The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-10 00:00:00

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

Alderman WILSON presented the annual report of
those most useful officers the inspectors of the weights
and measures of the city of London. It, stated, that al-
:hough the visits of the inspectors to• the tradespeople
were by one•sixt.h more numerous than those of last
year, the number of the informations laid within the
year was smaller.
The following is the sum of the complaints made by
the inspectors. It is hoped that some remedy will be
applied to the evil, which is one of gres der magnitude
than it is generally considered to be:--
" The poor are defrauded frequently h,v those trades-
people who have their goods weighed in packets for
their customers—viz., flour by the bakers; tea, sugar,
cocoa. sic., by the grocers; snuff arid tobacco, &c., by
the tobacconists; candles, starch, blue, &c., by the oil-
men."

The practice of some coal dealers is to use small
weights in their machines, in order- to confuse their
customers who may require say half a hruadredweight of
coal. They will use 281 b., 141 b., and 71b., and thus
manage to give 71b. short weight, as was proved before
the Police Committee a tew days ag.). The inspectors
are constantly coming in contact with. eases of the kind,
but they cannot interfere.
The report was referred to the Gentral Purposes
Committee.—Adjonrned.

DESTITUTION in the SHETLAND

ISLANDS.
From a communication dated
"Lerwick, 25th May,"
in the John 0' Groat Journal of Friday last, it appears
that famine is spreading rapidly among the Shetlauders.
We sincerely trust that public sympathy will be ex-
tended towards the sufferers without loss of time. The
following is part of the communication alluded to :
" Want and misery are now written on many a face,
where, till now, such had not been seen ; and, if not
promp:ly relieved in some way or other, there is great
reason to fear that, during tho summer, and before the
crops can come on so far as to be made available, even
in a half-ripe state, for the pressing wants of the popu
lation, cases of death, from actual starvation, will be
neither few nor rare. During ithe years 1837-38-39,
well named the ' bad years,' the want of food, through
these islands, was not greater than it is at the present
time. At this moment individuals are known to the
writer of this who have not taqod bread for a whole
week ; and others who have neither tasted bread nor
meal, in any shape, for periods varying from ten to fif-
teen days ; who, when they had s.:!raped together the
sum necessary, had to take their bags under their arms,
and travel distances of from six to eighteen miles—Zet-
land miles, too—before they could procure the small
quantity of meal which they were able to purchase ;
and that, too, at a most exorbitant price. The break-
fast of shell-fish has to be gathered in the morning, at
the sea side, among the rocks, before the cravings of
hunger can be satisfied ; then the next meal, consisting
of fish, with perhaps a few potatoes, and if they have
a little meal, fish and bread, or else fish and potatoes,
again, before going to bed, comprises all that they can
afford, fish and potatoes being the chief, almost the only
articles of diet, and bread 13.4.ng used more like a lux-
ury than as the staple article of food. These are not
cases of rare occurrence."

MAMMOTH IN SWITZERLAND.--In the excavations
for the new road at Kaiserstuhl (Aur;rTan) the jawbone of a mammoth,
in excellent preservation, was found in the chalk stratum.
FRENCH FRUlT.—'fitree hundred and ninety packages
of freskh fruit were brought from France by the General Steam Com-
pany's ship Veaezo.la from Havre, of very good quality, In time for
Saturday morning's markets.
could not cc.pture Abd-el-Bader they have a.t. length caught his dog.
true,
CAPTURE OP A BD-EL-KADER'S DOG.—If the French
The faithful animal was found tied to a stake in an Arab camp which
IN as surprised and put to flight by the Irma. The Nouvelliste de
p,e,rnietiellyes entrusted
thoughtlNith 1111
Marseille, which gives us the information of the scattering of the
Arabs by the French troops, also tells us the news that Abd-cl-
Kader was actually seen flying laefore the latter, surrounded, it is
Nevomulidssbieninvo
by a ti,w faithful mounted warriors. The officer who was
ifthicoust capturing go
thath e wwithiiiedhernitoi
m o u s Iye rut. 3n
had done for the last fourteen year and magnani-
and conducteliiing . the halt, lie took possession of his canine prize,
wandering Emir,
Eofmlfils,
lantry of the hurl Within the French lines. The proverbial gal-
le Preach offid who brought hi cer compelled him to present the animal to a
most civilised countryniti:°t France ; but even a dog cannot enter the
about him! From the the world without the marks of suspicion
description is mar passport of Abd- l ' '
acted :—.' A e -Kader s dog the following
eye, but bearing about him beautiful greyhound, with a brilliant
his master) ; the righ something of melancholy (for the loss of
hind leg tatlvied with a red d, and the right fore leg :and the left
obliterated."• If his fair jailer, dlt:11 substance, imposskble to be
dcwription gni limo to luitsn hid allow hina 10 w
Itrinsawnitou. Icape, thin