The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-13 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

THE HAGUE, APRIL B.—ln the sitting of the Second
Chamber of the State 4-General to-day, the project of
law on civil pensions, was adopted by
a mjority of 36
t . 16. after a discussion, in which several Members de-
livered their opinions, and the Minister bad answered
the objections made to the law.
The HAGUE, APRIL B,—Tho President of the Second
Chamber of the Sates-Gen.ral priposed to days
jatid
re
the Chamber aged, that the debates on the pr,:.,ets
of law, respecting an i,,demmity
inun-
dations, shalt commence on Monday, the 20th of this
month. f..r the militAr)

APRIL 9. —T he accounts from the river announee an.
extr.ordiriary rise o. the Mine, which, on the Gth of
this month was at 18ft. Bin. at Gdogne, had risen on
the following day to 23ft., and on the Bth, was at
23q.

AMSTERDAM, Arun, B.—To-day being the 22danni-
versary of the birth of her Hopi Highness the Prin3ess
Sophia, Heredt,ary Grand I)uehes4 of Saxe Weiner, was
observed vkith thc usual festivities.
Welch, the .hopkeer, and his son, who have been in
prison atiout thrk e months, on tvicoutit of the fire which
took place in i)ecembtr last, have been set at liberty
by order of the tribunal of this district, ai there cl,d not
appear F u clef' t grounds for further proceedings against
them.

APELDOuRN, APRIL B.—We are assured that her
Royal Highness Princess Albert of Prussia, intends to
favour us by stopping two or three days at the Loo, on
her journey from the !Ingue to Camelia.
ALPBEN EN RID, APRIL 6.—We learn that last night
abtut fifty persons, &lola carrying a bundle, and coming
from Belgium, passed over the heath, and were attacked
by 11 police officers on the line, who, by raising an alarm
and di,charging their pistols, dispersed them, and ob-
fained possession of 26 bundles of the value of 5,000
florins.

THE HAGUE, APRIL 9.—Mr. Gevers, his Majesty's
Minister, President to the Courts of Baden, Bavaria,
and IVurtemburg, has been honourably discharged from
his offie-r as Minister of the Court of Baden, by a redo.
lution of his Majesty of the 31st of March, with thanks
for the services he has rendered.

By the same resolution Mr. I'. G. Trours, his Majesty's
Charge d'Affiires at the Court of Athens, appointed
Minister Resident to the Court of Boleti, with /iirec..
lions to have his residence at ,Mannh•.itn. there to act as
Consul General, and M. T. M. Roist Van Lunburg, at
present actin:: as Counseller of Legation to the King's
Embassy at Vienna, is appointed Charge d'Affaires and
Consul General at Athens.

His Excellency M. Mere4r, Plenipotentiary of his
Majesty the King of the Belgians. with an extraordi-
nary mission to the Court of the Netherlands, arrived
at the Hague yesterday evening.

CAUTION TO DISHONEST BREAD

BAKERS.

