrous efficacy. I can confi-
dently assure you that 48 hours of the dietary system will
give proof of benefit, and a week remove any one's doubt
in regard to its effect on corpulence or dyspepsy, so
that after a little such personal experience and
medical authority you may be able to take the bull by the
horns, so to speak, and through an able leader in your
columns convey health sod comfort into thousands of homes
now afflicted more or less with some of these evils.

It is not an easy task for a humble individual to make
even the very best of schemes public, and still less easy to
make it fashionable ; perhaps even a medical man would
have less chance than myself, but when it is known, se I and
many hundred* of proselytes know it, and as thousands
will, the utmost possible gratitude will be ensured to those
who help it forward into publicity.
I have no motive but Christian duty, and whatever profit
may result in a pecuniary sense from the sale of my little
pamphlet will (as it professes) be devoted to tenevoleot pur-
poses as my thank-offering for the mercy of cure, but I most
earnestly desire to circulate the wonderful result of this
simple but grand majestic divine law of nature, which until
now has slumbered in comparative oblivion.
There Ong be no possible risk in making the experiment,
as the remedy proposed in the pamphlet is cheering,
natural and generous ; perfectly harmless "u an experi-
ment," and such as no medical adviser would condemn.
though be might doubt its remarkable efficacy until proved
by a week or two of rigid perseverance. I will not presume
to call it a new light, but it is at least a bright fiame ob-
tained from an old spark of knowledge which I am delighted
to be the happy instrument of exposing to the public.—l
am, &c., WILLIAM BAN'TING.
4, The Terrace, Kensington, March 27.

FORRIGN•OFFICE, MARCH 29.—NOTIFICATION or
MAXI:ADE. —lt is hereby notified that FArl Rues&l. E.G.,
her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for F..reign
Affairs, has received a despatch from her Majesty's minister
at Copenhagen, stating that a notification from the
Ministry of Marino, dated the 22nd isatant, appeared in the
official paper lot the gird Instant, stating that the island
of Fehmern is declared in a state of blockade.—Gargle.

MULTI! or LoNtouw.—lt appears from the Regis-
trar-Geowars return that the deaths registered in London
iaithe week that redid last Saturday were 1,397. The
average number far the twelfth week of ten previous yeah
1854-83, is, with a correction for increase of population,
1,449 ; and the actual return is less than the calculated
number by 52. Small-pox is recorded as fatal in 11 eases ;
measles, which exhibits an increase, in 41 ; eosrlatina is
37; diphtheria in 5; whoopiageough in 65; and
typhus in 47. S:x fatal canes of scarlatina cc-
caned in the Kensingtemtowe subdistrict; 6 from
measles, and 8 from whooping-cough in Islington.
The number of deaths referred to plithisis is 158 ; to bran-
chide 202, which is nearly the seine as the ausiber of the
previous week. More than half of the deaths from phthisis
occurred in the period of lite 20-40 years, while nearly half
of those from bronchitis recurred in the period 60-80 years.
Fifty out of 8.8 deaths from pneumonia happened to infante
under two years of age. Oa the 22nd test. the wife of a
cabman, aged 51 years, was found dead in Lower-street,
Islington, from "syncope produced by excitement and want
of food." On the 20th inst. an oilman, aged 79 years, died
it the workhouse, Whitechapel, from "effusion into the
ventricles of the brain, aecelerateil;:ijr exposure and cold."On the 21st instant, at 32, Angel- ens, Mina ed • dock
labourer, aged 42 years, was fours dead from "inflamma-
tion of the lunge, accelerated by exposure sad want of
neeesearire." Two infants and two adults died by
murder or manslaughter ; three persona by intemper-
ance. Seven nonagenarians died, the two oldest of
whom were respectively 96 and 97 years of age.
lest week the births of 974 boys and 923 girls, is all 1,8147
children, were registered in LOOdOO. In the tea COM.
sponding weeks of the years 1854.63 the average number
(corrected) is 2,063. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich,
the mean height of the barometer in the week was
29'569 in. The reading rose to 29138 in. on Thursday, sod
fell to 29'39 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature of
the air is the week was 40'4 deg., which in 11 deg. below
the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by
Mr. Glaistier). After Sunday the mesa daily temperature
was below the average till the end of the week. The
highest day temperature was 17'6 deg. on Sunday. The
lowest night temperature was 269 deg. oa Thursday. The
range of temperature is the week was therefore 301 deg.
The mean daily range was 171, deg. On three
nights the thermometer fell below the freezing point of
water. The difference between the mean dew-point tem-
perature and air temperature was 5.1 deg. The mean
degree of humidity of the air wu 42, complete saturation
being represetted by 100. On the first four days the
wind warin tie northeast There was no rain, except
004 in.. which fell on Saturday. The mean of the highest
temperatures of the water of the Thames was 451 deg. ;
that of the lowest was 43'5 deg.
The " gentler sex " at sixty look with compla-
eency un whitened tresses, but to youth It is a calamity ; rem..
dlable, however, by Herring's blagnetic Brushes, , of which
Dr. banal' reports I regar them sa the most perfect
braille* hitherto mad*, as respects the niechanind construction,
sad their magnetics! action." They are the remedy for grey
hair, neuralgia, rtimimatiam,Are.--Net Confit•rfella are being
made.—Deces, 82, lealaghaltatrue,Leadwa.—(advedismeat.l