The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-04 00:00:00

I,AL!in WT.TOIITR AND
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Alderman WILSON presented the annual return of Mr.
Knott and Mr. Harvard, the Inspectors of Weights and
Measures for the City of London. He said that the corpo-
ration funds could not be in any respect more usefully ex-
pended than in the appointment and employment of these
inspectors. He had regularly attended the petty sessions,
held for adjudicating upon complaints unade by them, and
tle extent to which robberies were committed upon the in-
digent classes of our fellow citizens could not, he assured the
court, lie imagined by those who were nut present during
the investigatiuns. At these investigations the practices of.
unprincipled tradesmen in using short weights, by which-
persons unable to purchase more than a few ounces of tea, a •
quarter of a pound of butter, or a mutton chop, were most:
cruelly imposed upon, were fully developed. lle unglued,
more particularly to the tricks of grocers, who not only
distinguished themselves by the use of short vleights ands
measures, but by the most foul adulteration. It appeared
to be not at all doubtful that a tradesman in considerable,
business would be more benefited by paying penalty after
penalty, than by altering the base conditions of his trading,
movements. There had been one case before him in which.
he had tined a tradesman time after time, till the penalty,
amounted to 51., and then in order to bring abriut a change'
he was obliged to tell the unprincipled customer at thul
Petty Sessions that if another complaint should lie estab-i
fished against him, the City Solicitor should be directed to ,
level a battery of indictments against bin as a common cheat.
(Hear, hear.) The inspectors had during the last year paid ,
great attention to the delivery of coals, and had obtained •
179 convictions of various kinds. In their statement the
wards had been classified, and each Alderman could, see.
who the publicans were who in his ward had, disgraced;
w their avocation by using short measures, and hat other
tradesmen cheated their pair neighbour, by lilting false
weights. (Ilear, hear.) l'nfortunately these convictions'
did nut frequently meet the public eye. Ile regretted that
, fact the inure, as from his experience he well knew that,
, nothing was so much calculated to check frauds upon the
poor as the publication of the names of the trading hullos-
tors from time to time. (Ilear, hear.) Alderman Wilson
concluded by moving that the return be printed, and copies.
be sent to the aldermen.
; Alderman COPELAND, seconded the motion.
Alderman HOOPER. also culogisist the apiiaint ment s, and.
by the unanimous vote of the court, gratuities were then ,
, granted to the inspectors.
I, A derman WILSON took that occasion to express his'

hope that Alderman Copeland, who had done so much good
by causing tho appointment of inspectors of weights and.
measures, would try what further good ho could effect to;
society by appointing inspectors of omnibuses and calm,
which constituted iu some respects the greatest nuisance
which could spring up in a large trading metropolis.
(Hear, hear.)

THE RETIRING VVIIIP.

Sir PETER LAURIE brt id the use of the word

" nuisances" brought to his mind a new nuisance of a very
remarkable kind indeed, about widish, as he walked along
Cheapside, he had been spoken to by several tradesmen,
He meant the prodigious machine which had been dragged.
by horses to thu western end of Cheapside, said left there-
for the convenience of some people and the scandal u(
others. (Laughter.) It looked like a travelling omnibus,
was distinggisked by a variety of gaudy colourl, and mi-
-1 dressed itself in several languages to the ievessities of the'
travelling public. (Laughter.) He ...Mud to know whe-
ther the Lord Mayor had given permission to any party to
bring in such a visitation upon thu inhabitants?
The LORD MAYOR said he knew nothing at all about
the vehicle of which Sir l'ctcr Laurie spoke.
A conversation on the subject ended withnut bring em-
bodied in a resolution, the court seeming to he of opinion
that the power of interfering lay with another department
of the corporation.—Adjourned.

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