In so numerously a populated place as Hull, there are
thousands of persons who have not the profitable oppor-
tunity of baking their own bread, and such persons (and
they are mostly of the poorer classes) are frequently
liable to the dishonest stratagems of bread bakers. Of
late, numerous have been the complaints, not only in
letters addressed to ourselves, but at the weights and
mettsures office, as well by persons who have purchased
of the bakers and in provision shops. of loaves of bread
considerably deficient in weight. Those parties have
urged us to expose the bakers and dealers, and they
have urged th inspectors to summon such shopkeepers
before the magistrates ; but the inspectors find that this
would be wholly beside and beyond their sphere of
duties, and we believe they have usually intimated
to the complainants that the remedy is wholly in their
own hands. But it seems to be very little known, that
there is an Act in existence which imposes a penalty on
any bake. selling bread at herwise than by weight. We shall
therefore, notice two or three of the principal provisions
of this act (the 6th and 7th W. IV. cap. 38y which
passed in July, 1836, and is usually called " the Bread
Act." This statute, after repealing the several acts
relating to breed to be sold beyond the limits (specified)
of the city of Lendon, including those which enacted the
assize of bread, by the second s-ction makes it lawful to
make and sell, offer or deliver, brt ad made of flaur or
meal of wheat. barley, rye, oats, buck-wheat, Indian-
corn, peas, beans, rice, or potatoes, or any of them,
and with any common salt, pure water, eggs, milk.
harm, leaven, potato, or other yeast, and mixed in such
proportions as they shall V.ink fit, and with no other in-
gredient or matter whatever. The 3tl section authorises
bikers to make bread of any weight and size. The 4th
section is the important one. It enacts--
" That from and after the commencement of this Act,
all bread sold beyond the limits aforesaid, shall be sold
by the several bakers or sellers of bread resptetively
beyond the said limits, by weight; and in case any baker
or seller of bread beyond the limits aforesaid, shall sell
or cause to be sold bread in any other manner than by
weight, then, and in such case, every such baker or
seller of bread, shall for every such offence forfeit and
pay any sum net exceeding forty shillings, witch the
mazistrate or magistrates, justice or justices, before
whom such offender or off.-nders shall be convicted, shall
order and direct: Provided always, that nothing in this
Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to
prevent or hinder any such baker or seller of bread from
selling bread usually sold under the denomination of
French or fancy bread or rolls, aithoat previously
weighing the satue."
The 5t ► seetton requires bakers to use the imperial
avoirdupois w,i4ht of 16ez to the pound. and its aliquot
parts; and imp sea a penalty not excet ding 5/, or less
than 40s. for using any other weight. Then the 6th
section requires
"That every baker or seller of bread beyond the limits
aforesaid shall cause to be fixed in some conspicuous
part of his, her, air their shop, on or near the count •r,
a beam and scales with proper weights, or other suffi•
cient balance, in order that all bread there sold may from
time to time be weighed in the presence of the pur-
chaser or purchasers thereof, except as aforesaid ; and,
in case any such baker or seller of bread shall neglect
to fix such beam and scales, er other sufficient balance,
' in manner aforesaid,or to provide and keep for use proper
beam and scales and prop •t• weights or balance,or shall have
or use any incorrect or false beam, or scales, or balance,
or any false weight not being of the weight it purports to
be, according to the standard in the Exchequer, then,
and in every such ease. he. she, or thev., shall for every
such false beam and scales and balance, or false weight,
f u-feit and ply any sum not exceeding fire pounds, which
the magistrate or magistrates, justice or justices, before
whom such off*. nder or offenders shall be convicted, shall
order and direct."

The 7th section requires bakers and sellers of bread,
delivering by cart, &i_t , to be provided with scales.
weights, &c., for weighing bread ; and imposes a penalty
for refusing to wei‘h, if required, any bread purchased
or delivered out of such cart, in the presence of the
purchaser. Then follow various clauses relating to the
adulteration of bread ; and the 10th requires all bread
made of mixed meal or flour (other than wheat fl .ur)
" to be masked with a large M, under a penalty not ex-
ceeding 10s." By the 20th section, inforinations may
be laid before the acting magistrate or magis-
trates of the district (or borough). any one of whom
may issue a summons, and, on hearing, convict; the
25th section giving an app-al against such conviction to
the quarter so,sion,, whose decision is to be final. It
is, therefore, clear that any person finding that the
bread purchased by him is deficient in weight, may pr.)
teed at once by intbrmation at the borough police court;
and this appears to be the only way in which frauds of
this nature can be investigated and punished.—Hull
Packet.:

