The Express.
London, England, 1859-04-11 00:00:00

LEGAL STANDARD
Or 102 THE MEASUREMENT
GA&

A meeting in furtherance of a movement for pro-
moting the mossorentent of pe by a legal st indard, was hold
a few days since in the parochial school-roma of St. John's.
Notting-hill. The chair was filled by Mr. HENRY INAAO
NEILD, who was supported by a ooneicereme number of the
twin-ntial residents of the distdot, and others laterested in

the quietism.
The CiI•IRMAN said the more immediate object of the
meeting was to support • public bill, which the committee
who bad meneed the meeting had been instrumental in
laying before parliament, to More accuracy and toffee-
ropy 10 the measurement of par, thus doing away with
than serious anomalies and wresgulsrities by which the
measurement of that Important commodity was at
present chance r.wed. The bill bad been,
with greet care. and had been in'reduced into the CuPairot
Peen by Lord Hedged** end had already panel the first
reading. He said meet persona knew how vague and unsatis-
factory the present system connected with the measurement
of gas wee. He bad bionelf been subjected to much annoy.
awe to oonsequence of the present loose system, and he ad-
duood figures to show from his own ezpertence that the pre-
sent system was marked by the most glaring Inegalariiies,
and concluded by expressing it se his conviction that
there was no cure remedy for those evils bet such as
it was the desire of the bill then before parliament to

fnrnleh. -
use mentioned by one of the Radiates that although
great Improvements had taken place of late years in the
construction of gas-mwers. many 000rpaniee,to the =jury
of commoners, pertinaciously refused to avail themselves
of those baprovemente. He said that the wet rotten mod
in rogue were those which were called "long spouts,"
and which Were liable tonight= very inaccurately. In many
cases It bad been found that meters In too were registering
from tee to thirty per cent. ageism the customer. The oar-
. rest registration of the wet meter depended upon the due ob-
eervance of the waterline. If the water fell below that level
the company suffered ; it it rose shove it then the consumer
suffered. He believed that not one consumer in a thousand
understood the mechanism of a meter. Therefore, little or
no cite* was put upon permute who, to save themselves
trouble, or teem sheer OliftlfelOWS or ignOcano! were liable
to pour in en eras& of water, thereby causing the meter to
regiAer to a proportionate mixt mallet the consumer. He
observed that serious irregularities were found to east in
oonoexion with dry meters she, but arising from causes of a
different natal%
Mr. C. Lococu Wass novel, "That the nature of the
bill for regula'ing the measurement of gm now pending in
the Howe of Lords, having been emirined, is approved by
this meeting." He said that meters were obtaisible which
would register within 2 per cent. of a given standard, and
that, practically, all that was aimed at by tho present bin
was to extend to the measurement of gas a bill passed in
181$ for regulating the weights and measures tired in the
sal* of other commodities. It would be found that the pre-
sent bill would be attended with equitable reftliflf, cot only
to the mineumere bet to the iiite Calaji_anfee themselves,
Tin negathea WIG secondedby Mr. MICHAEL HALL and
earrkd unsaisoonsly, and a committee was spreinteff to tats
the necessary steps to any the bill inuodnced into the
ofthethebainnaniS
arum of Lords Lord -&deedale.
It may be mentioned that Hr. Garnett, 31. P.. has 'emoted
hill, hoe also consented to perform, pro km., tbe secretarial
duties connected with the movement.
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