The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-08-25 00:00:00

BRITISH STAPLE ARTICIX.S.

Renarts lAM Lumps have routimteol io good
detuaud. sod a fit. Over smienomer of is ins eat. has bow
pail. Hombre? Loaves and Crushed have bruit Mu'derusuoi,
but the pries are ausitmo ed.

Posher Syd, Tuesday, A•gmal 24, 1419, roar 01loch.
The Guest: nia,kii opened steadily this mumble, and
sites w. re wade by private contract 31 fiirint.r pr leis bat at
the public Pm Ir marl hall' was takes. :EMI. ugh She lots
'bat were sold lairashi advanced prices, ray about t:fs. pgr
cwt. Its st. Domingo I here has taxa mach duur.

The B. P. SUGAR market was brisk pool prices tr •
roam ss before stated. The public sale of BArbulues WAS to:
haf nor qii.itiy.asi.l real &WO its lower.
BRANDIES cuutiuise in steady around.

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riled for their trouble, either by the pasfileaf their wow&
eiak remeerse, to by the credit of their .beatific empire-
meals.
111. The eubilivisions of Weights sad Ilemares, at pre.
seat employed fa this comae?, appear lobe far more contr.
wend for practical purposes, than the decimal stale, which
might perhaps be preferred by souse permute, foe masking cal.
rubllww• with gaaatitid Oready determibed. Bat the
power of expressing a third, • /earth, and a sixth of a foot
inisebes, wlthost • fraction, is a pecoliar adulator is the
(Impieties., scale; sod, for the operations of weighing and
of measuring capacities, the eastiasal divisiouby two. fro-
three it practicable to matehe rp say gives fluatetity, with the
Amalie* possible Number of standard Weights or Measure%
wort is far prefeetible, in this respect, to any decimal scale.
ventW therefure.ret•Osalmid, that all the instlplea and
anhilivisions of the standard to be adopted should retain the
same relative proportimis to each other, as are at precut in
general ear.
IV. The mast slither:lle ettualarele of Length, which are
now in existence, being found, epos a minute examination,
to vary is • Very slight degree from each other, although
either of theta might be prrterred, without any difference
that would breeds* seseible in common cases ; we beg leave
to recommend,for the trot eletermivation of the standard
yard, that which was employed by Getters! Roy, is the awes-
iiresneut of • twee on Huisstslow Heath, as a foistitlation fur
the trigonometrical operations that have bees carried on
by the Ordwance theueghnOt the comer', and • duplicate
to which will probably be laid down am a Mandord scale, by
she Committee of the Royal Soeiety,appointeil fur assisting
the Ad rummer Royal, is the determination of the length of
the peodulum ; the temperance beiag supposed to he 62
decriers of Fahleulteit, when the leak is employed.
V. We propose abet, spun the authority of the experi-
mi ids made by the Committee of the Royal Society, that
it should he declared, for the parpuse of illestifyisg or re.
I -Tering the length of this standard, in ewe that it should
ever be lost or impaired, that the length of a pendulum vi-
brating seconds of uses,, solar time fu Leaden, on the level
of the pea, and in a varmint, is 39.1371 aches of this scale ;
nod slutt the length of the metre employed hi France, as the
wit millionth part of the routdraatal are of the meridian,
Lea lire„ (With! .110111 lo 39.3604 inches.
VI. The /*Amitosis of measures of Capacity are obvi-
coolly capable of being immediately deduced from their re-
istion• to measures of Length ; but same the readiest prac-
tical method of aseettaining the magnitude of any measure
of Capacity is to sigh the quantity of water, which it is
c.ipable of conteitsitig, it would, in our opiaion, he advis-
able, in this instance, to invert the more natural order of
proceeding, and to define the measures of Capacity, rather
fruin the weight of the water they are capable of committing,
than from their solid ramrod in apace. It will therefore be
coitveuietit to begin with the definitios of the standard of
freield, by Ilerlaritig, that nineteen cubic istehes of dis-
tilled water, at the temperature of 50 deg. moist weigh ex-
actly ten tome ,S 1 troy, or 4,800 grains; sad that 7,001 t such
grains make a pound eruirthipois; supposing, however, the
cubic inches to retitle to the measure of a portion of brass,
otjuctial by • standard .tale of brass. This definition isde-
.lrreeit f some very accurate experiments of the late Sir
George Shilekbue eh, on the Weights mod Measures of Great
H. claw ; but we propose at a (tome period to repeat such of
theirs a. *war to he the must important.
VII. The definitions dote established are not calculated to
inti ',duce any variation from the existing standards of
1. DOI and of Weight, which may be considered as already
sufficiently well ateiretained. Bur. with respect to the mea •
roues of Capacity, it appeals from the Report coutained in
the Appendix (A), list the legal standards of the highest
*oho, ity are considerably at variance with each other: the
it:twined gallon, quait and pint of Queen Elisabeth, which
ere kept iu the E.xelwqiier, having been also apparently em-
ployed, almost iniliacriminately, for adjusting the measures
bath of corn and of beer; between which, however, a 'V-
A-reser has gradually, and, as it may he supposed, uninten-
ionally crept into the practice of the Excise; the ale gallon
bring understood to contain about four and • half per cent.
inure thaw the corn gnlleir, though we do not find any par-
veal:sr Act of Parliament in which this excess is expressly
recognised. We think it right to propose that these Mea-
sures should again lie reduced to their original tquality ;
and at the same time, 014 account of the great convenience
which would lie derived from the facility of delernriming •
Mallon and its parts, by the operation of weighing a certain
~,,aotily of water, annotating to an entire number of pounds
nod ounces without fractions, we venture strongly to recom-
mend, that the standard Pile and corn gallon should contain
exactly tea pounds avoirdupois of distilled water, at 62 deg.
„1 isahresheit, twiug nearly equal to 277.? cubic inches,
and *yetis( with the standard pint in the Exchequer,
eiliieb is found to contain exactly twenty ounces of water.
VIII. We presume that very little inconvenience would he
felt by tbe public from the iutrothirtion of this gallon, in
t'ir place of the customary ale gallon of 282 cubic incite',
ire,: of the Winchester core gallon, directed by a statute of
tram William-to footsie 289, and by some later stabiles
. ciiinaied m 272:1 cultic inches; especially when it is convi-
d...ed that the standards by which the. quart and pint beer
A...lnsures steed its Londuti me habitually adjusted, du Not at
peseta differ in a sensible degree from the standard pro-
Rased to be rendered general. We apprehend also, that the
e'ittlo excess of the new bushel, shrive the common corn
ler:mire, would he of the less importance. as the customary
asores employed in Jiff. reut parts of Great Minis., are
•Itreret miiversally larger than the legit Winchester bushel.
IX. II pon the question of the propriety of abolishing al-
together the use of the wise gallon, and establishing the
i.ee gallon of ten pounds, as the only standard fur all pur-
lioors, we have nut yet been able to obtain sufficient grounds
far coming to a conclusive deternsinatiun; we tan only sug-
gest, that there would bee manifest advantage in the hien it-
heroism of all, measures of the same name, provided that the
...mime could he made without practical inciantewience ; but
!raw far the inconvenience might be mere felt than the ad-
violate, we wont leave to the wisdom of his Majesty's Gu-
tei iiment to decide. . . . .