A rumour is current in military circles, which we
notice with the utmost reluctance, and in the hope that
this public allusion to it may elicit some authorised
contradiction or explanation. It must have struck our
readers that in the official accounts of the recent victories
in India the praise so jus'ly bestowed on the extraor-
dinary valour of her Majesty's 3d Dragoons, 16th Lancers.
and other cavalry regiments, did not include the 9th
Lancers. This latter corps must be well known to
our metropolitan readers; it was frequently reviewed on the
y hisanladte tlieiaj'dsits)tin'cutlidonho"f
par a
reveredde iononSsot.rt, James
Qu:se
Queen Adelaide,
l
" Queen's Own" was conferred upon it. The regiment, before
itsdeparture for India, was commanded by Ford llosln, the
present master of the Queen's Iffiekhotinds, mod no -body of
men could have been in a higher state ofdisciplineand efficiency.
It is, therefore, with surprise and regret we hear that in the
late transactions it wholly disappointed the general expect-
ores of one of the superior officers of the corps, and that it
Ladies,:hietmirally looked for their
otpresentedher twthemselves
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and
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out
-alis
has been deemed necessary by Sir Hugh Gough to direct a
court of inquiry' into his conduct.—Observer,
A laughable incident occurred at Romiey Abbey
Citeohesbure u;:ntoentel
.SivtutyinmdtlaaiYen indissoluble bond of matritnonv. The
ceremony n aN'
morning
hiaiLbirtAnt
heard a “-; fL ic,uute ti a o c 0 that none Were tOrtncomink
ie" andi.
,rfo,n,
ren
,oetti
. thet
if,.aw,c,:ttoicir.:):ults tn
for them . lie husband stating that the parson was guile?
enough to marry him,
As neither lircats nor entre ties could prevain on him '
alter his determination, it was resolved to try the effect f°
little confinement, so the happy couple
were locked into the vestry; but. here, tl*
oweyer
, consolation
under trials was not wanting, for being armed with their
pipes and a match, they comfortably enjoyed themselves
more than hour, till the arrival of 'people for for
vice compelled them to be dismissed, the fumes morning ser-
e the to-
bacco rather offending the olfactory nerves of
1 more sensitive part of the congregation.—Briyhtosno mGea zo fe
tttehe
HOSPITAL FOR CINSUMPTI 'N.—At a recent meeting
of the Committee of Management of the nospital for Con-
sumption an,: Diseases of the Chest, held at the Hospital,
Chelsea, the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop Of Durham, offered to
contribute 501., providing nine similar subscriptions could be
procured, for the especial purpose of aiding the fund for
tUrnishing ot the new hospital, recently erected at Brampton.
His Lordship's benevolent intention has been followed, b
Philip Hose, 17, a
..sq., __obert Vyner, Esq., James Alexander
Esq., Mrs.
.Elizabeth Vaughan, Sir Robert
R B zon
Sir John Kirkland, and R. ea de Beauvoir, Esq.
Fitz 1\ y-gram,
EASTER TERM _The ensuing term will commence on
Wednesday next, upon which day the Lord Chancellor will
entertain the Judges and members of the inner bar with the
usual Easter Term &joiner at his Lordship's house, whence
they will proceed to Westminster Hall, about one o'clock.
CURIOUS DISCOVERTTOn Wednesday, while some
men were engaged in removing a hedge in the vicinity of
hamthey
Wl.eeler's-street, Birrning _ , _ discovered two copper-
plates, evidently constructed for forging 1/. and 21. notes of
the Bank of England, of date 1814. There appearedto have
been i quantity of what are believed to be forged notes
placed between the plates ; but owing to the length of
time they have been concealed, they were almost reduced to
powder. The plates nave been forwarded to the Bsuk of
England.

METROPOLITAN TEMPERANCE

ASSOCIATION.
A soirée and an aggregate metting of the friends of
the Metropolitan Teupyrance Association was held, on
Friday ev.-ning. in the Rot al British School, Cowper-
street, City-rot d Mr. John Cassell in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN congratulated the meeting upon the
formation of the Association, and expressed a hope that
by an union among the various societies in the metro-
polis, ti e consummation so devoutly to be wished would
be excel. rated. He regretted the want of previous cor-
dial co-operation, but he trusted they were now in a
position to achieve great triumphs in the cause of tee-
totalism. He next referred to the advocacy of temperance
principles by the press, as a proof of the rapid progress it
was making throughout the country. He could not, how-
ever, but lament that create dim is were not made by
the religious portion of the press to disseminate prin•
. s
of a character so well fitted to prepare the
minds of men for the reception of the great truths
of the Gospel. He complained that the conductors
of the li esleyan Mitgazine had refused insertion
to is temp,rance advertisement in that publica-
tion, and had in other respects ucte d very partially,
and had, in fact, manif, bled the most d, tided
opposition to the to etotal movement. Ile could not un-
derstand what right the editors of that maizazlne had to
complain of the Americans being anxious to stint 4 dis-
cussion upon the question of slavery, when they them-
selves endeavour. d to st lie the promulgation of princi-
ples in which 600,000 inimertal souls a ere involved in
one of the worst kinds of slavery that ever existed
under the canopy of heaven. He was glad, however, to
congratulate them upon the growing str,-igth which the
cause was, day by day, acquiring, notwithstanding all
the disadvantages %N WI which they had to contend ; and
he was satisfied that if they continued their united exer-
tions, they would, ere long, hate the satisfaction of reap
inragthrrine re(f d)oiuthslefrutilt,
their labour
urgedlabourinthetot
their' pthoi tahx;obpuici

cause.
Mr. D. WALTERS next addressed the meeting, and
drew a graphic picture of the squalor and misery at-
tendant upon drunkentirv, and contrasted it with the
com:ort and happiness of a life of sobri4-ty and morality.
The inertini4 was subsequently addressed by Mr. Bayliss,
Mr. Whittaker, Dr. Oxley. Mr. Buckle, and the Rev.
Dr. Campbell, of the Tabernacle. A collection was
then made to defray expenses and for the general pur-
poses of the association.
Mr. HUDSON then addressed a few observations to the
assembly ; after which the meeting separated.