Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-26 00:00:00

TH'7. WEIGHTS AND ME .1.•-UEtitiS QUESTION

Yesterday, bainT, a Sp ocial. Se sons, the Wowing p:r.
sons were sainarre,l htf:re the presirlin; nrigistrates,
Messrs. Bohm and Jeffery ; f.ir having in their possession
folio weights and bolancas, by which curomsrs, as it
will bn seen, (chiefly cons:sting of the poorer classes,) ha l
been, as Mr. ailton observed, in one case. most slv.mefully
robbed. In that sentiment Mr. JAT,rry the presiding
magistrate, perfectly coincide-1, artl (Ar!rressed hit surprise
that persons in trade, should he guilty, of s,tcla offences.
After ach case w.rs heard, the f, was the rcsul'
Daniel M'Connell. provision de acts 83, Chisenhale-street,
f r false scales, fined ls and costs; James Speers, grocer
and provision dealer, 64, tir,rat Howard-str,ret, was fined
2s 6d and costs ; Mary Howard, tobacco dealer, fined is
and c es; George, Copar, orciviaoir (I.r.ler, 10, Saltney-
str,o, filed is and costs; G,te, poblican, living
at 75. Weed° r-rold, was fined 2s 6 1 nrid 6il costs, for
supplying 21r to a customer in an measure. The
mug was about or e third of a 14i1 deficient. Edward Jon,.,e,
coal dealer, Li:nekilitr-lane, was fined 2s 61 and costs, for
deficient weights ; Robert Brown. corn and flour dealer,
117, Londe,---cad, fiod is and cost-F, ; Th.-onas Norton,
butcher, 65, Oil-ay.-street, lic,ed 2s 6 I and C0,7`8, far
false weights ; Jeremiah Hicks. II .or dealer, 91, Cnristian-
street, fined 2s 61 and cosi.: for the like offence ;
James D .ugherty, coil deal,'r, 78, '4 irybone, fined Is and
costs ; John Eecles, bacon 1, r, 280, stand, St.
Market, was summoned for usint.: Meg:J. weights. The
fact of the shortness of the weight was clearly proved ;
but, as there was sonic doer, as to the defendant's
felonious intent, the case vas disiniltierl. the de-
fendant being cautioned not to anne ir in court again
Under similar circurostanc:.'s. `'ail lam Po, ter, coal
dealer, of Oak-,is-street, was filed Is and costs for having
his scales against the pu-chaser ; the Batch-rs' Company,
in Trowhridi -s reef, was Enird 2s 61 and costs for having
light weights; Jon Denver, proy'sion dealer, BlundeL-
street, find Is and 'costs Ix light weights; T. Pegin, coal
dealer, Trowbridge-street, fined Is and costs; A. AL
Paradise-street, for having a deficient pint measure in the
streets to weig,h nuts with. was filed 53 and costs 4s 6,1;
Thomas Gihb in, Back Chitth,-iru store;;', coal dealer, was
fined Is and cr=ests for having sc des against the purchaser.

VEXATIOUS ELECTION PETITION.—A bill, introduced
by Mr. Alderley and Mr. Cited. the members for North
Staffordshire. proposes to enact that, before any election
petition shall he presented to the house, the person sub-
scribing the same, and also the agent, if an, appointed
by then,, being a parliamentary agent, for conducting such
petition, shalt make affidavit in ..v& ing, to the satisfac-
tion of the examiner of the ropegni,:ances, acL•ording to
the form given in the F,eietluie A. to this act, or to the
like effect, that the ailegatio;,s contained in such petition
are well founded in fact, and capable of being proved by
evidence, and that such petition is made bona file, and
not with a view to any compromi-e, wit hdr.tw 1. or other
collusive proceeding; and the examiner shalt cerZity by
endorsement under his hand upon such neti. ion, that such
affidavit has b,,en duly matte and 'las been received by
him, and he shall keep the same in his custody.
Tlig NEW REFORM BILL.—The corporation of Sheffield
have petitioned the House of Commons in favour of
P.,rliamentary Reform. The petition says :—Your peti-
tioners are thoroughly convinced that. !he national repro
seutation is not at present in a satisfactory state, anti are
of opinion that it ought to be amended, and pray that it
may accordingly be amended by extending the elective
franchise, so that every man of full age, anti not `subject
to any mental or legal disability, who shall have been
the resident;cccupier of a house, or part of a house, for
twelve months, and .hall have been duly rated to the
poor in that parish or township fur that tint,, shall be
registered as an elector, and be klia:,led to vote for a
representatiye in Partium-nt ; and also by enacting that
votes shall be taken by ballot, that the duration of Par-
liaments shall not exceed three years, and that the pro-
portion of representatives he ma e more consistent with
the amount of population and property.