X. In the mini time it may be advisable to take into
cmsideration the present state of the numerous and cum.
jt:;eateil lass •Inch Lave bees enacted at various times fur
the regulation of the Weights and Measures employed in
113/Mfllrfet ; and the abstract of these lairs, which we have
in snared, will be found in the Appendix (B) of this Report.
AVe mast, however, reserve, for • (suture occasion, the earn.
mat.on which we have procured restricting the customary
we:Ousels(' Measures of the different counties, as we louse
sun- yet been able to reduce oar abstract into the must cou-
*saints form, fur affording a connected view of this branch
of the subject referred to us.
(SigneJj Jt)S. BANKS, W. II WOLLASTON,
GEORGE E..IERK, THOMAS YOUNG,
DAVIES GILBERT, HENRY KATER.
01.43-square, Jere t 4, ISI9.

IMPERIA. PIRLIAININT.

HOUSE OF Loans, Tummy', Atmore EC

FURTHER PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.
'ibis being the day to which Parliament was
promoted, at four o'clock the Lords appointed by
the Royal Comnti+•inn took their seats on the Wool-
sack, when Mr. ()name, the Deputy Usher of
the Black RIHI, repaired to the House of Com-
mons, which was represented by Mr. Jeremiah
Dyson, Mr. Bellamy, Mr. Mitchell. Mr, .Estatte,
Mr. Ilasisaril, the Officer. of the I Intiw. who
attend on ouch occasions, and summoned it in the
UMW form.
Ou their appearance below the bar, the Com-
mission isimed by his Royal Nighties+ the Prince
Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of
his Majesty, for the further prorogation of Parlia-
ment until Tuesday, the gip November, was read
by the Clerk, when the Liord Chancellor pronounc-
ed the pi•oroga ' until the day mentioned in
the Royal Commission.
The Commissioner+ were, the Lord Chancellor,
the Duke of Wellington, and the Earl of Liier-
pool.

FOREIGN IN7'ELLIGENCE.

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